Advisors

ChangingThePresent has a Board of Advisors of leading experts to provide expertise across the entire spectrum of causes. The current members are listed below.

• Philanthropy & Nonprofits
• Accountability

Causes:

• Aging
• Agriculture & Sustainable Development
• Arts & Culture
• Blindness & Vision
• Cancer
• Children & Youth
• Civil Society & Democracy
• Disabilities
• Disaster Relief
• Education & Literacy
• Environment
• Global Health
• Global Warming
• HIV/AIDS
• Homeless & Housing
• Human Rights
• Hunger
• Landmines
• Medical Research
• Mental Health
• Microcredit
• Peace
• Population & Reproductive Health
• Poverty Alleviation
• Public Broadcast & Communications
• Refugees
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Technology & Digital Divide
• Water
• Women

Civic, Ethnic And Religious Affiliations:

• African-American
• Catholic
• Interfaith
• Jewish
• Lutheran
• Methodist
• Muslim
• Presbyterian
• YMCA
• Volunteerism
• Editorial Panel
• Web & Marketing
• Business Council
• Economics & Research

Philanthropy & Nonprofits

Alan J. Abramson

• Director, Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, The Aspen Institute

Dr. Kathryn Agard

• Executive Director, Learning to Give

Kenneth Anderson, JD

• Professor of Law, American University

Manuel Arango

• Founder, Mexican Center for Philanthropy

Ellen Barclay

• President, Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers

Senator Bill Bradley

• Managing Director, Allen & Company

Jed Emerson

• Senior Fellow, Generation Foundation and Generation Investment Management
• Former Executive Director, Roberts Enterprise Development Fund

Darian Rodriguez Heyman

• Executive Director and President of the Board, Craigslist Foundation

Linda Lampkin

• Research Director, Economic Research Institute

Michael Madnick

• Senior Vice President, United Nations Foundation

Dr. Richard Marker

• Strategic Philanthropy Advisor, Marker Goldsmith
• Former Executive Vice President [CEO], the Samuel Bronfman Foundation

Liz Maw

• Executive Director, Net Impact

Bruce Schearer

• Former President and Distinguished Fellow, Synergos Institute

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Accountability

Seb Beloe

• Director of Research and Advocacy, Sustainability

David Bonbright

• Founder and Managing Partner, Keystone Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility
• Former Director, Civil Society Programmes Aga Khan Development Network

Sara Olsen

• Founding Partner, Social Venture Technology Group

Simon Zadek, PhD

• Chief Executive, Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility
• Senior Fellow, Centre for Government and Business, Harvard University Kennedy School

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Aging

Carol Farquhar

• Executive Director, Grantmakers in Aging

John Feather, PhD

• Executive Director and CEO, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
• Former Director, AARP Andrus Foundation

James P. Firman, EdD

• President and CEO, The National Council on the Aging

Nancy A. Whitelaw, PhD

• Director, Center for Healthy Aging, The National Council on the Aging

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Agriculture & Sustainable Development

Ralph Grossi

• President, American Farmland Trust

Howard W. Hjort

• Chair, U.S. Committee for Food and Agriculture Organization

Prof. P.C. Kesavan

• DAE-Homi Bhabha Chair and Distinguished Fellow, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

Bruce McNamer

• President and CEO, TechnoServe

Susan Sechler

• Director, Trade and Development Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Ann Tutwiler

• Program Officer and Managing Director, Trade and Development, Global Development Program, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Tensie Whelan

• Executive Director, Rainforest Alliance

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Arts & Culture

Laurie Beckelman

• President, Beckelman & Capalino, LLC

Dr. Marilyn Perry

• President, The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
• Chairman, World Monuments Fund

David Resnicow

• President, Resnicow Schroeder Associates

Joan Shigekawa

• Associate Director, Creativity and Culture, The Rockefeller Foundation

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Blindness & Vision

Ian Berger, MD

• Director, Center for Primary Care EyeDevelopment, InFOCUS

Jordan Kassalow, OD, MPH

• Co-Founder, Scojo Foundation
• Adjunct Senior Fellow in Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

