Meet the Board
Our Board of Directors and Board of Advisors provide strategic oversight and counsel to guide One Love in its mission to stop relationship abuse.
Our
Board
Denise Balthrop Cassidy
Denise Balthrop Cassidy has actively supported One Love Foundation since 2016. Based in Seattle with her husband Barney, Denise currently devotes her time to her three-teenager family and to transformative philanthropic enterprises focused on equality, education, health, and sustainability. During her thirty year professional acting career, she performed across Europe and the US, from the Kennedy Center in DC to Berkeley Rep. Denise is a graduate of Duke University (BA, Theater & Comparative Area Studies) and The Catholic University of America (MFA, Acting). A natural educator, her extensive experience includes teaching at Cornell University, in Poland for the U.S. Information Agency, and many institutions across the country.Christine Chao
Christine J. Chao is currently General Counsel of the Foremost Group, an international shipping company. Christine has extensive corporate and commercial law experience, having worked in senior legal positions for three Fortune 100 companies: GE, Federal Express, and Ultramar Corporation. Christine began her legal career upon graduation from Columbia Law School with the Wall Street law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf focusing on M&A, US securities, leasing and project finance. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University and currently serves as a Trustee for her alma mater. Christine is honored and proud to join One Love and join in the movement to educate others about the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships. After living abroad in Hong Kong, China and London, England, Christine now resides in Greenwich, CT with her husband Jos Shaver and their two sons.Sharon Donnelly Love
Herbert A. May III
Michael “Colin” McLane
Colin is the CEO of The McLane Group, a diversified business in the financial services, intelligence, and security industries. In addition to his responsibilities at McLane, Colin serves as the Senior Advisor to NYC Police Commissioner, James P. O’Neill. Mr. McLane is a member of the Domestic Security Alliance Council and National Law Enforcement Associates. Colin earned his MBA from Columbia University and his BA from Boston College where he is in the Varsity Club Hall of Fame for Men’s Lacrosse. The McLane Family has been active supporters of One Love for years and are very proud that Colin was invited to the board of trustees at One Love in an effort to educate people about the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships. Colleen, Colin, Maddie, Liam and Colin Jr. live in Rye, New York.Olachi Opara
Olachi is portfolio manager at Brown Advisory. She works with the portfolio management team to help manage the balanced accounts of their private clients. She joined Brown Advisory in 2007 from T. Rowe Price where she served as a retail specialist. Education- University of Maryland, MBA (2013)
- Princeton University, AB (2006)
- Board Member, Invest In Girls
- Board Member, Maryland SPCA
- Committee Member, One Love Foundation
David Outcalt
David Outcalt is a partner of Lexington Partners, a global alternative investment manager primarily involved in providing liquidity solutions to owners of alternative investments and coinvesting alongside leading private equity sponsors. Prior to joining Lexington in 1994, David worked at Landmark Partners and Bear Stearns. He graduated from Williams College with a BA and from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with an MBA. David also currently serves on the board of trustees of University School in Hunting Valley, Ohio, the New York Advisory Board of Enterprise Community Partners and the Board of Directors of The Bronxville School Foundation.Sharon Robinson
Marie-Louise Skafte
Marie-Louise Skafte is the founder of Skafte Global Law, P.A., a boutique consulting firm. She serves as Consultant and provides general advice to global companies, executive management teams and acts as outside General Counsel. Marie-Louise is licensed to practice law in Canada, the United States and England. Prior to forming the firm, Marie-Louise worked in San Francisco as Vice President – Global General Counsel, Head of HR and Corporate Compliance with The Cronos Group leading teams in 19 countries. She also worked for Deutsche Post DHL, with operations in 220 countries holding the position of General Counsel for Canada. She has previously held key management positions for DHL Express (USA), Inc., American President Lines Limited, MasTec, Inc., and the Massachusetts Port Authority. Marie-Louise obtained a JD from Suffolk University Law School, a BA in Labor/Management Relations & Business from the University of Toronto and Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University, where she earned academic and athletic scholarships. As an avid traveler and commercial pilot, she hopes to expand One Love’s international reach. Marie-Louise resides in Florida with her husband Roger Martin.Christopher W. Solomon
Michael J. Ward
