Amy Boehman-Pollitt

Teacher Specialist for Instructional Technology
Frederick County Public Schools

Amy Boehman-Pollitt is employed in Frederick County Public Schools as a Teacher Specialist for Instructional Technology.  Before she accepted this position, she was a classroom teacher for 10 years where she taught first and third grades respectively.  Furthermore, Mrs. Boehman-Pollitt is an adjunct professor at Mount Saint Mary’s University where she teaches instructional technology for the education department. In addition, she currently teaches MSDE classes in instructional technology for FCPS. She holds a B.S in Elementary Education and a M.S. in Elementary Education with emphasis in Instructional Technology.

Traci A. Barnett, MBA

Chief Executive Officer
Girl Scouts of Central Maryland

Traci A. Barnett has been in the nonprofit field for over 20 years working for both healthcare and service organizations.  Barnett has held several key executive and director level positions with such organizations as the Easter Seal Society, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Arthritis Foundation and Visiting Nurse Association.  In her current position she is the chief executive officer of Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, the preeminent organization for girls, providing leadership programs to nearly 28,000 girls in Baltimore city and the five surrounding counties.

Under Barnett’s leadership Girl Scouts of Central Maryland has developed a premier STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) program for girls in the region through partnerships with the NASA Goddard Space Center, Johns Hopkins University, Northrop Grumman, UMBC, Lockheed Martin and TechBridge.  In October 2010 Girl Scouts of Central Maryland will celebrate the grand opening of their Urban Program & Environmental Training Center in Baltimore city with facilities that feature state of the art technology labs, a multimedia center, dance and exercise studio, and learning kitchen. 

Barnett was named a Maryland Top 100 Woman by The Daily Record in 2008 and 2010.  She is a recipient of Smart Woman Magazine’s 2006 BRAVO Award and Toastmasters International Leadership and Communication Award in 2007.  Barnett was recognized as a 2009 Top 100 CEO by SmartCEO magazine.  She was also listed as one of 25 CEOs You Need to Know in 2009, an honor given by the Maryland Gazette of Politics & Business to presidents and CEOs of small, medium and large organizations who are not only running successful businesses, but are also giving back to their community.  

Laura Brown

Media Specialist
Wheaton High School
Montgomery County Public Schools

Laura Brown is currently a library media specialist at Wheaton High School in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCSP).  She has been a media specialist for almost twenty years.  Her experience includes being a media specialist at a community college, a university, and grades PreK- 12th, a military library, and a state agency.  She was also a technology consultant for MCSP for three years.  In this role she trained teachers, administrators, and other school staff personnel the technology being used in the school system.  Ms. Brown is from Detroit, Michigan and has an undergraduate degree in Economics, with a minor in African American Studies Pennsylvania State University.  She has her Masters in Library Services from the University of Alabama, and a Masters in Elementary Education from Auburn University.  She also has a certification in Educational Leadership from Auburn University, and graduate course work in aeronautics from Oklahoma State University.   She has presented at a number of state conferences which include MSTA and MICCA, and is a certified Promethean trainer and ThinkPort trainer for Maryland Public Television.  She resides in Hanover, Maryland and enjoys scrap booking, card making, rug hooking, writing, and biking.

CAPT Stephanie Bryn, MPH

Director of Injury and Violence Prevention Programs 
Health Resources and Services Administration
US Department of Health and Human Services

CAPT Stephanie Bryn, MPH, is the Director of Injury and Violence Prevention Programs for the Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services and plays a critical role in HRSA's mission by facilitating technical assistance and education/training to states, organizations and others through a network of national resource centers and by providing vision and leadership for injury and violence prevention programming.   CAPT Bryn oversees the Children’s Safety Network and the National Center for Child Death Review Program and Policy Center, which have the mission of reducing injury and violence and preventing child and adolescent deaths.  CAPT Bryn is the Project Officer for HRSA's Stop Bullying Now! Campaign focused on tweens aged 9-13 years, teens, health and mental health providers, school personnel, parents, and faith-based, health and safety agencies and organizations.  The Stop Bullying Now! Campaign launched in 2004 has maintained more than 80 active partners and continues to raise awareness and promote action in communities, schools, organizations and states to stop bullying now! 

