Just Launched: ListenUp! The KidSpirit Podcast 
KidSpirit is a global coed online magazine and community for deep thinkers with big ideas. Our community is a place where members actively express their views and engage each other through groups and comments. The quarterly magazine is a unique forum for kids to tackle age-old questions that affect us all. We want to help the young people of the world show their colors and share each other’s cultures, art, beliefs, ethics, and values.
Our goal is to encourage varied perspectives and contribute to greater mutual understanding in our lives and our world. Each issue of the magazine has a thought-provoking theme that draws in readers and urges further exploration. Our Editorial Board meets to discuss future issues, edit current submissions, have fun, and eat cookies. We invite submissions in the form of poetry, artwork, and articles from readers around the world.
KidSpirit Editorial Boards
New York Editorial Board
Australia Satellite Editorial Board (Melbourne)
Amy Bai, Vincent Chang, Joshua Deng, Johnson Liu, Jayden Pan, Lily Wang, Isabel Zhang
China Satellite Editorial Board (Beijing)
Yuqi Liu, Alison (Jingyi) Hu, Alice (Xiangyue) Li, David (Nuofan) Yang, Judy (Yuqi) Liu, Sunny Sun, Mena Lajoie
Ghana Satellite Editorial Board (Accra)
Aniniwaa Boateng Agyenim, Zoe Maison, King Annan Brobbey, Peniel Juliet Obenewaa Brobbey
India Satellite Editorial Board (Ahmedabad)
Ayana Jhala, Dhruvika Parikh, Siddhant Raj, Aangi Shah, Nandana Thakershy, Henvi Patel
India Satellite Editorial Board (Aurangabad)
Om Kakkad, Dhaani Joshi, Ananya Verma, Aayreen Baagwala, Prithvir Gadekar
Jordan Editorial Board (Madaba)
Yaser Al-Hajhammad, Sarah Alhisa, Raghad Awad, Omar al Jamani, Omar al-Shakanbeh, Kaleen Farraj, Liamaria Yacoub
Kentucky Satellite Editorial Board (Roberston County)
Rachel Unthank, Mallory Fryman, Sindole Gifford, Hadleigh Linville, Jessica Denkins, Alyssa Oldham, Austin Richards, Paisley Cooke, Kaitlyn Miller, Caraleigh Logsdon-Silvey, Logan Grigson, Tyra Gootee
Liberia Satellite Editorial Board
Victor Audi, Faith Thomas, Esther Ballah, Ethel Harris, Christee Joe, Melvina Charles, Favor Jackson, Rihanna Ross, Pennilah Victor, Emmanuel Cooper, O’Neal Lathrobe, D. Leroy Diggs
Maine Satellite Editorial Board (Freeport)
Arizona Alexander, John Barsam-Cummings, Grace Barus, Lucie Bernard, Madeleine Bernard, Anabel Ciarimboli, Opal Reinhart, Lucien Reinhart
Pakistan Satellite Editorial Board (Karachi)
Inaya Tapal, Enaya Mian, Leena Halim
Pakistan Satellite Editorial Board (Lahore)
Fatima Ahmad Shafi, Maha Fawad Shamsi, Rania Rizwan Shafi, Rania Sikander, Noor Saad, Zayna Ilahi, Ayla Raza, Nihal Fatima, Aleena Shahab Khokhar, Dua Shazib, Ammun Mumtaz, Mahnoor Tiwana
Paraguay Satellite Editorial Board (Coronel Oviedo)
Jessica Ailen, Liz Fabiola, Monica Jiménez Ortigoza, Ruth Benitez, Milagros Antonela Paniagua Salinas, Fiorella Belén Alfonso Aldama, Oliver Amin Campuzano Gonzalez, Salma Melissa Guerrero Florentin
Singapore Satellite Editorial Board
Naisha Vohra, Abhinayya Saravanan, Li Pengfei, Wu Youyou, Ritisha Dwivedy, Riddhima Das, Prajna Girish, Varshini Arunachalam, Nanki Singh
