Senior Management

Andrea came to LUNGevity through the merger with Protect Your Lungs, an organization she and her family started to fund lung cancer research following her mother’s death from lung cancer in 2008.

Before the merger, Andrea founded and built Protect Your Lungs, an organization dedicated to funding research into the early detection of lung cancer. Andrea was instrumental in building PYL’s Scientific Advisory Board and establishing its funding process, both of which followed her to the new LUNGevity organization.

In her for-profit career, Andrea has a wealth of management experience. Andrea was the Vice President of Strategy and Growth of Decision Lens, Inc. a company she helped launch in January 2005. Prior to joining Decision Lens, Andrea held a variety of management positions at Johnson & Johnson, including Director of Investor Relations, Manager Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions, and Plant Controller. She also spent several years at McNeil Consumer Products, a J&J subsidiary, in marketing and mergers & acquisitions. Prior to her time at J&J, Andrea worked for Lehman Brothers and Coopers & Lybrand in New York City in both Mergers and Acquisitions and as a CPA.

Andrea received her BS in Economics from Wharton with concentrations in Accounting, Decision Sciences, and Finance. She received her MBA from Wharton with concentrations in Finance and Latin American Studies. She served on Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center National Committee of Performing Arts and on the Board of ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) of Metro DC. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for DC Metro Boys and Girls Club and has worked with the Ronald McDonald House and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Barb studied photography at the Illinois Institute of Technology's School of Design and began her professional career managing camera stores. She moved into nonprofit work several years ago and has managed finance and operations for the League of Chicago Theatres, Urban Gateways: Center for Arts Education, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She has also been active in several political campaigns and volunteers for a number of nonprofits.

Barb is a lifelong Chicagoan and loves exploring her city.

During her career, Linda has managed branding, marketing, and public relations strategy, and national campaigns for nonprofit organizations as well as high-profile companies, including Jewish National Fund, IBM, American Express, Barnes & Noble, and Time Warner. She has overseen rebranding, the design of websites, and new business acquisition and launches, and served as media spokesperson.

Linda graduated from University of Virginia and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has two daughters.

She went on to serve as Volunteer Coordinator of the Breathe Deep NYC Walk from 2008 to 2010. She served on the Board of Directors from January 2009 to May 2010. In December of 2010 she joined the staff as Director of Grassroots Events.

Previously, Diana served as a Conference Service Manager in hotels in New York City, including Omni Berkshire Place and the Essex House, where she worked with both Fortune 500 Companies and non-profits putting together well-rounded meetings and conferences.

During her career at organizations including the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance, Suburban Hospital Foundation, and, most recently, the Arthritis Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Region, she has developed national fundraising events, cultivated and solicited major donor gifts, and managed volunteer board and special event committees.

Becky graduated from Hollins University and lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and three daughters.

Her transition from the corporate world to nonprofit happened in November of 2002 shortly after her father’s small cell lung cancer diagnosis.

She is the founder and co-creator of Lung Cancer Support Community (LCSC). That message board was the first of its kind to provide active forums and an online lung cancer support network for lung cancer patients and their family members. Today it holds over 400,000 posts and is a service of LUNGevity.

She is the event founder of Breathe Deep Dallas-Ft Worth, founded DFW’s first in-person lung cancer support group at the Arlington Cancer Center Trophy Club, lobbied with Smoke Free Texas and for CPRIT, and has been a local and national delegate for Livestrong 2006-2010.

Since 2006, Katie has been recognized with many awards and nominations for her work in nonprofit and patient advocacy.

She also contributes to articles and blogs with a special interest in raising awareness, patient support, advocacy training, and the use of social media to promote good works.

She shares a home in Texas with her husband, two children, three dogs, and a hedgehog.