Institute For Community Change Board of Directors and avid supporters of The Royer Group

	Ruby Hearn, Ph.D., Senior Vice President Emerita, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation most of her career, Dr. Hearn's efforts have been focused on children's health. She was the leading developer of the Infant Health and Development Program, the first randomized trial to look for interventions to improve outcomes for low-birthweight infants. Dr. Hearn also played a key role in formulation Foundation programs on AIDS, substance abuse, and minority medical education. Her interests and influence have helped inform the Foundation's approach to health. Dr. Hearn is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP). She currently serves on the IOM Board on Health Care Services, the Board of Directors of the Council on Foundations, and the Science Board for the Food and Drug Administration.
	Judith Palfrey, MD, Chief, Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston; Professor, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, and T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Palfrey is actively involved in community medicine programs in Boston and throughout the United States. At Children's Hospital, she directs service activities in child health and advocacy, as well as a fellowship training program and several research projects. Dr. Palfrey and her colleagues pioneered Project School Care, an innovative outreach program to study the needs of children assisted by medical technology and to provide appropriate services for them. She and her colleagues developed the Pediatric Alliance for Coordinated Care, a real world, real time demonstration project delivering community based primary care to children with special health care needs. Dr. Palfrey received her MD from Columbia University.
	Hubert Locke, Ph.D., Professor of Public Affairs and Dean Emeritus, Evans School of Public Policy, University of Washington. Author of many books, essays and articles, Dr. Locke is a member of the Board of Directors of Washington State Commission on Judicial Conduct, past Chair of the King County Ethics Board, past Co-Chair of the Washington State Commission on Ethics and Political Accountability, and past Chair of the Washington State Sentencing Guidelines Commission. He serves on the boards of Disciples Divinity House in Chicago, IL; Disciples Seminary Foundation, Claremont, CA; and is a member of committees on Education and Church Relations, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC), National Council on Crime and Delinquency (Oakland, CA), Seattle Policy Foundation, and Seattle Symphony Orchestra. He is a graduate of Wayne State University, the University of Chicago (Chicago Theological Seminary), and the University of Michigan (M.A.), and holds honorary doctorates from Payne Theological Seminary, Chicago Theological Seminary, the University of Akron, University of Bridgeport, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and Richard Stockton College.
	Dorothy Mann, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an internationally recognized nonprofit management and leadership development professional. Her expertise in the public and nonprofit arena helps organizations function more successfully at the operational and governance level. She began her consulting practice following a successful career in the public sector at the senior executive level. She has more than 30 years experience in directing and maximizing the efforts of public and nonprofit programs designed to improve the social and health status of populations at the local, state and regional levels. Dr. Mann has organized and led interdisciplinary fact finding delegations to Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa. Mann graduated from Howard University, the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and the Union Institute in Ohio, earning Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Health Services. Administration and Health Policy.
	Holly Miller, MA, Director, Mayor's Office of Education, City of Seattle. Ms. Miller overseas the Seattle Education Levy and maintains relations with the city's separately elected School Board and its Superintendent. Prior to that, she served as Executive Director of the New School Foundation, which created new year-round, extended day, neighborhood public schools as a unique public-private partnership between the Seattle School District and the New School Foundation. Previously she served as Seattle's Superintendent of Parks and Recreation. She also served as Director of Construction and Land Use. Before working with the City of Seattle, she served in a variety of capacities, including Director of the King County, Washington Department of Planning and Community Development, Special Projects Coordinator at Boston Edison Company, and in the U.S. Departments of Interior and Energy. Ms. Miller was raised in Zaire, Africa, and earned BA and MA degrees in History from the University of Georgia.
	Rogelio Riojas, MHA, Executive Director, Sea Mar Community Health Centers. In the fall of 1969, he enrolled at the University of Washington and quickly emerged as a leader among Latino student activists. Riojas was an active member of the UW chapter of MEChA and Seattle's Brown Berets. He was involved in a number of campaigns both on campus and in the community, including fundraising for the United Farm Workers, the 1972 El Centro de la Raza takeover of Beacon Hill Elementary School, and a successful effort to bring a community health clinic to his hometown of Othello. After graduating with an undergraduate degree in Political Science, Riojas earned a Masters degree in Health Administration and took over operations at Sea Mar Community Health Centers, where he has been the Executive Director for the past 28 years. Sea Mar's mission -- to serve low-income, underserved, and uninsured communities in western Washington, with a specialization in services to the Latino population -- traces its roots to the Chicano movement activism of Riojas's generation, but has also evolved with the times into a multi-million dollar facility that manages over ten medical clinics and ten dental clinics, serving over 83,000 people in 2004 alone.
	Charles Royer, President of the Institute for Community Change. Previously he was National Program Director for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative (UHI). Mr. Royer was elected Mayor of Seattle in 1977 following a career in newspaper and television journalism. During his twelve years as mayor, Mr. Royer became a national spokesman for American cities in housing, the arts, health care, energy, civil liberties and the needs of children and youth. He served as President of the National League of Cities in 1983 and was named one of the top 20 American Mayors in 1988 by U. S. News and World Report. In 1989, Seattle was named one of the ten best-managed cities in the nation by Business Month Magazine and Mr. Royer received the 1989 Distinguished Urban Mayor Award from the National Urban Coalition. During his tenure as Mayor, he was instrumental in bringing new investment to Seattle while maintaining the city's high quality of life. Seattle was named the nation's "Most Livable City" in 1989 by Places Rated Almanac. While Mayor, Mr. Royer led efforts to streamline city government; craft an international treaty with Canada for sustainable and low-cost electric power; develop low-income and affordable housing; create a community health-clinic system; establish the nation's most successful residential recycling program; and strengthen Seattle's neighborhoods with new land-use policies and zoning. From 1990 until 1994, he served as Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and as a Lecturer at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.