Advisory Board

Meet Your Children's Miracle Network Advisory Board Member:
Ann Shields 

Ann Shields-Young, senior vice president of Universal Media, Inc., began serving on the Children's Miracle Network Advisory Board in 2005, but her involvement with Children's Miracle Network began in 1995 when Denny Hopkins of GIANT Food Stores, a client of Universal Media, invited Ann to help with the Our Kids Foundation to benefit Children’s Hospitals within GIANT’s service area. Universal Media has a long history of giving back to the local community, especially organizations that help children. When Ann became a member of the executive giving committee at Universal Media in 1994, they were donating to fourteen different organizations. In 1995, after being introduced to Children's Miracle Network, that number became fifteen.    

What Ann saw with Children’s Miracle Network would forever change her life. She thought she had her hands full with an autistic son, but Ann feels blessed compared to the parents and children she has seen who utilize the services at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. After seeing firsthand how Children's Miracle Network helps people, Ann was hooked and had to be involved in helping these families.

For Ann, a wife and mother, the most rewarding aspect of being an advisory board member is seeing a child overcome the odds, walk out of the hospital, and know that in some small way she helped them. Ann says, “To look into the eyes of a parent who is thanking you for helping their child and to know that you have helped change their lives is worth every second you spend with Children's Miracle Network.” This fits in to her philosophy on life that we all have a purpose, and we must keep looking until we find it. Ann believes she has been blessed, so she in turn can bless others—and she does!   

Children’s Miracle Network at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital is honored to have Ann serve as a member of our Advisory Board. Thank you, Ann, for your selfless service!