FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Stephanie Forte,
[email protected] o. 702.898.2547 c. 702.596.9866 Background: www.herafoundation.org HERA FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2007 BOARD MEMBER APPOINTMENTS (March 2007 -- Carbondale, Colo.) The HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation recently announced its new board member appointments. New board members include Marci Reardon on HERA’s Working Board and Angela Goodacre Donini and Michael Reardon on HERA’s National Advisory Board. Past board members who remain active include the following on HERA’s Working Board: Stephanie Forte, principal of Forte Creative Media; Jill Slansky, principal investigator, Cancer Immunology, National Jewish, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver; Lizz Zannin, director, MTV, VH1 and FUSE in New York City; Dr. Karen Zempolich, gynecological oncology, assistant professor of obstetrics/gynecology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Maile Buker, V.P. marketing, Ardea Beverage in Minneapolis, and Kristi Denton-Cohen, producer, director and writer at Peloton Productions in San Francisco, remain on HERA’s National Advisory Board. Marci Reardon For nearly a decade Marci Reardon of Oak Park, CA has worked at Countrywide Financial where she is currently senior executive assistant to the CEO. Married to professional climber Michael Reardon and the mother of a teenage daughter, Reardon has devoted time to a variety of philanthropic work that includes Sickle Cell Anemia and foster feeding at the Santa Barbara Zoo. “I want to speak up for those who cannot,” says Reardon. When her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, she became more active in cancer research organizations. “My goal is to be involved in smaller organizations with a better focus, and in HERA I found a group of strong women committed to a cause that has long been overlooked.” In 2006, she was the top fundraiser of the Climb 4 Life event in Salt Lake City and looks forward to helping in the fight against ovarian cancer.