staff and advisors

Amy Bodnarik, M.Ed, is a behavioral/programming specialist at Spectrum Resources in NC and is involved in our social skills grant for adolescents with high functioning autism.

Katie Brady, PhD is a therapist at Division TEACCH, an autism center administered through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is helping us with our autism diagnostic grant.

Galen Brandt is president of Piglet Opera Music Productions and writes, sings, and produces our safety songs.

James Carter Cathcart is the male voice for our animated songs and CDs. You may recognize his voice as several characters from the Pokeman TV and movie series.

Claire Coles, PhD serves as advisor for our resources for children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder. She is Director of Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development at the Emory University School of Medicine.

Josh Doby filmed our images for Faceland and worked on the images, video, and content for the Emotions Color Wheel.

Lee Marcus, PhD serves as an advisor for our autism material and grants. He was for many years the Clinical Director of the Chapel Hill TEACCH Center.

Sandra McEwen is our in-house artist. She does our web site content and art and animations for our songs and games.

Elif Meckler, PhD is advising on our new grant to develop autism diagnostic tools for psychology graduate students in training.

Gary Mesibov, PhD guides or autism research and is Director of Division TEACCH at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical School.

Molly Millians ,M.A., M.Ed. special educator for the Fetal Alcohol Clinic at Emory, is the designer of our website FASD Toolbox.

Doris Paez, PhD is a practicing psychologist in North and South Carolina and is involved in our autism diagnostic grant.

Lori Pankratz, MS, CCC-SLP Speech Language Pathologist developed and recorded our Sounds Song-A-Long section and designed the 'Parts of Me' song.

Catrrine Ponall is the voice of the "Parts of Me" song and a long time voice teacher.

Ann Schulte, PhD is involved in our new autism diagnostic grant.  She is a professor at North Carolina State University.

Donna Stanger is the creator of our new facial expressions program, FACELAND. She was formally CEO of Edmark and is responsible for over 100 award winning games including the Millie and Bailey House series.

Dorothy Strickland, PhD is President of Virtual Reality Aids, Inc., the company that supports the Do2Learn web site.