Board of Directors

Board Chair
Deborah Zielinski, JD
Buckley King L.P.A.

Mindi Kogan Axner, MA
National Council of Jewish Women

Christine Barry, PhD
Rainbow and Babies and Children’s Hospital; Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Barnett Bookatz
Berkowitz Kumin Bookatz Memorial Chapel Inc.

Charmaine Brown
Forest City Enterprises

Carol Burg, MD

Aron Douglas, CPA
Ernst & Young

Joyce Rosen Fromson

Peter F. Gerhardt, EdD
Organization for Autism Research

Barbara Gonick, MA
Montefiore

Manju Gupta, JD, MBA
Javitch Block and Rathbone

Tracy Hill-Adognravi, MEd
Heights Parent Center

JoAnn Hirsh, CPA

Andrea Kanter Jacobs, JD
Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute

Carol Lader

Rochelle Nyer, CCC-SLP
Akron Children’s Hospital

Norm Siegal
SNorthcoast Research Partners

Robin Sirkin, MBA
The Upside of Downs of Greater Cleveland

Cindy Sykes
Psychological & Behavioral Consultants

Sally H. Wertheim, PhD
John Carroll University

Steven Wexberg, MD
Cleveland Clinic Beachwood Family Health & Surgery Center

Max Wiznitzer, MD
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital

Advisory Committee

Eric Butter, PhD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Autism Center, The Ohio State University

Allan Farkas, CPA

James Mulick, PhD
The Ohio State University

Anne Rosenberg
Jewish Family Service Association

Milestones Staff

Ilana Hoffer Skoff, MA
Executive Director

Mia Buchwald Gelles
Operations Director

Leslie Rotsky
Education Project Manager

Dorie Shimelonis
Office Manager

Ken Schneider
Public Relations