About > Staff and Board

Meet Our Board of Directors

Lucinda Treat (Chair)

Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Madison Square Garden L.P.

Gilbert Zepeda (Co-Chair)

Theater Arts Teacher, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High School

Mary Lou Ortiz (Treasurer)

Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at the International Rescue Committee

Adam Rosman (Secretary)

Senior Vice President, Corporate Compliance, for Cablevision Systems Corporation

Rosario Dawson

Actress, Men in Black II and Rent

Keven Duffy

Beth Fredrick

Executive Vice President, International Women's Health Coalition

Kristen Joiner

Co-Founder, Scenarios USA

Doug Liman

Director, Mr. & Mrs Smith and Swingers

Avram Ludwig

Producer / Actor, Swingers and Fast Food, Fast Women

Maura Minsky

Co-Founder, Scenarios USA

Meet Our Board of Advisors

David Wiley

Professor of Health Education and Recreation, Texas State University-San Marcos;
President-Elect, American School Health Association

Scenarios USA: What We Do

Kristen Joiner and Maura Minsky

Kristen Joiner, Co-Founder

Kristen's passion is bringing people together to work for a common goal that helps a community, and if that means bringing about change, Kristen rolls up her sleeves and makes it happen. Kristen's worked for non-profit organizations since she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991. She worked in West Africa to mobilize government officials to take action on HIV/AIDS and other reproductive health issues. And on the US/Mexico border, Kristen helped start a self-help housing program with Habitat for Humanity. She also loves to travel and has lived in Australia, Japan, Portugal, Mexico and Senegal.

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Maura Minsky, Co-Founder

Maura likes a good story. So, she went into film and television. For 12 years Maura has worked in all aspects of film from getting coffee to yelling "Action!" She's produced programs you've probably watched on Discovery, A/E, or the History Channels. She also worked with "The Man" himself – Steven Spielberg as the East Coast Director of his non-profit, The Shoah Foundation. The Shoah Foundation, which gathered personal testimonies from 50,000 Holocast survivors, showed Maura the power of telling a story. Everyone's got one, which is why she does what she does at Scenarios USA.

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Nicole Israel, Development Associate

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Jacob Swiss, Youth and Community Development Manager

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Kailyne Waters, Greater Cleveland Coordinator

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Venetta Barzakov, Administrative Assistant

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Ernestine Heldring, Education and Outreach Manager

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Tracy Noisette, Program Intern

Dessanaya Miller, Program Intern

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