Board of Directors - Family Connects International

Meedie Bardonille, MSN, RN, PCCN-K, FCN

Meedie is a dedicated nursing leader with over a decade of acute care patient experience. She is focused on patient-centered models of care through multidisciplinary approaches and providing clinical leadership through role modeling, professional…

Monica Basu, MBA

Monica Basu has been with the George Kaiser Family Foundation since 2007 serving as program manager for community health, higher education and various other initiatives. She joined GKFF after twenty years in the private sector where she held…

Karen Days, MBA

Board Member, Voting Member

Karen Days, MBA recently formed the consulting firm, K.S.D. Consulting, LLC. Her firm provides leadership coaching, new leader development, and conflict resolution training, all with an emphasis on advancing diversity and inclusion. Karen previously…

Steven Green, MBA

Board Member, Voting Member

Steven Green, MBA serves as a board member for Playful Learning Inc. and has served as a general partner of Ordinance Capital L.P., a Florida-based investment firm, since 1997. From 2012-2019, he was a board member of the New York Times Company.…

Jonathan Kotch, MD MPH MA

Board Member, Voting Member

Dr. Jonathan Kotch, a board-certified medical specialist in pediatrics and preventive medicine, retired in 2016 after 38 years on the faculty of the Department of Maternal and Child Health of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.…

Stephen Powell

Board Member, Voting Member

Stephen Powell is the Co-Executive Director of the National CARES Mentoring Movement. He previously served as the Executive Director of Mentoring USA. Powell’s commentaries on leadership, organizational strategy and mentoring can be found…

Kenneth Dodge, PhD

Board Member, Founder, Non-Voting Board Member

Kenneth Dodge is the William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He is also a faculty fellow at the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy, which he founded in…

Robert Murphy, PhD

Board Member, Founder, Non-Voting Board Member

Robert Murphy is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University, Executive Director for the Center for Child & Family Health, and co-founder. Robert collaborates with the Duke University Research Team to…

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