Colleen A. Calimer

Senior Systems Engineer
The Boeing Company

Colleen Calimer served in various positions and as a Senior Intelligence Analyst at the National Security Agency for 27 years until her retirement in December 2001.  She then joined Conquest Inc. (later acquired by Boeing) as a Senior Intelligence Analysts in a Systems Engineer Technical Assistant (SETA) capacity responsible for intelligence analysis requirements designed to transform NSA operations into a more modern, efficient, and customer-centric agile enterprise.  Ms. Calimer co-authored "World Class Intelligence Analysis", presented in Washington DC, 2003, "Embedded Systems Engineering" presented in Toulouse France, 2004, and "A Meeting of the Minds: A Successful Systems Engineering Experiment using Concept Maps for Effective Communications", presented in Rochester, NY, 2005.  These papers were for the International Council of Systems Engineers (INCOSE).  Ms. Calimer contributed to Vitech's construction of their 2002 INCOSE presentation, "Systems Analysis: A Tool to Understand and Predict Terrorist Activities".  

Ms. Calimer has attended the College of Notre Dame, MD Institute College of Art, Harford Community College, Towson State University and has taken over 100 courses in intelligence-related topics.

Justin T. Fitzsimmons

Senior Attorney
National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse

Justin Fitzsimmons is a Senior Attorney with NDAA’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse in Alexandria, Virginia.  He organizes three national conferences a year about online crimes against children: Unsafe Havens I, Unsafe Havens II and Safety Net.  NDAA presents Unsafe Havens I, an intermediate course designed to facilitate prosecutors understanding of complex issues in cases of technology facilitated crimes against children. Unsafe Havens I is offered in various locations across the country. Unsafe Havens II, an advanced trial advocacy course, takes place at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina.  Safety Net trains multidisciplinary teams who investigate online crimes against children. Additionally, Mr. Fitzsimmons also trains at other events pertaining to online crimes against children as well as other sexual and physical abuse crimes against children.

Training prosecutors around the country is just one area of Mr. Fitzsimmons’ profession. He also updates a comprehensive outline of cases involving online exploitation of children and he also distributes a weekly case law update to hundreds of prosecutors and child abuse professionals both nationally, as well as globally.  Additionally, he collaborates with the following groups to develop strategies informing parents about online crimes against children: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Department of Justice, and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

Douglas F. Gansler

Maryland Attorney General

Douglas F. Gansler was elected on November 7, 2006, as Maryland’s 44th Attorney General. Since that election, Mr. Gansler has been elected as the national Co-Chair for the Democratic Attorneys General Association. He has also been elected to serve as President of the National Association of Attorneys General's (NAAG) Eastern Region, appointed national Co-Chair of NAAG’s Environment and Energy Committee, national Co-Chair of NAAG’s Youth Access to Alcohol Committee, and national Co-Chair of NAAG's Legislative Committee.

As Attorney General, Mr. Gansler has focused on environmental, public safety, and consumer issues. In terms of the environment, Mr. Gansler participated in reaching the largest air pollution settlement in the history of the United States, a $4.6 billion settlement with an Ohio River Valley company, American Electric Power. He also spearheaded the largest water pollution case in the history of Maryland, which included a $1 million settlement with Constellation Energy over fly-ash contamination. In September 2008, Mr. Gansler reached a settlement with ExxonMobil which included a $4 million civil penalty, the largest ever levied for an oil spill in Maryland. Along with other significant enforcement victories against polluters, Mr. Gansler led the successful charge to have phosphates permanently banned from dishwasher detergent, increased automobile emission standards, and laid the groundwork for the construction of a power plant to convert 500 million pounds of chicken manure into energy.

In public safety, Mr. Gansler established the first Attorney General Gang Prosecution Unit, created a statewide internet safety initiative focused on school-aged children, and joined other attorneys general in targeting sexual predators on social networking websites. He also co-chairs the statewide Human Trafficking Task Force.

Byron V. Garrett

Chief Executive Officer
National PTA

One of the most compelling voices of our time, Byron V. Garrett became Chief Executive Officer of the National PTA in June of 2008. As CEO, Byron provides leadership for staff working in partnership with volunteer leadership to steward the nation’s largest child advocacy association composed of more than five million members around the globe. Throughout his career, he has been a visionary agent of change promoting the idea that everyone has an obligation and opportunity to serve the best interests of our nation’s most precious resource – children.

