December 15, 2009

Jennifer Anopolsky

Ms. Anopolsky is senior vice president of 

corporate responsibility for The Walt Disney 

Company. She leads a coordinated approach to 

Disney’s responsible practices across a broad set 

of areas including community outreach, charitable 

giving, kids’ health and wellness, international 

labor standards, and sustainability. Previously, 

Ms. Anapolsky was vice president of corporate 

brand management for Disney where she 

spearheaded development of Disney’s industry 

leading kids’ nutritional guidelines in 2006. Before 

joining Disney, she worked in brand management 

for Johnson & Johnson-Merck as well as Guerlain 

cosmetics and the Council on Economic Priorities. 

Ms. Anapolsky holds a BA from Washington 

University in St. Louis and an MBA from The 

Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 

David Britt

Mr. Britt is retired president-CEO of Sesame 

Workshop, the global leader in early childhood 

education through media. Earlier relevant public 

service included USAID, the US Overseas Private 

Investment Corporation, and EEOC. Mr. Britt 

serves as board chair of The Education Trust, 

which works for effective public education 

for all children, and is on the board of INMED 

Partnerships for Children, which conducts 

children’s programs in the U.S., South Africa 

and Latin America. He serves on the Advisory 

Committee for the Initiative on Social Enterprise 

at the Harvard Business School. Mr. Britt also 

is a consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson 

Foundation on food marketing and childhood 

obesity. He served on the IOM Committee on 

Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and 

Youth, the Board on Children, Youth and Families, 

and on the Keystone Center Roundtable on Food 

and Nutrition. Mr. Britt has a BA from Wesleyan 

University, and an MPA from the Kennedy School 

at Harvard. 

William H. Dietz

Dr. Dietz is the director of the Division of 

Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity in the 

Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health 

Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control 

(CDC). Prior to his appointment to the CDC, 

he was a professor of pediatrics at the Tuft’s 

University School of Medicine, and director of 

clinical nutrition at the Floating Hospital of New 

England Medical Center Hospitals. Dr. Dietz 

has been a councilor and past president of the 

American Society for Clinical Nutrition, and past 

president of the North American Association 

for the Study of Obesity. In 1998, Dr. Dietz was 

elected to the Institute of Medicine of the 

National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of 

over 200 publications in the scientific literature, 

and the editor of five books, including Clinical 

Obesity in Adults and Children and A Guide to 

Your Child’s Nutrition. 

Dr. Dietz received his BA from Wesleyan 

University in 1966, his MD from the University of 
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Pennsylvania in 1970, and a PhD in nutritional 

biochemistry from Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology. 

Mary Engle

Ms. Engle is the associate director for Advertising 

Practices at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 

The FTC’s Division of Advertising Practices is 

responsible for regulating national advertising 

matters, including claims about food, OTC drugs, 

dietary supplements, alcohol, tobacco, and 

Internet services. The Division also enforces the 

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, a statute 

regulating the online collection of personal 

information from children. 

Ms. Engle joined the FTC as a staff attorney in 

1990 and has served as acting deputy director 

of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, assistant 

to the director of the Bureau of Consumer 

Protection, attorney advisor to a commissioner, 

and assistant director of the Divisions of 

Enforcement and Advertising Practices. Before 

joining the FTC, Ms. Engle practiced law with a 

firm in Washington, DC. Ms. Engle received her BA 

from Harvard University in 1983 and her JD from 

the University of Virginia in 1986.

Jennifer Harris

Dr. Harris is director of marketing initiatives at 

the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy, where she 

is responsible for research to understand the 

extent and impact of youth exposure to food 

marketing. Dr. Harris has written on the pervasive 

influence of food marketing on health-related 

behaviors and beliefs. Prior to joining the Rudd 

Center, she worked for 18 years as a marketing 

executive and consultant. Dr. Harris received a BA 

from Northwestern University, an MBA from The 

Wharton School, and a PhD in social psychology 

from Yale University. 

Pauline Ippolito

Dr. Ippolito is deputy director in the Bureau of 

Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 

She has held a variety of management and staff 

positions since joining the FTC staff. Her research 

and policy interests include the economics of 

risk and information in consumer good markets 

and the design of public policy for advertising 

and labeling. In recent years, Dr. Ippolito 

has focused on the role of advertising and 

information in food markets and has been active 

in the debates about the best policies towards 

health-related claims for food products. She has 

also been involved in the agency’s fraud and ID 

theft surveys, studies of marketing to children, 

and efforts to improve consumer disclosures in 

mortgage markets. Dr. Ippolito received her PhD 

from Northwestern University.

