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David Korten, Co-founder
David Korten is president and founder of the Living Economies Forum, a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, and a member of the Club of Rome. 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 Asia Regional Advisor on Development Management for the US Agency for International Development. David has authored numerous books, including Change the Story, Change the Future, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, When Corporations Rule the World, and The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism. He is a regular guest on talk radio and television and a popular speaker at conferences around the world.
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Jill Bamburg, Chair
Jill Bamburg is an experienced adult educator, recently retired as President of Pinchot University, an organization she co-founded in 2002. Pinchot University, recently acquired by Presidio Graduate School, was the first business school in the country to offer an MBA in Sustainable Business. Prior to serving as president, Bamburg served as Pinchot’s founding academic dean and faculty for marketing, strategy and sustainable business. She is the author of Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business without Selling Out (Berrett-Koehler, 2008) and a long-time board member of YES! Magazine. Prior to founding Pinchot University (originally known as the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, or BGI), she taught at Antioch University/Seattle, worked in high tech marketing with Aldus Corporation, and enjoyed a first career as a community journalist in Wyoming. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA, magna cum laude, from Washington University. Gideon Rosenblatt, Vice Chair
Gideon Rosenblatt writes about the impact of technology on people, organizations and society at The Vital Edge. He is a technologist with a background in business and social change. For nine years, Gideon ran Groundwire, a mission-driven technology consulting group, dedicated to building a more sustainable world. Prior to that, he spent ten years at Microsoft in various marketing, product development and management positions, where he developed CarPoint, one of the world’s first large-scale e-commerce websites. Gideon was raised in Utah, lived and worked in Japan and China for several years, and now lives in Seattle with his wife and two boys.
Tanya Dawkins, Secretary
Tanya Dawkins founded the Global‐Local Links Project to engage one of the most pressing issues of our time ‐ what it means to build citizen and community power in an age of intensifying globalization(s). She is dedicated to developing a new generation of “globally minded, community‐centric” tools, policies, relationships and metrics that advance new models of "global-local" leadership, policy, law, citizen action, economic development and the social contract.
Tanya has an MBA from Barry University, a post-graduate certificate in international human rights law from Oxford University and is an experienced analyst, executive and consultant in the areas of leadership, policy, organizational development and innovation for the common good. Her work has helped a wide range of local, national and international partners map their strategic priorities, understand and interpret increasingly interconnected global and local phenomena and manage emergent issues and opportunities.
She has previously managed a $20+ million community investment portfolio and is active in a diverse network of campaigns and initiatives in the areas of human rights, governance, policy, economic development, philanthropy and social justice.
Tanya is the policy entrepreneur behind the development of the Global Community Rights Framework Initiative, a new law and policy innovations project focused on advancing new rights, remedies and avenues of opportunity for people and communities affected by mega trade, infrastructure and investment projects around the world.
Alisa Gravitz, Treasurer
For over 25 years, Alisa Gravitz has led Green America (formerly Co-op America), the national green economy organization. Green America develops marketplace solutions to social and environmental problems with key focus on community investment, fair trade, corporate responsibility, climate change and solar energy. Green America’s major events and publications include Green Festivals, the Green Business Conference, National Green Pages, and the Green American. Green America operates the nation’s largest green living and green business networks. Alisa Gravitz is also a nationally recognized leader in the social investment industry. She authored Green America’s acclaimed Guide to Social Investing, with over a million copies in print. As vice president of the Social Investment Forum, she played a key role in the dramatic growth of the socially responsible investing industry to $3 trillion dollars from less than $40 million in 1985. Alisa Gravitz’s board service includes the Positive Futures Network, Ceres and Network for Good. She earned her MBA from Harvard University and her BA in economics and environmental sciences from Brandeis University.
Andrew DeVigal
DeVigal is the inaugural Chair in Journalism Innovation and Civic Engagement and the first professor of practice in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC). The Agora Journalism Center is devoted to transformative advancements for better journalism and stronger democracy. The center energizes research, teaching and learning to foster a culture of constant innovation and diverse collaboration to serve the public good. DeVigal also served as the multimedia editor at The New York Times, where he helped guide the newspaper’s print-driven format into the multimedia era. He integrated new approaches to interactive storytelling with The Times’ long tradition of journalistic excellence to help shape the industry with techniques still in use today.
Eli Feghali
Eli Feghali is Communications Director at the New Economy Coalition (NEC) and Co-Editor of Beautiful Solutions. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Eli immigrated to the U.S. with his parents when he was one year old to escape the civil war. Through NEC and Beautiful Solutions, Eli works to tell the story of what another world could look like—and how we can get there. Eli is lead organizer of NEC’s narrative-strategy project. For Beautiful Solutions, Eli helps to collect, write, and edit stories from around the world of communities coming together to meet their needs through solidarity and mutual aid. Eli has a BA in Conflict Resolution in the Middle East from Vanderbilt University. During his time at Vanderbilt, Eli founded a student organization dedicated to addressing economic inequality, beginning a lifelong commitment to community organizing. After school, Eli began working in communications for the migrant justice movement as a staff person at the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition. Eli lives with his partner Rachel in Cambridge, Mass., where he serves on the board of his local grocery cooperative, Harvest Food Co-op.
Danny Glover
Rick Ingrasci M.D., M.P.H.
Rick has a rich background is in psychiatry, holistic medicine, community development, and social entrepreneuring. Rick currently practices life coaching, mainly with leaders of non-profit organizations. He is the Director of the StoryDome Project which uses immersive dome experiences of the Universe Story to help people shift to a more ecological worldview. He is a board member of New Stories, a nonprofit organization that is the sponsor of the StoryDome (see www.newstories.org). Rick co-founded Interface (Boston’s largest holistic education center from 1974 to 1995), the American Holistic Medical Association, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Hollyhock Retreat Center, where he has been convening an annual leadership conference, the Hollyhock Summer Gathering, since 1986.
His academic background includes a B.A. in philosophy from Cornell University, M.D. degree from Cornell University Medical College, and a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University. Rick’s two greatest mentors were Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan, both of whom deepened his understanding of the relationship between culture and technology.
He is the co-author of the bestselling “Chop Wood, Carry Water: A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life.” He lives on Whidbey Island with his wife, Peggy Taylor, and their two dogs.