Jacob Kumaresan, MD

• President, International Trachoma Initiative

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Cancer

Michael P. Osborne, MD, MS, FRCS, FACS

• President, Strang Cancer Prevention Center
• Chief, Breast Service and Attending Surgeon, The New York Weill Cornell Medical Center

Mitchell Stoller

• President and CEO, Lance Armstrong Foundation

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Children & Youth

Maya Ajmera

• President, Global Fund for Children

Carol Bellamy

• President and CEO, World Learning
• Former Executive Director, UNICEF

Anthony Lake

• Chair of the Board, United States Fund for UNICEF

Charles MacCormack

• President and CEO, Save the Children

William Reese

• President and CEO, International Youth Foundation

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Civil Society & Democracy

Kenneth Anderson, JD

• Professor of Law, American University

Anthony Barnett

• Founder and Editor-in-Chief, openDemocracy

Shulamith Koenig

• Founder and Executive Director, PDHRE, People's Movement for Human Rights Education

Kumi Naidoo

• Secretary General, CIVICUS
• Chair, Global Call to Action Against Poverty

Raymond Shonholtz, JD

• President, Partners for Democratic Change

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Disabilities

Jeanne Argoff, PhD

• Executive Director, The Disability Funders Network

Susan M. Daniels, PhD

• Principal, Daniels & Associates

Susan O'Hara

• Trustee, True North Foundation

Tari Susan Hartman-Squire

• Ein Sof Communications

Susan Sygall

• Chief Executive Officer, Mobility International USA

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Disaster Relief

Dr. Mohammad Akhter

• Former President and CEO, InterAction

Steven Denne

• Vice President, Development Operations, American Red Cross

Ken Hackett

• President, Catholic Relief Service

Neal Keny-Guyer

• Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Corps

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Education & Literacy

Maya Ajmera

• President, Global Fund for Children

Carol Bellamy

• President and CEO, World Learning
• Former Executive Director, UNICEF

Edward de Bono

• Author

Gary Knell

• President, Sesame Workshop

Wendy Kopp

• President and Founder, Teach For America

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

• Chairman of the Board, Edison Schools
• Former President, Yale University

Kyle Zimmer

• President, First Book

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Enviroment

Terry L. Andreas

• Founder and Chair, School for Field Studies

Leslie Carothers

• President, Environmental Law Institute

Melinda Kimble

• Senior Vice President, United Nations Foundation

Carl Pope

• Executive Director, Sierra Club

Nina Simons

• Co-Founder, Bioneers

Robert B. Stang

• Sustainable Real Estate Developer, Environmentalist

Lloyd Timberlake

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• Advisor, Avina Foundation

Jack Vanderryn

• Senior Fellow, Environment and Development, Moriah Fund

Tensie Whelan

• Executive Director, Rainforest Alliance

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Global Health

Seth Berkley, MD

• President and CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, PhD

• Deputy Executive Director, BRAC
• Dean, James P. Grant School of Public Health BRAC University
• Co-Coordinator, Millennium Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health

William Foege, MD, MPH

• Senior Fellow, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Laurie Garrett

• Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

Jeffrey Koplan, MD, MPH

• Vice President for Academic Health Affairs, Emory University

Lauren Le Roy, PhD

• President and CEO, Grantmakers in Health

Ruth Levine, PhD

• Director of Programs and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

Allan Rosenfield, MD, GACOG

• Dean, Mailman School of Public Health
• DeLamar Professor of Public Health, Columbia University

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Global Warming

Steve Howard

• Chief Executive Officer, The Climate Group

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HIV/AIDS

Seth Berkley, MD

• President and CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Alex Coutinho, MD

• Executive Director, TASO Uganda Limited

Tim Thomas

• Executive Director, The Staying Alive Foundation

Dr. Paul Zeitz

• Executive Director, Global AIDS Alliance

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Homeless & Housing

Dennis P. Culhane, PhD

• Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Helen Dunlap

• Housing Advisor, Shorebank Advisory Services

Judith Hermanson, PhD

• Senior Vice President, CHF International

Bill Kelly, Esq.

