2008 Board of Directors

Financial Statements (listed on your right)

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

Wanda Whitaker, Vice President

  • Media/Events Consultant
  • Specialist in grassroots community organizing

John Harrington, Treasurer

  • Harrington Investments; Co-founder of Working Assets; author and lecturer
  • Socially responsible investment specialist

Kevin Danaher, Secretary

  • Global Exchange Co-Founder
  • Public Education Director, Global Exchange

Bama Athreya

  • Program Director, International Labor Rights Fund
  • China and South East Asia specialist

Medea Benjamin

  • Global Exchange Founding Director
  • Global Exchange Co-Founder

Randy Durband

    Travel Program Consultant
  • Travel and progressive networks

Delvis Fernandez

  • Cuban American Education Fund
  • Specialist in Cuba and DC lobbying efforts

Michele Frank, MD

  • Pediatric Neuro-psychologist
  • Specialist in Health care and Cuba policy

Isao Fujimoto

  • California Institute for Rural Studies

Deborah James

  • Center For Economic and Policy Research
  • Director of International Programs

Pierre Labossiere

  • State of California Agricultural Inspector; Co-founder of Bay Area Haitian American Council
  • Labor and human rights specialist

Ted Lewis

  • Staff Representative to the Board of Directors

Jason Mark

  • Specialist in Corporate Accountability Campaigns and Communications

Tony Newman

  • Linda Smith Center for Drug Policy Alternatives
  • Media and Communications Specialist

Thuyen Nguyen

  • Executive Director of Vietnam Labor Watch

Kate Raven

  • Staff Representative to the Board of Directors

Walter Riley

  • Attorney
  • Civil-Rights and Anti-War Movement Leader

Rick Tejada-Flores

  • Filmmaker; public television advocate

Tran Tuong Nhu

  • Columnist for San Jose Mercury News
  • Vietnam specialist

Bob Wing

  • War Times Editor