2013 Photos - The NEA Foundation

February 8, 2013
Clockwise from right: NEA Foundation former Board
Member and Olympic Gold Medalist Jessica Mendoza
with Billie Jean King, 2007 recipient of the Award for
Outstanding Service to Public Education • Student band
ensemble members Anaila Alemon, Julio Ramos, Ashdon
Reynolds, and Alton Skinner from the Springfield High
School of Science and Technology in Springfield,
Massachusetts • 2007 Gala emcee Avery Brooks reading
honoree Eric Carle’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar •
From left to right: Dennis Van Roekel, NEA President;
Harriet Sanford, President & CEO of The NEA Foundation;
Will Allen, Founder and CEO of Growing Power, Inc.,
recipient of the 2012 Security Benefit Corporation Award
for Outstanding Service to Public Education; Michael
Kiley, CEO, Security Benefit Corporation; Elizabeth
Oliver-Farrow, Chair of The NEA Foundation Board and
Chairman & CEO of the Oliver Group; John Stocks, NEA
Executive Director • 2012 Gala emcee, Three-Time
Olympic Gymnast, Motivational Speaker, Dominique
Dawes • From left to right: Doug Goldberg, Senior Vice
President, California Casualty Management Company;
Michael Kiley, CEO, Security Benefit Corporation; Gary
Phoebus, President & CEO, NEA Member Benefits;
Danielle Kovach, winner of the 2012 NEA Member
Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence; Harriet Sanford;
Beau Brown, Chairman, President & CEO, California
Casualty Management Company; George Shapcott, Sr.
Account Manager, California Casualty Management
Company • Student dancer Anaia Cayode from the
Rebecca M. Johnson Visual and Performing Arts School
in Springfield, Massachusetts • From left to right: Harriet
Sanford; The 2012 Horace Mann Award for Teaching
Excellence award winners: Jonathan Gillentine, Hawaii
State Teachers Association; Lisa Esquibel, Wyoming
Education Association; Cara Haney, Washington
Education Association; Danielle Kovach, New Jersey
Education Association and winner of the 2012 NEA
Member Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence; Jeff
Peneston, New York State United Teachers; Elizabeth
Oliver-Farrow; Peter Heckman, President & CEO, The
Horace Mann Educators Corporation.