2020-2021 Speakers

Dr. Shelley Hearne brings an extensive track record of leadership, policy impact, institution building, and teaching in health advocacy. At the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she is the inaugural Alfred Sommer & Michael Klag Decanal Professor of the Practice for Public Health Advocacy and director, Center for Public Health Advocacy. In addition, she runs the Forsythia Foundation, an environmental health philanthropy, as a consultant.

Previously, Dr. Hearne was the president of CityHealth, which catalyzes city policies for healthier living; founder of the Trust for America’s Health, a national organization dedicated to preventing epidemics, protecting health, and the managing director of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Health group, which included its biomedical research, food, pharmaceutical, and financial security programs. She has also led the Big Cities Health Coalition, which represents the thirty largest cities’ health officials, served as the acting director of NJ’s pollution prevention program, and was the executive director of the Pew Environmental Health Commission. 

She is experienced running advocacy campaigns that successfully helped pass and implement important public health policies, such as the model N.J. Pollution Prevention Act, Nationwide Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act, and the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act. She has served in numerous national leadership positions, including chair of APHA’s executive board and vice president of the Council on Education for Public Health. 

She has been widely covered in the press, covering topics ranging from pandemic preparedness, public health infrastructure, ranking systems for states and cities on public health issues, including obesity, emergency response, and key policy issues, such as early education, tobacco control, healthy food procurement, earned sick leave policies, and financial security. She has substantial experience testifying before and engaging with policymakers at the federal, state, and local level.

Shelley has received numerous awards for her advocacy efforts, including the Senator Lautenberg Award for lifetime achievement in public health, the APHA’s Executive Director Citation, and Bowdoin College’s Common Good award. She received her B.A. in chemistry and environmental studies with honors from Bowdoin College and a DrPH in environmental health science from Columbia University’s School of Public Health. 

DR. TARA GRABOWSKY is an expert in the field of healthcare analytics. Currently, she works for McKinsey & Co., where she leads global data strategy for the Pharmaceutical and Medical Products Practice. 

Dr. Grabowsky originally trained as a physician and practiced internal medicine for over a decade. In 2014, she transitioned from clinical medicine to industry, where she helped to build a healthcare analytics company as the Chief Medical Officer. By leveraging partnerships with data vendors, payors, academic partners, and patient advocacy groups, the company employed advanced analytics to answer medical affairs, commercial, and clinical pharmaceutical questions. Dr. Grabowsky worked previously for Johnson & Johnson in its regulatory affairs department. She graduated from Dartmouth College, attended Stanford Medical School, and completed her internal medicine residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  

Sianna Elise Peal is the founder of FÀNDÉ, an African inspired fashion brand, which includes the“The Give Back” initiative that provides a percentage of proceeds to fund school products for Liberian children. In addition to offering beautiful clothing and accessories, she hopes FÀNDÉ can help people come together beyond race, class, and culture to build a better world. 

Sianna also recently launched a blog titled “Keep Your Vision”, sharing tips and tricks for chasing dreams, personal growth, and life manifestation. In the blog, she writes about the skills she adopted to launch her fashion brand, which she hopes will help other women achieve their goals.

Sianna earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Babson College. She also was a recipient of a scholarship awarded by Babson’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL) program, igniting her passion for entrepreneurship. 

While attending college and before starting her business Sianna earned a certificate in makeup artistry at the Christine Valmy International School of Esthetics and Cosmetology.  She has worked as a beauty consultant at Bobbi Brown and L'Occitane en Provence where she excelled in sales and customer service.

A 2014 graduate of Stuart Country Day School, Sianna is a lifer and was most inspired by the Sacred Heart goal “personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.” She says her time at Stuart ignited a deep personal faith that inspires her to keep going no matter the circumstances.

Shana Jordan is the Chief Operating Officer and a founding team member of leading bitcoin rewards company, Lolli which allows users to earn free bitcoin when they shop online at 1,000+ top stores including Sephora, Bloomingdales, and eBay. As COO, Shana oversees business development, customer experience, and the day-to-day operations of running a start-up company. She is passionate about educating the public, specifically women, about bitcoin as the cryptocurrency industry is largely male-dominated. 

Prior to joining Lolli, Shana worked at Time Inc. as a consumer marketing and revenue manager for its lifestyle brands such as Food & Wine and Southern Living. Shana got her start in e-commerce at ShopStyle (by POPSUGAR) where she managed retailer partnerships. She graduated from Georgetown in 2013 with degrees in International Business and Marketing. Additionally, Shana was selected as an inaugural member of the Georgetown University Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program. Shana attended Stuart Country Day School from 1995-2009.