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Current Interns, Board Members and Staff
| Karin Bauer, NCI Board Member, is currently a doctoral student in Asian philosophies and religions at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She worked at eBay and eBay International from 1997 to 2001, as eBay's first international product manager, and as a member of the Governance Committee for the eBay Foundation. Her other experience includes work in international software product marketing for Living Books, the 3DO Company, and in new market development for Oracle Corporation. Her involvement in community service is extensive: She serves on Board of the Commonwealth Club of California, and advises several nonprofit and social enterprises including Acumen Fund. She is a board member emeritus of the American Conservatory Theater. She earned an MBA at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and holds a BA in International Relations from Pomona College. | |
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Arash Boostani, technical director, is furthering WiserEarth’s development, enhancing its functionality and value to the community of users. Arash has 14 years experience in information technology architecture in the corporate sector, and is pleased to use his skills to serve the cause of environmental and social restoration. boostani@naturalcapital.org |
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Camilla Burg worked in B2B marketing in the UK, Australia and France. Her experience in the non-profit sector includes market research projects for a sustainable business forum and a green business network. She holds an MBA with honors from San Francisco State University and an MA in French and psychology from Lancaster University, England. burg@naturalcapital.org |
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Adam Burkett has a background in theology, building and teaching. He is co-developing WiserEarth collaboration and community building tools, working on our web development team. He holds a BA in Religion and a MA in theological studies. burkett@naturalcapital.org |
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Claudia Alden Case is a usability specialist with extensive experience in user research, user-centered design, UI interaction design, usability testing and real-time distributed business applications. She is providing invaluable volunteer consultation services to WiserEarth. In addition working with NCI, Claudia has recently consulted with Bay Area Usability FLOSS, Building Skills Partnership, Burlingame Public Library, as well as several universities and for-profit companies. |
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Tom Chi is an artist, musician, and engineer assisting WiserEarth's design and usability efforts. He holds a masters in electrical engineering from Cornell University and has worked in or consulted for dozens of large corporations. His interest is in transforming organizations from the inside out to further the goals of global sustainability. |
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Diana Cohn, NCI board advisor, is managing director of the Panta Rhea Foundation, and a former senior program officer for a national foundation working on economic and environmental justice issues. She has extensive experience working in education and international human rights and holds a BA in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic and a MA in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is also an award-winning children’s book author. |
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Peggy Duvette, NCI Director and Project Director is responsible for management and leadership of NCI as well as governing our active projects: WiserEarth and ResponsibleInvesting.org. She has worked with NCI for nearly five years, overseeing numerous web application development projects, and managing international research and technology teams. She holds an MBA with honors from San Francisco State University, and an MA in transport and logistics from Huddersfield, England. duvette@naturalcapital.org |
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Katherine Fulton, NCI Board Member, is a partner of the global consulting firm, Monitor Group, and president of the Monitor Institute, the Group entity focused on social change. Through a combination of consulting, initiatives, research, and long-term partnerships, the Institute helps today's most imaginative leaders surface and spread best practices in public problem solving and pioneer next practices breakthrough approaches to addressing pressing social and environmental challenges. Prior to moving to the Monitor Institute, Katherine was the co-head of the consulting practice at another Monitor company, Global Business Network, where she worked on key strategic issues with leaders in a dozen industries. In recent years, her work has increasingly focused on the future of philanthropy, social investing and social change, and she has advised a number of this generation's leading philanthropists and foundations. She is the co-author of Looking Out for the Future: An Orientation for Twenty-First Century Philanthropists, On the Brink of New Promise: The Future of U.S. Community Foundations and What If? The Art of Scenario Thinking for Nonprofits. Katherine currently serves on the boards of the Monitor Group and the Natural Capital Institute, and the advisory boards of Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. |
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Paul Hawken is the founder and executive director of Natural Capital Institute. He is author and co-author of seven books including The Next Economy, Growing a Business, The Ecology of Commerce and, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution with Amory Lovins. His latest book Blessed Unrest was published in May 2007 by Viking. PaulHawken.com. |
