Cindy Myers, LCSW

CYCRI Board Member 

NREIC Tri-Chair

Cindy has worked in residential, and clinical outpatient social work field since 2010 in urban, rural, and Tribal settings serving several populations to include: Native Americans, Hispanics, Immigrants, Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elders, Veterans and Reintegrated Citizens with individual, couple, family, and group therapies along with strategic community prevention work as a clinician, case manager, presenter, program director, grant writer, and executive director.

Lisa Gary, PhD 

NREIC Tri-Chair

Lisa is an epidemiologist and public health researcher with more than 15 years of experience in health services research, health care quality measurement, quantitative data analysis and health policy. Additionally, she has extensive experience in project management particularly working with foundations on grants management activities (RFP development, contracting, monitoring and evaluation). She is also an expert in stakeholder engagement with diverse communities of academics, researchers, and patients, community-based health studies, and program evaluation.

Margaret Flynn-Khan, MSW

CYCRI Board Member 

NREIC Member

Margaret is a founding partner of Mainspring Consulting, a national consulting firm that works with foundations, policymakers, and state and community leaders to design effective investments for families and communities.  She has provided training and technical assistance to hundreds of public and private leaders around the country focused on financing and sustaining effective initiatives.   To support this work, Margaret has conducted research and produced publications exploring funding sources and financing strategies to support education, youth development, prevention and child welfare initiatives.  She is a former Practice Group Leader for Vulnerable Children and Youth at The Finance Project, a national policy research and technical assistance organization. Margaret holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Connecticut.   

Roberto Gonzalez 

CYCRI Board Member 

Bitten by a Radioactive Spider, Roberto Gonzalez had to learn very early... With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility. In Providence, Roberto uses his extra-ordinary powers to empower the youth. Roberto founded STEAM Box, where the youth are the boss.  He develops STEAM programs based entirely on their interests. Their victories have reached outer space, ridden self-made hover-boards, developed apps, videos, websites and virtual reality, and kept their school open in the face of adversary.  His favorite part:  hiding the learning in all the fun. All this, and he smells like peaches.

Susan Follett Lusi

CYCRI Board Member 

Susan has worked in both urban and suburban settings, and in practice, policy, and research, during her over 30-year career. She has led Mass Insight Education & Research for six years. Prior to joining Mass Insight, she most recently served as Superintendent of Schools in Providence, R.I., where she was credited with increasing student achievement and opportunity. Most notably, she improved graduation rates as well as reading proficiency scores for Grades 4 and 11, particularly among English Language Learners. Sue was a champion for Providence students. To enhance their college and career readiness, she and her team increased Advanced Placement, Career and Technical Education, and dual credit offerings in all high schools, as well as established partnerships with institutions of higher education. Sue also collaborated with the Providence School Board and Providence Teacher’s to develop board policy and teacher contract language supporting increased school autonomy. 

Sue previously served as Superintendent of Schools in Portsmouth, R.I., Chief of Staff for Providence Schools and Assistant Commissioner for the Rhode Island Department of Education. She started her career at Brown University working for the Coalition of Essential Schools and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, as well as serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Taubman Center for Public Policy. 

Sue is the author of The Role of State Departments of Education in Complex School Reform (Teachers College Press, 1997). She holds a B.A. in Economics and a M.A. in Teaching Social Studies from Brown University, and a M.P.P. and Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Britton Steel

CYCRI Board Member 

Britton is a technical editor specializing in training and curriculum materials and user education. A former math teacher with the Milwaukee Public Schools, he has served as lead editor on two technology websites for K–12 teachers and has taught technical communications at Bellevue College in Washington. As publications manager at Casey Family Programs, he edited a line of products and tools for social workers and administrators in the child welfare system, as well as research reports and white papers for congressional briefings. He is currently developing training materials for the Social Development Research Group (sdrg.org) of the University of Washington School of Social Work.

Leon Aragon, LCSW 

CYCRI Board Member 

NREIC Member

Leon has worked in state, medical, school based, and clinical outpatient & inpatient social work field since 2010 in urban, rural, and Tribal settings serving several populations to include: Native Americans, Hispanics, Immigrants, Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elders, Veterans, Developmentally Delayed, Individuals with TBI, and Reintegrated Citizens with individual, couple, family, and group therapies along with strategic community prevention work as a clinician, case manager, presenter, program director, and grant writer. 

