Board Members

CHAIR

Peggy Reisher, MSW
Executive Director BIA Nebraska

PAST CHAIR

Geoffrey Lauer, MA
Chief Strategic Officer BIA Iowa

TREASURER

Rita Steindlberger MSUP
Chief Strategy Officer BIA New Jersey

SECRETARY

David King, MBA
Chief Executive Officer Minnesota BIA

BOARD MEMBERS

In 2023, nearly 80% of the USBIA Board of Trustees had lived experience with brain injury.

Gavin Attwood
CEO

Alina Fong, PhD
Board Chair BIA Utah

Janice Megel
Iowa

Jack Storti, CBIS, CAS, ILST
Program Manager BIA Colorado

Tami Robinson Soper, MA
Nebraska

Kate Kerkmans
Colorado

Wendy Berk
New Jersey

Ashley Iverson E-CYT500
Utah

Robert L. Karol, Ph.D., LP, ABPP-RP, CBIST
Minnesota

Jess Leal, Director BIA Vermont
Vermont

Eve M. Valera, PhD Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts

Emeritus Trustees

Marilyn Price Spivack
Massachusetts

Barbara Geiger-Parker
USBIA Founding Board Chair