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Board of Trustees
| Member |
Background |
| Monique Bourgeois |
Monique Bourgeois is a Licensed Alcohol and
Drug Counselor (LADC) in the state of Minnesota and currently works
for the Carver-Scott Educational Cooperative’s (CSEC) Solace
Academy recovery high school program. In addition to her role with
the recovery high school, Ms. Bourgeois is the Department Head of
Chemical Health with Carver-Scott Educational Cooperative school
district. Prior to her involvement with Solace Academy, Ms. Bourgeois
worked as an adolescent inpatient chemical dependency treatment
counselor and a chemical health specialist in mainstream schools.
Currently, Ms. Bourgeois serves as the Chair of the Association
of Recovery Schools’ Operating Committee. |
| Bruce E. Donovan |
Bruce E. Donovan, a 1959 graduate of Brown University who received
his M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1965) from Yale, retired from Brown in
2003, where he had served as Professor of Classics, Associate Dean
of the College and as Associate Dean for Problems of Chemical Dependency.
He has maintained an active consulting role with individuals and
organizations since his retirement. His expertise focuses on alcohol
and other drug problems on campus in particular the significance
of academic culture and matters of dependency and addiction among
undergraduate and graduate students and members of college/university
faculties and staffs. Donovan’s personal recovery from alcoholism
dates from 1973. In 1977 he assumed the deanship in chemical dependency,
which he designed and refined over the years, initially involving
himself with primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. He later
focused on the addicted and those suspected of being addicts, designing
comprehensive procedures for intervention and personal, social and
academic support. He regularly published reports of his procedures;
presented at local and national conferences; taught at summer sessions
in New England and at Rutgers; and consulted from coast to coast
and border to border. Additionally, he served on local and national/federal
advisory boards and councils. He was a co-founder of the New England
College Alcohol Network and a subsidiary group for recovering students
across New England. |
| Andrew Finch |
Dr. Andrew Finch is executive director and co-founder of the Association
of Recovery Schools. He also serves as a lecturer and research associate
for the Department of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt
University. His book, Starting a Recovery School: A How-To Manual
was published by Hazelden Publishing in 2005. From 1997-2006, Dr.
Finch worked for Community High School in Nashville, a school for
teens recovering from alcohol and other drug addictions that he
helped form in 1997. Dr. Finch is a National Certified Counselor
(NCC) and a licensed professional school counselor in Tennessee.
After receiving his Master’s degree, he worked for the Dede
Wallace Center in Nashville as a school-based therapist before helping
start Community High School. Dr. Finch’s research interests
include the role of schools in adolescent addiction recovery, counseling
and human development, and school-community partnerships. |
| Lisa Laitman |
Lisa Laitman MSEd, LCADC is the Director of the Alcohol and Other
Drug Assistance Program for Students (ADAPS) at Rutgers University.
In1983, Ms. Laitman implemented an alcohol/drug counseling program
at the university to assess and treat high risk students and has
developed an on-campus recovery support community that includes
the Recovery House which has been in existence since 1988. She is
involved in a NIDA Center grant with the Rutgers Center of Alcohol
Studies, helps develop and implement alcohol policies at the university
and is on the Executive Committee of the Rutgers Health Services.
Lisa is the Membership Coordinator with the Association of Recovery
Schools. She has a thirty-year career in the substance abuse field
in administrative and clinical roles. |
| Linda Costigan Lederman |
Linda Costigan Lederman, Ph.D., is professor of health and human
communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at
the Arizona State University and Director of the University’s
Institute for Social Science Research. Professor Lederman’s
most recent book is Changing the Culture of College Drinking (with
Lea Stewart), the first applied scholarly book on communication
and alcohol prevention. Prof. Lederman received her degrees at Brown
University (A.B.), Columbia University (M.A.) and Rutgers University
(Ph.D.). Her research has been funded by grants from the U.S. Department
of Education Safe and Drug Free School Program, National Institute
on Drug Abuse, the U.S. Department of Justice and other grantors.
Dr. Lederman has won awards from the U.S. Department of Education
for a Model Program on preventing college drinking and as mentor
of the Model Program Award for another university. Before coming
to ASU she was Inaugural Director of the Center for Communication
and Health Issues at Rutgers University where she served on the
faculty of the Department of Communication for more than twenty
five years, and held joint faculty appointments in the School of
Education and the Center of Alcohol Studies. Rutgers presented her
in 2003 with its Distinguished Public Service Award. Dr. Lederman
continues to serve on the faculty of the Rutgers Center of Alcohol
Studies. She has been interviewed on CNN, NBC and local NY and NJ
radio and television programs talking about her work to reduce dangerous
drinking on college campuses. |
| John. R. Magnuson |
John. R. Magnuson is President of Virtus Development, LLC. He
has over 16 years experience in the areas of government affairs,
finance and business development. In 1995, John founded The Magnuson
Group, applying his development and strategic planning skills for
the next ten years in assisting members of Congress, Fortune 500
executives, non-profit leaders, and public-private partnerships
with fundraising, strategic planning and other consulting services.
He has worked in both the private and public sectors, successfully
navigating both for profit and non-profit projects by providing
strong leadership and innovative solutions. John received his formal
education from the University of Minnesota where he studied political
science and speech communication. |
| Robert T. Sherman, Jr. |
Robert T. Sherman, Jr. is the former CEO of Character Education
Partnership, the national advocacy organization for character education
based in Washington, DC. Prior to leading CEP, Mr. Sherman worked
in the energy industry for 27 years where he led Cogeneration Corporation
of America, a publicly-traded independent electric power company
and later founded RTS Solutions LLC, an international advisory firm
serving the power generation industry. He has served as Chair of
the National Independent Energy Producers, a trade group that represented
independent electric power producers, Chair of the Hopkins Education
Foundation in Minnesota and taught ethics and leadership courses
in the Master of International Management program at the University
of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN. After graduating from Southern
Methodist University with a degree in political science (B.A., cum
laude, 1974), he received his law degree from the University of
Texas at Austin in 1977 where he served as Articles Editor of the
Texas International Law Journal. Mr. Sherman is Chair of the development
committee of the board of trustees of the Association of Recovery
Schools and is leading the search for a new executive director for
ARS. |
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