Board & Leadership Council

Shay Bilchik

Position: Chair
: Shay Bilchik is founder president emeritus founder of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. The Center’s purpose is to advance a balanced, multi-systems approach to reducing juvenile delinquency that promotes positive child and youth development, while also holding youth accountable. This work is carried out through the dissemination of papers on key topics; the sponsorship of symposia; Certificate Programs at Georgetown providing leaders with intensive learning opportunities and ongoing support in their systems improvement efforts; and multi-site demonstration projects. Shay has been recognized as a Distinguished Investigator by Georgetown University in 2014, 2015 and 2016 for his field research on multi-systems reform. Prior to joining McCourt on March 1, 2007, Mr. Bilchik was the President and CEO of the Child Welfare League of America, a position he held from February of 2000. Prior to his tenure at CWLA, Shay headed up the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he advocated for and supported a balanced and multi-systems approach to attacking juvenile crime and addressing child victimization. Before coming to the nation’s capital, Mr. Bilchik was an Assistant State Attorney in Miami, Florida from 1977-1993, where he served as a trial lawyer, juvenile division chief, and Chief Assistant State Attorney. Mr. Bilchik earned his B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Florida.

Shay Bilchik

Chair

Dr. C. Nicole Mason

Position: Vice Chair
: Dr. C. Nicole Mason is President/CEO Emeritus of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). Having stepped into this role in November 2019, Dr. Mason was the youngest person to lead one of the major inside-the-Beltway think tanks in Washington, D.C., and one of the few women of color to do so. As one of the nation’s foremost intersectional researchers and scholars, Dr. C. Nicole Mason brings a fresh perspective and a wealth of experience to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. For the past two decades, Dr. Mason has spearheaded research on issues relating to economic security, pay equity, poverty, women’s issues, and entitlement reforms; policy formation and political participation among women and communities of color, and racial equity. Prior to IWPR, Dr. Mason was the executive director of the Women of Color Policy Network at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the nation’s only research and policy center focused on women of color at a nationally ranked school of public administration. She is also an inaugural Ascend Fellow at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. At the start of the pandemic, she coined the term she-cession to describe the disproportionate impact of employment and income losses on women. Dr. Mason is the author of Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something in America (St. Martin’s Press) and has written hundreds of articles on women, poverty, and economic security.

Dr. C. Nicole Mason

Vice Chair

Kareen Dorsett

Position: Secretary/Treasurer
: Kareen Dorsett serves as Chief Financial Officer for Florida Blue Medicare. In this role, which she assumed in July 2021, she is responsible for ensuring achievement of the business unit’s strategic financial objectives, which include product line profitability and company-level capital adequacy. Direct accountabilities within that scope include strategic planning, customer volume and financial planning, key performance indicator management, administrative cost structure management, capital expenditure oversight and medical expense and network analytics. Dorsett also oversees the Supplier Diversity Office, which focuses on identifying opportunities to increase the inclusion of qualified and certified diverse suppliers in GuideWell's existing supply chain. Additionally, she co-leads the Financial Development Program to promote the development and growth of key finance and actuarial talent across the enterprise. Prior to her Medicare finance role, Dorsett served Vice President, Enterprise Financial Performance and Analysis. She has also previously served as an actuarial analyst, a consulting actuary and a managing actuary. She was instrumental in pricing our initial Affordable Care Act (ACA) products and also served as a Medicare pricing actuary and Government Markets Finance Director. Throughout her career, Dorsett has been active in community and professional organizations. Dorsett is the current Vice President for the Southeastern Actuaries Conference and has volunteered for several years for the Society of Actuaries Exams & Education Committee. She also currently serves on the Board of The Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center: See the Girl. Dorsett holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in actuarial science from Georgia State University. She became a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 2010 and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries in 2007

