Instructors
Joe
Connelly
Regional
and Center Director
Joe Connelly is a 6th
Degree Black Belt martial arts instructor. His
Taekwon-do Academy, Connelly's Academy, provides 19
community-based programs, serving 450 students on a
weekly basis. He has designed and taught programs
that empower populations with special needs since
1981. He is a special consultant to the Evanston
Mental Health Association and National-Louis University's PACE
Program. His background
includes 15 years of work experience in business
education with IBM and The Fortune Group International,
a training firm serving Fortune 1000 companies.
Joe has his master's degree in Human Services and is a
Licensed Professional Counselor.
Anne
Mason
Anne
Mason received her BA from Michigan State University in
Mathematics and did her graduate work in Systems Project
Management. Currently, she works as a systems
consultant to the construction industry. Anne is a
Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and has been a certified,
full-force self defense instructor since 1990. She
was one of the original center heads for
KIDPOWER Chicago
and is now
active as an instructor and teaching
supervisor.
Richard
Marberry
Richard
J. Marberry has a background in corporate law and
children's legal and social issues. He has been a
courtroom administrator in the Abuse and Neglect Division
of Juvenile Court and has represented children in school
board proceedings. He is currently active as a member
of Evanston's Recreation Board and the Evanston Citizens
Police Academy Alumni Board. He runs a school
breakfast program for K-5 at Kingsley School and is
interested in bringing
KIDPOWER programs to schools to
address bullying and peer aggression.
Susan
Cahill
Susan
Cahill is a licensed clinical professional counselor, a
Dance Movement Therapist, and Internal Family Systems
Practitioner, maintaining a private practice in
Wilmette. She also works part time for Mather
Lifeways, a retirement community. Susan guest lectures in
the Dance Movement Therapy Graduate Department at Columbia
College and facilitates body centered therapy workshops in
the community. What drew Susan to
KIDPOWER was seeing how the
program utilizes physical action and story telling as a
way to integrate new skills for safety. She is
committed to fostering programs that model and promote
self leadership and healthy living.
Suzanne
Burns
Suzanne
earned a bachelor's degree in Child and Family Development
and her background includes caring for children and
adolescents with behavioral problems in residential
facilities, and serving as a Student Life Instructor at
the PACE Program at National-Louis
University. At the PACE Program,
Suzanne coordinated activities for college aged students
with multiple learning disabilities.
Currently, Suzanne is co-owner of a petsitting
company called WatchDogs and actively assists in
Tae kwon-do school programs in
Evanston.
Cecelia
Keleher
Cecilia
Keleher is an effective
KIDPOWER instructor who is
certified in programs for all ages, from preschool to
seniors since 1992. In addition, Cecelia is a
seasoned Human Resources Manager who has extensive
experience in organizational training and change
management, and who has brought the
KIDPOWER training into corporate
organizations as a family benefit to employees as well
as to enhance development of corporate employees.
Cecelia is currently a Sr. HR Consultant with Hewitt
Associates and is committed to incorporating
organizational and training effectiveness within
the
KIDPOWER programs. In addition,
she is also working with organizations to
incorporate
KIDPOWER programs as important
work/life balance tools for employees.
Sterling
Goodrich
Sterling Goodrich
has been teaching self-defense internationally to people of
all ages since 1992. He has a third degree black belt
in Tae Kwon Do and a first degree black belt in
Hapkido. Sterling earned his bachelor’s degree in
Communications from Northwestern University and has a
background in both corporate and community, not-for-profit
work. He also is bilingual in English and Spanish.