About Beyond Hunger's Philosophy



		Lisa Baty, MA, President Lisa Baty has 10 years of experience in grassroots community organizing, program management, and advocacy for low-income residents of Mercy Housing California’s affordable housing. She is the Resident Services Coordinator II for various sites in San Francisco, where she continues to empower residents and directs Mercy Housing’s model after school program. Lisa has always been passionate about empowerment for women and girls, and the results from her graduate thesis, Positive Body Images in the Media, encouraged her to focus her energy on prevention of body dissatisfaction, critical thinking education concerning consumption of media, and youth empowerment. Lisa’s personal experience with overcoming eating disorders makes her a strong and empathetic advocate for Beyond Hunger’s philosophy and educational programs. Adriana Buck, MA Adriana received her Bachelor's degree from Sonoma State University in Environmental Studies. Dedicated to educating and inspiring people, she pursued a Master's degree in Social Marketing, the promotion of behaviors as opposed to products. Realizing that the tools she acquired could be used to raise awareness of all kinds of issues, Adriana decided to put her skills to use in the nonprofit sector. While working on fund development for the Grassroots Leadership Network of Marin, Adriana joined the Beyond Hunger board to consult in matters relating to marketing and development. Tanya Chitnis, Treasurer Tanya Chitnis works in Accounting and Finance, but has always hoped to move into the non-profit sector, specifically wishing to find ways to instill a greater sense of confidence in young women. Having dealt with body image issues and the resulting desires to diet, etc., she is happy to be working with an organization that teaches people about body acceptance and intuitive eating and who helps them work through the issues behind their disordered eating. She is thankful too to be able to support Beyond Hunger's Peer Education program and it's efforts of prevention. Andrea DeLeo Andrea has over 3 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising, most recently in healthcare. She works at St. Mary’s Medical Center Foundation, where she cultivates and stewards donors for various causes within the hospital. Andrea comes to Beyond Hunger with a journalism degree, which she decided to use in the nonprofit sector through various communication and development positions. Having dealt with body image issues since a young age and having overcome eating disorders in college/post-college, she is thrilled to be giving back and helping an organization that is so close to her heart. One of Andrea's dreams is to help people suffering from eating disorders see that they are beautiful inside and out and that there are plenty of resources to help them overcome their disorder. Jones Lam, MST, Vice President Jones Lam serves as the Sr. Tax Manager of International Tax at Wind River Systems, Inc. and oversees the firm’s U.S. and global tax issues. Jones began her tax career with KPMG LLP, practicing state, local, and international taxes. She also specialized in international executive services and global incentive arrangements while on a two year rotation with KPMG’s think tank, Washington National Tax. During Jones’ tenure in Washington D.C., her core responsibilities involved technical research and analysis with an emphasis on current legislative events generated from the U.S. Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Senate Finance Committee, and Joint Committee on Taxation. In addition to working full time, Jones is an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco where she teaches tax research. Jones received her Bachelors of Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 and her Masters in Taxation from The American University in 2002. In June 2002, Jones co-authored an article titled, “Phantom Foreign Currency Gain on Foreign Property” for The Tax Adviser, a publication with the AICPA. Jones is also a speaker at the annual ETRADE National Conference, informing professionals about global taxation of equity compensation and was a current board member of the San Francisco Chapter's Tax Executives Institute. Always interested in empowering women, Jones believes that her work at Beyond Hunger will give her an opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of many women and girls. Celeste Marx, Pharm.D.* Celeste Marx, Pharm.D., brings over 25 years of professional experience in pediatric and adult clinical pharmacy, with the majority spent addressing the medical and nutritional needs of critically ill patients. Her extensive medical research background includes the development and validation of a tool (The COMFORT Scale) to measure distress in critically ill children on ventilators, in order to assure appropriate use of environmental control, comforting measures and pharmaceutical approaches. She has evaluated the passage of numerous medications in human milk, as a means of balancing risks and benefits to encourage breastfeeding by women who must receive medication. This focus on communication of hard science to soft-touch environments fits well with Beyond Hunger approach to medical disorders with social and psychological supports. Laurelee Roark, MA, CCHT, Co-founder of Beyond Hunger Laurelee Roark, MA, CCHT, has facilitated support groups, workshops and lectured about eating disorders for more than twenty years. She is the co-founder of Beyond Hunger, and currently works for Beyond Hunger facilitating weekly groups and quarterly workshops, and training therapists. She also runs the peer education program, training teen girls to do prevention work by lecturing in the schools about intuitive eating, body image and emotional intelligence. She travels and lectures all over the country and has been featured on televisions, radio, newspaper articles and magazines as a specialist in the field of body image and eating disorders. Laurelee is the co-author of "It's Not About Food"?, Putnam,1999, which was re-issued in 2008. "It'?s Not About Food" is a compassionate, supportive book that can help women break the cycle of bingeing and dieting by going deep within, listening to the wisdom of the body and taking care of the self. She has also co-authored the book "??Over It, a Teens Guide to Getting Beyond the Obsession with Food and Weight"?, New World Library, 2000. Specifically for teens, this book explores the behaviors that lead to eating disordered and the cultural, emotional and physical reasons girls obsess about food and weight. Her be newest book, "Your Name Is Edith, A Mother and Daughter Love Story"?, is now out and can found at your favorite bookstore. For more information please contact Laurelee at Beyond Hunger, 415-459-2270, www.beyondhunger.org, or call her directly at 415-497-8910 or www.laureleeroark.com.