Board of Governors

Laurie Meadoff
CEO, Cancer Schmancer

Laurie Meadoff, CEO of actress Fran Drescher's Cancer Schmancer, a hybrid education and advocacy organization focused on the prevention and early detection of women’s cancers. Prior to this, as Co-Founder and CEO of Chat Ventures, Laurie had a long history of executive producing programming for Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC, HBO Family, MTV and VH1. In 2001, she received a Rockefeller Fellowship and began to create the innovative television/web program, Chat the Planet – a conduit of conversation with diverse groups of young people around the globe via satellite. Most recently, she executive produced the critically-acclaimed web series "Hometown Baghdad," which reached millions of online viewers. Laurie is also the Founder of The CityKids Foundation, known for its artistic and leadership programming. Passionately envisioning a world without barriers and prejudice, Ms. Meadoff strives to build these bridges through tolerance and understanding, and her primary tool of choice is dialogue.