• Senior Partner, Latham and Watkins
• Director, Governance Institute, Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

Sister Lillian Murphy

• Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Housing

Erika Poethig

• Program Director, Human and Community Development, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Nan Roman

• President, National Alliance to End Homelessness

Jeff Schaffer

• Senior Program Officer, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

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Human Rights

Anthony Barnett

• Founder and Editor-in-Chief, openDemocracy

Cynthia Brown

• Former Program Director, Human Rights Watch

Larry Cox

• Senior Program Officer, Human Rights, The Ford Foundation

Alice Tepper Marlin

• President, Social Accountability International

Aryeh Neier

• President and CEO, Open Society Institute

Andrew Park, Esq.

• Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Wellspring Advisors
• Coordinator, International Human Rights Funders Group

Lois Whitman

• Director, Children's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch

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Hunger

Robert H. Forney

• President and CEO, America's Second Harvest
• Chair, Alliance to End Hunger
• Former President and CEO, America's Second Harvest

Monty Jones, PhD

• Executive Secretary, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
• World Food Prize Laureate - 2005

Peter McPherson

• Founding Co-Chair, Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa

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Landmines

Anthony Lake

• Chair of the Board, United States Fund for UNICEF

Jody Williams

• Ambassador, International Campaign to Ban Landmines
• Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 1997

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Medical Research

William A. Haseltine, PhD

• President, William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts
• Chairman and CEO, Haseltine Associates, Ltd.

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Mental Health

Herbert Pardes, MD

• President and CEO, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

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Microcredit

Alex Counts

• President and CEO, Grameen Foundation USA

John Hatch

• Founder and President, FINCA International

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Peace

Patricia Weiss Fagen, PhD

• Senior Associate, Institute for the Study of International Migration

Johanna Mendelson Forman, PhD

• Former Director, Peace, Security and Human Rights Policy, United Nations Foundation

Stephen Jackson, PhD

• Associate Director, Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, Social Science Research Council

Katherine Magraw, PhD

• Executive Director, Peace and Security Funders Group

Aaron David Miller, PhD

• Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Former President and Advisor, Seeds of Peace

George Perkovitch, PhD

• Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Population & Reproductive Health

Ellen Chesler

• Former Director and Senior Fellow, Program on Reproductive Health and Rights, Open Society Institute

Valerie De Filippo

• Director of External Affairs, International Planned Parenthood Federation

Jill Sheffield

• President, Family Care International

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Poverty Alleviation

Lael Brainard

• Vice President and Director, New Century Chair in International Economics, The Brookings Institute

Naved Chowdhury

• Research and Policy in Development Programme, Overseas Development Institute

Bruce McNamer

• President and CEO, TechnoServe

Bruce Schearer

• Former President and Distinguished Fellow, Synergos Institute

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Public Broadcast & Communications

Charlie Firestone

• Executive Director, Communications and Society Program, The Aspen Institute

Harlan Mandel

• Deputy Director, Media Development Loan Fund

Pam Meyer

• Chief Executive Officer, Simpatico Networks

Alisa Miller

• President and CEO, Public Radio International

Marita Rivero

• Vice President and General Manager, Radio and Television, WBGH

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Refugees

Kenneth Bacon

• President, Refugees International

Patricia Weiss Fagen, PhD

• Senior Associate, Institute for the Study of International Migration

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Social Entrepreneurship

Susan Davis

• Vice President and Director, Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship
• Chair, Grameen Foundation USA

Cheryl Dorsey, MD, MPP

• President, Echoing Green

Bill Drayton

• CEO, Chair and Founder, Ashoka

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Technology & Digital Divide

Peter Bladin

• Director, Grameen Technology Center

Jim Fruchterman

• President and CEO, Benetech Initiative

Stuart Gannes

• Director, Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program, Stanford University

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Water

Margaret Catley-Carlson

• Chair, Global Water Partnership
• Former President, Canadian International Development Agency