Michael Ward served as the chairman and chief executive officer of CSX Corporation for fourteen years. CSX is one of the nation’s premier transportation and logistics companies. Over his 40-year career, Mr. Ward headed CSX’s operations, coal sales and marketing, and finance departments. Under Mr. Ward’s leadership, the company continually achieved record safety performances while providing vital services to customers and posting strong financial results for shareholders. On the Harvard’s Business Review’s November 2016 ranking of The Best Performing CEOs in the World, Mr. Ward ranked 26th in generating the best return for shareholders and the environment. A native of Baltimore, MD., Mr. Ward’s commitment to personal philanthropy and corporate citizenship has been recognized with City Year’s prestigious Lifetime of Idealism Award. Mr. Ward is a member of the Board of Directors of PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (PNC). He also serves on various not for profit boards including City Year, One Love, Edward Waters College, Hubbard House, the Civic Council of Jacksonville, and Gen Wow. Through his private foundation, the Michael Ward and Jennifer Glock Foundation, he has donated over $35M to various charitable causes. The focus of the giving has been increasing educational opportunities and results in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and college, as well as promoting healthy relations, preventing domestic violence, support of the military and the arts. Mr. Ward earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland in 1972, and received a master’s degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School in 1976.Debbie Weir
A senior executive of the nation’s leading gun violence prevention organization, Everytown for Gun Safety, Debbie Weir has more than 28 years of proven success in nonprofit management in the areas of capacity building, programs and services, fund development, marketing and communications, board management, advocacy, strategic planning, employee and volunteer development, and expanding visibility and influencing stakeholders to support mission priorities. As Senior Executive Managing Director, Organizing and Engagement, since November of 2017, Weir has led the grassroots fight for gun safety in Washington, in statehouses, and with corporations and other strategic partners across the country. Weir has focused on developing and executing the strategy for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and the Survivor Network at both the national and state levels. She has overseen the implementation of new initiatives like Students Demand Action, and has worked to develop programs focused on suicide prevention and partnerships within the corporate and medical communities. Before joining Moms Demand Action, Weir served as the Chief Executive Officer of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), leading the network of more than 200 MADD affiliates across the U.S. and spearheading efforts to end drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, serve the victims of these violent crimes, and prevent underage drinking. Weir joined MADD’s National Organization in 2002 as Vice President of Victim Services, and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2005. Her proven leadership led her to be promoted to MADD CEO in March 2012. Under her leadership, the number of victims MADD served each year more than doubled—serving one victim every 15 minutes. With the launch of the Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving in 2007, twenty-thirty states have passed model DUI all-offender ignition interlock laws, which have saved an additional 1800 lives. Debbie lives in Virginia with her husband and has two sons.Our
Advisors
Lela Agnew
Tai Beauchamp
Aimie Billon
Laura Brown
Darci Darnell
Noble Carpenter
Dani P. Deering
Thomas DeLong
Won Young Giuriceo
Tenagne Girma-Jeffries
Holly Gordon
Amy Griffin
Anthony Harris
Erica Hoholick
Brooke Jackson
Justin Jackson
Walker Jacobs
Kate James
Shavar Jeffries
Mike Levine
Christina Metzger
Doris Meister
Megan Murphy
Dan Pallotta
Monica Rowe
Troy Ruhanen
Kim Rutkowski
Dr. Kim Rutkowski formerly served as the Chairman of the Board for the One Love Foundation. Prior to her role as Chairman, Kim was the first Chairman of the National Advisory Council. She has been a driving force behind the strategic planning and growth of the organization. Kim graduated with a BA and MBA from Temple University and a DBA from Jacksonville University. Her professional career includes more than twenty years working with Fortune 500 companies. She was also the founding Board Chair for City Year Jacksonville and is currently a Trustee of the Delta Zeta Foundation. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Davis School of Business and teaches International Business and Marketing.
Kolby Scott
Melissa Selcher
Doug Seybert
Ann Shoket
Leslie Morgan Steiner
Leslie Morgan Steiner is the author of the New York Times bestseller Crazy Love, an international speaker on family violence, and an expert resource who appears regularly on National Public Radio, NBC’s Today Show, MSNBC and Fox News. Her TEDTalk on the complexity of relationship abuse has been viewed over 6.5 million times. Leslie, a former victim of relationship violence herself, provides the board with expert resources and advice on real life applications, which helps One Love grow as a nationally recognized voice against relationship violence.
