Leadership
Linda Criddle | Joy Howell | Alma Riojas | Stacie Rumenap
Linda Criddle
Linda Criddle is President of LOOKBOTHWAYS Inc, an online safety consulting and software development firm. The company has developed ReputationShare, and provides consulting services to leading technology companies, regulatory bodies, and law enforcement.
Before establishing LOOKBOTHWAYS, Criddle spent 13 years at Microsoft where she was a pioneer in ecommerce and online safety.
Criddle works extensively with educators, collaborates with local, state, national and international law enforcement agencies, and with government organizations in the U.S. and around the world on internet safety legislation.
Criddle is author of the award-winning consumer-oriented books, Look Both Ways: Help Protect Your Family on the Internet, and Using the Internet Safely for Seniors For Dummies. She has also written "Internet Safety for Educators," a distance-learning course offered through Universities. LOOKBOTHWAYS also provides the consumer internet safety site iLOOKBOTHWAYS.com
Criddle is also the president of the LOOKBOTHWAYS FOUNDATION, which is dedicated to bringing internet safety education to schools, and the general public. The foundation is currently developing a fully integrated K-12 Internet Skills for Life curriculum that will be made available free of charge for schools, families and the public.
Joy Howell
Joy Howell, Board Member of the Safe Internet Alliance, is also President of Cambridge Strategic Partners, and a Washington and Presidential campaign veteran with a successful track record of providing expert public affairs consulting to both non-profit and public sector clients. With a deep commitment to community service, she has created citizen advocacy organizations dedicated to responsible development and access to broadband.
A former director of the Office of Public Affairs for the Federal Communications Commission, Ms. Howell has extensive expertise in internet technology and policies. She is the former Executive Director of Broadband Changed My Life!, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting increased internet access for all Americans. She The campaign focused on promoting transformative personal accounts of individuals whose lives have been improved (gaining an education online, receiving proper medical care in rural locations, managing chronic illnesses, starting home-based businesses) with increased broadband capacity.
Ms. Howell currently serves as a board member of Public Citizen, a national non-profit organization founded to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. She is also the executive director of the Financial Publishers Association, representing leading financial and investment publications.
A public relations expert, Ms. Howell was a Communications Director for the 2000 Gore-Lieberman campaign and previously served as Communications Director to high-profile former U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ). Her efforts on behalf of organizations, Fortune 1000 corporations and government agencies have garnered national recognition for their successful outcomes.
After completing her MBA at the University of Redlands, she studied public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and business at Harvard Business School. She earned a Master in Public Administration (MPA) with a focus on international business and policy, including telecommunications convergence, corporate strategy, international marketing, corporate governance, and change management. Studies in international business at Cambridge University, England, inspired her MBA thesis on the European Monetary Union. She has been an instructor and guest lecturer at the Kennedy School at Harvard, George Washington University, and the University of Texas.
A partial list of awards, honors and elected positions includes: Board Member, Public Citizen, Inc.; Past Board Member, University of Texas at Austin, College of Communications; Chairman's Award, Federal Communications Commission, Outstanding Alumni Award, University of Redlands; Distinguished Service Award, Austin City Council; Executive Vice President, Student Government, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Past President, Foggy Bottom Association; Board Member, Foggy Bottom Defense and Improvement Corporation.
Alma Morales Riojas
For the past seven years Alma Morales Riojas has led the oldest national Latina membership organization in the United States: MANA, A National Latina Organization. MANA is a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington D.C., with chapters across the country. Its mission is to empower Latinas through leadership development, community service and advocacy. Ms. Riojas, as President and CEO, spearheaded the MANA vision of working to improve the quality of life of all Hispanics.
Before she became President and CEO of MANA, Ms. Riojas served as National Executive Director of Federally Employed Women, Inc; Executive Director of the National Alliance of Veteran and Family Service Organizations; Associate Director of the National Network of Runaway and Youth Services; and President of ALMA Consulting Services. Ms. Riojas was Expert Consultant with the Washington Headquarters Services, The Pentagon, where she developed the first Affirmative Action and Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Plans for the Offices of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff.
