Kathryn E. Miller, Esq.
Miller & Steiert, attorneys at law

Katy Miller graduated from Dartmouth College in 1977 and received her law degree in 1980 from the University of Denver College of Law. Katy began her legal career with Holland & Hart, primarily emphasizing employment and labor law. Since 1985, she has been with Miller & Steiert P.C., representing both employers and employees in workplace disputes. In 1997, Katy founded the Littleton Alternative Dispute Resolution group and now devotes all of her professional time serving as a neutral mediator, fact-finder, or arbitrator in employment and other legal conflicts. She has been named in The Best Lawyers in America since 1990 in the area of Labor and Employment Law and has lectured extensively to lawyers and human resource professionals on a variety of employment and ADR issues. Katy is the co-managing editor of The Practitioner's Guide to Colorado Employment Law, published in December 1998 (revised 2001, 2004, 2006) and has served on many boards, including the Board of the Faculty of Federal Advocates and the Colorado Judicial Institute. Katy has been an officer and director of the SPD Foundation since it was formed. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Englewood, Colorado.

Marla Roth-Fisch

Marla Fisch's professional background includes positions in marketing and operations for Los Angeles-based Westfield Corporation, one of the world's top owners and managers of major regional shopping centers. Prior to her experience at Westfield, Fisch founded and ran Raiders' Benefit Basketball, a California-based organization that recruited professional athletes for charity basketball and softball fundraisers. Raiders' Benefit organized more than 500 sporting events with proceeds benefiting schools and other causes promoting the health and well-being of children and teenagers.

Marla, a happily married mother of two children, lives in Highland Ranch, Colorado. She wrote and illustrated the book Sensitive Sam as a read-together book for parents and children with SPD. The book, written from a child's perspective, is told in rhyme and illustrated with bright colors and empathetic scenes designed to hold attention and foster better understanding of kids with SPD and their parents.

The mother of a son with SPD, Marla Fisch is committed to making an active and positive personal contribution in her future involvement as an SPDF board member.

Tim Hoyman
Prestige Realty Group

Tim is a musician, a Realtor®, a native Coloradoan, and a dedicated community volunteer. In addition to serving as secretary of the SPDF board of directors, Tim currently serves on the board of the Aurora Association of Realtors board of directors and as chair of the Aurora Association of Realtors grievance committee. He is past president of the Littleton Symphony Orchestra and has served on the board of directors for Canto Deo Choir. A classically trained musician, Tim has performed with a number of orchestras, choirs, and chorales over the past 30 years. He currently plays bassoon in the Littleton Symphony Orchestra and sings tenor in the Cherry Creek Chorale. He served proudly with the Colorado Army National Guard for more than 20 years before his retirement from the military. Tim and his wife Barbara have one child, Ian. Tim is currently with Prestige Realty Group as a licensed Realtor® and is founder of the Denver Home Run Team, helping small business owners grow their business.

Steven Slaughter
Senior Vice President, Key Bank

Steve graduated from the University of Colorado at Denver with a degree in accounting and has worked in banking and finance since 1980. After serving as a private banker with Wells Fargo Bank for 14 years, Steve joined Key Bank as a senior vice president and private banker in 2006. He is an officer at the Beacon Center, a residential treatment center for teenagers 12-18, and a member of the steering committee for the Early Childhood Partnership of Adams County. A father of two, Steve developed a special interest in SPD after his premature son was born with sensory challenges in 2003.

Ron Blair
Renco Properties Inc.

Ron Blair attended Santa Clara University, where he received his bachelor of science in management. After graduation, Ron worked for a market research firm for several years before returning to Santa Clara for his law degree and his master of business administration with concentrations in finance and international business. He was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa as a graduate student for his outstanding scholarship. After working in education a few years, Ron joined a fellow college alumnus as a partner in a venture capital firm in the Silicon Valley.

For the last five years, Ron has been a partner and chief financial officer for Renco Properties Inc., a commercial real estate firm that owns property in Colorado and California. He is the managing member for Blair Family Investments, LLC, and serves as an officer for a non-profit foundation that focuses on education and children's causes. Ron is married and the father of two daughters. He lives in Parker, Colorado. Ron joined the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation board of directors after learning about how many children are affected by this disorder and about the progress the SPD Foundation is making in increasing knowledge through research and raising awareness of Sensory Processing Disorder.

Tasha L. Eurich, PhD
The Eurich Group

Dr. Tasha L. Eurich is the Principal of The Eurich Group, a firm specializing in helping organizations succeed by improving the effectiveness of their leaders and teams. Her 10 year career in Leadership and Organizational Development has included roles as an external consultant and a direct report to both CEOs and human resources executives. With the majority of her work being with large, Fortune 500 organizations, Dr. Eurich’s practice has spanned multiple industries, including engineering, construction, finance, non-profit, hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, and municipal government. With a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University and BAs in Theater and Psychology from Middlebury College, Dr. Eurich has served as an adjunct faculty member with Colorado State University’s Undergraduate Management and Psychology Departments, and has guest lectured at the University of Denver’s Executive MBA and Colorado State University’s PhD programs. Dr. Eurich has been a featured speaker at dozens of industry conferences and has published articles in The Journal of Business Psychology and The Psychologist Manager’s Journal. Her research on Generations at Work has been featured around the world. Dr. Eurich has also served as the spokesperson for Rocky Mountain HR People and Strategy, appearing on Gregg Moss’ business segment on 9 News (Denver, CO). In her spare time, she enjoys travelling, cycling, and spending time with her husband and their three rambunctious dogs.

