Greg Woodburn
Founder and President, Give Running
Greg Woodburn is a senior Trustee Scholar at the University of Southern California,
where he is majoring in History and double-minoring in Painting and Entrepreneurship. He is a
member of the USC Track & Field team as well as President of the Men of Troy
cross country club, and represents Men's Track as a Co-President of the Trojan Athletic Senate. Greg's involvement with Give Running has
been detailed in
People Magazine,
Reader's Digest,
the L.A. Daily News, and CNN's Headline News, among other media.
A 2012 Rhodes Scholar Finalist, Liberty Mutual Responsible Scholar, and Pearson Prize National Fellow, Greg
is also a recipient of several prestigious public service awards: the 2010 David Chow Humanitarian Award Second Place; the 2007 Jefferson Award;
and the Congressional Award Gold Medal.
Email: greg@giverunning.org
Dallas Woodburn
Vice President, Give Running
Dallas Woodburn is a published author and entrepreneur. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 2009 with a major in Creative Writing
and a minor in Entrepreneurship, and is now earning her Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing at Purdue University, where she both writes and teaches. Dallas has written two
short story collections and numerous articles in publications including
Family Circle, Writer's Digest, Cicada, Justine, The Los Angeles Times,
and six Chicken Soup for the Soul books. She has been honored as a
Liberty Mutual Responsible Scholar, a Jim Murray Memorial Foundation
Scholar for excellence in journalism, and was recently a national
finalist for both the Marshall and Mitchell Fellowships.
Dallas has been proudly involved with Give Running since 2006. She
is also the founder of "Write On! For Literacy," a non-profit organization that hosts
writing contests, publishes the work of young writers, and holds a
Holiday Book Drive that has collected and donated over 12,000 new books to
underprivileged kids the past eight years. For more information, please visit WriteOnBooks.org, http://twitter.com/DallasWoodburn, and http://dallaswoodburn.blogspot.com.
Email: Dallaswoodburn@aol.com
Tina CharlesGive Running National Spokesperson and "Saint in the Paint"
Tina Charles is the starting center for the
Connecticut Sun. She graduated from the University of Connecticut with a major
in Psychology and minor in criminal justice, on the way leading the Huskies to
NCAA titles her junior and senior seasons.
Since she began playing basketball at Christ The
King High School in New York, Tina has earned numerous honors, including being
named WBCA National Player of the Year, Miss Basketball, and New York City
Player of the Year. More recently, Tina won gold in 2009 as a member of the USA
Basketball Women’s National Team; was named 2009 USA Basketball Player Of the
Year; was the first player picked during the 2010 WNBA draft; and was unanimously selected as the 2010 WNBA Rookie of the Year.
Tina has been involved with Give Running since 2010, and
is energetically sharing Give Running's message thanks to her international profile and strong base of support at home. She is also using her travels as an opportunity to donate Give Running shoes to more disadvantaged youth in new places. In a larger sense, Tina is an ambassador for the benefits of an active, healthy lifestyle as well as the importance of helping others.
Website:
www.tinacharles31.com