Byron brings to PTA a unique combination of experience from both the non-profit and governmental sectors, most recently serving as the chief of staff for the Office of Public Affairs at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security). Prior to this, Garrett served as national program leader for the National 4-H Headquarters at the U.S. Department of Agriculture—overseeing three mission areas (healthy living; citizenship; and science, engineering, and technology) for the program’s seven million participants and 90,000 clubs. While at USDA he was appointed by The White House as co-convener of the Helping America’s Youth initiative, an interagency effort to address challenges facing youth and to promote successful solutions.

Earlier in his career, Garrett spent a decade in Phoenix as an education advocate and community leader. He served as a policy advisor for faith and community initiatives for then Governor Janet Napolitano (currently U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security); prior to that role, he was the director of the governor’s Division for Community and Youth Development, where he administered multiple boards and commissions. Garrett is also a former K-8 school principal.

Formerly, Garrett served as a columnist for the Arizona Informant and is an author of several books including “The ABC’s of Life.” An accomplished speaker, Garrett has delivered presentations all across the U.S., Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. He has also been a guest on MSNBC and the "Dr. Phil Show," and been featured in a number of publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and JET Magazine. In 2009, Ebony named Garrett to its “Power 150,” an annual list of “The Most Influential Black Americans.” Garrett is also a board member of the Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now, Inc.

Amy Ginther

Coordinator, Policy Development and Education
Project NEThics^sm
Office of Information Technology
University of Maryland

Amy has been at the University of Maryland since 1994, serving first in the Office of Student Conduct where she advised the Student Honor Council and adjudicated cases of academic dishonesty. Her prior work was also in the field of student affairs administration in residential life settings at the University of California Davis, Minnesota State University, Mankato, and Carnegie Mellon University.

She is currently the coordinator of the Project NEThics group in the Office of Information Technology. Project NEThics is the group charged with promoting acceptable use of information technology and investigating incidents of computing resource misuse. In this role, Amy works with graduate assistant staff members who manage the processing of copyright infringement notices, provides user education on a variety of issues, consults with web developers on copyright and intellectual property questions, serves on the university's trademark committee, coordinates the response to cases involving abuse of information technology resources, and serves as a liaison to departments as cases require (university Police, Office of Student Conduct, Office of the Victim Advocate). Amy also serves as a member of the university's Peer Consultant Network of the Center for Leadership and Organizational Change. She has presented at EDUCAUSE national conferences, the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic regional conference, as well as at local meetings on topics of policy development, copyright and intellectual property, protection against identity theft, the pluses and perils of social networking, and others.

Bonnie S. Greenberg

Assistant United States Attorney
District of Maryland
Project Safe Childhood Coordinator

In September 1985, Ms. Greenberg began working as a prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.  She transferred to the Criminal Division in July 1997, and was a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice until March 1991.  During a portion of that time she was assigned as Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.  Currently, Ms. Greenberg is an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Maryland, which she has held since March 199, and is the Project Safe Childhood Coordinator.  Her caseload is primarily crimes against children, fraud, and reactive crimes. She  has been an adjunct professor, teaching Trial Advocacy, at the University of Baltimore since Fall 2006, and teaches Trial Advocacy at the National Advocacy Center and for NITA. 

Priya Gupta

Student
Atholton High School
Howard County Public Schools

Priya Gupta is a senior at Atholton High School. She has focused a year of her research on student speech online with the help of specialists David Hudson and Charles Haynes from the First Amendment Center, and Donald Mitchell, the Law and Citizen teacher at Atholton. This year she is interning at the District Court. She has been participating in Mock Trial for the last three years and is currently the president of the club. Last year she gave a presentation at the Student Learning Conference in the Applied Physics Lab. She also helped host a Law Conference with several other student in Howard County at her high school. In Priya’s sophomore year, she attended many law related conferences and camps including the Law and Government Center at UMBC. Eventually Priya hopes to pursue a career as a lawyer.

Ben Halpert

Information Security Researcher
Savvy Cyber Kids

Ben Halpert is a man on a mission: to keep all kids, including his own, safe online. Ben comes by his passion and expertise honestly. By day, he is an information security researcher and practitioner for a Fortune 500 firm. By night, he is a champion for the protection of children in cyberspace.