Edward Goldson, M.D., FAACP
The Children's Hospital of Denver

Dr. Goldson is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. A practicing pediatrician involved in the care of children with special needs, he serves as a specialist in the Child Development Unit, works in the area of child maltreatment, and currently serves as the coordinator for the child development rotation of the pediatric residents. In the past, Ed served on the governor's Interagency Coordinating Council for IDEA (the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and on the Colorado Developmental Disabilities Council. Ed currently serves on the Committee on the Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health as well as on one of the panels developing the Bright Beginnings documents of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He assists the SPD Foundation on conceptual issues related to the diagnosis of Sensory Processing Disorder and volunteers as the physician expert on the physician pages of the SPD Foundation web site.

Tyson Kasperbauer
Senior Vice President, ServiceMagic

For the last five years, Tyson Kasperbauer (Ty) has been a member of the senior executive team at ServiceMagic (a division of IAC Interactive Corp; NASDAQ: IACI), leading multiple departments focused on their contractor and service business customer base. Prior to joining ServiceMagic in 2004, Ty spent six years in national account sales and customer development with consumer packaged goods giant, Revlon, managing key account business units. Ty received a bachelor of arts in psychology from Miami University of Ohio in 1996 and a master of science in finance in 2004 from the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business.

Ty and his wife, Shannon are raising their three wonderful children in Centennial, Colorado while getting out to the mountains as much as possible. As parents of a sensational child, the mission and activity of the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation resonates deeply with them both.

Carol Stock Kranowitz, MA
Editor-in-Chief, SI Focus magazine

A preschool teacher for 25 years, Carol Kranowitz observed many young children with SPD. Today she teaches parents, educators, and other professionals how sensory issues play out and suggests activities for addressing them at home and school. Carol's books and DVDs, published by Perigee Books and Sensory Resources, include The Out-of-Sync Child and The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun; The Out-of-Sync Child video; a children's book, The Goodenoughs Get in Sync; and Preschool SENsory Scan for Educators (Preschool SENSE), a tool for therapists working with teachers. She is editor-in-chief of S.I. Focus, the magazine devoted to sensory processing issues. Carol received her bachelor of arts from Barnard College and her master of arts in education and human development from George Washington University. She lives in Maryland.

Michelle McDonald
Jacobs Chase, LLC

Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Michelle earned her law degree with highest honors from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She has been actively involved in the commercial real estate industry for more than twelve years, focusing on all aspects of commercial real estate acquisition and disposition, the structuring of complex corporate and commercial real estate lending, retail, office and industrial leasing, large scale development, and land use transactions. She serves as counsel to local and national developers of major retail, office, hotel, and mixed-use properties in all aspects of the acquisition, development and disposition process, as well as counseling landlords and tenants. In conjunction with her lending practice, Michelle represents national, regional and institutional banks and private equity investors and borrowers in the origination, restructuring, and workout of complex financial transactions involving diverse real estate projects. Michelle is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Colorado Bar Association, the Colorado Women’s Bar Association, the Denver Bar Association and CREW Denver.

Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR
SPD Foundation Executive Director

Dr. Lucy Miller is the founder and has been the executive director of the SPD Foundation since 1979. She also directs the work of the Foundation's clinical research partner, the Sensory Therapies And Research (STAR) Center.

An occupational therapist and research scientist, Dr. Miller was awarded an NIH career award to investigate sensory processing disorders in children. She developed the SPD Scientific Work Group, which is composed of researchers from Harvard, Yale, Duke, and twelve other research institutions. She is a professor of Pediatrics at Rocky Mountain University and an associate clinical professor in the departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver.

Dr. Miller has authored nine nationally standardized assessments for children with special needs and more than fifty peer-reviewed articles and chapters on SPD. Her groundbreaking book on SPD for parents and professionals, Sensational Kids: Help and Hope for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (New York: GP Putnam's Sons), was published in 2006 and released in paperback in 2007.

Dr. Miller obtained her bachelor of science degree in psychology from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, her master's in occupational therapy from Boston University, and her doctorate in special education (educational research emphasis) from the University of Denver. In 2005, she received the Award of Merit from the American Occupational Therapy Association, the highest award in the OT profession. In 2006, she received the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from the state of Colorado.

Dr. Miller's work has been featured on 20-20 (ABC), The Today Show (NBC), and The Early Show (CBS), and in the New York Times, TIME Magazine, and numerous other national and regional publications.

Ryan Stille, CLU
Northwestern Mutual

Ryan Stille is a nationally recognized financial representative with Northwestern Mutual, a 150-year-old financial network. Since 1995, Ryan has been assisting individuals and businesses in addressing their risk management and financial needs. He first became interested in Sensory Processing Disorder after his toddler son was diagnosed with the condition in 2006. As his son has been treated, Ryan's determination to raise awareness of SPD and its treatment has grown. Ryan joined the SPDF board with a commitment to advance the Foundation's efforts to teach the world about SPD.

William R. Whalen, MD
United Eye Centers

Bill has been a practicing ophthalmologist for the past twenty-five years. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in biology and from Dartmouth Medical School and Harvard Medical School with an MD degree. Bill has won numerous national awards for screenwriting. His younger daughter, Marty, is a senior at George Washington University. His older daughter, Nicole, graduated from the University of Southern California and is a touring singer-songwriter, living in Nashville.