About Us

EDWARD W. AHART I ELLA DAVILA AUCHINCLOSS I DONALD M. BERWICK I CLAUDIA A. BRINK I JOHN D. CAMPBELL
ELIZABETH G. CHRISTOPHERSON I RYAN CONWAY I JOY CUSHMAN I VANESSA DILLEN I ELLIOTT S. FISHER  I CATHY FINK
CHANA FITTON I MARSHALL GANZ I DAN GRANDONE I HAHRIE HAN I KATE B. HILTON I GARY HIRSCH I JACK HOMER
C. SHERRY IMMEDIATO I CHRISTINA INGERSOLL I TERRI JOWERS I LAURA K. LANDY I CARRIE ANN LAWRENCE
KIMBERLYN LEARY I JOAN PONG LINTON I AMORY LOVINS I PATRICIA MACBAIN I ERIN MCFEE I MICHAEL D. MCGINNIS
HENRY MILLER I BOBBY MILSTEIN I KAREN MINYARDI MEREDITH MIRA I ALBERT MULLEY JR. I JAY OGLIVY I ABBY O’NEILL
ELINOR OSTROM I LEIGH SCHERRER I PETER M. SENGE I TINA SMITH I JOHN D. STERMAN I DAVID SURRENDA
JUSTIN TROGDON I RICHARD TURNER I RUTH WAGEMAN

Terri Jowers is Lead Organizer for the Healthy South Carolina campaign catalyzed by Organizing for Health, a project of ReThink Health. An eighth generation South Carolinian, Ms. Jowers has deep commitments to her family, state and faith that have led her to a life of community organizing. While studying history, political science and speech and drama at Clemson University, she became active in the South Carolina Democratic Party, serving on the State Executive Committee and working on numerous elections and legislative campaigns as advisor, manager and volunteer coordinator. In the 2010 cycle, she was a Field Organizer in the South Carolina Democratic Coordinated Campaign. Ms. Jowers has received awards for her work as the South Carolina Victim Advocate of the Year and the Greater Edisto Chapter Red Cross Outstanding Volunteer.

Laura K. Landy, MBA, was named President and CEO of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation in 2006 and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees since 1998. She is also the founder and chair of ReThink Health, a core initiative of the Rippel Foundation which seeks to foster the thinking, understanding, leadership, tools and models that will lead to a sustainable health system for all Americans. Throughout her career, Ms. Landy has brought sound business and strategic thinking to creating sustainable solutions to pressing social issues. As President of Applied Concepts, a consulting firm she established in 1983, her efforts focused on the changing dynamics in health, higher education, finance, social services and culture. Among her health-related activities have been relationships with Pfizer; the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, AT&T and urban health systems. Ms. Landy’s expertise in entrepreneurship and corporate venturing led her to create and direct the Institute for Nonprofit Entrepreneurship at NYU’s Stern School of Business where she also taught and served as Associate Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. She has also been a member of the adjunct faculty of Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon, the New School, and Fairleigh Dickinson. Ms. Landy received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis. After graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, she received her MBA from New York University. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Carrie Ann Lawrence, MS, is a Graduate Research Assistant with Managing the Health Commons, a project of ReThink Health led by the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington where she is a PhD candidate in Health Behavior. Ms. Lawrence serves as an Adjunct Instructor of Health Policy in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs as well as an Associate Instructor and Doctoral Student in the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at Indiana University. She has extensive experience working with children and families in social service settings which has driven her research interests in health policy, maternal/child health, family health, and health disparities.

Kimberlyn Leary, PhD, ABPP, is a member of the faculty of ReThink Health Research, a project of ReThink Health. Dr. Leary is Chief Psychologist and Director of Psychology and Psychology Training at Cambridge Health Alliance and Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She is also a faculty affiliate at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and a faculty member at both the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England. Her clinical and research interests focus on the role of race and culture in clinical treatment, supervision and in organizations. Dr. Leary received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where she also completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship. In addition, she is a graduate of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. She holds diplomates in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis. In 2009 she received an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Joan Pong Linton, PhD, serves as Research Faculty for Managing the Health Commons, a project of ReThink Health led by the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Linton is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University where she has taught a wide range of courses in literature, writing, literary theory and early modern literature. The author of numerous published works on early modern English writers, her current research is focused on early modern trickster poetics and politics. Dr. Linton earned her PhD at Stanford University.

Amory Lovins, a consultant physicist whose insights into energy reform inspired ReThink Health’s approach to health and health care change, is Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute. His wide-ranging innovations in energy, security, environment, and development have been recognized by the Blue Planet, Volvo, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 11 honorary doctorates, and many others. He advises governments and major firms worldwide on advanced energy and resource efficiency, has briefed 20 heads of state, and has led the technical redesign of more than $30 billion worth of industrial facilities in 29 sectors to achieve very large energy savings at typically lower capital cost. A Harvard and Oxford dropout, he has published 29 books and hundreds of papers and has taught at eight universities, most recently as a 2007 visiting professor in Stanford University’s School of Engineering. In 2009, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers.

Patricia MacBain, MSEd, joined the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation as Office Manager in 2007. Her diverse responsibilities include meeting planning, financial recordkeeping, and facilities management. Ms. MacBain began her career as an editor of tax publications at Prentice-Hall, Inc. During her twelve years there, Ms. MacBain wrote and edited state and local tax publications, and reported stock mergers and corporate reorganizations. Subsequently, inspired by the educational philosophy of the Waldorf schools, Ms. MacBain completed a master’s degree in Waldorf Education and became a Waldorf teacher. For thirteen years, she carried classes from grades one through eight in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Later Ms. MacBain mentored and evaluated Waldorf teachers to promote teacher development. Ms. MacBain attended Radcliffe and Barnard Colleges, and received her B.A. in English summa cum laude from Montclair State University. She also holds an MSEd from Sunbridge College.

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