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Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., is a member of the faculty of the University of Utah and in private practice at the Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is on staff at the Primary Children's Medical Center and the University Neuropsychiatric Institute. Dr. Goldstein has lectured nationally and internationally through diverse audiences, speaking in Stockholm, England, Brazil and Puerto Rico this past year, as well as throughout the United States and Canada.

Dr. Goldstein has served as Chairman of the National Professional Advisory Board for the organization Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. His publications include ten texts on subjects including genetics and developmental disorders, depression, classroom consultation, learning disability and attention deficit disorder, as well as dozens of articles, a number of guides, book chapters and a video series for parents and educators dealing with childhood problems. Dr. Goldstein's videos have garnered multiple awards, including the New York Film Festival.

Dr. Goldstein received his Doctorate in School Psychology with an emphasis upon Neuropsychology from the University of Utah. He holds advanced Fellow and Diplomate status in multiple organizations, including the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, the American Board of Pain Management, the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists and the American Board of Vocational Neuropsychology.

Dr. Goldstein sits on the Editorial Boards for the Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Journal of Attention Disorders, and the ADHD Report.

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Robert Brooks, Ph.D., has lectured nationally and internationally to audiences of parents, educators, mental health professionals, and business people on topics pertaining to motivation, resilience, self-esteem, family relationships, the qualities of effective leaders and executives, and balancing our personal and professional lives. He is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and has served as Director of the Department of Psychology at McLean Hospital.

Dr. Brooks received a Gubernatorial Award for Distinguished Public Service for his work with the Governor's Alliance Against, "Hall of Fame" awards from both CH.A.D.D. (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders) and the Connecticut Association for Children with Learning Disabilities for his work with special needs children and adolescents, a Special Recognition and Media Award from the Massachusetts Psychological Association, and the "Friends of Families Award" from the Family Place for his work on behalf of children and families. In addition, Dr. Brooks has served as a consultant to Sesame Street Parents Magazine.

Dr. Brooks received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Clark University and did additional training at the University of Colorado Medical School. He completed a videotape and educational guide for PBS about at-risk students titled, "Look What You’ve Done: Stories of Hope and Resilience." He has co-authored a book titled A Pediatric Approach to Learning Disorders (Wiley), and published a number of articles and book chapters related to self-esteem, education, resilience, and psychotherapy. Dr. Brooks has also written a sex education book for the young child called So That's How I Was Born! published by Simon & Schuster and is the author of a book titled The Self-Esteem Teacher published by Treehaus Communications.

Contact Dr. Brooks.

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Mike Schneider (Foundation spokesperson), has spent 25-years reporting the news across the United States and around the world. In a career that started during his days as a student at Temple University, Schneider advanced to the highest ranks of network television, anchoring the news on ABC's 'Good Morning America,' and hosting the weekend edition's of NBC's 'Today' program. Schneider's news assignments have taken him from Moscow to the Mideast. He covered the fall of communism in east Europe, Pope John Paul's historic visits to the U.S., and the 1983 riots in Miami. He literally went into the eye of the storm to provide live coverage of hurricanes Hugo and Andrew. Mike Schneider has covered every presidential campaign since 1976. He served as moderator of the 1988 presidential debate in New York, and spent 1996 traveling the country as the national political correspondent for the ''Fox News' network. Schneider's reports have appeared on a wide variety of programs, including ABC's 'Nightline' and '20-20', and 'Dateline NBC'. He has also subbed for Tom Brokaw on 'NBC Nightly News', and for Tim Russert on 'Meet the Press'. Mike Schneider co-hosted with former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop on a series of medical programs, and narrated a CBS production's documentary 'Guns Under Fire', telecast on the Learning Channel (TLC) in October, 1999. Along the way, Mike Schneider has won several awards for his work. He received an Emmy for his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash, and co-anchored ABC's Emmy-award winning coverage of the Persian Gulf war.

Craig Clyde (media director), a native of Washington State, has been in television and film most of his adult life. After a stint as an English teacher, Clyde began his professional media career in radio and television. People in Utah remember him best as the co-host and Producer of PM Magazine Utah for a number of years.

In addition to his media experience, Clyde has appeared in over sixty-five major films and national television programs for all the major networks — as well as numerous stage roles. Film roles include the ABC Circle Films production of “Evil in Clear River,” “Tripwire” for 20th Century Fox, “The Witching of Ben Wagner” for the Disney Channel, the In the Line of Duty Series “Siege At Marion” for NBC, “Stand-off at Alta View” and “The Mystery of Noah’s Ark” A co-starring role in ABC television series “Crossroads” ABC’s “Extreme” “Nothing Lasts Forever” “It Was Him or Us,” “Touched By An Angel” “Promised Land” for CBS “Truth or Consequences N.M.” for director/actor Keifer Sutherland and was featured in the CBS miniseries "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town." He is a member of both Actor’s Equity and the Screen Actor’s Guild.

Clyde co-formed the film production company, Majestic Entertainment Inc, a Utah-based film corporation. He has won the International “Telly” award five times in the documentary division. The travel documentary “America the Beautiful,” narrated by Charlton Heston and written by Clyde, won the Grand Jury Award at the Houston International Film Festival, The Golden Camera at the Chicago Industrial Film Festival as well as another Telly Award. His feature film “Wind Dancer” was honored with the Silver Award at the Houston International Film Festival in 1994. The script “Calico Jack,” won the Gold Award for Best Children’s Original Screenplay in that competition as well as the Santa Clarita International Children's Film Festival. His feature film “Heaven Sent” won the Gold Award at Houston for the best theatrical film in the small budget category. Clyde was honored again with a Gold Award from the Charleston International Film Festival for “The Steps of Coronado” an original screenplay. The first time the same screenwriter has won the gold award two years in a row at the festival. And this year won the prestigious American Screenwriting Award Grand Prize for his original screenplay "Nowhere Man."

Clyde is a director who has written over two dozen feature motion picture screenplays including the features which he directed: “Little Heroes,” “The Legend of Wolf Mountain,” “Wind Dancer,” “Walking Thunder,” “Heaven Sent,” “The Long Road Home,” “A Dog’s Tale.” In the year 2000 alone he completed three features which he wrote and directed: “Castle Rock” starring Ernest Borgnine, “No Place Like Home” starring Judge Reinhold, Joana Pacula, Adrienne Barbeau and Bruce Weitz and “Dumb Luck” starring Scott Baio, Tracy Nelson, Hal Linden and Richard Moll.

Clyde is married and lives with his family in Salt Lake City.

Karen Frost (development and publicity), is principal and owner of Frost Media Relations, a public relations consulting firm, which she founded in 1998. She is a full time media relations consultant, entrepreneur and speaker/facilitator for Courage to Give™ workshops for corporations, schools, and non-profits around the country. Prior to launching her own agency, Karen was director of publicity for a national publishing company, part of the political advertising team for Senator Ted Kennedy, Congressman Richard Gephardt and former Speaker of the House, Tom Foley, freelanced for CBS News and Fox News Service, and managed the pressroom for the Perot ‘92 campaign in Dallas, Texas. Karen also worked in Uganda, East Africa for Habitat for Humanity. Although a Texan at heart, she currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her long red dog, Hogan.

 


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