Jonathan Greenblatt

• Founder, Ethos Brands LLC

Roberto Lenton, PhD

• Chair, Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council
• Chair, Technical Committee, Global Water Partnership, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Ravi Narayanan

• Former Chief Executive, WaterAid UK

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Women

Kathy Bonk

• Executive Director and Co-Founder, Communications Consortium Media Center

Patricia Ellis

• Executive Director, Women's Foreign Policy Group

Eve Ensler

• Playwright and Founder, V-Day

Geeta Rao Gupta

• President, International Center for Research on Women

Ranjana Kumari, PhD

• Director, Centre for Social Research

Lorraine Sheinberg

• Board Member, Feminist Majority

Michaela Walsh

• Founder, Women's World Banking

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African-American

Kenneth Austin

• President, Association of Black Foundation Executives

Erica Hunt

• President, 21st Century Foundation

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Catholic

Kenneth Hackett

• President, Catholic Relief Services

Jack Paquette

• Vice President - Development, Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus

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Interfaith

Reverend Bud Heckman

• Executive Director, Religions for Peace  USA

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Jewish

Gail Hyman

• Senior Vice President of Communications, United Jewish Communities

David Mersky

• Managing Director, Mersky, Jaffe & Associates
• Lecturer in Jewish Philanthropy and Fundraising, Brandeis University

Jeffrey Solomon, PhD

• President, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies

Dr. Jonathan Woocher

• Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Educational Services of North America

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Lutheran

Phyllis Anderson

• President, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Bishop Stephen Bouman

• Metropolitan New York Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Don Hallberg

• Executive Director, ELCA Foundation, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

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Methodist

Rev. Gary Gunderson

• Director, Interfaith Health Program
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

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Muslim

Eboo Patel, PhD

• Founder and Executive Director, Interfaith Youth Core

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Presbytarian

Rick Ufford-Chase

• Executive Director, Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

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YMCA

Robert Gilbertson

• Chief Executive Officer, Tampa YMCA

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Volunteerism

Judith Binney

• Former Director, Global Volunteer Initiatives, Citigroup

Ami Dar

• Executive Director, Action Without Borders (Idealist.org)

Susan J. Ellis

• President, Energize, Inc.

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Editorial Panel

Alice Korngold

• Author, Leveraging Good Will: Strengthening Nonprofits by Engaging Businesses

James N. McClurg

• President, Social Enterprise Alliance

Sara Olsen

• Founding Partner, Social Venture Technology Group

Laura Quinn

• Founder, Idealware

Mal Warwick

• Founder, Mal Warwick & Associates, Inc.

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Web & Marketing

Douglas Atkin

• Author, The Culting of Brands

B.J. Fogg, PhD

• Director of Research and Design, Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University

Ze Frank

• Artist, consultant

Scott Heiferman

• Chief Executive Officer, MeetUp

JC Herz

• Principal, Joystick Nation, Inc

Barry Kessel

• Director, Global Client Development, Wunderman

Don Levy

• Senior Vice President, Sony Pictures Digital

Nancy Lublin

• CEO, Do Something
• Founder, Dress for Success

Don Middleberg

• Founder, Middleberg Euro RSCG

Maryam Mohit

• Former Vice President, Site Development, Amazon.com

Michel Ogrizek

• Former Vice Chairman, Edelman Public Relations

Barby Siegel

• Worldwide Leader Consumer Marketing, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide

Micah Sifry

• Executive Editor, Personal Democracy Forum

Brian Sobelman

• Associate Vice President for Web/Direct Marketing, Save the Children

Cyndi Stivers

• Executive Vice President, Martha Stewart Living

Linda Stone

• Former Executive, Apple and Microsoft Executive

Mal Warwick

• Founder, Mal Warwick & Associates, Inc.

Frank Zimmermann

• Vice President, North America, Arvato Systems

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Business Council

David Clossey

• Partner-in-Charge, International, Jones Day

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Economics & Research

Nicole Goldin, PhD

• Senior Research Manager, Gerson Lehrman Group

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