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Mary Holland serves as president and general counsel at Children’s Health Defense (CHD). Before joining CHD’s staff, Holland taught on the faculty at NYU School of Law for 17 years and lectured at Columbia Law School on international human rights. She has co-authored or co-edited three books on vaccines, including, “The HPV Vaccine On Trial: […]
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Mary Holland, Esq.
- Laura Bono
- Brian S. Hooker, Ph.D.
- Kim Mack Rosenberg
- Heidi Kidd
- Rolf Hazlehurst
- Karen Mcdonough
- Kari Bundy
Chairman of the Board, on leave
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Founder of Waterkeeper Alliance, serves as Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Legal Counsel for Children’s Health Defense, and as counsel to Morgan & Morgan, a nationwide personal injury practice. [Note: As of 4/2/23, Mr. Kennedy is on leave as CHD’S Chairman and Chief Legal Counsel.] Mr. Kennedy is an esteemed author, with a long list of published books including the New York Times’ bestseller, “Crimes Against Nature.” Mr. Kennedy was named one of TIME magazine’s...
Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Executive Officer of Children’s Health Defense, Mary Holland has been involved in the vaccine choice and health freedom movement for more than two decades. “Once I learned about the extreme liability protection that industry and healthcare providers enjoy and the suppression of accurate science and information about vaccine risk and injury, I understood the need for immediate, radical systemic change. I’ve been devoted to that change ever since.” Like CHD, Holland seeks to end the ep...
Executive Vice President
Laura Bono has a journalism and marketing background. Since her son regressed after his vaccinations in the early 1990’s, and was subsequently diagnosed with heavy-metal toxicity and autism, Laura has advocated for services, biomedical treatments, and civil rights for autistic children/vaccine injured in Congress, NIH, CDC, HHS and other governmental agencies. Laura is a co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the National Autism Association and was on the Board of Directors for SafeMinds from 20...
Chief Scientific Officer
Brian S. Hooker, Ph.D., is Chief Scientific Officer of Science and Research at Children’s Health Defense, an organization committed to the best health for children in the U.S. and worldwide. He is also former Professor of Biology at Simpson University in Redding California where he specialized in microbiology and biotechnology. Dr. Hooker coauthored, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the New York Times best-selling book “Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak.” In 1985, Dr. Hooker earned his Bachelor of S...
General Counsel
Kim Mack Rosenberg is CHD’s General Counsel. She is an attorney in private practice located in New Jersey and representing clients nationwide on medical freedom issues as well as healthcare practice management and disputes and insurance coverage issues, focusing primarily on services provided to individuals diagnosed with the autism spectrum disorder. She has been involved in the vaccine choice and health freedom movement for almost twenty years. “Once you delve into these issues, and look at...
Finance Manager
Heidi Kidd has over 30 years of accounting experience, mostly in a Corporate Retail environment as well as ten years of Accounting and Tax Prep for a Non Profit Organization. She was one of the parents involved with the passage of the New Jersey Infantile Autism Biomedical Research Act passed in New Jersey. Heidi helped craft the original draft of the first federal autism legislation, the Children’s Health Act of 2000. Heidi was a co-author on “Autism: A Novel Form of Mercury Toxicity,” a lan...
Senior Attorney
Rolf is CHD’s senior staff attorney. He graduated from the University of Tennessee and also attended St. John’s College in Oxford, England. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Memphis and has been actively engaged in the practice of law since 1995. He has been admitted to practice law in multiple courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining CHD, he was an Assistant District Attorney General for the State of Tennessee. As a criminal prosecu...
Senior Director of Chapters & Advocacy
Karen has been involved in children’s advocacy since 2005. Karen served on the board of the National Autism Association and the Foundation for Autism Information and Research. She later took on the role of Chapter Development Director for the N.A.A., where she grew the organization by expanding their base of local support groups in many states across the U.S. She was the Executive Director for the Autism Society of Illinois, as well as a consultant on the development of supportive housing and...
Translations Coordinator
Kari Bundy is a writer, speaker, activist, and biodynamic farmer. After the death of her 4-month-old son, Mason, following his routine vaccinations, Kari set off in search of answers and discovered the toxic load that plagues our children in almost every area. Since her son’s death in 2011, Kari has made it her mission to empower and educate parents, as well as legislators, to help them understand how to make healthy choices for their families and constituents. With a background in Journalism...
Mary Holland, J.D., is president and general counsel of Children’s Health Defense. She has been writing and advocating for better vaccine law and policy for many years, including while she served on the faculty at NYU School of Law from 2002-19. She is co-author of two books on vaccines, “Vaccine Epidemic” and “The HPV Vaccine on Trial,” as well as several law review articles.
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The charitable foundations of several major investment firms funneled anonymized donations to Children's Health Defense: Fidelity Charitable provided $1 million to Children's Health Defense and some of its state chapters in 2021-2022; The Vanguard Group's foundation gave $1.5 million to the national group and its California chapter between 2020 ...
Sep 12, 2023 · Mary Holland; image courtesy of Children’s Health Defense (CHD). Before her work with CHD, Holland was a professor at NYU School of Law for 17 years, serving as director of the Graduate ...
Show One Life Radio Podcast, Ep Mary Holland - Children's Health Defense Most Read Stories of the Week Ep. 3052 - May 16, 2024
