Sally Greenberg
Executive Director, National Consumers League

Sally Greenberg joined the National Consumers League as Executive Director on October 1, 2007. The League’s focus is on five key priority areas: fraud, child labor, LifeSmarts, health care, especially the safe use of medications and medication adherence, and food safety and nutrition. Sally has testified numerous times before Congress on consumer protection issues, including on product safety, fraud, excessive fees on car rentals, consumer rip-offs in calling cards and in support of protections for farmworker children. Sally is our primary spokesperson on a variety of issues.

Sally came to NCL from Consumers Union, where she worked from 1997-2007 on product liability and food safety issues, along with auto and product safety. Previously, Sally worked at the U.S. Department of Justice Foreign Claims Settlement Commission and prior to that, she spent a decade serving as the Eastern States Civil Rights Counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, based in Boston.

Sally was president of the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts and the Women’s Bar Foundation, and served on several gubernatorial commissions in Massachusetts. Currently Sally continues to serve on the board of directors of the Alliance for Justice, and HALT, an organization whose mission is the protection of the rights of consumers in their interactions with lawyers and the legal system. Sally also served for over a decade on the board of directors of Trillium Asset Management, the oldest and largest investment management firm dedicated to socially responsible investing.

Larry Bostian
Vice President, Development

Larry Bostian came to NCL in October 1995 after serving for four years in development at Public Citizen. Larry works closely with the executive director, board, and staff to oversee all aspects of fundraising, including identifying new funding sources, cultivating strong relationships with funders, developing proposals and appeals as needed, and thinking strategically about the organization and its programs.

In addition to his development work at Public Citizen, Larry has nearly 30 years of nonprofit management and fundraising experience, including stints at Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee, the Washington, DC-based Institute for Policy Studies, and George Mason University’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution in Fairfax, VA.

Larry is a 1973 graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and he is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington.

John Breyault
Vice President of Public Policy, Telecommunications and Fraud

John joined the National Consumers League in September 2008. John’s focus at NCL is on advocating for stronger consumer protections before Congress and federal agencies on issues related to telecommunications, fraud, technology, and other consumer concerns. In addition, John manages NCL’s Fraud Center and coordinates the Alliance Against Fraud coalition. John is also Research Director for the Telecommunications Research and Action Center (TRAC), a project of NCL. In his role with TRAC, John advocates on behalf of residential consumers of wireline, wireless, VoIP, and other IP-enabled communications services.

Prior to coming to NCL, John spent five years as director of research at Amplify Public Affairs, where he helped launch the firm’s Web 2.0-based public affairs practice and focused on producing actionable public policy research. Earlier in his career, John worked at Sprint in its International Carrier Services Division and at the American Center for Polish Culture in Washington, DC.

John was a member of the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2007 and served on the Board of the Arlington-Alexandria Coalition for the Homeless. He is a graduate of George Mason University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in International Relations.


Rebecca Burkholder
Vice President of Health Policy

Burkholder is Vice President of Health Policy at the National Consumers League, a national, nonprofit membership organization that has represented consumers and workers since 1899. Burkholder coordinates the League’s work on various health care issues, including safe use of medication, patient safety, doctor-patient communication, and direct-to-consumer advertising. She is responsible for research on these issues, producing consumer information, and advocating for system changes. She also coordinates Script Your Future, a broad-based public awareness campaign to improve medication adherence. Burkholder testifies before U.S. government agencies on consumer health issues, and speaks at conferences across North America. She joined the League in 2001.

Before joining the League, Burkholder worked as a health care attorney for the law firm of Reed Smith Shaw and McClay in Washington, DC. At Reed Smith she counseled a variety of clients on a wide range of health care issues. Burkholder graduated with high honors from Georgetown Law Center, and is a member of the Washington, DC bar.

Daniel Dahlman
Communications Associate

Daniel joined the National Consumers League in January 2011. At NCL, Daniel works with policy staff and the development team to facilitate all marketing and communication initiatives.

Daniel came to the League from a communication/technology firm that served the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets, where he focused on developing communication programs for multilateral organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank and the Organization of American States. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Communication and a minor in Psychology from Boston University.

Teresa Green
Linda Golodner Food Safety and Nutrition Fellow

Teresa Green joined the National Consumers League in September of 2011. She works on a variety of issues related to food safety, nutrition, and alcohol labeling. Teresa represents NCL on the Make Our Food Safe Coalition, which works to improve food safety systems in the U.S., and as part of the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity, which works to promote healthy eating and physical activity.