She served on President Reagan’s Transition Team and in the White House Personnel Office specializing in Hispanic and women’s recruitment and placement. She had personnel responsibilities for the Offices of the Secretaries of Agriculture and Defense. A Texas native, Ms. Riojas began her career as a grade school teacher and later as Regional Manager with USAA Insurance Company in San Antonio.
She is Chair of the Board of the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR); Vice-Chair of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda; and Vice-Chair of the SER National Board of Directors. She also serves on the National Council of Women’s Organizations’ steering committee; the Diversity Council for Bennett College; the AARP and Pfizer Hispanic Advisory Council; and the National Consumers League Board of Directors. She is the first Latina to serve as a Director for the Board of the National Women’s History Museum. As National Chairwoman of the American GI Forum she served as a Board member of the Hispanic Education Foundation, National SER, Jobs for Progress, and the National Veterans Outreach Program.
Ms. Riojas has served on numerous boards, commissions, national committees and task forces, including the Commission on the Status of Women in Texas and Virginia; the Senate Advisory Task Force; the Secretary of Labor’s Committee on 21st Century Demographics of the President’s Council on 21st Century Workforce; National Hispanic Women’s Council; Women in Community Service. She was an advisor to Lifetime Network, PBS network, and HBO, and to Harvard University’s Women’s Policy Journal.
She has received numerous professional and civic awards, including the Tomás Rivera Leadership Award from the National Hispanic University and Force on Hispanic Affairs; the President’s Outstanding Achievement Award from the National Association of Hispanic Federal Executives; and the 2003 Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) Hero’s Award.
Ms. Riojas, a National Science Foundation Scholar, attended San Antonio College, Our Lady of the Lake University and the University of Texas in Austin. She completed “Women in Power: Leadership in a New World” Executive Leadership Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School and “Serving on Corporate Boards of Directors” Program at Harvard University School of Business.
Ms. Riojas is the mother of Cynthia Esparza Crockett and Roland Gabriel Esparza, and grandmother of Nicolas and Zachary Crockett.
Stacie Rumenap
Stacie Rumenap is the Executive Director of Stop Child Predators (SCP), a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization that combats the sexual exploitation of children and protects the rights of victims. SCP brings together a team of policy experts, law enforcement officers, community leaders, and parents to lead state and federal awareness campaigns that leverage ongoing efforts and resources to create and promote model legislation that provides for mandatory sentencing and electronic monitoring of convicted sex offenders; creates and promotes online safety measures that empower parents and educate children; and champion child safety education and awareness programs.
Prior to joining SCP, Stacie was the Deputy Director of the American Conservative Union (ACU), the nation’s oldest and largest conservative grassroots lobbying organization, and American Conservative Union Foundation (ACU’s educational affiliate). As Deputy Director of ACU/ACUF, she was in charge of organizing CPAC—the Conservative Political Action Conference—the nation’s largest annual gathering of conservatives. She also assisted in setting the direction of ACU/ACUF by serving as one of ACU’s three principal lobbyists, and served as the organizations’ primary corporate fundraiser and as a spokesperson on a variety of issues.
Stacie also served as the Executive Director of U.S. Term Limits (USTL)—the nation’s largest term limits group committed to restoring citizen government by limiting politicians’ terms at all levels of government. In her role at USTL, Stacie led 18 successful statewide initiative and referendum campaigns in 11 states and mobilized grassroots and media efforts around the country.
Stacie has also served as the Executive Director for the National Center for Growth (the pre-curser to the Club for Growth), and worked for former Representative Bob Barr on Capital Hill and on his 1994 and 1996 political campaigns. Additionally, Stacie participated in the Republican National Committee’s 2006 and 2004 deployment programs where she worked to elect Bob Corker (TN) and Jim DeMint (SC) respectively to the United States Senate, and assisted in the first national election held in Somaliland, Africa, in 2001.
Stacie holds a M.A. in Legislative Affairs from the George Washington University, and a B.A. in Journalism from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She serves on the Board of Directors for Safe Internet Alliance and America’s Future Foundation. She is on the Advisory Board for OmniLink Systems, a cutting-edge technology company that manufactures GPS monitoring devices.