Our Leadership - AFS-USA

Leadership

Kelly McFarland Stratman, CAE

Board Chair
Executive Director of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
AFS Returnee – U.S. to Denmark, 1985

Executive Team

Mary Jo Brock

Vice President, Host Family Experience & Stakeholder Engagement

Keri Dooley

Executive Vice President, Compliance & Government Relations

Jennifer Dunn

Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations

Melvin Harmon

Vice President, Marketing, Study Abroad, and Participant Support & Learning

Michelle C. Pinedo

Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
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Willie Thompson

Vice President, Digital Strategy & Business Intelligence
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Steve Thrush

Vice President, Hosting and Strategic Operations

Board of Directors

Madelyn White

Vice-Chair
Partner at Carter Ledyard & Milburn
AFS Returnee – U.S. to Belgium; U.S. to France
AFS Host Parent

John Bacon

Treasurer
Chief Development Officer for Planned Giving,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
AFS Returnee – U.S. to Belgium, 1980-81

Secretary
Community Development, Private School Management, and self-established local business (retired)
Vice Chair of the AFS-USA National Council of Volunteers
AFS Returnee – U.S. to Costa Rica; AFS Host Family – Türkiye

Karen Treber

General Counsel of Salisbury University, Maryland
AFS Host Family and Volunteer

Dr. Marcus Campbell

Superintendent, Evanston Township High School

Murray Johnson

Owner and Manager of a WI Manufacturing Company and OH Cattle/Crop Farm
AFS Host Family, Volunteer, and Sending Parent

Gisele Marcus

Professor of Practice, Olin Business School,
Washington University
Corporate Director, First Mid Bancshares, Inc.
AFS Host Family and Volunteer

Ann Sweet

Registered Dental Hygienist
AFS Host Family and Volunteer

Christina Morales Wood

National Development Director, Stand for Children
AFS Host Family

Tara Hayward

Consultant, Public Health Research and Development

Paul Primak

Director of IP, Oregon University System (retired)

Ian Hepworth

Vice President of Operations, Trove
AFS Returnee –U.S. to Chile 1998
AFS Host Family

Shira Fuller

Professor of Practice, Olin Business School,
Washington University
Corporate Director, First Mid Bancshares, Inc.
AFS Host Family and Volunteer

Thresa Giles

Chief Executive Officer, Hope & Help

G. Taylor Johnson

Realtor, Keller Williams Capital Properties
AFS-USA Volunteer, Capital Area Team

David Lewis

Chief Investment Officer, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
AFS-USA Volunteer, Greater Chicago Area Team

Leadership

Executive Team

Board of Directors

AFS-USA President’s Council