Ben is the author of two books for wildly divergent audiences. The Savvy Cyber Kids At Home: The Family Gets A Computer (October, 2010) is a picture book which teaches online safety to preschool age children. For those in the business field, Ben’s next book, Auditing Cloud Computing: A Security and Privacy Guide will be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2011.

Seeing a void in the conversation about online safety for children before they begin K-12, Ben created a nonprofit to represent those who cannot speak for themselves: infants, toddlers and preschool children. Savvy Cyber Kids, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is now working with the National Cyber Security Alliance and other organizations towards filling the gap.

Ben was a contributing author to Readings and Cases in the Management of Information Security and the Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security. Ben writes the security column for Mobile Enterprise Magazine and has contributed to seven NIST special publications and Ben is on the advisory board of numerous colleges and universities. He has keynoted and presented sessions at numerous conferences, including the RSA Security Conference, InfoSec World, IEEE, and ACM conferences. Ben is an adjunct instructor at a local University where he teaches the Master’s of IT information security concentration curriculum. Ben is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and is a PhD candidate at Nova Southeastern University.

Marsali S. Hancock

President
Internet Keep Safe Coalition

Ms. Hancock currently serves as the president of the Internet Keep Safe Coalition and brings over 16 years of public service, education and business management experience to her position.

She founded the Mountain West String Academy, a highly successful music education program funded by public and private grants and through donations. Gathering university staff, school principals, professional musicians, college students, and parent volunteers, she created the program that currently carries up to 300 students. Ms. Hancock also founded the Science Summer Workshop, a hands-on, advanced youth science tutoring program, where she organized curriculum, lessons and activities that cover basic chemistry, virology and biology.

A highly talented musician, Ms. Hancock worked as a professional violinist for over 25 years, completing a solo CD and numerous studio recordings for films and symphonic soundtracks. She served as an adjunct faculty member for the Utah State University School of Music and is an occasional substitute for the Utah Symphony. Ms Hancock earned her violin performance degree in music from Brigham Young University and is the mother of six children. She enjoys gourmet cooking, gardening and hiking with her children.

Lisa M. Jones, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC)
University of New Hampshire

Lisa M. Jones is a Research Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire and faculty at the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC). She has over 10 years experience conducting research on child victimization and evaluating national, state, and community-level responses to youth victims. Her insight into child victimization is central to understanding the impact of current technology issues, such as cyberbullying and sexting (and its prosecution) on children. Dr. Jones currently serves as principal investigator on the “Evaluation of Internet Child Safety Materials Used by ICAC Task Forces in School and Community Settings,” a project funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). She is author or co-author on several papers on Internet crimes against children. She also serves as a co-investigator on the 3^rd Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS3), a national survey of youth exposure ot unwanted experiences online. Additional research areas include national trends in child victimization, research on the investigation and prosecution of child-victim crimes, and improving the response to statutory rape victimization. Dr. Jones has numerous peer-reviewed publications from her research. She serves on the editorial boards of Child Maltreatment and Child Abuse and Neglect, and presents regularly across the country on the topics of child abuse and child victimization.

Steve Lines, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CBCP, IAM

Director of Business Continuity and Information Assurance
SAIC

Mr. Lines has over thirty years experience in the security field, including twenty years as a peace officer, fifteen years in developing and implementing security procedures for gaming and lottery corporations, and ten years as the Director of Business Continuity and Information Assurance for SAIC.

Prior to joining SAIC, Mr. Lines was the Vice President of Security for the Georgia Lottery Corporation helping found the Lottery in Georgia. Mr. Lines’ experience also includes working for the State of Colorado as a Gaming Agent to establish and enforce internal controls for the gaming industry within the state. His previous gaming experience includes supervising security at the Excalibur Casino in Las Vegas, at the time the largest Casino in the United States. Mr. Lines’ law enforcement career includes serving as the Internal Affairs Commander and SWAT Commander for the Aurora Police Department in Colorado. While there, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Dr. Ernest McDuffie

Associate Director
National Coordination Office NITRD
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Dr. Ernest McDuffie is the Associate Director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD). His appointment as the Associate Director of the NCO comes after joining the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a Computer Scientist in their Information Technology Laboratory, Office of Federal and Industrial Relations.