Kareen Dorsett

Secretary/Treasurer

Shawnda Chapman

Position: Director
: Shawnda Chapman is a researcher, activist and the Director, of the Girls of Color Initiative at the Ms. Foundation for Women. Over the course of her personal and professional trajectory, her work has attempted to address inequality and injustice broadly with an acute focus on centering the needs and experiences of marginalized people. At the Ms. Foundation, Shawnda leads and shapes efforts to address the multitude of inequity faced by girls and TGNC youth of color by providing grantmaking, leadership development and capacity building resources to support their advocacy and movement building. Prior to joining Ms., Shawnda worked on federally funded national initiative to end girls’ incarceration at the Vera Institute of Justice. She also directed the Beyond the Bars Fellowship program at Columbia University’s Center for Justice. Shawnda has broad experience developing as well as implementing research, monitoring, and evaluation materials both domestically and internationally. She currently serves on the advisory board of the Young New Yorkers, an arts-based diversion program for court-involved young people; as well as Southern New Hampshire University’s Global Education Movement (GEM), an initiative that works to increase refugee access to tertiary education. Shawnda earned her BA in Sociology and MS in Applied Social Research from Hunter College. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate from The Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

Shawnda Chapman

Director

Rachic A. Glover

Position: Director
: Rachic A. Glover is an Assistant General Counsel at Florida Blue, the oldest and largest health plan in Florida. In this role, Rachic leverages her background in administrative law and the legislative process to anticipate and identify legal issues concerning the sale of health insurance, develop strategies to implement related legislation, and advise and counsel with regard to regulatory compliance. Rachic previously spent over a decade working in Tallahassee, FL, practicing law at various state agencies that regulate insurance and health care, most recently as the Deputy Director of Legal Affairs, Life & Health Product Review at the Office of Insurance Regulation. She also worked as a staff attorney and judicial law clerk at the Florida First District Court of Appeal. A proud Florida native, Rachic matriculated at the University of Florida and the Florida State University College of Law, respectively, for her bachelors and juris doctor degrees. With a dedication to philanthropy and volunteerism and a keen interest in improving the lives of women and children, Rachic is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the oldest Greek-letter organization established by African American college-educated women, and is a former Vice President of Nominating and Training, Leadership, and Diversity Manager of the Tallahassee Junior League. She is strongly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within insurance and the law, as well. Rachic recently joined the Florida Bar’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and is a current board member of the National African-American Insurance Association, Florida Chapter. Rachic’s greatest accomplishment is being “mommy” to a six-year-old daughter, Ava Grace.

Rachic A. Glover

Director

Carol Wick

Position: Director
: Carol Wick began her career in the early '90s as a trauma therapist for sexually abused children, eventually overseeing child advocacy and gender-responsive program for teenage girls. For nearly a decade, she served as the CEO of one of the largest domestic violence shelters in the US, opening one of the first onsite kennels and winning global awards for innovation. Carol successfully worked within government to change systems, most recently passing Donna's Law in 2020, that eliminated the statute of limitations for the rape of children in Florida. In 2021 led the effort that passed the first rape kit tracking law in Florida. Throughout her career, she has developed relationships with organizations that work across the globe. Her work has impacted every continent and reached millions, such as the first domestic violence screening app for physicians. She serves on the boards of organizations that address human trafficking and access to emergency shelters. Carol is currently on the UN Women – Violence Against Women Expert Roster and served on the White House Women’s Faith Advisory Council as the Violence Against Women Expert and Allstate Economic Empowerment Advisory Council. Carol holds a bachelor's from Florida State University, a master’s from Auburn University, a Certificate in Board Governance from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and a Certificate in Advanced Entrepreneurship from Rollins College Crummer School of Business. She is currently a Georgetown University Fellow in Girl Centered Practice.

Carol Wick

Director

Dr. Richmond D. Wynn

Position: Director
: Dr. Richmond D. Wynn is Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of North Florida. He is also a licensed mental health counselor, a certified addiction professional, and an Associate Professor of Clinical Mental Health Counseling. His research focuses on intersectionality of identity, traumatic stress, and health outcomes. He is specifically interested in the ways in which culturally diverse, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) persons negotiate their identities and manage their health. Dr. Wynn is a community-engaged professional and has a long history of service in the Jacksonville community with most of his work focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Dr. Richmond D. Wynn

Director

Leadership Council

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