OUR BRAIN TRUST
Be Brain Powerful is honored to have the support of leading women dedicated to amplifying the conversation around women’s brain health and cognitive decline. These women make up our Brain Trust, and we are thrilled for you to learn more about them.
USA Brain Trust
Kim
Campbell
Kim Campbell was married to music legend Glen Campbell for thirty-four years until his passing in August of 2017, following a long and very public battle with Alzheimer's. The award-winning documentary, Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, shared their family’s journey with the world and opened up a national conversation about the disease. The film’s success gave Kim a platform to advocate for people with dementia and their caregivers from Capitol Hill to the United Nations and made her a sought after speaker with American Program Bureau.
Kim created CareLiving.org to encourage caregivers to take care of themselves while caring for others and established the Kim and Glen Campbell Foundation to advance the use of music as medicine to restore and rebuild neural pathways, alleviate depression, manage behaviors, boost cognition, and improve overall quality of life. Kim sits on the board of Abe’s Garden - an Alzheimer’s Center of Excellence located in Nashville, TN, holds a BFA in Dance from East Carolina University, studied interior design at UCLA, and is an honorary faculty member of the Erickson school of Aging Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
In her new best selling book, GENTLE ON MY MIND, Kim tells the never-before-told story of her life with an entertainment giant and how her faith sustained her while caring for and loving him amid the extraordinary challenges of Alzheimer’s.
Renée Fleming
Winner of four Grammy® awards and the US National Medal of Arts, Renée Fleming performs to acclaim on the stages of the world’s greatest opera house and concert halls, and has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Super Bowl. As Artistic Advisor to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Renée launched a collaboration with the NIH examining the science connecting music, health, and the brain. She has given presentations on this subject around the world, and in 2020, she premiered her own weekly live webinar, Music and Mind LIVE, with more than 650,000 views in 70 countries. www.reneefleming.com
Jo Ann Jenkins
As CEO of AARP, Jo Ann Jenkins leads the world’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization addressing the needs and interests of people age 50 and older.
Under her leadership AARP has become a leader in social change, dedicated to empowering people to choose how they live as they age, and has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies.
Jenkins is the author of the best-selling book, Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age, and in 2019, she was named by Fortune Magazine as “One of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.”
Kerry Kennedy
Kerry Kennedy is President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. She is the proud mother of three daughters, Cara, Mariah, and Michaela. A human rights activist and lawyer, she authored New York Times best seller Being Catholic Now, as well as Speak Truth to Power and Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope.
Kerry, the seventh of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy’s eleven children, has devoted more than 40 years to the pursuit of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and the preservation of the rule of law. She works on a range of issues, including child labor, women’s rights, disappearances, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, criminal justice reform, immigration, impunity, and environmental justice.
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius has been engaged in health policy for decades in the public and private sectors. She served in President Obama’s cabinet at HHS Secretary and was elected statewide four times in Kansas as Governor and Insurance Commissioner.
Currently, Sebelius is the CEO of Sebelius Resources LLC. She serves on the boards of directors of Devoted Health, Exact Sciences, Myovant Sciences, and several private health sector interests. She continues policy work as a Trustee of the Kaiser Family Foundation and co-leads the Health Strategy Group for the Aspen Institute.
Sebelius lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with her husband, Gary. They have two married sons and four grandchildren.
Lauren Miller Rogen
Lauren Miller Rogen is a screenwriter, director, producer, dog lover, and philanthropist who was profoundly affected by Alzheimer’s when her mother was diagnosed at 55. Lauren co-founded HFC, harnessing humor and hope to activate a new generation of advocates. Since then, HFC has raised more than 13 million dollars and awarded 325,000 hours of in-home family care. Lauren is on the board of California’s Institute of Regenerative Medicine and sits on the California Alzheimer's Task Force. Her artistic accomplishments include co-writing and producing the film For A Good Time Call and directing the Alzheimer’s-themed dramedy Like Father, starring Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer.
Swiss Brain Trust
Dame Fiona Kendrick
Former Chairman and CEO of Nestlé UK&I, and currently Chair of PWC Public Interest Body. Having started her career in teaching, Fiona joined Nestlé UK in 1980 in a commercial role, and spent her working life with Nestlé in key strategic roles in the UK market as well as at global level. Fiona led Nestlé’s global coffee strategic business for 5 years in Switzerland. Fiona has a personal passion for the youth employment and skills agenda and has led several lighthouse projects in this area both for Industry and Government. Fiona was a UK Commissioner for Employment and Skills and played a lead role in supporting the development and delivery of strategies for skills and employment across the four UK nations. Fiona was President of the Food and Drink Federation, the association that represents the UK food and drink manufacturing industry (2015-2017). She previously led the F&D sector’s skills and competitiveness agenda and co-chaired the UK Food and Drink Export Forum. In the 2015 New Year’s Honors’ list Fiona was created Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to the food industry and support for skills and opportunities for young people. In recognition of services to the food and drink industry and young people's employment and skills, Fiona has been awarded honorary degrees by Sheffield Hallam University, York University and Warwick University. Fiona has been awarded the Chartered Management Institute Gold Medal for Leadership 2017.
Mara Hank Moret
Mara Hank Moret is an angel investor/philanthropist, Vice-Chair of the Global BBP BrainTrust, and Honorary President of the Women's Brain Project. She holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Sociology from the University of San Diego, California, USA. After her studies she went on to work at the Mexican Embassy in London and the US Embassies in London and Paris. In recent years, she has chosen to focus on her role as mother of three children, ages 12, 10, and 7, in their most formative years. Her philanthropic work has continued on a personal basis and on behalf of Lobnek Wealth Management. She lives with her husband and children in Geneva, Switzerland.
Chabi
Nouri
Driven by curiosity, thirst to learn and passion for people, Chabi Nouri has built her professional life on the belief that anything can be achieved with resilience and perseverance.
Chabi has been the CEO of Piaget since 2017 that she joined as Jewellery Marketing Director and Communication Director in 2014. She brings a unique perspective to the Maison Piaget thanks to her overall vision that is both strategic and operational. Chabi is characterised by her passion for the profession, her rare energy, the desire to share an exceptional adventure with her teams and Piaget Society consisting of the clients, friends of the Maison, artists and celebrities who enjoy congregating in a warm, elegant atmosphere to celebrate creative daring.
Chabi Nouri who earned her Masters in Economics from the University of Fribourg and University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, has continuously spent time developing herself with a Gemmologist accreditation from the GIA, Leadership programs from IMD, Digital programs from IMD and MIT.
She is passionate about her family and friends. She enjoys walking in the Swiss mountains and enjoys the beauty of hand crafting and street art.