WiRED Gains Momentum
Board Member and Coordinator Join Team

WiRED has added a new member to its current 15-member volunteer board of directors. Board members, located throughout the United States, have wide-ranging areas of expertise in nonprofit management, international consulting, higher education, media, the military, medicine, law, and both government and entrepreneurial public service.

In October of this year, an administrative coordinator joined WiRED’s staff.
The position includes scheduling and coordination of the Iraq telemedicine program. Both Iraqi and U.S. physicians had high praise for the program, which came to a halt in 2006 due to lack of funding. It will restart in early 2008, largely with funding from the U.S. State Department.


Lewis Eigen

Lewis Eigen, Ph.D., has joined WiRED's board of directors.

Lew is chairman of Potomac, Md.-based professional services firm BEA Enterprises Inc. He comes to WiRED with wide-ranging experience in education, business, publishing, and government service.

His background includes positions as chief executive officer of Educational Design Inc., associate director of the U.S. Job Corps, and professor of educational psychology at Temple University.


Sheila Riley

Sheila Riley came on board in October as administrative coordinator. She will be working on WiRED's Iraq program and assist with other country projects.

Sheila has been a freelance journalist for national publications, and writer and editor for print and electronic media in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She worked as volunteer media director for Amnesty International USA's western regional office. She has a master's degree in English and spent a year in Egypt on a journalism fellowship studying Arabic.