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Mission
Contact Who's behind Shift? The professional staff at Shift ensures that weekly activities are designed to teach members the skills they need to make healthier decisions today, and continue to make better choices in the future. Susan West Shift was founded by Susan West, who was inspired by her own struggle with body image and weight as a teen. Susan's professional background includes over ten years of consumer marketing, partnership marketing and sales experience, including Packaged Goods and Interactive Marketing. Her company credits include Procter & Gamble, AOL, Hewlett Packard, Mellon Financial Corporation and SoftCoin. At Procter & Gamble in Santiago, Chile, she led one of the most successful Always brand business in the world, and was later part of the international team that managed a Pantene product line relaunch for all of Latin America. At SoftCoin she led the Partnership Marketing team that targeted, negotiated, secured and managed relationships among SoftCoin, Fortune 100 manufacturers and major co-marketing retail partners. Personally, Susan has always had a passion for health, body image and peer education. As a college student she was a rape education facilitator. She has been a hospital volunteer rape crisis counselor, and she is currently a Weight Watchers Leader. She completed the Tri for Real mini-triathlon, several Metric Century bicycle events and Breast Cancer Fund Peak Hike, all of which she did in the company of inspiring friends. Susan holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. Advisory Board Susan Villari is the Director of Health Education at the University of Pennsylvania and adjunct faculty in Penn's School of Nursing. Her specialty area include women's health, interpersonal violence prevention, body image and sexuality education Since 1987 she has trained and helped organize hundreds of student educators and student activists, both locally and nationally. Susan received her MPH from the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. She is co-author of the book Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism. Susan is the mother of a six year-old daughter. Stella L Volpe, PhD, RD, LD/N, FACSM Stella Volpe is Associate Professor of Nursing, and Miriam Stirl Term Professor in Nutrition at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, a Registered Dietician and is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a Preventive and Rehabilitative Specialist. Dr. Volpe's research revolves around the effects of the environment on obesity - both how the environment can be changed to prevent obesity, and how the environment has resulted in a more obese nation and world. Her interventions include changing portion sizes in cafeterias and making physical activity more a part of a person's day to implement changes in behavior.
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