Thank You, Dimensions Board!

11/01/2023

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
Fred Rogers, 1928-2003, Television Personality and Advocate for Children

The Exchange Press team would like to thank our board members of Dimensions Educational Research Foundation, parent organization of Exchange Press. They met last week with our CEO and publisher Tara Schroder and many of our staff at our offices in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Much of the work centered on our efforts to elevate your voices. Board President John Nimmo closed the annual board retreat with “radical gratitude spell,” a powerful poem by adrienne maree brown. The poem ends with this line, which our entire team at Exchange feels about each one of you:

you are enough

your work is enough

you are needed

your work is sacred

you are here

and i am grateful

Read the whole poem on adrienne maree brown’s website.

Our thanks to each one of our board members - many of whom you’ll recognize for their contributions to Exchange Press in books, magazine articles, videos and more:

John Nimmo, Board Chair, Portland, OR | Professor, Early Childhood Education, Portland State University

Kim Nall, Board Vice Chair, Colusa, CA | Executive Director, Tribal Child Care Association of California

Mary Sweeney, Board Secretary, Lincoln, NE | Owner and CEO, Mary Catherine Marketing

Kristin Tynon, Board Treasurer, Fremont, NE | CPA, Tax Managing Director, Foruis, LLP.

Mike Browne, Seattle, WA | Sr. Director of Community Engagement, Cultivate Learning at the University of Washington

Deb Buhro, Murdock, NE | Former CEO, Oxbow Animal Health

Heidi Hagel-Braid, Maple Grove, MN | Chief Program Officer, First Children’s Finance

Stan Howard, Chicago, IL | Founder/CEO, Law and Civics Reading and Writing Institute

Christine Kiewra, Lincoln, NE | Assistant Professor of Practice, Child, Youth and Family Studies Department

Iris Chin Ponte, Boston, MA | Director and Teacher, Henry Frost Children’s Program

Michelle Suarez, Lincoln, NE | Former Elementary School Principal

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