David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Education Specialties Department
Loyola University Maryland 
School of Education

David Marcovitz is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Technology from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where he studied support for technology in elementary schools. He has taught computer applications and computer programming at the high school level, and he has worked as a technology specialist in a high school. Prior to coming to Loyola University, Dr. Marcovitz taught in the educational technology program at Florida Atlantic University. He was hired by Loyola College in 1997 to develop a Masters program in Educational Technology, the program which he coordinates and for which he teaches many of the classes. His scholarly interests include support for technology in the schools and multimedia design by teachers and students. He is the author of the 2004 book, Powerful PowerPoint for Educators, and is the recipient of the Microsoft PowerPoint Most Valuable Professional Award in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Brianna Mentle

Student
Folly Quarter Middle School
Howard County Public Schools

Brianna Mentle is a Seventh Grade student at Folly Quarter Middle School. For her Sixth Grade GT Research Project she researched C3 issues, thereby exploring survey creation, data collection and analysis, and research presentations. She has participated in drama, robotics, debate and mock trials via after school and summer activities. Her goal is to be a lawyer, and she had the luck to recently meet Justice Sotomayor during a recent trip to Puerto Rico. She is an avid swimmer and equestrian.

Marian Merritt is Symantec’s Internet safety advocate, providing consumer-friendly insights into technology issues impacting people. In this role, Marian is the official spokesperson for Symantec’s “Norton Connected and Protected Family Safety Initiative,” which is dedicated to raising awareness of Internet safety.

Marian authored Symantec’s “Family Online Safety Guide,” a practical guide for parents and educators that focuses on age-specific solutions for protecting children online.

She also serves as editor-in-chief of Symantec's Family Resource Web site (www.norton.com/familyresource), which offers tips, resources and information on a broad array of Internet security topics. On this site, consumers can submit technology-related questions to be answered by Marian, listen to podcasts and read columns about keeping safe on the Internet.

Laurie Nathan is the Manager of Outreach for the NetSmartz Workshop, an educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and brings with her a background in child exploitation and child abuse prevention to the fight against child endangerment on the Internet. Laurie analyzed Internet-related child exploitation cases and worked closely with law enforcement to have them resolved while working as a staff analyst in the Exploited Child Division (ECD) at NCMEC. As the Director of Programs at Prevent Child Abuse of Metropolitan Washington, she focused on child abuse prevention outreach campaigns for the Washington, D.C. metro area and trained hundreds of volunteers to handle calls on a support line for children.

Most recently, Laurie’s focus has been on spreading awareness of the importance of Internet safety education. She has presented on this issue at many educator and law enforcement conferences, including the National Sheriffs’ Association Conference, T + L Conference sponsored by the National School Boards Association, and the Internet Crimes Against Children National Conference.  Laurie’s goal is to educate and engage communities on ways to better protect children on- and offline.

Laurie is an alumna of Emory University in Atlanta, GA where she graduated with highest honors in Psychology.

Mr. Noble is currently the Director of Government Affairs for (ISC)², the globally recognized Gold Standard for certifying information security professionals.  Prior to his role at (ISC)2, Mr. Noble worked as an Information Assurance Engineer for MITRE Corp., and held the offices of Chief Information Security Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Over the course of a 30-year government career, Marc also served as Senior Information Security Analyst, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and as a Management and Systems Analyst at the U.S. General Services Administration.

Mr. Noble currently serves as a member of the (ISC)²’s Government Advisory Board for Cyber Security (GABCS) and U.S. Government Executive Writers Bureau and is Senior Vice President of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA-NOVA).

He holds received his B.A. History/Political Science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master's Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.

Don Roberts
Professor Emeritus of Communication
Stanford University

Donald F. Roberts is the Thomas More Storke Professor Emeritus in Communication at Stanford University.

Roberts studied at Columbia University, where he received his B.A. in 1961, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned an M.A. in 1963, and at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1968 and joined the Stanford faculty at that time. At Stanford, he was Director of the Institute for Communication Research (1985–1990 and 1999–2001), and chair of the Department of Communication (1990–1996). He retired in 2006.

Much of Roberts' research concerns the effects of media on youth. A notable study coauthored by Roberts and Ulla Foehr for the Kaiser Family Foundation found that, at the turn of the millennium, U.S. children spent the equivalent amount of time to a full-time job watching television and other media, and a later follow-on study by Roberts and others coined the name “Generation M” for the youth of the day after discovering that they were packing even more media into their schedules by multitasking. Roberts also studied depictions of drug use and violence in media, and took part in 1997 U.S. Senate hearings on violent music lyrics. Roberts' research provided the foundation for the content rating systems of the Recreational Software Advisory Council, of which he was a board member, and its successor organization the Internet Content Rating Association.

