Amy is a senior partner Troutman Pepper and president and CEO of its Pepper Center for Public Service. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. She is past president of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and a current member of its executive committee.  She earned her law degree at the University of Virginia. Amy joined the Healthy NewsWorks board in 2016.

Jim is a former City of Philadelphia health commissioner and is a teaching professor of health management and policy at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. He previously was an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he worked in epidemiology, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS prevention. Jim is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine. He joined the board in 2016.

Laurie is a professor emeritus at Temple University, where she chaired the physical therapy department. She was a board member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and was honored with APTA’s two highest honors—as Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the APTA and with the Mary McMillan lectureship. She earned doctoral degrees from the MGH Institute of Health Professions and the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Penn’s Wharton School. She joined the board in 2014.

George is president and a founding partner of Lewis, Shoffner & Co., an accounting firm specializing in tax planning and preparation for individuals and small businesses. He is active in several community organizations and is a co-author of The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Finance for Non-Financial Managers. He earned a B.S. in business and finance from Lehigh University and is a certified public accountant. He joined the board in 2013.

Ross is an award-winning educator who has taught in New York City and Philadelphia schools, worked at the state level on education policy, and now serves as a school administrator at Upper Merion High School in Montgomery County, PA. He formerly served as the Advisor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Upper Merion Area School District and has also been a Teach Plus Pennsylvania Senior Policy Fellow and a Teach Plus National Advisory Board Member, where he significantly contributed to state policy development. Before his roles in educational administration, he received honors for his classroom roles as a social studies teacher, curriculum designer, and restorative justice class facilitator. He joined the board in 2025.  

Moriah is an independent public health consultant and supports work with organizations on program evaluation, strategic planning, and organizational development. She previously served as the associate director and graduate course instructor for the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Earlier, she was Temple University’s MPH coordinator and clinical instructor in Harrisburg, Pa., and a project manager with The Food Trust in Philadelphia. She earned a bachelor’s in human services from the University of Delaware and an MPH from Temple University. She joined the board in 2011.

Blair is a senior director of marketing at Comcast who has held several roles in financial analytics and business operations since starting with the company in 2008. In her current role, she oversees financial forecasting for several diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Her responsibilities have also included nonprofit partnerships, such as providing free internet access to children during pandemic-related school closures. She joined the board in 2024. 

Marty began her career as a corporate lawyer who did mergers and acquisitions and securities work at several firms and then moved to philanthropy. She most recently served as the executive director of The Edna G. Kynett Memorial Foundation, Inc., which funds research, continuing medical education, and community health projects focused on cardiovascular disease and underserved populations. She also serves on the Grants Committee for the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project and of the Bryn Mawr Film Institute. She was previously on the Boards of Living beyond Breast Cancer, Community Volunteers in Medicine, the Agnes Irwin School, and the Breakthrough Collaborative. Marty joined the Healthy NewsWorks Board in 2025.

Liz is a retired pediatric endocrinologist. Most recently she was as an associate professor from Thomas Jefferson University, where she researched childhood obesity and oversaw an educational program designed to engage underrepresented minority students in biomedical research. She has worked in basic and clinical research, public health, pharmaceutical development, and medical education. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Medical School. She joined the board in 2016.

Shoba is an Assistant City Solicitor in the Tax Litigation and Collections Unit in Philadelphia. She attended Central High School, the University of Pennsylvania for undergraduate studies, and went straight through to law school at Temple University. As a product of Philadelphia schools and a former student journalist, Shoba uniquely appreciates the importance of Healthy NewsWorks’ mission. Shoba comes to Healthy NewsWorks through the Board Observer Program, a partnership between the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, the Delivery of Legal Services Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association.