Christina Syer
Ampy Vasquez
Olwen E. Weatherhead
Our
Youth Advisors
Will Groot
Will joined the One Love Youth Advisory Board in 2021. He’s currently a junior at the Hotchkiss School (Lakeville, CT) where he plays on the varsity football and basketball teams. Will has been actively involved in the Tri-State Teen Ambassador program since 2018. He firmly believes in the value and relevance of relationship education in today’s world. Will is originally from South Carolina, and moved to California for a couple of years before landing in NYC. Outside of One Love, he’s passionate about sweet tea and country music.Sydney Browne
Sydney is an undergraduate junior at Cornell University, studying Industrial and Labor Relations with minors in Business, Psychology, Human Development, and Law & Society. On-campus, she is a part of the Cornell Speech and Debate Society, the Cornell Advocacy Project, the Caribbean Students' Association, and the Cornell chapter of the OneLove Foundation. Off-campus, she serves as a Hotline Volunteer for the Ithaca Advocacy Center. After graduation, she hopes to attend graduate school and become a legal advocate for domestic and/or sexual violence survivors. She first got involved in OneLove after attending an impromptu information session and was immediately interested in the chapter's commitment as well as the organization's mission as a whole. "I'd never seen an organization that focused on relationship health so early in the process, so I knew that this was something extraordinary and had to get involved." Sydney is incredibly excited to engage with OneLove members and contribute to student leadership on a national scale.Navya Balaji
Navya Balaji is a high school junior at Basis Peoria in Arizona. She first joined OneLove during the leadership camps over summer and has now started carrying her own projects outside of OneLove relating to the same topics of discussion. Other than these activities, she likes listening to music and is an avid cooker (although her parents would like for her to never enter the kitchen to avoid burning it down.)NaThya White
NaThya is a senior accounting major at McNeese State University in Louisiana. She is active in the National Society of Leadership and Success, NAACP, and Delta Sigma Pi. After graduation, she wants to pursue her MBA and CPA license. She first joined One Love’s Campus Ambassadors program in April 2021. She is so excited to be on the YAB and help spread the 10 signs.Kiki Caputo
Kiki Caputo is a senior at Seattle Academy. She came into contact with One Love when the foundation spoke at an event for youth experiencing homelessness, and she was instantly captivated by One Love’s mission. She then became a Teen Ambassador in the Pacific Northwest region and started working with One Love to implement their materials into her school’s curriculum. Kiki is captain of the varsity soccer team and participates on the speech team. She believes in the powerful change One Love can make for future generations!Kaiya Roland
Kaiya Roland is from Atlanta, Georgia, and is currently a junior on a pre-med track at Georgia State University. Kaiya’s goal is to spread education on relationship education, the signs of abuse, and overcoming abusive relationships. Starting as a campus ambassador, Kaiya believes that One Love’s powerful message encouraged her to be better in her relationships with others and hopes that she can teach the same to others serving on the Youth Advisory Board! Outside of One Love, she is involved in an internship with the Dean of Students in Domestic Violence Initiatives and Awareness creating events for students on campus to spread awareness to domestic violence. Kaiya is also a leader in Men in Violence Prevention, an initiative addressing men’s involvement in domestic violence and toxic masculinity. She is also a hospice care volunteer, involved in behavioral research, and likes to go rock climbing on her days off!JR Cassidy
JR is a Senior at Lakeside School in Seattle, WA. His One Love journey began when he attended an Escalation workshop that provided him with language, information and a community that defined love as something that can be learned--and changed his life. Since then, he has attended annual summits and trainings, facilitated workshops as a teen ambassador for the Pacific Northwest and co-leader of his school’s Love Better club, and served as a panelist during a school assembly. He believes in his work because it gives him the opportunity to encourage other young men in their fight against unhealthy relationships and abuse, and amplify the voices of those who have gone unheard. Apart from One Love, JR plays basketball and enjoys writing, making music and spending time with his friends, family, and dog, Socrates.Isabella Audi
Isabella Audi is a high school senior at the Fieldston School in the Bronx, NY. She is a first generation Brazilian-American who grew up spending her summers in Brazil with her grandparents where she was constantly bombarded by media messages that glamorized toxic relationships. She has spent the last three years knocking on her school’s doors, advocating for classes that teach students how to identify and respond to unhealthy relationships. To raise awareness, Isabella wrote an Op-Ed for the Medium website explaining the negative influence of media, particularly social media, on teen relationships. The culmination of her efforts came in 11th grade when her proposal for a workshop was approved and she presented it during Fieldston’s Community Day. The positive response led her school to add unhealthy relationships as a new unit to the health curriculum. Isabella began teaching 9th-graders in the spring of junior year and is teaching again this year. She is also a Teen Ambassador and is excited to continue spreading awareness about One Love’s mission among the world’s youth."Gabin Lee