Hope Scheckelhoff

Student
Atholton High School
Howard County Public Schools

Hope Scheckelhoff is a junior at Atholton High School in Columbia, Maryland.  She hopes to become a lawyer specializing in Intellectual Property law.  She is enrolled in Atholton’s GT Independent Research program.  She studied Entertainment Law and her project focused on Intellectual Property law.  She enjoys studying law and writing songs, so Entertainment Law is a good combination of the two passions.

Linda Sweeting is currently an instructional technology specialist on the Technology Training Team, Division of Information Technology, for Prince George’s County Public Schools. Her responsibilities include coordinating software and online resources testing, textbook and online resources support, and administrative systems and instructional technology training. Last spring she had the opportunity to develop the “Just Say Know” initiative, an internet safety awareness program for parents:  www.tinyurl.com/safetylinks.  This initiative has grown to include Tech Tuesdays 2010 Summer training for teachers and an online class using our new Moodle CMS will soon be available for PGCPS employees. For all students, we are deploying an internet safety song contest through the Vocal Music Program for fall 2010.

Linda has her Master’s in Library Science from the University of Maryland.  She started her career as a library media specialist and has collaboratively taught every subject area and every grade Pre-K – 12. She has presented at national state, and local conferences including National Educational Computing Conference, MSET (formerly MICCA), and Powering Up With Technology about grant activities, curriculum management, and technology training initiatives.

In addition, Linda facilitates online classes for the Maryland State Department of Education; courses include Online Teaching in Maryland, Online Mentoring, and Web 2.0. Linda is also an avid photographer, sailor, and bread baker. In her spare time, she is writing a bread baking book and is also planning a bread baking blog.

Marlene Trestman
Special Assistant to the Maryland Attorney General

Marlene Trestman is a Special Assistant to the Maryland Attorney General, responsible for enforcing consumer protection laws related to tobacco and alcohol marketing, and Internet safety. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Goucher College, Marlene received her law degree from George Washington University and her M.B.A. from Loyola University's Sellinger School of Business & Management. Marlene received the Attorney General's Exceptional Service Award for 1985 and 2007, was inducted into the Daily Record's Circle of Excellence in 2008 for Maryland's Top 100 Women, and was named one of Maryland's Top Lawyers for 2007.

Brooks Whiteford, a recent college graduate, has worked in many different areas of technology. Before receiving his degree in Computer Science in 2008 from St. Mary's College of Maryland, Brooks lead an effort to revive the college's radio station, resulting in a flourishing program with strong student involvement. The facility was renamed after Brooks shortly before his departure.

Brooks now works for the Technology Department at Calvert Hall College High School, where he graduated from in 2004. There, he assists faculty, staff and students with their most challenging technology needs and projects. Brooks also continues to volunteer at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, where he has worked to help advance learning through the use of technology. Through the implementation of resources such as classroom video projection systems, the school's dynamic webpage, and an advanced e-learning system, OLPH continues to remain on the forefront of development in the field of educational technology.

Brooks is looking forward to continuing his growth in his passion for academic technology, as well as expanding his interests even further.

Zulma Whiteford has been the Director of Academic Technology for Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Ellicott City for the past six years.  She received her Bachelor’s degree from the College of Notre Dame and her Graduate degree from Goucher College where she is now a member of their adjunct staff.

During her time at OLPH, Mrs. Whiteford has worked closely with staff to successfully integrate the use of technology into the curriculum and daily classroom activity, the theme for the school’s latest Middle States Re-Accreditation project.  She has placed strong emphasis on the importance of cyber ethics and security both in and out of the classroom.  Not only are the students taught the importance early on, but faculty and parents are educated as well. 

Since coming to NIST in 1992, Mark has worked on computer security program management issues, including program management reviews, vulnerability analyses and other risk management issues, and security awareness and training.