Before coming to NCL, Teresa was at Olsson, Frank and Weeda as a legislative intern where she worked on a number of agricultural and nutrition issues, including school meals, food security and biofuels. She earned her Bachelor of the Arts in International Studies at Emory University where she was a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar. Teresa is a native of Arlington, Virginia.

Lisa Hertzberg
LifeSmarts Program Director

Since July 2000, Lisa Hertzberg has directed the national LifeSmarts program, NCL’s fast, fun consumer education competition for teens and tweens. Lisa’s primary responsibilities include operating the national LifeSmarts program, strategizing growth, implementing new partnerships and program components, assisting state coordinators, developing educational materials, managing the online competition, and conducting the online and national competitions. Under Lisa’s direction, the program, formerly only available to high school students, has expanded into middle school classrooms across the country, serving a wider audience of student participants and coaches.

Before joining the National Consumers League, Lisa worked for 13 years for the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, where she created and conducted consumer education programs and outreach efforts. In 1995 she launched the Minnesota state LifeSmarts program. Within several years the Minnesota program was the largest in the country involving students at more than 120 schools in 1999-2000.

Lisa is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, where she studied communications and political science.


Mimi Johnson
Director, Health Policy

Mimi came to the National Consumers League in August 2008. She is a member of the Health Policy team, where she works on issues ranging from medication safety and adherence to the role of consumers in health reform. Mimi also represents the League at health-related meetings with U.S. government agencies, consumer, labor, and health organizations, and coalitions.

Mimi came to the League from the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, a cross-campus collaborative housed at Georgetown University’s Law Center. She began her career in policy as an intern in Senator Feingold’s Washington office. Mimi has since worked for Washington-based health and environmental non-profit organizations and with the Press and Cultural Affairs staff at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in DC.

Mimi earned a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University and a master’s degree in health policy from Oslo University College in Norway, where she studied pediatric preventive care in the United States and Norway.


Terry Kush
Senior Director, Operations and Finance

Terry Kush joined the National Consumers League in January 2009. At NCL, Terry is charged with overseeing operations and finances, strategic planning and organizational development, grants management, board relations, and works with the LifeSmarts Program. Terry works closely with the executive director and senior management to transition the League into its second century of advocacy. In so doing, she lends her marketing background to reviewing NCL briefings, publications, and marketing materials.

Before joining the League, Terry served as an operations and project director for both domestic and international organizations. Terry has more than 15 years experience working for organizations seeking to affect change through youth development and international affairs. She is a strong advocate of financial literacy and has received training to work with teens on this very issue. Terry has taken her commitment to “development through education” around the world using her operations and administrative expertise to implement and manage programs in the U.K., the Caribbean, West Africa and the United States.

Terry received her bachelor’s in business administration with a marketing focus from Howard University, and her master’s in international service from American University, where she studied international development, education, and public policy.

Reid Maki
Director, Social Responsibility and Fair Labor Standards
Coordinator, Child Labor Coalition

Reid Maki joined the National Consumers League in March 2008. In his work at NCL, Reid coordinates the activities of the Child Labor Coalition, striving to minimize abusive child labor and to protect the health, safety, and well-being of child workers in the United States and abroad. Reid is a proponent of corporate social responsibility, including fair labor standards for American workers.

Prior to joining NCL, Reid worked for 12 years at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) where he directed the Children in the Fields campaign, a joint effort launched by AFOP, NCL, and the International Initiative to End Child Labor. Their goal was to end the legal loopholes in child labor law that permit child agricultural wage laborers to work longer hours and to work at younger ages than children working in other industries. Reid was an active member of the Child Labor Coalition between 1994 and 2006.

Reid worked for both daily and weekly newspapers as a reporter earlier in his career. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in American History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Stanford University, respectively.

Michell McIntyre
Project Director, Special Project on Wage Theft

Michell McIntyre joined the National Consumers League in May 2011 as the Project Director of NCL’s Special Project on Wage Theft. She raises awareness about the nature of wage theft in the United States and strives to educate consumers, workers, businesses, and governments about wage theft issues.

Before coming to NCL, Michell was a political consultant for Democratic candidates and progressive interest groups ranging from the AARP to Women’s Voices Women Vote and American Federation of Teachers to AFSCME. She has been the Programs Director at Winning Connections, Inc, a progressive voter contact firm, and an Account Manager at MSHC Partners, a Democratic mail and marketing firm. In her years as a consultant she enjoyed many electoral victories including the Obama Presidential Campaign but she is most proud of getting a tax ballot measure, designed to help fund struggling public schools, passed in a notoriously conservative area in Georgia.