Tracy Anderson, PhD

NREIC Member

Dr. Anderson is the Assistant Director of the Center for Family Research at the University of Georgia. She provides direct oversight and works closely with the staff who lead and support active research projects. Dr. Anderson also oversees the dissemination of the Strong African American Families Program (SAAF) by promoting the program as well as coordinating training and providing technical assistance to organizations that purchase SAAF.

Laurie Tochiki, JD, PhD

NREIC Member

Laurie is the Executive Director of EPIC ʻOhana, a nonprofit organization serving families, children and youth in the child welfare system. “EPIC,” which stands for Effective Planning and Innovative Communication, reflects the organization’s goal of breaking down barriers between social workers, families, government systems and others. EPIC is the backbone organization for a network of agencies and foundations called Nā Kama a Hāloa, which seeks to improve outcomes for native Hawaiian children touched by the child welfare system.

Antonio Polo, PhD

NREIC Member

Antonio conducts research on the development and evaluation of interventions in schools and other community settings as well as on the factors that are associated with the development of mental health problems among Latinx and other ethnic and linguistic minority youth. Antonio is the Director of the Culture and Evidence-Based Practice Lab at DePaul University. In that role he is also the Primary Developer and Disseminator of Act and Adapt.

Maya Boustani, PhD

NREIC Member

Maya is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Loma Linda University and a licensed clinical child and adolescent psychologist. Maya has made significant contributions to the field through her research on the "common elements" of prevention programming, which aims to identify shared ingredients across diverse prevention programs for youth. Her work suggests that multiple adverse outcomes may share common underlying risk and resilience pathways, prompting exploration into modular approaches to prevention and intervention. These approaches aim to minimize burdens on communities while promoting mental health strategies that can be delivered by non-clinical providers.

Cynthia Weaver

Senior Associate, Evidence-Based Practice Group

Cynthia Weaver is a senior associate in the Evidence-Based Practice Group (EBPG) at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The work of EBPG prioritizes building evidence for programs and practices developed by and for people of color and then scaling what works. Weaver’s portfolio centers equitable access to emerging implementation technologies as one pathway to building evidence and scale. A major focus of her portfolio is the support of youth participatory action research (YPAR) to design, pilot and scale culturally grounded practices and programs. Weaver holds a doctorate in social work from the University of Alabama. She was an assistant professor of social work at the University of Southern Mississippi prior to joining Casey. Before that, she was a social worker for many years.

Tim Hobbs, PhD

CEO, Dartington Service Design Lab

Tim is responsible for shaping the ideas and strategic direction of Dartington and for the general oversight and running of the charity.

Tim has spent more than two decades working with numerous public systems, charities and foundations to help shape a series of bold investments and experiments designed to improve child outcomes. Underpinning all his work is a deep commitment to generating and using evidence, fused with human-centred and systemic design approaches. 

Tim is CEO of Dartington Service Design Lab, a Visiting Professor at UCL (School of Psychology and Language Sciences) and a 2021 Fellow of Practice at the Government Outcomes Lab (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University). He joined the Dartington Social Research Unit as a Researcher in 2004, later becoming Head of Data and Analytics. He was appointed as the first Director (now CEO) of the Dartington Service Design Lab in April 2017. He holds a first-class BSc in Psychology and Criminology and a PhD in Social and Policy Sciences.

Megan Keenan

Systemic Change Lead, Dartington Service Design Lab

Megan specialises in systems thinking and systemic change work at the lab.  Her expertise lies in using participatory approaches, including community-based system dynamics, and qualitative and quantitative modelling to support change.  

She has a passion for working with community stakeholders to improve the development and implementation of supports and services to ensure that they are both empowering and impactful within the communities they serve. 

Megan holds a leadership role on several projects that investigate and foster place-based systems change, including the Youth Endowment Fund Neighbourhood Fund project in Bradford and Birmingham, Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP) evaluation, and Kailo.  

Before joining Dartington in 2021, Megan worked at the Washington University School of Medicine where she applied qualitative, participatory, and systems-based approaches to uncover barriers, and develop interventions to improve health supports in the region. 

Megan has a MSc in social work with a specialisation in system dynamics from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. During her graduate degree training she worked in close collaboration with the Social System Design Lab.