Mark served as Editor for NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-16 - Information Technology Security Training Requirements: A Role- and Performance-Based Model - published in April 1998.  He is a co-author of another NIST Special Publication (SP 800-50) - Building an Information Technology Security Awareness and Training Program - published in October 2003.  He also co-authored NIST Special Publication 800-100 – Information Security Handbook: A Guide for Managers – published in October 2006.  He is currently leading a team that is updating SP 800-16.

He also served or is serving on a number of working groups for various information security training and workforce development initiatives, including the NIST-led National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (#8) - Expand Education, the Federal CIO Council’s IT Workforce Committee, ISS LOB Tier 2 Role-Based Training Initiative, the CNSS Education Training and Awareness (ATE) Working Group, and the ISIMC-led and CIO Council-led IT Security Workforce Development Matrix Project.
Mark also works closely with the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA), is the former NIST Liaison to FISSEA, has served on the FISSEA Executive Board for a number of years, including two years as the Assistant Chair of the Board and one year as the Chair of the Executive Board.  He is again the Assistant Chair for the March 2009 to March 2010 FISSEA year.

Mark came to NIST from Norfolk, Virginia where he worked for ten years in the computer security field for two U.S. Navy organizations.  He earned a B.A. in political science from Old Dominion University in Norfolk in 1983. Mark is a native of New Jersey, a former U.S. Navy journalist, and Vietnam Veteran.

Harry Wingo is a Senior Policy Counsel in Google's Washington, DC office, where he covers a range of Internet policy issues, including cybersecurity, cloud computing and smart grid. Prior to joining Google he was Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Current Group, a smart grid company. Mr. Wingo has also been Counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee, a Special Counsel in the General Counsel's Office of the Federal Communications Commission, a communications law associate at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, as well as a Judicial Clerk for the Honorable James Robertson, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Wingo holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Yale Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Naval Science from the United States Naval Academy. Before starting a career in technology law and policy, he was a Navy SEAL officer for 6 years.

Nat Wood is Assistant Director for Consumer & Business Education in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. He led the team that created Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online, a new guide with practical tips to help parents help their kids navigate the online world. Nat conceived OnGuardOnline.gov, a joint education project of twelve federal agencies and the technology community, and managed the "Avoid ID Theft: Deter, Detect, Defend" campaign, which was a finalist for a 2008 Service to America Award. In 2003, he was a member of the team that created the National Do Not Call Registry. Prior to joining the FTC, Nat was an Assistant Director of the National Park Service. He’s a graduate of Cornell University, and has an MBA from George Washington University.

Portia Pusey serves as Assistant Director for Educational Technology Policy, Research, and Outreach (ETPRO) and is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Instructional Technology at Towson University where she is currently teaching Advanced Instructional Design. Her pilot study, assessing the ability of preservice teachers to model and teach internet safety and ethics to their students, won the 2009 Judith Ruchkin Award. Her academic and professional experiences have focused on instructional technology in K-12 education, best methods for distance education, professional development of preservice and inservice teachers, wiki learning environments, Concerns Based Adoption Model, and the status and impact of internet security and ethics in P-12 education.

Davina Pruitt-Mentle, Ph.D.
Executive Director, ETPRO
CyberWatch K12 Division PI
Founder, C3™ Institute
Chairman, C3™ Conference

Dr. Davina Pruitt-Mentle, a senior researcher and policy analyst for Educational Technology Policy, Research and Outreach (ETPRO) has worked in the field of STEM education & educational and cyberawareness research since 1990. She has spent the past 12 years conducting research on student and educator cyberawareness and K-16 cyberethics, safety and security awareness programs, and developing programs to help increase the IS/IA workforce pipeline.  

Research and development interests have focused on the Cyberethics, Cybersafety and Cybersecurity (C3) framework. Some of her recent published work has focused on the state of C3 awareness knowledge and programs, cyberawareness strategies, and SECURE IT, a holistic approach program to promote C3 and connect to careers in IA/IS/Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics. She acts as a CO- PI on the NSF funded CyberWatch Regional Center, PI for the CyberWatch/UMD Digital Forensics Lab, PI of the MD BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) –EIS-C MD (Expanding IS Capacity in MD), and serves on numerous national, state and local Technology Task Forces and Advisory Boards.  

She has served as faculty lecturer within the College of Education at UMCP since 2001, and served as Director of Educational Technology Outreach within the College of Education at UMCP from 2001-2008. She has a PhD in Educational Technology Policy from the University of Maryland.