Girls on the Run St. Louis has added a new member and elected officers to its
Board of Directors. Meet the dynamic people who will lead Girls on the Run
St. Louis into its 23rd year, dedicated to providing access to high quality,
evidence-based curriculum that supports girls’ confidence, competence,
physical and mental health, as well as their connection to their community.
Elected officers to the board include: chair Gabriela Ramirez-Arellano, Vice
President Entrepreneurship, Cortex Innovation Community; vice chair Dr. Amy
Eyler, CHES, Professor, Brown School and Deputy Director, Prevention
Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis; secretary Staci Wood,
CPA, CTA, Treasury Manager, ESCO Technologies; treasurer Jesika Barnes,
CPA, Managing Director Audit, KPMG, LLP; immediate past chair Jill Falk,
Vice President of Communications, Schnuck Markets, Inc.
Joining the Board of Directors is Steve Wasserman, Vice President of Claims,
Litigation, Insurance, BJC Health Systems. Mr. Wasserman is an attorney with
extensive knowledge and experience in risk mitigation and insurance matters
related to the health care industry.
About Girls on the Run St. Louis
Girls on the Run St. Louis is a life-changing, non-profit program for girls in 3rd
through 8th grades, a critical time in girls’ self-development. We inspire girls to
be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum that
creatively integrates running. Girls are empowered with positive self-
awareness and increased confidence, a sense of achievement by training for
and completing a 5k and giving back to their community through a service
project each season. Girls experience confidence through accomplishment
becoming girls who can.
Girls on the Run St. Louis was founded in 2002 and is now the largest council
in North America. Today, Girls on the Run St. Louis is in more than 450
schools and community sites across 23 counties in eastern Missouri and
western Illinois. Girls on the Run is included as a top research-based program
in a Social-Emotional Learning Guide developed by researchers at Harvard
University and has been recognized by the National Afterschool Association
(NAA) as one of the most influential after-school programs in the nation. The
Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and the U.S. Public
Health Service highlighted Girls on the Run as an example of a program that
is effective and necessary to support the mental and physical health of our
nation’s young people. Visit www.girlsontherunstlouis.org to learn more about
how you can empower a girl and empower a generation.