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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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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Email: 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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Email: 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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Email: 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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Email: 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 Email: 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 Email: 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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