Dan Jaffe

Mr. Jaffe is executive vice president, government 

relations, for the Association of National 

Advertisers, Inc. (ANA). He joined the ANA in 

1985 as senior vice president and head of its 

Washington office. He was promoted to executive 

vice president in 1989. Previously, Mr. Jaffe spent 

11 years on House and Senate staffs and was 

committee counsel to the Senate Commerce, 

Science and Transportation Committee. Since 

1985, Mr. Jaffe has been a principal architect of 

the advertising industry’s strategy of expanding 

the First Amendment protection of advertising. He 

has worked with leading constitutional scholars 

and advertising advocates to elevate the legal 

status of commercial speech. Contemporaneously, 

Mr. Jaffe has been an energetic advocate of 
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advertising rights on Capitol Hill, before the 

Federal Trade Commission, and in a wide range of 

public forums. 

Mr. Jaffe earned his master’s degree in public and 

international affairs at Princeton, and a JD from 

the University of California at Berkeley.

Inas Rashad Kelly

Dr. Kelly is an assistant professor of economics 

at Queens College of the City University of New 

York (CUNY). She is also a faculty research fellow 

in health economics at the National Bureau of 

Economic Research. Previously, Dr. Kelly was an 

assistant professor of economics at the Andrew 

Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State 

University, where she was also a Georgia Health 

Policy Center affiliate. 

Dr. Kelly’s research focuses on the economics and 

geography of obesity, physical activity, and other 

demand-driven health economics problems such 

as risky adolescent behavior and drug abuse. She 

has researched the effect of fast food advertising 

on obesity in children and adolescents. 

Dr. Kelly is a summa cum laude graduate of 

Queens College, where she earned her BA in 

economics in 2000. She received her PhD in 

economics from the Graduate Center of the City 

University of New York in 2004.

Elaine D. Kolish

Ms. Kolish, vice president and director, BBB 

Children’s Food & Beverage Advertising Initiative, 

is a nationally recognized expert on advertising 

and consumer protection issues. Ms. Kolish most 

recently was a partner at the national law firm 

Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal LLP, where she 

specialized in national advertising and marketing 

compliance. Prior to joining Sonnenschein, 

Ms. Kolish spent 25 years 

as an attorney at the 

Federal Trade Commission, most recently serving 

as head of the Division of Enforcement, where 

she oversaw numerous national advertising 

and regulatory matters, as well as other key 

policy initiatives. Ms. Kolish has served as vice 

chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Privacy and 

Information Security Committee, and was an 

editor of a recently issued ABA Antitrust Section 

treatise on consumer protection law. 

Ms. Kolish is a 1976 graduate of the University of 

Massachusetts, Amherst, and graduated magna 

cum laude from Western New England College 

School of Law in 1980.

Dale Kunkel

Dr. Kunkel is a professor of communication at the 

University of Arizona. He has studied children and 

media issues from diverse perspectives, including 

television effects research as well as assessments 

of media industry content and practices, for 

more than 25 years. He is a former congressional 

science fellow, and has testified as an expert 

witness on children’s media issues at numerous 

hearings before the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of 

Representatives, and the Federal Communications 

Commission. In 2005, Dr. Kunkel served on the 

Institute of Medicine panel that issued a major 

report on the issue of food marketing to children 

and its contribution to childhood obesity. More 

recently, he has published studies on the topic 

of food marketing to children in leading scientific 

journals such as Health Communication and 

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 

Dr. Kunkel received his PhD from the Annenberg 

School, University of Southern California, in 1984.
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Jon Leibowitz

Chairman Leibowitz was designated to serve as 

Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 

on March 2, 2009, by President Barack H. Obama. 

He was previously sworn in on September 3, 

2004 as a Commissioner of the FTC. In joining 

the FTC, Chairman Leibowitz resumed a long 

career of public service. He was the Democratic 

chief counsel and staff director for the U.S. 

Senate Antitrust Subcommittee from 1997 to 

2000, where he focused on competition policy 

and telecommunications matters. He served as 

chief counsel and staff director for the Senate 

Subcommittee on Terrorism and Technology from 

1995 to 1996 and the Senate Subcommittee on 

Juvenile Justice from 1991 to 1994. In addition, 

he served as chief counsel to Senator Herb Kohl 

from 1989 to 2000. Chairman Leibowitz worked for 

Senator Paul Simon from 1986 to 1987. 

