The National Diaper Bank Network

Board of Directors

Janet Stolfi Alfano, Chair

Board of Directors

The Diaper Bank

Father Jim Swarthout, Secretary

Executive Director

Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center

Nancy Woodland, Treasurer

Executive Director

Westside Baby

Vivian Berryhill

President

National Coalition of Pastors’ Spouses

Jeff Fackler

Vice President

Supply Chain, Walmart.com

Kris E. Lemke

Independent Consultant

Jennifer Lohse

Program Administrator

Tucson Foundations

Aric Melzl

Huggies Brand Marketing Director

Kimberly-Clark

Dr. Megan Smith

Assistant Professor

Departments of Psychiatry and Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine

Joanne Samuel Goldblum (ex officio)

Executive Director

The National Diaper Bank Network

Staff

Joanne Samuel Goldblum

Executive Director

Board Member (ex officio)

joanne@diaperbanknetwork.org

Joanne Samuel Goldblum is the founder and president of The Diaper Bank, formerly the New Haven Diaper Bank, the largest diaper bank organization in the nation. The Diaper Bank distributes 2.6 million free diapers per year to needy families through a network of social service agencies, churches and educational institutions in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport, CT. In 2007, Joanne was chosen as Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leader for her work and was named 2007 New Haven Register Person of the Year. She has received numerous other awards for her work at The Diaper Bank.

Joanne served as a clinical faculty member at Yale Child Study Family Support Service from 1998-2005. She has served as Co-Chair of the Connecticut Parents with Cognitive Limitations Workgroup for the past six years and is a board member at Edith B. Jackson Childcare Center and the Foote School. She serves on New Haven’s Early Childhood Council and was Vice President of New Haven’s Homeless Commission from 2004-2010. Joanne has a BA from New York University and an MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work.

Alison Weir

Director of Programs

alison@diaperbanknetwork.org

Alison brings a wealth of experience to NDBN. Alison is a former law clerk to Judge José Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and was in private practice from 2008 until joining the NDBN in 2011. Prior to her legal career, Alison served in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in 2007 as a lieutenant colonel. Alison's primary career field in the Air Force was program management for military space programs, but she also taught English at the Air Force Academy and served as a speechwriter for the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force. Alison earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in English from Cornell University, a Ph.D. in English at the University of Illinois, and a J.D. from Georgetown.

Jane Dennett

Administrative Associate

jane@diaperbanknetwork.org

Jane most recently worked as a leasing agent for a property management firm in New Haven. She has also been an administrative assistant in a number of schools in IL, NY and CT. Jane is a long-time volunteer and board member of The Diaper Bank of New Haven focusing most of her energy on fundraising. Jane and her husband, Bill, have lived in New Haven for close to ten years; in CT for almost twenty. Jane is originally from Mt. Prospect, IL-just northwest of Chicago. The Dennetts are the proud parents of two college educated, employed (with benefits) adults; a son living in New Haven and a daughter residing in Chicago, IL. Jane enjoys running and baking-though not necessarily in that order. She is thrilled to be working with the National Diaper Bank Network; finally making a living at doing good work!