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| Henry Holmes, NCI Board Member, is a philanthropic programs consultant with over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit and private sectors in the areas of law, public policy, social justice, ecologically sustainable development, and corporate economic globalization. He has been a consultant to Roots of Change, a statewide collaborative supporting the transition to a sustainable food system in California, and to the Tides Foundation. Previously, he was Program Officer at the Columbia Foundation from 2000-2006. Prior to working in philanthropy, Henry held program leadership positions with the California Public Interest Research Group, Earth Island Institute, and Urban Habitat, and served for several years on the Citizens' Committee on Community Development for the City and County of San Francisco. He has been an activist, lecturer, and writer with work published in an anthology by New Society Publishers and by the National Academy of Sciences; Environmental Health Perspectives; the San Francisco Urban Institute; the Urban Ecologist; Earth Island Journal; and Race, Poverty, and the Environment. He holds a JD from the University of California, Davis. | |
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Rina Horiuchi was involved in the early stages of WiserBusiness and helps develop informational and graphical design for NCI. She is currently at Business for Social Responsibility, working with companies to address social and environmental issues. She holds an MBA and an MS in Natural Resources from the Erb Institute (University of Michigan) and a BAS in Product Design and Japanese Studies from Stanford University. |
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Rehan Iftikhar, WiserEarth programmer, is also the primary maintainer of WiserPlatform, the open source version of WiserEarth. Rehan's passion for information technology as a tool for social change started at the Global Information Internship Program at UC Santa Cruz. Rehan has worked with NGOs in West Africa, Latin America, and the US to bridge the digital divide, empowering grassroots organizations to effectively utilize the power of IT. |
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Melinda Kramer, WiserEarth Communications and Outreach Coordinator, is also the founder and director of Women's Earth Alliance, an international organization linking and empowering grassroots women environmental advocates into collective action. From East Africa, to China, to the Russian Far East, Melinda has worked around the world with grassroots NGOs pursuing environmental justice and sustainable local economies. kramer@naturalcapital.org |
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Honore Louie is WiserEarth's quality assuance engineer. He holds a BS in business and a BA in sociology from UC Berkeley and ruefully wishes he had tossed in environmental studies too. He is passionate about transforming the role of corporations into stewards of their communities and is planning on pursuing an MBA in corporate social responsibility. louie@naturalcapital.org |
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| Paul Lussier, NCI Board Member, is a bestselling author, screenwriter, playwright, and Emmy-nominated executive producer with over 25 successful television ventures to his credit as executive producer, creator, and writer. He is currently working on a multipart series called "Final Hour" a global television event to air to an audience of 1.4 billion in over one hundred languages. Working with over 300 experts worldwide as well as governmental (NASA, NOAA), major NGO (UN, IPCC, UNFCC, EDefense, NRDC, WRI, World Bank), and top international scientific institutions, Final Hour aims to dramatically represent, decade by decade, a coherent path to sustainability for the planet between now and 2050, with the sorry amalgam of climate change, poverty and peak oil and its solution shouldering the series' dramatic core. | |
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| Anuradha Mittal, NCI Board Member, a native of India, is an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights, and agriculture issues. After ten years as the policy director and then the co-director at the Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First, Mittal established the Oakland Institute in 2004. She is an author, editor, and has contributed to numerous books and reports. Her articles and opinion pieces have been published in widely circulated newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Bangkok Post, and the Nation. Anuradha has given several hundred keynote addresses including invitational events from governments and universities, and has appeared on television and radio shows around the world. Anuradha serves on the boards and advisory committees of several organizations including the National Council of Churches, Right Livelihood Award, and the Polaris Institute. | |
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Kat Mullins is WiserEarth's student / youth coordinator. Before coming to NCI, Kat led trail crews of teenagers throughout the Pacific Northwest, completing projects for the US Forest Service and other agencies. Kat has a BA in Environmental Studies with a focus in Sociology and Anthropology from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. While there, Kat coordinated on-campus sustainability programs, working to connect people on campus to environmental and social justice efforts. mullins@naturalcapital.org |
