Executive Director
Steve brings over 23 years experience in nonprofit management and
consulting to 1in6, which he founded in January 2007. He originally worked
in the private sector as Director of Human Resources for Six Flags
Corporation and Landmark Entertainment Group. In 1988, Steve co-founded My
Friend's Place, a resource center for homeless and runaway youth in
Hollywood, California and became its full-time Executive Director in 1990.
In June 1999, he left My Friend's Place to found the Santa Clarita Valley
Youth Project, a community-based outreach program preventing high-risk
behavior among students in his own neighborhood. Steve's decision to found
1in6 stems from his dedication to raising awareness of male childhood
sexual abuse as a serious social issue, the effects of which he has seen
first hand among so many of the runaway and homeless young men he assisted
throughout his years in nonprofit service provision. Recently Steve
received a Stanton Fellowship which will allow him to research the
strategies used to effectively address other taboo and difficult social
issues and understand how leaders of those movements overcame barriers and
successfully brought needed services to their constituents.
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Web/Graphic Design
Peter is a Los Angeles-based design consultant specializing in web and corporate identity design. He has worked on a broad spectrum of projects including Stamps.com, News Corporation, Red Mango, Paul Mitchell, Baby Ruth, LA Family Housing and Animal Wow. Prior to consulting, he taught art in the Los Angeles Unified School District at El Camino Real High School for three years. Peter received a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Master's in Education from UCLA.
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Marketing/PR
Steve Fox has extensive media, corporate communications, management and financial experience. He was the President, CEO and Editor of Investor’s Business Daily and spent 10 years with The Associated Press, where he served as Southern California Business Editor and wrote business and financial columns syndicated to more than 1,700 newspapers nationwide. Steve also worked at The Los Angeles Times and New York Daily News and taught journalism at the University of Southern California.
Steve has been a corporate communications consultant since 1988. His clients have included IBM, 3M, Citibank, City National Bank, Rockwell International, HealthNet, USC, University Affiliates Medical Group, Tenet Healthcare, Little Company of Mary Health Services, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Pacific Capital Bancorp, Pacifica Hotel Company, and dozens of other smaller firms and organizations.
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Marketing/PR
Chuck Freadhoff is a Vice President of Capital Research and Management Company's Fund Business Management Group and Director of Media Relations for The Capital Group Companies.
Prior to joining Capital in 1995, Chuck was an international economics and trade writer for Investor’s Business Daily in Los Angeles. Before that, he was a medical and general assignment reporter for The Stars and Stripes in Darmstadt, Germany.
Chuck received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of La Verne and a master’s degree from the American Graduate School of International Management. He has written three suspense novels, Codename: Cipher, Blue Rain and A Permanent Twilight.
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Community Education and Outreach
Peter Pollard has been a longtime advocate for extending accountability for preventing child abuse to include all adults as well as individual perpetrators of sexual violence, most recently as public education director and Helpline supervisor at Stop It Now!. Peter previously worked for 14 years as a child protection case manager for the state of Massachusetts. Since 2003, he has served as the Western Mass. regional coordinator for SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Treehouse Foundation, a multi-generational community for elders and families with children who have experienced foster care. Peter is a survivor of sexual abuse as a child. He received a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government in 2005. His comments about child abuse and community responsibility for prevention have been published in the Boston Globe, on National Public Radio, CNN, and WBUR Boston.
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Development
Heidi is originally from Los Angeles, where she received a BA (in Communications/Mass Media) from UCLA and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy (emphasis on Social Welfare programs) from USC. Currently she is working on her PhD at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and serving as Lead Investigator for an assessment of the California Connected by 25 project, a multi-county initiative to improve the outcomes of young people transitioning from the foster care system into adulthood. The initiative is funded by leading foundations such as the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Stuart Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. For over seven years, she has also worked as a freelance consultant on grant writing, helping to raise over $1.5 million for nonprofit organizations operating in Los Angeles County.
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Website Translation
Adam is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania pursuing a career in emergency medicine. He has lived and worked in Central America, South America, and southern Africa, where he collaborated with the CDC, universities, and foreign governments as a health worker and epidemiological researcher. Through his extensive experience, he became fluent in Spanish and is now a certified medical interpreter. He frequently volunteers his translation services for non-profit organizations and the public good. His recent projects include Delaware Valley Head Start, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Alliance in International Medicine, and Election Day poll monitoring and interpretation.
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