Lena W. Chung - Lena W. Chung serves as CEO of Environmental Technologies Foundation Limited, a charitable foundation focusing on environmental issues in Hong Kong.  An experienced global executive, Lena has over 30 years experience in the telecommunications industry. 

She was Managing Director of AT&T's wholesale VOIP service, which provides voice over Internet capabilities for carriers, ITSPs and next generation telcos. She managed the overcall business operations of the AT&T Global Clearinghouse and the Enterprise Nodes in Europe and South America. Lena is a pioneer in applications over IP, leading AT&T's foray into this space with the launch of innovative IP and VOIP services including the AT&T Global Clearinghouse in 1998. She has extensive experience in sales, marketing, business development and operations and held key positions in sales, product management and marketing divisions before her retirement from AT&T. Lena holds a BS and MBA from Columbia University and currently resides and works in Hong Kong.

Carol Knauff - Carol C. Knauff is a retired Vice President from AT&T where she spent 29 years leading organizations to market place and financial success. She represented AT&T in a number of national organizations. These were: U.S.O., Council for Better Business Bureaus, and National Council of LaRaza. She is an elected member of The Pennsylvania State University Alumni Council, and was named Outstanding Engineering Alumni in 1995 and Alumni Fellow in 1998 by Penn State. She also received the Pinnacle Award in 2002 from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Carol received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State in 1969, a Masters in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolla and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson. She currently resides in Mendham, NJ with her husband Jeff and their two daughters, Kathleen, 22 and Christine, 17. Carol is active in her community and volunteers many hours to the high school.

Dr. Ram Matta - Dr. Matta has 30 years experience with GE and high tech industry as an executive and general manager. He has designed and developed jet engines, gas turbines, power plants and been responsible for digitization of engineering processes. Dr. Matta took early retirement from GE to spend time with his family and to indulge his passion for teaching. He is an adjunct professor and consultant in Austin, TX. Dr. Matta has a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi, a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and a Masters in Business from Stanford University.

JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell - JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell is Chairman of the Give Something Back International Foundation, the sponsor of the Global Virtual Classroom Program. She also serves as President & CEO of Synergistic Systems, a global management consulting firm. She has over 30 years of business experience in the telecommunications industry and served as President & CEO, ATT Asia/Pacific in Hong Kong. JoAnn graduated from Bucknell University in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. A Sloan Fellow, she received a master’s degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1988. She and her husband, Andy Ezzell reside in Sarasota, Florida.

Ronda Zelezny-Green - Ronda Zelezny-Green is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who has lived on four continents and has visited 23 countries. She has been an ESL/EFL Educator for the last four years and will begin studies for a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston this fall.  She currently works in higher education at Pine Manor College doing multicultural services education, planning and programming, along with youth leadership outreach. Ronda Zelezny-Green came on board with Give Something Back International in July 2009. Ms. Zelezny-Green has published articles on culture, lifestyles, and current events in the Association for African-American Linguists publication as well as MADA English Journal, the only all-English newspaper in Madagascar. She is a self-proclaimed citizen of the world and looks forward to working as an international educator for many years to come.

Katy Hutchinson - Katy Hutchinson is a life-long technology lover and a former Global Virtual Classroom student winner (Castles, Parcels, and Metatarsals-1999). She teaches elementary school Spanish in the a school in Boston called The Learning Project, and loves exposing her students to the cultures of the world through new technology. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Geology and Hispanic Studies and worked on such varied projects as volcanology for fourth through sixth graders and children’s detective literature of Latin America. She is a life-long learner and is currently working towards a Masters of Arts in Education with a focus on bilingual education and ESL. Katy loves international travel and has been to five of the seven continents (Africa and Antarctica haven’t worked out just yet). In her free time, Katy enjoys women’s flat track roller derby, reading about historical time periods, and handicrafts. She is very much looking forward to giving back to an organization that so influenced her view of the world. Previously she taught Spanish in Oak Park, Illinois.

Raymond A. Young, Ph.D. - Dr. Young serves as Vice President for Education with the Sarasota Sister Cities Association facilitating international student interactions and exchanges. Dr. Young is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with research emphasis on natural products chemistry. He is a past recipient of the Wisconsin Governor’s Energy Innovation award, National Academy of Science Travel award to Eastern Europe and the Japan Photopolymer Society award. He received his B.S. & M.S. degrees from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He was a Fulbright Scholar as a graduate student at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and as a Professor at the Artistotelian University in Greece. Dr. Young has had prior employment with the Kimberly-Clark Corp. and the Textile Research Institute at Princeton University. He currently does consulting work with industrial and governmental organizations and volunteer work in his community.