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| Melissa Nelson, NCI Board Member, is a cultural ecologist, writer, educator, researcher, and indigenous rights activist. Since 2002, Melissa has been an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. For the past twelve years she has served as the executive director of The Cultural Conservancy (TCC), a twenty-year old native non-profit organization based in San Francisco. Before SFSU, Melissa taught ecological psychology and environmental justice courses at the California Institute of Integral Studies and served as editor for the Ecopsychology Newsletter. Melissa received her Ph.D. in cultural ecology from UC Davis. Her teaching, research, and community activism is dedicated to decolonization and cultural recovery, environmental protection and restoration, and the revitalization and celebration of community health and cultural arts. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe. | |
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Jon Ramer leads the efforts of our partner Interra, along with Greg Steltenpohl, the founder of Odwalla, and Dee Hock, the creator of VISA. The Interra Project empowers citizen consumers by aligning their values with their daily activities. Jon also founded SmartChannels, a collaborative web publishing system, and ELF Technologies, a collaborative communication and document management system used by the legal profession. |
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Diana Redmond joined us in 2006 and coordinates scheduling, publicity events, and communications. She draws from her years of experience working with an international educational foundation, and her background in organizational development. redmond@paulhawken.com |
| Hans Schoepflin, NCI Board Member, is the founder and president of Panta Rhea, a family foundation which strives to create social change by supporting a broad spectrum of projects, including the environment; youth, arts, and education; corporate and market campaigns; and alternative media. His particular interests seek long term solutions that raise public awareness and involve community participation while remaining committed to methods that are ecologically sound. His approach is rooted in relationships with the grassroots, with local and regional NGOs, and with global communities. In all his activist work, Hans supports change that protects the global commons while improving the quality of life for present and future generations. |
We are grateful to the tireless volunteers, interns, contractors and staff that have worked on the Wiser projects since they began early 2005. For their contributions in the areas of data entry and deep research, communications, outreach, software development and user interface design, we acknowledge:
| Jordan Adler Adam Anderson Brandon Angrisani Cheryl Anseeuw Anusaranya Kelsang Aukatsang Belén Arce Terceros Stephanie Auer Lauren Ayers Oz Basarir Dan Bell Paul Bisazza Mathew Borish Jessica Bremmer Heike Bridgwater Albert Brown Julia Brown Zoey Burrows Gorky Chakraborty Grace Chang Lea Char Debbie Cheng Tod Chubrich Joseph Collas Chelsea Combest-Friedman Jacob Conley Kelly Costa Cory Crocker Kevin Davis John Deans Jennifer DeBann Lydia Dixon Molly Doyle Jenny Drescher Nicholas Edwards Emily Fitzgerald Deborah Fleischer Edward Fong Wendy Furry Jothi Ganesh Gangadharan Brooking Gatewood |
Barrett Green Mara Gross Elizabeth Hanson Brenda Harriman Jonathan Hawken Sonya Hetrick Alexis Hyatt Kirsten Rose Jardine David Jay Luis Jimenez Guna Jothi Deepak K Ali Kafaii Miriam Karell Hilary Karis Senthil Kumar Mike Kwan Shezad Lakhani Stephen Lamm Daniel Lavelle Eunice Lee Seth Lepore Genevieve Logan Alison Loomis Armando Madrid Maheshwari Hilary Mandel Hannah McCrea Julie Miller Hannah Mitchell Patience Mulu Timothy Nash Fabiola Oliveira Jason Oppenheimer Ana Orfitelli Arnas Palaima Laura Pelcher Tricia Powell Betsy Power Anton Prakash Annie Prakash Hooman Rabieh |
Ramya James Riley Nabin Rimal Liz Roberts Wiley Rogers Gayatri Roshan Michele Ross Sarah Rutherford Sheila Samuelson Nushin Sarkarati Lawrence Schear David Schlessinger Arielle Segal Sharmeela Ambi Sidhu Seeta Sistla Janet Smartt Michael Spalding Kristen Steck Bino Sundar Madgalena Szpala Negin Tahvildary Caitlin Tanner Noel Tarnoff Anne-Claire Thieulon Claire Tugault-Lafleur Vadivukarasi Greg Varnau Edmundo Vindel Kerry Vineberg Jonny Waldman Diana Walsh Meng-Li Wang Peter Warshall Monica Way Kristen Weiss Edward West Agnes Wierzbicki Amy Williams Bedy Yang PK Yamuna, and Norm Zeiser |
Thank you!
Montana novelist and river walker David James Duncan points out that the world’s people do not need religious or economic fundamentalists or to save them; we need us for our salvation, and us stands for this huge, growing crazy-quilt assemblage of global humanity that is willing to stand up to the raw, cancerous insults that come from the mouths, guns, checkbooks, and policies of ideologues. According to Duncan, there is a movement afoot in the world that is not merely trying to prevent wrongs but actively seeks to love this world. Compassion and love of others are at the heart of all religions, and at the heart of this movement. “When small things are done with love it’s not a flawed you or me who does them: it’s love. I have no faith in any political party, left, right, or centrist. I have boundless faith in love. In keeping with this faith, the only spiritually responsible way I know to be a citizen, artist, or activist in these strange times is by giving little or no thought to ‘great things’ such as saving the planet, achieving world peace, or stopping neocon greed. Great things tend to be undoable things. Whereas small things, lovingly done, are always within our reach.” Some people think the movement is defined by what it is against, but the language of the movement is about keeping the conversation going, because ideas that inform it never end: growth without inequality, wealth without plunder, work without exploitation, a future without fear.
– from Blessed Unrest
© 2007 Natural Capital Institute
