No active president at this time.
 

Margaret Baker, vice president

BIO:  Margaret owns her own architectural firm, Margaret Ringel and Associates.  She has had extensive experience with the Intestinal Disease  Foundation and A Child's Hope. She has a major impact on charting directions for the Children's Advocacy Network. Her positive attitude is very important when dealing with situations that are overwhelming.
 

Linda Schoyer, secretary

BIO:  Linda Schoyer worked for the Peace Institute as its organization was initiated in Pittsburgh. She conducted conflict resolution classes at middle schools in Pittsburgh.    Because so much of divorce is contentious, Linda's help will be invaluable as we seek to lessen the conflict between parents who are undergoing a divorce. Linda is currently the religion teacher at St. Bede's Elementary in Squirrel Hill. She lives with her two children and husband on Richland Place in Point Breeze.

Judy Kaufmann, board member

BIO:  Judy works for Bakerstown Container Corp currently as a special projects coordinator.  She also advises the American Pallet Company on their business development.  She is a Mother of three children who has had extensive experience with the Allegheny Court System.   She extraordinarily participated on the Pennsylvania's Supreme Court's Committee on Racial and Gender Bias hearings in Erie, PA in 2000.

Cindy Fichleay, board member

Cindy has owned her own accounting firm for over 10 years.   She has provided invaluable advice to the Children's Advocacy Network regarding its non-profit status and taxes.
 

Karen Yun-Lutz,

Karen is a parent of five children, and has been devoted to the cause of the Children's Advocacy Network, practically from the beginning.  She is very quick to learn the ins and outs of the legal system and has an innate sense of when someone is being treated poorly.  She has been enormously supportive of women who are going through the Family Division, offering them insight and strategies that have been consistent and awe-inspiring.  She has worked very hard to help Mothers maintain a focus on their children during this process as well.

Mary Colonna

Mary has also been involved in the Children's Advocacy Network from its inception.   She was appalled at the treatment she received at the hands of the family division of Allegheny County.  Just when parents and their children need the most help, the system lets them down and lets them down.  This is not a way to treat families that are in trouble.  While she believes that the solution to the high divorce rate in the U.S. is the promotion of women to constantly reach for more equality and dignity within marriage, she feels that the current problems of divorcing families desperately need attention now.
 

Mary Hart, board member

Mary has been instrumental in pointing out the problems with the family division in Pittsburgh. She also testified at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Subcommittee on Racial and Gender Bias in the courtroom in Erie, Pennsylvania.  A moving story told of her capabilities as a good Mom, rendered practically useless by the courts because her husband had more money to spend on her divorce than she did.  Mary has been very helpful in the area of computer information for CAN.  She has consistently made helpful recommendations for the organization about webpage design and institution.  She is currently earning a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in “Instructional Science from the Center for Innovative Learning” and has been appointed as the Educational Technology Project Director. Her special expertise is autistic or handicapped students and the benefits of computer learning to that group.  She also was a trainer for Children’s Hospital’s positive parenting program and Allegheny County Family Division’s Sandcastles divorce education program for children.