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David Korten, Chair and Co-founder
David Korten is president and founder of the People-Centered Development Forum,
a global alliance dedicated to the creation of just, inclusive and
sustainable societies through voluntary citizen action. He holds MBA
and PhD degrees from the Stanford Graduate school of Business and is a
former faculty member of the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He
was previously a Ford Foundation project specialist in Manila and an
Asia Regional Advisor on Development Management for the U.S. Agency for
International Development. David is the author of 'The Great Turning:
From Empire to Earth Community', 'When Corporations Rule the World' and
'The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism' and a frequently
invited speaker at conferences around the world. He is also a Board
member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and
a member of Social Venture Network and the Club of Rome.
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|  | | | Jill Bamburg, Vice-Chair
Jill Bamburg is the author of 'Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business without Selling Out' (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). She is the Dean of the MBA program, and a founding faculty member, of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute,
a new institution offering degree and non-degree programs in
sustainable business. Jill has been a professor of management and
marketing at Antioch University in Seattle, a vice president of Aldus
Corporation, and publisher of environmental biweekly High Country News.
Jill grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and earned her BA at Washington
University in St. Louis. She holds an MBA from Stanford, and currently
lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, with her daughter, Katie Gao.
| | | | Tanya Dawkins, Secretary
Tanya Dawkins is the founder/director of the Inter-American Forum and Sr. V.P., of the Collins Center for Public Policy.
The Inter-American Forum is a leadership development and policy project
dedicated to "putting people at the center of the global economy. The
forum works to develop, highlight and promote new visions of trade and
economic policy that place social equity, public interest and community
at the center of the public and policy agenda. Forum programs include a
number of leadership development, joint ventures and network building
initiatives including the Global-Local Links Project, the Globalizing
Civil Society from the Inside Out Project, among others. Tanya is a
writer and frequent speaker on the communities, trade and globalization
debate; leadership, policy and citizen action; and strategic
partnerships and alliances. | | | | Alisa Gravitz, Treasurer
Alisa Gravitz is Executive Director of Co-op America—
publisher of the National Green Pages, the authoritative guide to
environmentally and socially responsible products and businesses. Alisa
is one of the leading figures in the socially responsible investment
movement—which has now grown to over $1.2 trillion. | | | | | Puanani Burgess
Puanani
Burgess is a community building facilitator, trainer and consultant. Based in
Hawai'i, her work takes her all over the U.S. and the Pacific. She is also a poet, cultural
translator and has been a lecturer with the Department of Urban and
Regional Planning of the University of Hawai'i. She was a Weinberg
Fellow and the Myles and Zilphia Horton Chairholder for the Highlander
Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. She is noted
for her experience in community, family and values-based economic
development, mediation and storytelling processes as part of conflict
transformation, and in developing community-based organizations.
| | | Richard Conlin
Richard
Conlin is President of the Seattle City Council. He co-founded
Sustainable Seattle, and is former director of the Earth Service Corps
and Community and Environment programs for Metrocenter YMCA. In
addition to playing a key role in the innovative "Indicators of
Sustainable Community," he has given talks and led workshops on
sustainability around the United States and in Europe. | | | | | Danny Glover
Danny
Glover combines his acting career with a dedication to the common good.
He is well-known for his film and television works, including the Lethal Weapon series, Beloved, To Sleep with Anger, and Freedom Song.
He serves as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, works on
behalf of AIDS victims in the U.S. and Africa, and helps a wide range
of organizations advance the causes of civil right and economic
justice. | | | | Dal LaMagna
Through his company, Tweezerman, Dal pioneered social responsibility in the production of tweezers. He also founded ProgressiveGovernment.org, which recently merged with the Backbone Campaign. He has coproduced several films, including The War Tapes and Iraq for Sale.
Dal is on the board of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and a leader
in the Social Venture Network, the Kennedy School of Government, and
Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities. | | | | Gifford Pinchot
Gifford
Pinchot is an author, speaker and consultant on innovative management
practices. He is the author of the best-selling book, 'Intrapreneuring:
Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur'.
He is founder of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, which is changing
business for good. | | | | Michael Ramos
The
new Church Council Director of Social Justice Ministry is Michael
Ramos, a former Jesuit Volunteer who has served with the Washington
Association of Churches (WAC) and coordinated last September’s
Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride. Ramos also worked for the Catholic
Archdiocese of Oakland, developing a community-based ministry among
Spanish-speaking people. Ramos was WAC’s staff organizer for the
Washington Living Wage Movement—a joint effort of religious groups,
community-based organizations, and labor unions. To build solidarity
and power, they organized the ‘Walk with Workers Project,’ a Gandhian
effort to build relationships between middle-class people and low-wage
workers, a majority of whom are immigrants and people of color. | | | | | Sarah Ruth van Gelder
Sarah
Ruth van Gelder is co-founder and executive editor of YES! Since its
inception in 1996, Sarah has edited issues of YES!, written, and spoken
on leading-edge innovations that show that another world is not only
possible, it is being created. As part of her community involvement,
Sarah founded Suquamish Olalla Neighbors, an organization that works in
partnership with the Suquamish Tribe on enhancing the quality of life
for all area residents (and battles anti-tribal activism). She was
recently appointed to the board of directors of the Suquamish
Foundation. Sarah recently returned from three months exploring the
changing landscape in Latin America; she has also lived in India,
China, and Central America. She was a founding member of Winslow
Cohousing, and previously was a television and radio producer, a
community organizer, a classical Indian dancer, and founder of a
cooperative of food co-ops that linked organic farmers to urban markets. | | | | |
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