New Board Members are elected by the entire C-Change membership. A Nominating Committee, the majority of whose members are elected by all C-Change Members, puts together a balanced slate of candidates each year; candidates are selected from a wide representation of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors; the missions of the organizations represented within C-Change; and the representative population groups bearing the greatest cancer burden.
C-Change functions like a virtual "town hall meeting", where distinguished national leaders concerned about the disease come together as a united force at least twice a year to discuss major cancer-related issues. Individual C-Change Members, for whom a particular priority area has special interest or relevance, can then coalesce into smaller issue-driven teams that act together to address the pressing opportunities, barriers, and challenges before them. Individual nongovernmental Members, on their own, may choose to lobby on behalf of federal, state, or local legislation regulation; or administrative rules. However, C-Change as a whole does not engage in lobbying activities.
Leadership
President George H. W. Bush, Honorary Co-Chair
First Lady Barbara Bush, Honorary Co-Chair
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Honorary Vice Chair
James Marks, Board Chair
C-Change Board of Directors provides overall leadership for C-Change's affairs.
Board of Directors
James Marks, MD, MPH, Chair
William Winkenwerder, MD, MPA, Vice Chair
Cheryl Healton, DrPH, MPA, Treasurer
Gary Reedy, Secretary
John Seffrin, PhD, Emeritus Member
LaSalle Leffall, Jr., MD, FACS, Emeritus Member
Dileep G. Bal, MD, MPH
Marguerite D. Baxter, RN, MN
Jean Becker, Liaison Member
Zora Brown
Robert L. Comis, MD
Gregory A. Curt, MD
Elizabeth M. Duke, PhD
Lloyd K. Everson, MD
Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH
Tom Kean, MPH, Ex Officio
Stephen Kindred, MD, MPH
Governor Ruth Ann Minner
Marty Murphy, PhD
John E. Niederhuber, MD
Governor Bob Wise
Staff
Tom Kean, MPH, Executive Director
Brian Alexander, Manager, Marketing & Information Systems
Goli Amiri, Program Assistant
Tara Arras, Director, Development and Major Gifts
Kinga Bartoszek, Director, Finance and Operations
Kristen Cox, Project Associate
Gary Gurian, Program Director
Alison Smith, BA, BSN, RN, Director, Cancer Research, Cancer Workforce, Annual Meetings
Brandi Stevenson, CMP, Administrative/Meetings Coordinator
Tasha Tilghman-Bryant, MPA, Project Associate