In the private sector, Chairman Leibowitz served 

most recently as vice president for congressional 

affairs for the Motion Picture Association of 

America — from 2000 to 2004 — and worked as an 

attorney in private practice in Washington from 

1984 to 1986. 

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of 

Wisconsin with a BA in American history (1980), 

Chairman Leibowitz graduated from the New York 

University School of Law in 1984. 

Dick Mizerski

Dr. Mizerski holds the university chair in 

marketing at the University of Western Australia 

(Perth). He has published research on the 

relationship between young children’s recognition 

of trade characters and their attitudes and future 

use of products, the effects of a fast food toy 

premium targeted to young children, young 

children’s play of an online advergame and its 

effects on their brand and product preferences, 

the effects of a product placement in a children’s 

magazine on young readers’ preferences, 

requests and persuasion of other children to buy, 

the ability of ‘masked’ marketing to circumvent 

children’s use of their ‘persuasion knowledge,’ 

the use of advertising and price to shift young 

children to healthier foods, and the link of 3-and 

4-year-old children’s fast food brand knowledge 

to their brand preference and loyalty. Dr. Mizerski 

also has been a consultant to major confection 

brands and government agencies concerning 

marketing to youth. 

Dr. Mizerski previously held professorships at 

Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, Florida 

State University, and the University of Cincinnati. 

He earned his BS in business administration from 

Northwestern University in 1968 and a PhD in 

economics and business administration from the 

University of Florida in 1974.

Kathryn Montgomery

Dr. Montgomery is a professor in the School 

of Communication at American University. She 

is the author of Generation Digital: Politics, 

Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the 

Internet (MIT Press, 2007). Before returning to 

full-time teaching in 2003, she was president 

of the DC-based Center for Media Education 

(CME). During her 12-year tenure at CME, 

Dr. Montgomery’s research, publications, and 

testimony helped frame the national public policy 

debate on a range of critical media issues. 

At American University, Dr. Montgomery conducts 

ongoing research on the uses of technology by 

young people, and assesses the major technology, 

economic, and policy trends affecting the future 

of digital media. With support from the Ford and 

Surdna Foundations, she produced a report in 

2004, Youth as E-Citizens, which documented the 
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variety of ways that youth are using the Internet 

for politics and civic engagement. Dr. Montgomery 

is a contributing scholar to the John D. and 

Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation initiative on 

Digital Media and Learning.

Tamara Piety

Professor Piety is an associate professor at the 

University of Tulsa College of Law and has written 

extensively about commercial and corporate 

speech in several articles including: Against 

Freedom of Commercial Expression 29 Cardozo L. 

Rev.2583 (2008); Market Failure in the Marketplace 

of Ideas: Commercial Speech and the Problem That 

Won’t Go Away, 41 Loyola Law Rev.181 (2007); 

Free Advertising: the Case for Public Relations as 

Commercial Speech, 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 367 

(2006); Grounding Nike: Exposing Nike’s Quest 

for a Constitutional Right to Lie, 78 Temple L. 

Rev. 151 (2005); and Merchants of Discontent: 

An Exploration of the Psychology of Advertising, 

Addiction and the Implications for Commercial 

Speech, 25 Seattle L. Rev. 377 (2001). She has 

also written a book entitled, Brandishing the First 

Amendment: Commercial Expression in America,

which is due out from University of Michigan 

Press in 2010. 

Professor Piety received a JD from the University 

of Miami School of Law in 1991 and an LLM from 

Harvard Law School in 2000. She was a teaching 

fellow at Stanford Law School from 2000-2001. 

Robert C. Post

Since June 2007, Dr. Post has been the deputy 

director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 

Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. He 

oversees the planning, development, review, 

and promotion of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for 

Americans, the MyPyramid food guidance system, 

and programs, including 

the Healthy Eating Index, 

the USDA Food Plans, and the cost of raising a 

child. Previously, Dr. Post served for 11 years as 

the director of USDA’s food labeling policy program 

in the Food Safety and Inspection Service. 

