Alice Ray is an expert in applied research aimed at preventing injury and exploitation by and against children, and promoting their school and life success.

She is co-founder, CEO and Chief Creative Officer at Ripple Effects, where she designed and is the chief author of the Whole Spectrum Intervention System™. She has been the Principal investigator on three SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) grants awarded in the course of its development. The software-based program has been recognized with 29 major awards from the health, software, communications and education industries and is being used in more than 500 school districts.

While head of Committee for Children (1982-89), Alice Ray conceived and oversaw development by Kathy Beland of Second Step, a clinically validated violence prevention curriculum, now in more than 27,000 schools.
She has authored books, published articles and made numerous national and international presentations on subjects related to child safety and social-emotional learning in school, community, and corporate environments. In recent years, she has focused on the use of emerging technologies to scale culturally competent, social-emotional learning, while maintaining local control of content, and without losing fidelity to evidence-based practice.

She has been a guest lecturer on these topics at Stanford, Columbia, University of California at Berkeley, and Georgetown Universities.

Her leadership in the field of preventing child exploitation has been recognized with the Distinguished Public Service Award of the Association of Federal Investigators, a Presidential Letter of Commendation for Child Safety Leadership from President Reagan, Health Educator of the Year Award from the Comprehensive Health Education Foundation, and appointment by President Clinton to the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence.

A visionary leader who has founded, led, and grown a number of organizations, Ray was an early advocate of "double bottom line" organizations, and has served as a business consultant and trainer to more than 100 other public, private and non-profit organizations, helping them make good works, good business as well.

Her projects have been featured in major national print and broadcast media, including Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The New York Times, USA Today, The Today Show, Dateline NBC, ABC Nightline, CNN, and MTV.

In addition to the software awards, Alice Ray has received eight regional emmys and a dozen national film awards for educational programming for children and adolescents.