Associates (2009 - 2010)
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www.soapboxinc.com E-mail: jenniferbaum@earthlink.net |
Jennifer Baumgardner's books include Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (FSG, 2000) and Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism (FSG, 2005), both co-authored with Amy Richards, and Look Both Ways (FSG, 2007) and Abortion & Life (Akashic, 2008). She is the creator of the I Had an Abortion project and the producer of the award-winning documentary of that name. Her current advocacy project is about rape and includes a film and t-shirt campaign. She co-owns the feminist speakers' bureau Soapbox Inc.: Speakers That Speak Out and has lectured at more that 250 colleges, high schools, and conferences over the last decade. She frequently writes for magazines including Elle, Glamour, The Nation, Redbook, Real Simple, and Marie Claire. Since 2008, she has been teaching writing at The New School. Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, she lives in New York City with her two sons and her boyfriend, Michael. |
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Director of Investment Research, Baldwin Brothers, Inc. E-Mail: mparker@baldwinbrothersinc.com
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Margery Parker is Director of Investment Research at Baldwin Brothers, Inc. (BBI), an independent financial advisory firm, with a focus on values based investments. BBI’s goal is to create custom strategies to build and preserve wealth for clients. BBI’s leading environmental and socially responsible global public equity vehicle is the Highwater Global Fund, co-founded by Paul Hawken and Michael Baldwin in 2005. Margery is a key member of the High Water Global investment team. The team combines intensive primary research with Wall Street research to make judgments on the sustainable, social and financial aspects of a business. Margery has spent her 30 year career in the financial world analyzing companies, industries and emerging trends to find the best and most appropriate opportunities for clients. She lives in Southeastern Massachusetts with her husband, and is an avid gardener and nature lover. She has two adult children and 2 grandchildren. |
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Associates (2008 - 2009)
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Michelle Goldberg E-mail: michelle@michellegoldberg.net |
Michelle Goldberg is a journalist and author based in Brooklyn, New York. Her most recent book is The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, which was published in April by Penguin Press and won last year's J. Anthony Lukas Work in Progress Award. Researched in four continents, “The Means of Reproduction” tells the story of the global battle for reproductive rights, and argues that the oppression of women is the great human rights crisis of our time. Goldberg is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She is a columnist for The American Prospect, and her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, Glamour, The Los Angeles Times and many other publications. |
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Randy Weled E-mail: wolf2weled@yahoo.com
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Randy Weled is a Marriage and family therapist in private practice in San Francisco. His specialties are sex addiction, GLBT issues and relationship work. He is passionate about helping people recover from sex addiction, with its devastating consequences in relationships. He has been practicing as a counselor for 20 years. He is also the Resident counselor at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav. Additionally he is a certified ARISE interventionist, and trained to do addiction interventions with alcoholics, drug addicts and sex addicts. Additionally he has done extensive training with Arnold Mindell, in Process Oriented Psychology. With his hundreds of hours of Training in “Worldwork” he been a Trainer and speaker on issues of power dynamics in US culture: sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and heterosexism. He is also a member of the NOMAS Leadership Counsel. He will be leading a workshop with Moshe Rozdzial on Power Dynamics in Relationships. The highlight of his week is singing in the Taize choir at the Metropolitan Community churches in San Francisco and Berkeley. |
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Associates (2007 - 2008)
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Steven Albrecht Charter Trust Company |
Steven Albrecht has conducted business in every major financial center of the world including mainland China. He has worked for both domestic and foreign companies, domestically and overseas, with responsibilities in global private banking and expanding and developing business enterprises in new and established markets. Mr. Albrecht is CEO of Charter Trust Company. The firm is privately held and works confidentially with high net worth individuals and families to: increase wealth, through asset allocation, investment management, charitable giving and family portfolios; protect wealth through legal structures and administration, and transfer wealth through estate plans, family strategies, education and philanthropy. |
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Mona Cadena Deputy Director - West, Amnesty International |
Mona Cadena is the Deputy Director of the Western Regional office for Amnesty International, USA. She has comprehensive experience working on a range of human rights concerns, including the death penalty, custodial sexual misconduct, small arms and light weapons (including electroshock and stun weapons), torture and terror, and women's human rights. Mona serves as one of the primary media spokespeople for the Western Regional office in addition to her extensive work with state level elected officials, city counsels, commissions, and police departments across the country to pass and implement policy initiatives that promote and uphold human rights throughout state institutions. Mona has a Bachelors degree in political science and a certificate in policy development from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has done significant post-graduate work in International Relations with a special focus in Human Trafficking, Migration and Child Soldiers from Trinity College. |
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Julie A. Nelson, Ph.D. Global Development and Environment Institute |
Dr. Nelson is an academic economist and feminist. She co-edited the path-breaking book Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics, was a founding board member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, and has published widely in both economics and women's studies. Her recent short book, Economics for Humans, debunks popular myths concerning the relation of economics to issues of human interdependence, ethics, and care. |
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Associates (2006 - 2007)
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E-mail: chris.knight@uel.ac.uk |
| Dr. Knight is Professor of Anthropology at the University of East London. In 1987, he gained his Ph.D. from the University of London with a thesis on Claude Lévi-Strauss' four-volume Mythologiques. His first book, 'Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture' (Yale University Press 1991), outlined a new theory of human evolution. Since then, his main research interest has been in the evolutionary emergence of language. | |
