Leadership & Staff
Ted Waitt
Co-founder Gateway, Inc., founder and Chairman
Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention, the
Waitt Family Foundation, and
Avalon Capital Group, Inc.
As co-founder of Gateway,
Inc., Ted Waitt helped revolutionize how people use technology
to live, work, and play through pioneering the
direct marketing of personal computers. Labeled
a maverick by national business publications,
he has gone on to form two enterprises that are
his chief interests: Avalon Capital Group, Inc., a wholly-owned,
billion dollar private investment company with
diverse interests in technology, health care,
finance, and real estate; the Waitt Institute
for Violence Prevention, whose main focus is
to support violence prevention initiatives, and
the Waitt
Family
Foundation,
a nonprofit organization
dedicated
to the improvement of mankind’s knowledge
through historical and scientific exploration.
Ted serves as the Chairman of the Founding Fathers
campaign of the Family Violence Prevention
Fund, just one of the efforts that he supports
in the
fight to prevent domestic violence. The Waitt
Family Foundation has donated more than $35
million since its founding 10 years ago.
Cindy Waitt
Executive Director, Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention
Cindy Waitt serves as Director of the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention. Cindy remains a board member of the Waitt Family Foundation and has served as Siouxland Chapter Director of The Waitt Family Foundaiton for 15 years. She previously worked with at risk youth and their families with Boys and Girls Home and Family Services of Sioux City for eight years as Casework Director for Residential Treatment. Cindy serves on the National Advisory Board for the Family Violence Prevention Fund's International Center to End Violence, has been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative since 2005, and served as a judge in the Ashoka Changemaker's 2007 competition "No Private Matter". Cindy believes that we are ready for a world that solves crisis and conflict in a non violent way.
Alan Heisterkamp, Ed.D.
Education Consultant and Researcher
Alan Heisterkamp, Ed.D., president and CEO of Cultivating Minds, Inc., serves as an education consultant and researcher with the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention on a three-year study (Sioux City Project) of local and regional secondary students’ attitudes and behaviors toward violence and bullying. In addition, Heisterkamp is co-facilitating research with Dr. Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, from the University of California at Davis, on a gender violence prevention program entitled, Coaching Boys Into Men. He has presented to over 7000 students, adults, and community organizations on gender violence prevention strategies and has trained over 500 high school student leaders in the Mentors in Violence Prevention Strategies (MVP), founded by Jackson Katz and Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
Dr. Heisterkamp served the Sioux City Community School District as a secondary mathematics teacher, athletic coach, school counselor, and school administrator for 22 years. He holds a masters degree and an advanced studies certificate in educational psychology and counseling, and secondary school administration, respectively. In 2002, Heisterkamp earned his doctorate degree in secondary education administration from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD. He resides with his family in Sioux City, Iowa.
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