Virginia Brown
LCSW
Wife, mother of 4, educator and therapist in private practice serving individuals and families addressing healthy family dynamics. She has worked for the Archdiocese of New York in the Parenting Ministry and has provided clinical support, training and program development to various agencies in Orange County New York (department of Social Services, Probation, Dispute Resolution Center, Cornell Cooperative Extension). She is currently on the faculty for Driven Professionals, a networking group in NYC providing wellness seminars and skills training for professionals. She is available to give seminars and workshops on self empowerment, anger management and the self-help industry.
After founding SEEK Safely, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and as a result of the tragedy that created international coverage, Ginny and her husband George have been involved in numerous interviews and media productions in the US and UK. Listen to her interview on GutwiZdom radio.
George H. Brown
LCSW
Husband and father of 4, works in a private practice with Ginny. With degrees in theology, psychoanalytic counseling and social work, George began his career as a high school religion teacher and counselor, hospital social worker, and then worked for the New York State Department of Mental Health Outpatient Services in Orange County, NY. He also coordinated the Orange County Counseling Service Unit for the FDNY following the terror attack on 9/11. He and Ginny have given many presentations in schools and churches on spirituality, family life and marriage enrichment in the tri-state area. (NY,NJ,CT)
Dr. Glenn Doyle, Board President
PsyD
Dr. Christine Whelan
Anthony (Tony) Kirby
M.P.A.
Husband, father of two daughters, has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and an undergraduate degree in Social Work. Tony has worked for government at the local, county and state level in New York for over 40 years, most of which has been at a management level. His expertise in management has been in strategic planning, team facilitation, quality management and customer relations. He has also served on a number of community boards in the Albany, New York region.
Tony is proud to be Ginny’s brother, George’s brother-in-law and the uncle of Kirby, Bob, Katie and Jean, as well as a more recent member of SEEK Safely.
Matt Collins
M.B.A.
Matt is the General Manager of a Midwest-based Web Development and Marketing company. He lives in Milwaukee, WI, with his wife of 24 years and 5 children. Matt’s interests include Apologetics, Physics, and more generally Natural Philosophy (Science). He earned his Masters in International Management from Thunderbird (at the time, the American Graduate School of International Management) in Glendale Arizona, in 1992. For the remainder of the 1990s, Matt was a full-time professional touring musician and recording artist. He has authored two books: one regarding business ethics and one about web marketing.
Jean Brown, Director
M.P.P.P.A.
Jean is a writer and stay-at-home-mother to 2 young children. She lives in Toronto, Canada. She has Bachelors degrees in political science and writing from Loyola University Maryland, and a Master’s in Public Policy and Public Administration from Concordia University in Montreal. She worked as a policy analyst for Canada’s federal ministry of health. Jean lived in Thailand and has travelled extensively, including treasured memories of travelling with Kirby. Jean is active in creating the content for SEEK’s website and legislative efforts.