New Board Members are elected by the entire C-Change membership. A Nominating Committee, the majority of whose members are elected by all C-Change Members, puts together a balanced slate of candidates each year; candidates are selected from a wide representation of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors; the missions of the organizations represented within C-Change; and the representative population groups bearing the greatest cancer burden.
C-Change functions like a virtual "town hall meeting", where distinguished national leaders concerned about the disease come together as a united force at least twice a year to discuss major cancer-related issues. Individual C-Change Members, for whom a particular priority area has special interest or relevance, can then coalesce into smaller issue-driven teams that act together to address the pressing opportunities, barriers, and challenges before them. Individual nongovernmental Members, on their own, may choose to lobby on behalf of federal, state, or local legislation regulation; or administrative rules. However, C-Change as a whole does not engage in lobbying activities.
Leadership
President George H. W. Bush, Co-Chair
First Lady Barbara Bush, Co-Chair
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Vice Chair
LaSalle Leffall, Jr., President and Board Chair
Jim Marks, Board Vice Chair
C-Change Board of Directors provides overall leadership for C-Change's affairs.
Board of Directors
LaSalle Leffall, Jr., MD, FACS, Chair
James Marks, Vice Chair
John Seffrin, PhD, Treasurer
Cheryl Healton, DrPH, MPA, Secretary
Dileep G. Bal, MD, MPH
Anna Barker, PhD
Marguerite D. Baxter, RN, MN
Jean Becker, ex officio
Robert L. Comis, MD
Peggy Conlon
Gregory A. Curt, MD
Harold Freeman, MD
Robert A. Ingram
James Marks, MD, MPH
John E. Niederhuber, MD
Gary Reedy
Armin Weinberg, PhD
William Winkenwerder, MBA, MD
Governor Bob Wise
Staff
Tom Kean, MPH, Executive Director
Brian Alexander, Manager, Marketing & Information Systems
Goli Amiri, Administrative Assistant
Kinga Bartoszek, Director, Finance and Operations
Tara Dwyer, Director, Development and Major Gifts
Gary Gurian, Program Director
Alison Smith, BA, BSN, RN, Director, Cancer Research, Cancer Workforce, Annual Meetings
Brandi Stevenson, CMP, Administrative/Meetings Coordinator
Tasha Tilghman-Bryant, MPA, Project Associate
Sabrina Tyus, MPH, Project Associate