Michell is a graduate of Susquehanna University with a B.A. in Political Communications and a minor in Anthropology. While in Pennsylvania, she served on the Board of Directors for the Susquehanna Valley Women in Transition, a local domestic violence shelter.

Carol McKay
Vice President, Communications

Carol McKay joined the staff of the National Consumers League as Assistant Director of Communications in September 2000. At NCL, Carol works closely with policy staff, the executive director, and the development team to oversee all aspects of marketing and communications for the organization. Carol manages print and online publications, media relations, and consumer public education campaigns on a variety of issues, ranging from health to fraud to child labor. Carol coordinates public relations for NCL’s programs including LifeSmarts, NCL’s work in fraud prevention and education, and child labor. Her department also serves the internal communications needs of the organization. In addition to her communications role at NCL, Carol works closely with development and senior staff on fundraising strategy and proposal writing.

Carol was promoted to director of communications and later Vice President of communications in 2003 and 2004. Prior to her work at NCL, she worked as a reporter in newsrooms in California and Montana. Carol earned a bachelor’s degrees in History and Political Science and a minor in English literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

James Perry
Consumer Services Coordinator
NCL’s Fraud Center

James Perry is a veteran staffer at NCL’s Fraud Center. Since January 2000, he’s been counseling consumers on a variety of scams ranging from telemarketing- to Internet-based issues. James began at the National Fraud Information Center/Internet Fraud Watch programs (now NCL’s Fraud Center) as a fraud counselor, speaking with thousands of consumers each year about cases of suspected and confirmed fraud. James was later promoted to supervise the staff of NCL’s Fraud Center, and he regularly speaks about his experiences counseling fraud victims to the media and nonprofit and law enforcement agencies.

As Consumer Services Coordinator, James monitors complaints submitted to NCL via the complaint form at www.fraud.org and serves as a representative on the Consumer Federation of America’s Fake Checks Working Group. At NCL, James works with law enforcement agencies to transmit consumer fraud complaints to more than 200 agencies in the United States and Canada.

Theresa Smith
Office Manager

Theresa joined the staff at the National Consumers League in 1992, working at NCL’s National Fraud Information Center as a consumer counselor. At the Fraud Center, Theresa counseled fraud victims, their family members, and educators, on a multitude of emerging telemarketing scams including sweepstakes and lottery fraud, phone cramming and slamming, and newly emerging Internet scams. Theresa was promoted to supervise Fraud Center staff, while continuing to help consumers avoid and recover from telemarketing and Internet scams.

Theresa later took the position of NCL Office Manager, where she is tasked with a wide range of responsibilities and oversees the day-to-day operations of NCL’s Washington, DC office. In Theresa’s current role at NCL, she assists with supporting staff, the NCL board of directors, and event planning and coordinating.
Theresa graduated from Western Senior High School in Washington, DC and earned an Associates Degree in Business Administration from Washington Technical Institute. She attended Federal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia), where she studied Psychology and Sociology.

Amy Sonderman
Director of Partnerships and Development

Amy joined National Consumers League in March 2011 to expand the fund development department. She will be assisting the Vice President of Development and staff in preparing proposals as well as promotional and fundraising materials. Amy will work to research and identify new funding prospects while strengthening relationships with existing partners to promote the League's programs and gain financial support.

Amy came to NCL from Muscular Dystrophy Association where she implemented numerous fundraising events and built lasting relationships with key sponsors. Prior to that Amy worked in Membership Development with Girl Scouts of America and served as the Associate Executive Director at the Greater Pittston YMCA, where she began her nonprofit career.

Amy graduated with honors from University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a degree in Political Science and is finishing up her Masters in Public Administration from Marywood University. She serves as a member of the National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration.

Brandi Williams
LifeSmarts Program Manager

In January 2009, Brandi Williams joined NCL’s staff to assist with NCL’s LifeSmarts program, a national educational consumer competition promoting literacy for teens in the areas of personal finance, health and safety, technology, the environment and consumer rights and responsibilities. Brandi supports the LifeSmarts program director in the program’s daily operations and assists in coordinating the program’s annual national event.

Previously, Brandi gave a year of service as an AmeriCorps member at Anixter Center, an organization in Illinois that works to enhance the lives of individuals living with developmental disabilities. There, she coordinated an adult literacy program and taught courses in reading, writing, math, and life skills. Brandi began her career in literacy by organizing political activities on her college campus and has since been involved in advocacy and community organizing projects in Oregon and Illinois, as well as at a DC-based international human rights advocacy group.

Brandi earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Illinois and a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from DePaul University in Chicago, where she studied community development strategies for underrepresented cultural groups in the United Kingdom.