Meet the Child’s World Staff 

Bill is Co-Founder of Child's World America, publisher of Child's World NEWS and past president of Philabundance.

He is active in the Philadelphia community including being a Fellow at the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania and a Board Member at The Quaker School at Horsham.

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Cindy is Co-Founder of Child's World America and Faculty at Rutgers University Camden.

She is an anthropologist interested in a particular native people: American kids. Her fieldwork explores children’s cultural worlds highlighting children’s own perspectives. Over a lifetime, she has done extensive practical research that gives voice to children about such experiences as chronic illness, play, eating, and popular culture. Her exploration of children’s experience as a scholar has a larger goal: to bring children more to the forefront in understanding the social world we share with them.

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In 2014, Michael Clark entered the non-profit industry to follow a career of passion. Joining Child’s World America as Managing Director has allowed him to work from the heart with his personal concerns for our nation’s child well-being. He brought to the job two decades of experience in operations, sales and service management. He has worked with companies such as Hallmark, Williams-Sonoma, and other specialty retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers.

Michael also brings a deep concern for children to CWA. In his adult life, Michael has been active in many children’s communities including issues of hunger, education, LGBT, cancer autism and dyslexia. His compassion for children’s needs likely took root in his own childhood when he was diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome and learning differences.

Michal Conger is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in several outlets including the Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, the Santa Barbara News-Press, and Verily Magazine. She has appeared on Fox News with Neal Cavuto and Greta Van Susteren, as well as several radio news shows. As an investigative reporter she has covered government contracts and spending, environmental regulations, and politics. She also volunteers with the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Initiative, which provides direct services to women and girls recovered from sex trafficking in Northern Virginia.

Vibiana Cvetkovic is a Reference Librarian at the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Her areas of research and writing include: intellectual honesty; virtual librarianship; and media portrayals childhood in American popular culture.

Ms. Cvetkovic was named as one of the "Library Movers and Shakers for 2005," an annual feature of Library Journal that profiles "emerging leaders in the library world... who are innovative, creative, and making a difference." She is a PhD candidate in the Childhood Studies program at Rutgers University, Camden, NJ.

Shannon is a Philadelphia-based writer with a background in marketing, technology, and education. She is pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Rutgers University – Camden, where she teaches writing classes. She is also a copy editor at Hippocampus magazine. 

Kara Lochridge is an American writer and musician living in rural Denmark with her husband and two young sons. Her work has been published on the parenting humor website Razed and at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and she is author of the blog, Freedom From Sushi. She is currently working on a series of three children’s books, and when she’s not busy learning Danish, she works as a flutist for hire and plays ukulele in the woods on a regular basis (seriously, she does). To put it simply, she wears about fifty different caps and enjoys almost every one of them. You can check out her website at www.karalochridge.com.

Virginia Nemmers is a freelance writer/editor who has zigged and zagged her way down the career path.  After spending more than 25 years as an advertising writer, the bulk of that time at a multi-national company, Virginia moved to Wyoming  for two years as a ranch chef. She then owned and ran a successful B&B in Colorado for eight years, and after selling it, moved back to the Midwest to become a food and special projects editor for one of the country’s major publishers. Virginia left that company in 2014 and currently writes blogs and social media postings for the lodging industry.

Her extensive body of work includes television commercials, print advertising, interview articles, food and travel stories, collateral materials, newsletters, web content, and cookbooks.

Food, travel and writing have always been integral parts of her work and personal life and she feels fortunate to be able to make a living doing what she loves.

Christian has been a copy editor most of his working life, although his avocation is philosophy, in which discipline he has obtained a BA, MA, and PhD. Further, not only has he copyedited many books on philosophy, including several in the Cambridge Companion series, the philosophy of language is one of his areas of specialization.

Scott Sines is the former Opinion and Commentary editor for the Alabama Media Group where he wrote and curated content for the Huntsville Times, Birmingham News and Mobile Press-Register.

Before that he was the Associate Editor of The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal where he led the editorial effort in creating a paid digital strategy for the newspaper including developing mobile apps for Android and Apple phones and tablets, and a paid digital subscription strategy across all platforms including the website.

Before that he was Managing Editor at The Commercial Appeal. In two of the three years he held the post the newspaper won the General Excellence Award in the Tennessee State Press Association.

And before that he was Managing Editor at The (Spokane, WA) Spokesman-Review. During his time there the newspaper was a Pulitzer finalist and six times the Pictures of the Year Contest named The Spokesman-Review the best in the country for their use of photography. Twice he won the picture editing portfolio category in POY and four times the Society for News Design named the Spokesman-Review one of the World's Best Designed Newspapers. During his tenure as managing editor Columbia University named The Spokesman-Review one of the top 25 newspapers in the country and a "newspaper to watch."

He’s a Michigan boy who has never travelled to Europe or seen a foreign movie that he knows of. He has been married to the same pretty girl for over forty years and they belong to three great young adults.

Lynne Smilow is an Educational Consultant currently leading child assault prevention workshops in schools to children Pre-K- 8^th grade.  Lynne spent her earlier years producing award winning educational films and curriculum in New York City. Film topics included Aids prevention for teenagers, child sexual assault, teen pregnancy, truancy and domestic violence.  After working in media, Lynne transitioned to early childhood education and was a lead teacher and drama specialist.  She has experience teaching deaf and hearing-impaired children, as well as students on the autism spectrum.  Lynne is also a proud winner of The New Yorker caption contest.