Board of Directors

First Star's Co-Founder and President, Peter Samuelson, is a motion picture executive and founder of The Starlight Children’s Foundation and EDAR (Everyone Deserves a Roof), and currently President of Film Associates, Inc.

Sherry A. Quirk, Esq., Co-Founder and Vice Chair of First Star, a partner of Schiff Hardin LLP, is past president and founder of One Voice and the National Alliance for Awareness of Abuse.

DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

 Peter Samuelson
Samuelson Productions
President and Co-Founder

Sherry A. Quirk, Esq.
Schiff Hardin, LLP
Vice-Chair, Secretary & Co-Founder

Kevin J. Reardon, PhD
Captain, US Navy (Ret)
Treasurer

Elissa T. Garr
Executive Director

Susan Barker-Clem
Founder, OneVoice

Matt Cullina
Identity Theft 911

Professor Robert C. Fellmeth
Children’s Advocacy Institute
University of San Diego School of Law

Honorable Charles D. Gill
Connecticut Superior Court

Barbara K. Heffernan, Esq.
Schiff Hardin, LLP

Gary Levine
WSI Web Marketing

Professor Kathleen Kelley Reardon, PhD
Distinguished First Star Fellow, Director of Foster Youth Education
University of Southern California
Distinguished First Star Fellow

Lewis Pitts, Esq.
Legal Aid of North Carolina
Advocate for Children’s Services

Robin Sax, Esq.
Former Los Angeles Asst. District Attorney
First Star Children’s Counsel

Ellen Sloan, Director
Social Capital Advisors

Kimberly M. Thompson, ScD
Kid Risk, Inc.

Eileen Weber
MFT, Consultancy Private Practice

Youth Ambassador

Dakota Fanning

Foster Care Ambassador

Shawn M. Huff

TRUSTEES

Norman Aladjem
Renee Cliff
Bruce Eskowitz
Giselle Fernandez
Susan Fleishman
Cindy Gardner
I. Richard Garr, Esq.
Tia Hoberman
Louise Horvitz, MSW, PsyD
Tamara Houston
Gale Anne Hurd
Emma Hand, Esq.
Sarah Ingersoll
Neil Kaplan
Kathleen Kennedy
Sir Ben Kingsley
Michael Piraino
Jonathan Sackier, MD
Rick Sands
Karenna Gore Schiff
Honorable Charles. B. Shudson
Stephanie Sperber
Bonnie Stylides, Esq.
Professor Clarice Dibble Walker
Honorable Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld