Jung Woo Bae graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Jung Woo has been a longtime member of KidSpirit as a youth editor and alumnus, and currently serves as President of KidSpirit’s Alumni Council.

Carla Craig has 40 years of experience as a lawyer and a judge. She served as a bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District of New York from 2000, and as chief judge from 2007, until her retirement in 2020. She has been a KidSpirit board member since its inception and has proudly watched it grow into a global community.

Elizabeth Dabney Hochman, MM, is the Founder and Executive Director of KidSpirit. She believes in the innate capacity of youth to inspire each other and the world around them through deep inquiry and creative engagement around shared questions. She has published articles on youth development, spoken about KidSpirit at numerous conferences, universities and the United Nations, and been interviewed on multiple podcasts, radio and television programs.

Lewis Dabney is Executive Director of the Key Bridge Foundation, and a leader in the field of conflict resolution with 25 years experience specializing in civil rights mediation, restorative justice, ethnic and religious conflict, program management, system design, and training.

Jon Bloomberg is an environmental regulatory lawyer with the international law firm Squire Patton Boggs, based in Cleveland. Jon is married to Laura, who currently serves as president of Cleveland State University. Jon and Laura have two adult children, both married, and have 4 fantastic grandkids who someday will be old enough to be to KidSpirit contributors.

He is the Independent Chairman of the board of directors of Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. and President and CEO of PG Consulting, a management consulting company that assists corporations and nonprofits. Prior to this Mr. Gaston was President of the Western Union Foundation; served as the Senior Advisor to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund; and was President of the Verizon Foundation.

Jonathan Hochman is a founding partner of Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP, a litigation and art law boutique. He also serves as a director on the boards of the Tricycle Foundation and the Key Bridge Foundation.

Karen Humphries Sallick serves as president of The Priority Group, a management consulting firm she founded in 1996. She cofounded and is president of Contacts 411, a privacy-centric contacts updating app. Karen also serves on the boards of Phillips Academy, WSHU (a Connecticut NPR station), and the Innovative & Advanced Cancer Research Foundation.

Khe Hy is a writer, podcast host and executive coach who writes primarily on the RadReads blog and newsletter. He spent the first 15 years of his career in the financial services industry and was a Managing Director at BlackRock. Khe now lives in Manhattan Beach with his wife Lisa and two young daughters and is an avid surfer.

Jane Quinn is a social worker whose five-plus decades of experience include direct service with children and families, program development, fundraising, grantmaking, research, and advocacy. She served as the Vice President for Community Schools at Children’s Aid, where she directed the National Center for Community Schools. Jane received her doctorate in Urban Education at the City University of New York.

Philip Simon is the managing partner of Geometric Trading, a private systematic trading company. He was previously Chief Investment Officer of Geometric's predecessor hedge fund and cofounder of its investment manager. Philip is based in the Hudson Valley of New York where he spends unusual amounts of time around trees and frogs and sometimes writes poems about both.