Board of Directors

Dr. Peter Jensen established the REACH Institute in May 2006, following service as Founding Director of the Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia as its Ruane Professor of Child Psychiatry (2000-2007), he was Associate Director of Child and Adolescent Research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). While at NIMH (1989-2000), Dr. Jensen was the lead NIMH

Thomas Klingenstein is founder and principal of a New York money management firm, Cohen Klingenstein LLC. Prior to this he was the chief executive officer of First Columbia Financial, a Colorado Bank. Earlier in his career he was a Wall Street securities analyst at Wertheim & Co. He serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including The Klingenstein Third Generation Fund.

Stephen Hinshaw is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his A.B. from Harvard in 1974, summa cum laude, he directed day school and residential programs for children with developmental disabilities for three years. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA in 1983; while a graduate student, he received the campus-wide Distinguished Scholar Award. He was a clinical psychology intern at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute

Robin M. Hulshizer, is a partner, Latham & Watkins, in their Chicago offices.  The focus of her legal practice has been on environmental and general business areas. She has served as counsel in numerous complex, multiparty cases, as well as class actions in various matters around the country, including 

Dan Callister is the chairman and founder of the National Campaign to Stop Violence, and founding director of the Kuwait-America Foundation. He is currently of-counsel with Squire, Sanders and Dempsey, and prior to that, served as a partner for 20 years in the law firm of Gibson,Dunn and Crutcher. He received his JD degree from Columbia University School of Law, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Brigham Young University. He and his wife Jan are the parents of five children.

Prior to joining the REACH Institute, Dr. Romanelli was an Assistant Professor at Columbia University, where in collaboration with Dr. Jensen, she directed a number of ground-breaking projects to improve children's mental health services in NY City and State.  A cum laude graduate of Harvard University (1993) with psychology major, she received her doctorate in Psychology from Rutgers (l998), after which she completed post-doctoral clinical child psychology training at the Yale Child Study Center (l999). At Rutgers, 

Michael Fitzpatrick is Executive Director of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). Michael, until January of 2004, served both as the Director of NAMI’s Policy Research Institute and as NAMI’s National Director of Policy. Mr. Fitzpatrick has an MSW in Administration and Planning from Boston College. He has also served in the Maine Legislature. From 1994-1996, he served as the House Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee.

Originally from New Orleans, Mr. Heymann obtained his BA from Stanford University in History, followed by a Masters of Fine Arts and doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University (Theatre).  After completing his doctorate, he spent two years in Washington doing anti-Vietnam street theatre. At the end of the Viet Nam war, he moved to New York, where he taught acting at Lehman College and directed theatre at the LaMama Theatre. 

Ms. Marshall passed away on May 2, 2007.  She was instrumental in the founding of the REACH Institute, as well as the K.I.D.S. Alliance.  Both organizations focus on children who have experience adversity, trauma, and/or health problems.  A partner in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins and an attorney with the firm for more than two decades, Ms. Marshall was also co-chair of the firm’s Products Liability and Mass Torts Practice Group, a former Chair of the Global Recruiting Committee and a former member of the Associates Committee.

Mr. Ray is an exceptionally experienced and talented leader in mental health systems design, policy, strategy, and organization. Currently the President of CGR & Associates and a principal partner in Criterion Health, Inc., Mr. Ray served as the President and CEO National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare from 1998-2003.  He has served on multiple commissions and boards, and as a strategic consultant to many mental health agencies, 

Ms. Roberts is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer with 18 years of ongoing promotions in media and nonprofit communications management.  She has won more than 40 state and national journalism awards, including the prestigious Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and the National Headliner Award for stories about childhood mental health.  In addition, she was awarded the highly coveted Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism.  She currently applies her extraordinary reporting and writing skills as the Director

Ann Reinking is a multi-talented actress, singer, and dancer, as well as a Tony-award winning choreographer. After winning a Ford Foundation scholarship to study with the San Francisco School of Ballet, Ms. Reinking went on to Broadway, films, and television, earning numerous accolades for her work including Tony nominations for her leading performance in Dancin’ and as best actress in Goodtime Charley 

Sandra Spencer is the Executive Director of the Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health. She assumed this role in August of 2004, replacing the outgoing Executive Director, Barbara Huff, as the nation's top advocate for the rights of children with mental health needs and their families. The Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health is a family-run organization established in 1989 by a group of 

Cynthia Wainscott is the Immediate Past Chair of Mental Health America (formerly the National Mental Health Association). She is a founding board member of the Campaign for America’s Mental Health. She served as a member of the Institute of Medicine committee that recently released Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions. She has been appointed to the Center for Mental Services’ National Mental Health Advisory Council, and has been elected Vice President for North