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About one-third of teen girls become pregnant at least once by age 20 and fully half of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned.  Not too good

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Our cabal of bloggers represent a group of talented individuals (self-identified)

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The Bloggers

Bill Albert is the Chief Program Officer of the National Campaign and King of All He Surveys.  He has been with the organization since the Taft Administration.  He has a dog named Henry.

Sarah Brown is the CEO of the National Campaign. Sarah's husband doesn't understand why she's been working on the same issue for 30 years. Worst.  Before co-founding the National Campaign, she was a senior director at the Institute of Medicine.  She has dogs named Thatcher and Phoebe and her three daughters want to distance themselves from their mother and remain anonymous.

Stefanie Boltz is The National Campaign's Coordinator of Entertainment Media and Audience Strategy. She is from the great state of California and is a little awkward, both of which she will tell you in the first 30 seconds of a conversation. Stefanie doesn't actually have a dog, but over the last 8 years she has lived with 3 different dogs--Sonny Corleone, Luca Brasi, and Audrey Elizabeth Dole.

Jennifer Drake is the National Campaign's Outreach Associate.  She has the Midas touch, a gift for writing, and the amazing ability to tell someone they are wrong with a smile on her face.  At present, she does not have a dog but we don't hold that against her. 

Ruthie Flores is the Senior Manager of the National Campaign's Latino Initiative. When she's not running marathons or traveling 2,000+ miles away to compete in mud runs or zip-line through Central American mountains and volcanoes, Ruthie is on the go developing partnerships with faith leaders, community organizations, policymakers, and the media--much of the time en EspaƱol.

Andrea Kane is the Senior Director of Policy and Partnerships at the National Campaign.  She works harder than anyone else in the country.  She has tons o' experience--twenty years and counting--doing a whole bunch of interesting stuff, including policy work, program and budget analysis, and how to get things done at the local, state, national, and federal levels.

Kelleen Kaye is the National Campaign's Director of Research.   She's really smart and really nice.  Don't believe us?  Check out the smart places she has worked: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, the National Opinion Research Center, the New America Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.

Amy Kramer is the National Campaign's Director of Entertainment Media and Audience Strategy.  She is a recovering journalist, a life-long camp counselor, and an avid surfer of the blogosphere. She loves the movie Sixteen Candles and has a dog named Ranger.

Laura Lloyd is the Senior Manager of Digital Media at the National Campaign. Her expertise is rare indeed as it bridges the worlds of public health and digital media. She is the stepparent to a black lab named Sammy.

Lauren Mann is an intern in the National Campaign's Entertainment Media and Audience Strategy department. She is a senior at George Washington University, majoring in Communications and Journalism, and enjoys being sarcastic and seeing if people catch on. She has no pets right now, but there's still time.

Liz Mustin is the National Campaign's Partnerships Assistant. She spends her free time running, biking, cooking and, in general, just trying to pretend like she's still living in the Pacific Northwest. She hates cats and would love to get a puppy, but she thinks that dogs are best off when raised in financially and geographically stable households with plenty of support from their parents.

Marisa Nightingale is the Senior Advisor, Entertainment Media Program at the National Campaign. She leads the Campaign's partnerships with the entertainment media and is cool enough to actually be welcomed when she is in Hollywood. She has a dog named Rocky.

Paula Parker-Sawyers is the National Campaign's Director of Outreach and Partnerships. She is a Hoosier by birth but has made her home in Washington, D. C. for the last two years to bring some old fashioned values to her new, more progressive, surroundings. She has had several dogs in her lifetime--an Akita, Great Dane, Doberman, and a Yellow Labrador. By far, her favorite was a Great Pyranees named Darby. At 88 lbs he was too large for apartment living so he has a happy home back in Indiana.

Carlos Pinto is Media and Project Manager of the National Campaign's Latino Initiative. When not out joy riding on his bicycle, motorcycle or scooter, Carlos spends his time collecting records, going on hikes with his friends, throwing darts, playing foosball, and occasionally competing in 5-10k runs. He speaks in Spanish as often as he can, owns a cat named DJ, and firmly believes (as always) that the Washington Redskins will be crowned this year's Super Bowl champions.

Michael Rosst is the National Campaign's Senior Manager of Communications, Media, and Youth Initiatives.  His is a troubled life.  When he is not tending to his asthmatic kitty, he is catching up on comic books and deconstructing the works of indie-licious shoe-gazers like Ted Leo, Zolof the Rock n Roll Destroyer, and Bishop Allen. Yikes.

Liz Sabatiuk is the National Campaign's Social Media Coordinator.  She is thrilled to be able to spend her work days on the internet, to which she is completely, and openly, addicted.  Liz loves animals but isn't quite ready for the commitment of a pet.  She realizes that's a bit sad, but figures it's better to be honest about these things. 

Isabel Sawhill is the President of the National Campaign.  She is the smartest, wisest, and most athletic person in the United States.  Just reading about all she has accomplished brings otherwise stout people to their knees. Oh yeah, in her spare time she is a Senior Fellow of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Whether you want to discuss the merits of capital gains tax cuts or the rodeo--Belle is your person.

Laura Sessions Stepp is a Senior Media Fellow at The National Campaign. A longtime reporter for The Washington Post, she has written two books including Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both. She loves her uncool husband, her three cool grown children and rock 'n' roll oldies. If anyone is looking for backup singers in a rock band, she and Sarah Brown are your girls.

Jessica Sheets is the Senior Manager of the National Campaign's communications program.   She's from Pittsburgh but don't hold that against her. Jessica spends much of her time fretting over our various websites--TheNationalCampaign.org, StayTeen.org and several others we haven't thought of yet.  She doesn't have a dog but she does love Corgis.  

Lisa Shuger is the Director of Public Policy at the National Campaign. Lisa plays a key role in developing and promoting effective policy strategies to help prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy, with a particular focus on health reform and related issues in the public and private sectors. She is also the proud mother of Samson, a golden retriever with an insatiable appetite for socks, and of two adolescent boys, who are constantly embarrassed by her.

Chelsey Storin is the Coordinator of Public Policy at the National Campaign. She grew up in Georgia, but only has a Southern accent after she has had at least two cocktails. She enjoys playing video games and spending time with her teeth-grindingly cute cat, Kitty Kitty.

Katy Suellentrop is the Senior Manager of Research and Evaluation Programs at the National Campaign.  She is also really smart.  That's why we call her the math department. 

Lawrence Swiader (Larry to his friends) is the Director of Digital Media and comes to The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy from the United Holocaust Memorial Museum where he worked for 10 years, most recently in the position of chief information officer.  Clearly, Larry has a penchant for organizations with long names.  His wife enjoys the change in important dinner table conversation from preventing genocide to responsible sex.  When Larry is not working, surfing the Web, watching sports, or playing tennis, he is enjoying life with his wife and daughter--as often as possible in their second home of Greece.