People
IF Team Members
Alicia Bonner
Director of Communications
Danbury, CT
JoJo Cooper
Assistant Director of Operations
Parkersburg, VA
Jack Byrd, Jr.
President Emeritus & Chief Innovation Officer
Morgantown, WV
Jennifer Erb
VP of Finance & Operations
Parkersburg, WV
Shannon Wheatley Hartman
President & Director of the Collaborative Discussion Program
Haverford, PA
Ieva Notturno
Director of the Community Conversations Program
Washington, DC
Eric Schmucker
Director of K12 Programs
Harrisonburg, VA
Ritu Thomas
Assistant Director of the Collaborative Discussion Program
Marlton, NJ
Janna Valentine
Bookkeeper & HR Manager
Parkersburg, WV
IF Associates
Georgia Handforth
IF Learning Stern Fellow 2023
Yordanos Lemma
Apprentice
B. Rae Perryman
IF Community Conversations Stern Fellow 2024
Nahom Sisay
Apprentice
Jeff Prudhomme
Senior Advisor
Reston, VA
Cuda Zmuda
IF Learning Stern Fellow 2023
Board of Trustees
Maia Comeau
Founder and CEO, Comeau&Company and Co-Founder, Keepers of the Commons
Carlisle, PA & Washington, DC
Shannon Wheatley Hartman
President & Director of the Collaborative Discussion Program
Haverford, PA
Larry Jackley
President of BookSmarts, LLC
Pittsburgh, PA
Ronald Pearson
Judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, retired; and Chair of the Board of Trustees for the National Youth Science Foundation
Charleston, WV
Julie Smith
CEO, Performance Ally
Fairmont, WV
Founders
Julius (Jay) Stern (1913 – 2009)
Founder
Parkersburg, WV