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E-mail: kvashayboyle@gmail.com |
K. Kvashay-Boyle is a fiction writer living in Los Angeles. Her stories are widely anthologized in places such as Best of McSweeney's, Best American Non-Required Reading, Politically Inspired Fiction, as well as elsewhere and are currently required course material at many universities, including Yale, University of Iowa, UC Berkley, and UC San Diego. A recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, won one of 15 best stories by Pittsburg Arts and Letters American Short Reading Series, and her story "Saint Chola" is currently in development as a feature film. She was once quoted in Ms Magazine as someone who speaks daily to her mother, and proud of it. |
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E-mail: news@jessicaseigel.com |
Jessica Seigel is an award-winning investigative journalist whose features targeting cultural myths about women, consumer culture, and the sciences have appeared in The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Los Angeles Times, Ms. Magazine, Salon, and The Washington Post. A former Chicago Tribune national correspondent teaching the journalism of sex and gender at New York University, she and her work have been featured on Good Morning America, CNN, Nightline, and Fox TV. Her reported commentary on bra and breast, ape and human, TV housewives and screen goddesses have earned the Front Page and other awards. Anthologized in books such as “Women’s Voices, Feminist Voices,” she has reported in French and Spanish from France, Spain, Mexico and the Bronx. |
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E-mail: kelpie@kelpiewilson.com |
Kelpie Wilson is the environmental editor and columnist for Truthout.org. She also does freelance assignments for Yoga Plus and other magazines. Kelpie has had a varied career in engineering and environmental politics. She was an Earth First! campaigner in the 1980s and directed a grassroots forest protection group in Oregon in the 1990s. She has worked as an auto mechanic, a prototype engineer and a technical writer for the solar power industry. She published her first novel, Primal Tears, in 2005. |
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Associates (2005 - 2006)
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Judith Hand, Ph.D. c/o Questpath Publishing |
Dr. Hand has made the transition from left-brianed scientist to right-brained novelist. Before she began writing fiction, a little over ten years ago, she was a research associate and lecturer in the UCLA biology department. Trained in animal behavior, primatology, and ornithology, Judith knows "a heck of a lot about the natural world and monkeys, apes, birds and humans," all of which animates her fictional worlds and people. |
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John Perkins E-mail: john@johnperkins.org |
John Perkins has lived four lives: as an economic hit man (EHM); as the CEO of a successful alternative energy company, who was rewarded for not disclosing his EHM past; as an expert on indigenous cultures and shamanism, a teacher and writer who used this expertise to promote ecology and sustainability while continuing to honor his vow of silence about his life as an EHM; and as a writer who, in telling the real-life story about his extraordinary dealings as an EHM, has exposed the world of international intrigue and corruption that is turning the American republic into a global empire despised by increasing numbers of people around the planet. |
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Stephen Schwartz E-mail: atomicaudit@earthlink.net
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| Stephen Schwartz is a nationally-recognized writer and independent nuclear weapons policy analyst. He is currently writing a citizen's guide to nuclear weapons. From 1998-2005 he served as Publisher and Executive Director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the magazine of security, science and survival based at the University of Chicago. Stephen writes and speaks regularly on nuclear policy matters and has given presentations to governmental and non-governmental audiences in the United States, Russia, China, Japan, Germany, Austria and Italy. | |
Associates (2004 - 2005)
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Lynne Cox 3842 Fenley Drive |
Lynne Cox is a world record-breaking distance swimmer whose book Swimming to Antarctica is an inspirational history of her amazing ability to accomplish seemingly impossible athletic goals. She is author of several books and many articles and is interviewed often on broadcast media and in the press. |
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Institute of Ecology |
Dr. Patricia Adair Gowaty is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA, an Affiliated Scientist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and a Distinguished Research Professor Emerita from University of Georgia. Her research interests include behavioral and evolutionary ecology and developmental plasticity of sexual behavior, mating systems, sexual conflict, parental behavior and sex allocation. She is particularly interested in how within population variation in females influences variation in mating systems in non-human animals and political systems in humans. Professor Gowaty is well-known for the first observations of extra-pair paternity in socially monogamous birds and her long term research program on eastern bluebirds. She has also studied social behavior and selection in other organisms from Drosophila to mallard ducks. Dr. Gowaty is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Animal Behavior Society, and the American Ornithologists' Union. |
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5020 Tibbett Avenue |
Dr. Nochimson is a professor of film and broadcast media, a critic and commentator on popular culture and the author of many articles and publications. The publication of Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong (Wiley Blackwell, 2007) is the most recent addition to a number of books she has authored, including: No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject, The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood and Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2. She is currently working on a textbook for Wiley Blackwell called World on Film, which is intended to introduce English speaking students to international film. |
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Associates (2003 - 2004)
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Robert S. McElvaine, Ph.D. Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts & Chair |
Dr. McElvaine is author of Eve’s Seed: Biology, the Sexes and the Course of History (see resources section) as well as many other books and publications. He is a graduate of Rutgers University, SUNY-Binghamton and post-doctoral study at the University of California at Berkeley and Brown University. He has a vast array of awards, honors, fellowships and grants and has appeared extensively in broadcast and print media. |
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Marlene Zuk, Ph.D. Professor of Biology |
Dr. Zuk is interested in behavioral ecology, the study of evolution of behavior. Her research centers on sexual selection and the effects of parasites on mate choice and the evolution of secondary sex characters. She is the author of countless articles and publications lectures throughout the world on reproductive biology and behavioral evolution. |
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