South Africa Satellite Editorial Board (Ikusasa Lethu Youth Project)
Bangani Surprise, Kagiso Rapuleng, Qhamani Tahilla Mvimbi, Talent Khuboni, Rorisang Ntsoane, Elisa Tsoelipe, Ntsoane Thato, Refilwe Mphuthi, Mpho Mphuthi, Mbali Radebe, Arrere Mdletshe, Mamhla
Spain Satellite Editorial Board (Madrid)
Alicia Arteaga Collado, Blanca Rodríguez Castellano, Violeta Cano Navarro, Paola Victoria Gil Depablos, Erik Díaz Talavera, Jesus Manuel Taboada Gonzalez, Paula Sánchez Pérez, Sara Zafra Bulnes, Iván Delgado Juez, Adriana Villalba Roldán, Nazaret Huelves Porras, Juan Muñoz Fernandez
Taiwan Satellite Editorial Board (Taipei City)
Aiden Chen, Chloe Chen, McKayla Chen, Samuel Teoh, Amy de Bruyn, Darren Lee
Texas Satellite Editorial Board (Houston)
Declan Rennick, Bryan Zhao, Manon Esler, Sophia Gurevich, April Guo, Amber Kibsgaard-Petersen, Leah Hwang, Cléa-Rose Deschanel-Pathman, Riesling Liu, Sophia Shakourifar, Citlalli Cruz, Zara Siddiqui
Ukraine Satellite Editorial Board (Khmelnytskyi and Kyiv)
Polina Bortnovska, Anna Chasnyk, Volodymyr Chornyi, Yehor Kolbin, Oleksandr Herasymchuk, Mykyta Liakh, Ruslan Liakh, Arina Stetsiuk, Valeria Svizhak, Iryna Tsisaruk, Yevhenia Vasylchyshyna
United Kingdom Satellite Editorial Board (London)
Jude Sheriff, Leemar Sheriff, Luke Burt, Elisha Donkoh, Isaiah Agyapong, Elliot Marie, Janelle Ameyaw, Dylan Edward Rodrigues-Fwad
Uruguay Editorial Board
Sofia Rodriguez, Luciana Rodriguez, Tamara De Arrascaeta, Arturo De Arrascaeta
KidSpirit Representatives to the United Nations
Lewis M. Dabney, MS
Elizabeth Dabney Hochman, MM
Maya Mesh
Blanca Penayo Amarilla
Vidushi Sharma
Alumni Advisory Council
Jung Woo Bae
Swastika Jajoo
Zainab Umar
Michael Deschenes
Abdullah Sayed
Fizza Raza
Abraham Weitzman
Anya Dunaif
Caie Kelley
Vanita Sharma
Junyor Florentin
Maya Mesh
Zayna Mian
Kavya Shah
Catherine Hochman
Fareeha Shah
Noorjehan Asim
Caroline Hochman
Po-Ting (Duke) Lin
Raavee Tripathi
Sofia Mesh
Team
Elizabeth Dabney Hochman
Elizabeth is the Founder and Executive Director of KidSpirit. She believes kids are uniquely capable of building a future grounded in mutual appreciation and creative solutions. Elizabeth loves to sing, spend time with her family and play with their dog Beau.
Jessie Insley
Jessie is KidSpirit’s Managing Editor. She believes that authentic storytelling and open listening can change the world for the better. Jessie lives in the Netherlands and loves reading, writing, and exploring new places with her husband and two young children.
Katie George
Katie oversees Operations and Development for KidSpirit. A believer in deconstructing binary thinking through open communication, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two boys and enjoys hiking, reading, learning her husband’s native tongue Malayalam, and cooking.
Taylor Cornelius
Taylor is the Associate Editor at KidSpirit. She is passionate about helping young people share their stories with others. Taylor is a poet and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she enjoys bird-watching in Prospect Park.