Dr. Post is an adjunct professor in the Nutrition 

and Food Science Department of the University 

of Maryland, instructing courses in nutrition, 

food and public policy, and food industry quality 

control. He has authored and co-authored more 

than 30 articles and professional papers on 

food policy studies. He holds a PhD in public 

health, and science education policy and 

program administration, from the University of 

Maryland, where he also earned a MEd in health 

communications, media, and technology in 1989; 

an MS in food science and microbiology in 1981; 

and a BS in food science in 1978. 

Elizabeth Taylor Quilliam 

Dr. Quilliam is an assistant professor and 

associate director of Children’s Central in the 

Department of Advertising, Public Relations, & 

Retailing at Michigan State University (MSU). She 

conducts research in the areas of new media, 

corporate social responsibility, and marketing 

to children, focusing on entertainment games 

for advertising and marketing, food marketing 

to children, and consumer online privacy. Dr. 

Quilliam’s work has been published in both 

academic journals and trade publications. Prior to 

joining MSU, she was the first Harrison/Omnicom 

professor of advertising at West Virginia University. 

Dr. Quilliam earned a BA at Oberlin College, an 

MBA at Case Western Reserve University, and a 

PhD from Michigan State University.
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Martin Redish

Professor Redish is the Louis and Harriet 

Ancel Professor of law and public policy at 

Northwestern University School of Law. The 

author of 16 books and over 80 scholarly articles 

in the areas of free expression, constitutional 

theory, federal jurisdiction, and civil procedure, 

Professor Redish was recently listed as the 

sixteenth most cited legal scholar of all time 

in a study conducted by HeinOnline. He is the 

winner of numerous teaching awards, both 

at Northwestern and as a visiting professor. 

He has testified as an expert witness before 

congressional committees on a variety of 

free speech and federal jurisdiction issues. 

Professor Redish is senior counsel to the firm of 

Sidley Austin. He received his AB with highest 

honors in political science from the University of 

Pennsylvania and his JD magna cum laude from 

Harvard Law School. 

Michelle Rusk

Ms. Rusk is a senior attorney with the Federal 

Trade Commission’s Division of Advertising 

Practices. She helps coordinate FTC enforcement 

activities for dietary supplement and food 

advertising. She was involved in the development 

of the FTC’s 1994 Enforcement Policy Statement 

on Food Advertising and the FTC’s 1998 Dietary 

Supplements: An Advertising Guide for Industry. 

Ms. Rusk has also worked on a number of other 

advertising issues, including the FTC’s Guides 

for Environmental Marketing and, most recently, 

the FTC’s 2009 report to Congress on Marketing 

Violent Entertainment to Children. She was the 

1999 recipient of the Paul Rand Dixon Award for 

her work in the dietary supplement area. 

Ms. Rusk joined the FTC from private practice 

in 1990. She received her BA in psychology 

from Harvard University and her JD from the 

Georgetown University Law Center.

Barbara Schneeman

Dr. Schneeman is currently director of the Office 

of Nutrition, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements 

in the Center for Food Safety and Applied 

Nutrition at the Food and Drug Administration. 

She oversees the development of policy and 

regulations for dietary supplements, nutrition 

labeling and food standards, infant formula, and 

medical foods and serves as the U.S delegate 

to two Codex committees. From 1976-2007, she 

was professor of nutrition at the University 

of California, Davis, and served in several 

administrative roles, including chair of the 

Department of Nutrition and dean of the College 

of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. She 

has been a visiting scientist at the University 

of California, San Francisco, and the assistant 

administrator for nutrition in the Agricultural 

Research Service of the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture. 

Dr. Schneeman has published over 220 journal 

articles, book chapters and abstracts, and is 

recognized for her research contributions in 

the areas of gastrointestinal function, dietary 

fiber, lipid metabolism, and food-based dietary 

guidelines. She received her BS from the 

University of California, Davis, PhD from the 

University of California, Berkeley, and postdoctoral 

training in gastro-intestinal physiology at 

Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California. 

Kathleen Sebelius 

Secretary Sebelius was sworn in as the 21st 

Secretary of the Department of Health and 

Human Services on April 28, 2009. As Secretary, 

she leads the principal agency charged with 
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keeping Americans healthy, ensuring they get the 

health care they need, and providing children, 

families, and seniors with the essential human 

services they depend on. She also oversees one 

of the largest civilian departments in the federal 

government, with nearly 80,000 employees. 