Gabin (They/Them and She/Her) is a junior at NYU majoring in Applied Psychology and Global Public Health. They call South Korea and Thailand their home. After stumbling across Katie Hood's TED Talk during the summer before college, Gabin deeply resonated with Katie's words. She decided to get further involved in One Love as a Campus Ambassador and founded the NYU chapter of One Love based on six core values: teamwork, respect, inclusion, intersectionality, accountability, and continuous learning. Gabin is thrilled to continue spreading One Love's message and promoting healthy relationships at NYU and the surrounding NYC area.Dakota James Bartley
Dakota is a current senior at New West Charter High School in Los Angeles, California. First becoming involved with One Love during their first Youth Leadership Summit, he immediately recognized the importance of One Love's message and worked to become a Teen Ambassador. Through hosting school-wide workshops, educating his community on the 10 signs, and founding his school's One Love Club, Dakota hopes to increase One Love's presence on the West Coast. He is enthusiastic about mental health awareness, and aims to end the societal stigma withholding men from confidently sharing their feelings.Charlie Levine
Charlie Levine is from Rye, NY and is currently a senior at Rye High School. Locally, Charlie works with a global nonprofit, the Big Picture Foundation, that aims to connect kids around the world through a shared love of art and outreach. She is also an officer of her schools Environmental Conservation Club and LET’S mental health club, as she is passionate about combating the multifaceted issues of both climate change and teen mental health. Charlie has been a One Love Teen Ambassador for the Tri-State region throughout high school and has worked to bring One Love’s content and message into her school and community. Charlie is very excited to serve on the Youth Advisory Board and have the opportunity to continue to share One Love’s crucial mission."Catherine Ramich
Catherine is a junior at Charlotte Catholic High School in Charlotte, NC. In addition to her involvement with One Love through the Student Ambassador Program and the Youth Advisory Board, Catherine helps lead the Mental Health Awareness Club at her school, educating her classmates about mental health, inclusion, and awareness. Catherine interned with One Love last summer, working with marketing to Gen Z and reaching the neurodiverse community. She works very hard to spread One Love’s universal message in order to provide young people with the knowledge necessary to improve their relationships and avoid unhealthy situations. Catherine is excited to see how far she can take her work with One Love and how much she can make a difference in the world.Caroline Empey
Caroline Empey is from Bronxville, NY and is a current senior at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. She enjoys running for her schools track and cross-country team and is actively involved in community engagement. Caroline runs a program where students at Andover travel to a neighboring city to help adults study for their citizenship exams and has been involved in many of her churches local community projects. She is also the Chief Financial Officer as well as an editor for her schools global affairs newspaper, plays in the handbell choir, and is on the board of Andover’s yearbook. Caroline has been a Teen Ambassador with the Boston Regional group for the past three years and started an internship with One Love’s marketing team last March. She is grateful for the opportunities working with One Love has given her and is excited to continue to learn and be part of the One Love community on the Youth Advisory Board this year.Bruna Aguiar
Bruna is a senior at Somerset Academy High School at Pembroke Pines, Florida. She got involved in One Love after attending a 10 signs workshop at her school. After hearing about what One Love was all about, she couldn't help but think that so many others could benefit from learning how to identify unhealthy signs and how to love better. She decided to join the Teen Ambassador Program in December of 2020 so she could learn more about how she can help bring healthy relationship education to my community. She enjoys playing volleyball in her free time and she also give back to my community as a member of my school's Key Club.Alyssea Immonen
Alyssea is a first-year member of the Youth Advisory Board and as a Campus Ambassador for Arizona State University, where she is a first-year student studying Social and Cultural Analysis (Queer and Sexuality Studies). In addition to working with One Love, she plays viola and is an Advisor with the Girl Up Boston Coalition Executive Board.Alana Basmajian
Alana Basmajian is a senior at Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, CA. She joined One Love earlier this year and has led a parent training program in her school district, started a One Love club at school, and have since introduced a partnership with another national student organization, Teen Talk. She loves being part of a community of motivated people willing to make change and be a leader! When she is not talking with friends, you'll find her reading, eating, watching Vice documentaries on Youtube, or walking.