Enola Aird, JD

Ms. Aird is an activist mother. She is a visiting scholar at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and founder and director of the Motherhood Project based at the Institute for American Values in New York City. A graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law School, she has worked for a variety of media corporations, including the National Association of Broadcasters and predecessor entities of Time Warner and Viacom, as well as the Children's Defense Fund.

Kathy Bowman EdS

Kathy Bowman is a licensed family therapist with ten years of experience in working with families and schools on strategies to lessen family stress due to the detrimental effects of commercialism.  She is also active in her faith community in promoting this issue through workshops and advocacy.  She is the co-founder of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood Quad Cities and a member of CCFC's Steering Committee.

Allen Kanner, PhD

Allen D. Kanner is a Berkeley child, family, couples, and adult psychologist and a co-founder of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. His work includes consulting with parents on how to counter the harmful effects of advertising on their children. Allen has co-edited two books, Psychology and Consumer Culture and Ecopsychology. In 1997, Utne Reader chose him as one of the nation's ten leading psychotherapist activists. Currently he is writing a column for Tikkun magazine on the corporatized society.

Joe Kelly

Joe Kelly is President and Co-Founder of the national nonprofit Dads & Daughters (www.DadsandDaughters.org), co-founder of the girl-edited magazine New Moon, and author of six books, including Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Understand and Support Your Daughter. The father of two, he serves on CCFC's steering committee.

Velma LaPoint, PhD

Dr. LaPoint is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education, Howard University. She conducts research on commercialism in the lives of children and has a particular interest in this topic as it relates to children of color and poor children.

Diane Levin, PhD

Dr. Levin is professor of education at Wheelock College in Boston where she teaches a summer institute on media literacy and children and a service learning course on the reconciliation process underway in schools in Northern Ireland. She has written 8 books including Remote Control Childhood: Combating the Hazards of Media Culture, Teaching Young Children in Violent Times, and The War Play Dilemma. So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and How Parents Can Protect Their Kids, written with Jean Kilbourne, will be out in August. She is a founder of CCFC and Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment (TRUCE).

Alex Molnar

Alex Molnar is a Professor of Education Policy and Director of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University.  For the past twenty years, Molnar has studied and written about commercial activities in the schools and market-based school reforms such as private school vouchers, charter schools, and for-profit schools. His most recent books are Giving Kids the Business: The Commercialization of America's Schools (Westview/Harper Collins, 1996), The Construction of Children's Character (National Society for the Study of Education, 1997), Vouchers, Class Size Reduction, and Student Achievement: Considering the Evidence (Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa, 2000), School Reform Proposals: The Research Evidence (Information Age Publishing, 2002) and School Commercialism: From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity (Routledge, 2005).

Alvin F. Poussaint, MD

Dr. Poussaint is Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children's Center; professor of psychiatry and faculty associate dean of student affairs at Harvard Medical School; co-author with Amy Alexander of Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans, Beacon Press, 2000; and co-author with Bill Cosby of Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors, Thomas Nelson, 2007.

Susan Linn, EdD

Director of CCFC

Susan Linn, is co-founder and director of The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and a psychologist at Judge Baker Children’s Center and Harvard Medical School. An award-winning producer, writer, and puppeteer, she is the author of The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World, and Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood and lectures internationally on reclaiming childhood from corporate marketers.