Linda Zerella
Linda is KidSpirit’s graphic designer. She has worked as an art director for a print magazine, a designer/editor on an e-book project, and with KidSpirit for a number of years. Passionate about design and cooking, she hopes to one day finish a cookbook of family recipes.
Michele Teodori
Michele is Kidspirit’s Video Content Manager. He is passionate about visual storytelling and has found his vocation in creating videos. He loves shaping stories that allow viewers to share in feelings and knowledge.
Board of Directors
Jung Woo Bae, MS
Jung Woo Bae graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Jung Woo has been a longtime member of KidSpirit as a youth editor and alumnus, and currently serves as President of KidSpirit’s Alumni Council.
Jonathon Bloomberg, Esq.
Jon Bloomberg is an environmental regulatory lawyer with the international law firm Squire Patton Boggs, based in Cleveland. Jon is married to Laura, who currently serves as president of Cleveland State University. Jon and Laura have two adult children, both married, and have 4 fantastic grandkids who someday will be old enough to be to KidSpirit contributors.
The Honorable Carla Craig (Ret.)
Carla Craig has 40 years of experience as a lawyer and a judge. She served as a bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District of New York from 2000, and as chief judge from 2007, until her retirement in 2020. She has been a KidSpirit board member since its inception and has proudly watched it grow into a global community.
Elizabeth Dabney Hochman, MM
Elizabeth Dabney Hochman, MM, is the Founder and Executive Director of KidSpirit. She believes in the innate capacity of youth to inspire each other and the world around them through deep inquiry and creative engagement around shared questions. She has published articles on youth development, spoken about KidSpirit at numerous conferences, universities and the United Nations, and been interviewed on multiple podcasts, radio and television programs.
Lewis M. Dabney, MS
Lewis Dabney is Executive Director of the Key Bridge Foundation, and a leader in the field of conflict resolution with 25 years experience specializing in civil rights mediation, restorative justice, ethnic and religious conflict, program management, system design, and training.
Patrick R. Gaston, MBA
He is the Independent Chairman of the board of directors of Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. and President and CEO of PG Consulting, a management consulting company that assists corporations and nonprofits. Prior to this Mr. Gaston was President of the Western Union Foundation; served as the Senior Advisor to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund; and was President of the Verizon Foundation.
Jonathan L. Hochman, Esq.
Jonathan Hochman is a founding partner of Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP, a litigation and art law boutique. He also serves as a director on the boards of the Tricycle Foundation and the Key Bridge Foundation.
Karen Humphries Sallick
Karen Humphries Sallick serves as president of The Priority Group, a management consulting firm she founded in 1996. She cofounded and is president of Contacts 411, a privacy-centric contacts updating app. Karen also serves on the boards of Phillips Academy, WSHU (a Connecticut NPR station), and the Innovative & Advanced Cancer Research Foundation.
Khe Hy
Khe Hy is a writer, podcast host and executive coach who writes primarily on the RadReads blog and newsletter. He spent the first 15 years of his career in the financial services industry and was a Managing Director at BlackRock. Khe now lives in Manhattan Beach with his wife Lisa and two young daughters and is an avid surfer.
Janet Lee
Janet Lee is an investor, primarily in technology and healthcare companies at various stages of development. She is passionate about supporting youth development and also serves on the boards of DIY Girls and The Rightway Foundation. Janet resides in New York with her family, and enjoys tinkering on the piano.
Jane Quinn, PhD
Jane Quinn is a social worker whose five-plus decades of experience include direct service with children and families, program development, fundraising, grantmaking, research, and advocacy. She served as the Vice President for Community Schools at Children’s Aid, where she directed the National Center for Community Schools. Jane received her doctorate in Urban Education at the City University of New York.
Philip Simon
Philip Simon is the managing partner of Geometric Trading, a private systematic trading company. He was previously Chief Investment Officer of the Geometric Quant Alpha Fund and cofounder of its investment manager. Philip is based in the Hudson Valley of New York where he spends unusual amounts of time around trees and frogs and sometimes writes poems about both.
