The Mind Science Foundation
Staff
Joseph Dial
Executive Director
Jennifer "Jen" T. Martinez, CGBP
Director of Operations
Jen Martinez is an accomplished international business consultant with a proven ability to develop and execute innovative global marketing, SME business development, and community building programs that consistently exceed business and profitability goals. At the Mind Science Foundaion she leverages project management and marketing tools to lead the Foundation’s efforts on increasing brand value, building membership revenue, developing strategic partnerships, creating an online global community, and constructing a day-to-day operations platform. She received a Bachelor's of Business Administration with a Concentration in International Business from the University of Texas at San Antonio, is currently pursuing a Master's of Arts in International Political Economy, and is a NASBITE Certified Global Business Professional.
Laura Sanchez
Financial Manager
lsanchez @ mindscience.org
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Laura Sanchez demonstrates great professionalism from her rank as the foundation's Financial Manager. Her resume includes six years of noteworthy experience in accounting and auditing that have granted her the necessary skills to manage non-profit accounting policies and procedures. She has an Associate's degree in Accounting and several certifications in payroll, finance and internal revenue controls.
Catherine Nixon Cooke
MSF Ambassador
Jossina Gonzalez
Research Associate
jgonzalez @ mindscience.org
Jossina Gonzalez is a Research Associate at the Mind Science Foundation. She is currently working to enhance our ability to fund consciousness research. Her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology has made her well versed in neurobiology, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and the pharmacodynamics of neuropsychopharmacology. Jossina will begin graduate school this fall at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she will pursue a Master of Science degree in Biology before applying to their neurobiology PhD program in systems neuroscience.
Ansen Seale
Multimedia Consultant
ansen @ sealestudios.com
Jack Palmer
Webmaster
jack @ sealestudios.com
Contact Information
Mailing Address
The Mind Science Foundation
117 West El Prado Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78212
Phone
(210) 821-6094
Fax
(210) 821-6199
eMail
info @ mindscience.org |
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Executive
Director
Joseph Dial
In 2003, the Mind Science Foundation Board of Trustees selected Joseph Dial as the Foundation's new Executive Director. Since that time, he has created or modernized all of the Foundation’s key programs.
The “Tom Slick Research Awards in Consciousness”, created in 2003, are pilot data grants given to leading researchers studying the mind/brain and consciousness, including: Rusty Gage (Salk Institute): Baroness Susan Greenfield (Oxford); V. S. Ramachandran (UCSD); Christof Koch (Cal-Tech); and Jonathan Cohen (Princeton).
In 2004 the Foundation sponsored a symposium on “Coma and Impaired Consciousness” in Antwerp, Belgium, bringing together some of the leading minds in this field: Joe Giancino, Nicholas Schiff, Steven Laureys (a Mind Science Awardee), and Adrian Owen. The Foundation has likewise sponsored the conferences of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness at Cal-Tech in 2005 and Oxford in 2006; where Dial moderated a debate on the NCC (neural correlates of consciousness) between Christof Koch and Susan Greenfield.
In the past year, the Mind Science Foundation’s research has been featured in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Science, Scientific American, and the US News and World Report. The Foundation has also supported the publication of three books: “The Boundaries of Consciousness” (Elsevier 2005); “Brain, Cognition and Consciousness” (Elsevier - in press); and “Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research” (Erlebaum 2006).
Dial is a former Executive Director of the Texas Film Commission and the Texas Music Office, coordinating more than 60 film and TV productions with over $100 million in total production budgets in the state of Texas. He spent three years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1995-1997) where he co-wrote and co-produced a Portuguese-language film about classical music Maestro Heitor Villa-Lobos. In 1998, Dial optioned the New York Times bestseller, “Einstein's Dreams”, by MIT physicist Alan Lightman. Dial spent two years researching the life of Albert Einstein, as well as the science of physics and the theory of relativity, to write a screenplay based on the novel. Dial is a graduate of the Plan II Honors program at the University of Texas, Austin.
"I'm excited about the opportunity to move the Mind Science Foundation into a preeminent position as a world-class funding organization for research into the vast potential of the human mind."
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