Secretary Sebelius served as Governor of Kansas 

from 2003 to 2009, the first daughter of a governor 

to be elected governor in American history. In 

2005, Time Magazine recognized her achievements 

by naming her one of America’s Top Five 

Governors. From 1995 to 2003, Secretary Sebelius 

served as the first Democrat to be elected Kansas 

Insurance Commissioner. Prior to that, she was a 

member of the Kansas House of Representatives 

from 1987 to 1995. 

Secretary Sebelius holds an MPA from the 

University of Kansas and a BA from Trinity 

Washington University. 

Mary Sophos

Ms. Sophos has served as the senior vice 

president and chief government affairs officer 

since joining the Grocery Manufacturers 

Association (GMA) in 1993. She is responsible 

for developing strategy and providing senior 

leadership, staff management, and financial 

oversight of the GMA Federal, International, and 

State Affairs programs. She addresses federal and 

global legislative and regulatory policy impacting 

foods, beverages, and consumer products. 

Before joining GMA, Ms. Sophos served as 

assistant secretary of legislative affairs and 

deputy assistant secretary for legislative affairs 

for the U.S. Treasury. Ms. Sophos also was 

assistant minority counsel to the House Ways 

and Means Committee, budget associate staff, 

and legislative director to Rep. Tom Loeffler, and 

legislative assistant to the director of the Office of 

Management and Budget. 

David Vladeck

Mr. Vladeck is the director 

of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of 

Consumer Protection. While at the FTC, Mr. Vladeck 

is on leave from Georgetown University Law 

Center, where he is a professor of law. He has 

taught courses in federal courts, government 

processes, civil procedure, first amendment 

litigation, and co-directed the Institute for Public 

Representation, a clinical law program at the Law 

Center, which handles a broad array of civil rights, 

first amendment, and regulatory litigation. 

Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty in 2002, 

Mr. Vladeck spent nearly 30 years with Public 

Citizen Litigation Group, serving as its director 

from 1992 to 2002. There, he handled a wide range 

of complex litigation, primarily in federal courts, 

including first amendment, health and safety, 

civil rights, class actions, preemption, and open 

government cases. 

Mr. Vladick has argued a number of First 

Amendment and civil rights cases before the 

United States Supreme Court, and more than 60 

cases before the federal courts of appeal and 

state courts of last resort. He also has testified 

frequently before Congress, advised Members 

of Congress on legal matters, and written on 

administrative law, preemption, first amendment, 

legal ethics, and access to justice issues. In 

May 2008, Legal Times of Washington recognized 

Mr. Vladeck as one of 30 “champions of justice,” 

and one of the 90 greatest lawyers in Washington, 

DC, over the past 30 years. 

Mr. Vladeck received his undergraduate degree 

from New York University, his JD from Columbia 

University School of Law, and an LLM degree from 

Georgetown University Law Center. 
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Margo Wootan

Dr. Wootan is the director of nutrition policy at 

the Center for Science in the Public Interest, 

one of the country’s leading health advocacy 

organizations that specializes in food, nutrition, 

and obesity prevention. She co-founded and 

coordinates the activities of the National Alliance 

for Nutrition and Activity and is a member 

of the Steering Committee for the National 

Fruit and Vegetable Alliance. Dr. Wootan has 

coordinated and lead efforts to require trans 

fat labeling, improve school foods, reduce junk 

food marketing aimed at children, require calorie 

labeling at fast food and other chain restaurants, 

and expand the nutrition and physical activity 

program at the Centers for Disease Control. She 

has received numerous awards and is quoted 

regularly in the nation’s major media. 

Dr. Wootan received her BS in nutrition from 

Cornell University and her PhD in nutrition from 

Harvard University’s School of Public Health. 

David Yosifon

Professor Yosifon is an assistant professor of 

Law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He 

teaches courses in the areas of business law, 

legal ethics, and legal theory. His scholarship is 

focused on the application of social psychology, 

and allied social sciences, to corporate law and 

corporate theory. His recent work deploys this 

methodology to critique the shareholder primacy 

norm which presently dominates corporate 

governance law in the United States. 

Professor Yosifon received his undergraduate 

degree in history and philosophy from Rutgers, 

The State University of New Jersey, in 1995 

(summa cum laude), a MA in American social 

history from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997, 

and a JD from Harvard University in 2002 (magna 

cum laude). He formerly served as a law clerk to 

the Honorable Patti B. Saris of the United States 

District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 

and as a litigation associate at the Boston firm of 

Ropes & Gray, LLP.