2012 Board of Directors

Walter Turner, President

  • Professor, College of Marin; author; host of "Africa Today" weekly Pacifica radio program
  • Specialist in Human Rights in Africa, Caribbean

Wanda Whitaker, Vice President
  • Media/Events Consultant
  • Specialist in grassroots community organizing

Ian McLeod, Treasurer
  • Co-Founder at Communitas Financial Planning

Kevin Danaher, Secretary
  • Global Exchange Co-Founder
  • Public Education Director, Global Exchange

Medea Benjamin
  • Global Exchange Co-Founder
  • CODEPINK Co-Founder

Michele Frank, MD
  • Neuroscientist, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
  • Specialist in Health care and Cuba policy
  • Co-Coordinator for Global Exchange's Eco-Cuba Exchange Program

Allen Gunn
  • Aspiration Technology Executive Director
  • Organizational Development


Corey Hill

  • Staff Representative to the Board of Directors

Deborah James
  • Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC
  • Global Trade and Latin America Policy Campaigner


Pierre Labossiere

  • State of California Agricultural Inspector; Co-founder of Haiti Action Committee
  • Labor and human rights specialist

Zarah Patriana
  • Staff Representative to the Board of Directors