Staff and Board

Staff:

Kevin Bales
President | Co-founder

Jolene Smith
Chief Executive Officer | Co-founder

Peggy Callahan
Executive Producer | Director of Communications | Co-founder

Ginny Baumann
Director of Partnerships

Katie Ford
Global Ambassador

Nancy Hammond
Director of Finance and Administration

Peter Sanders
Director of Major Gifts

Karen Stauss
Director of Programs

Supriya Awasthi
South Asia Director

Binod Chapagain
Nepal Director

Emmanuel Otoo
West Africa Coordinator 

Tawney Bevacqua
Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator

Terry FitzPatrick
Senior Writer-Producer | Deputy Communications Director

Sarah Gardner
Development Associate

Judy Hyde
College Chapter Coordinator

Anne Keehn
Zimmerman Fellow

Lauren Lanier
Assistant to Global Ambassador

Zorba Leslie
Partnership Manager

Harold Linde
Producer

Lee McClure
Outreach and Research Coordinator

Jody Sarich
Policy and Research Associate

Andrew Taylor
Webmaster | Production Assistant

International Advisor:

Desmond M. Tutu 
Archbishop Emeritus, Cape Town, South Africa
 
Board of Directors: *ID purposes only

Helen Armstrong
Coventry, CT

Robert Boneberg
Lowenstein Sandler LLC*, New York, NY

Bryn Freedman
Los Angeles, CA

Franka Jordan
Banyan Tree Foundation*, Washington, DC

Stephen Maher
Principal, Risk Capital Strategies, LLC*, Avon, CT

Xavier Plassat 
CPT -- Pastoral Land Commission*, Brazil 

Kathy Sreedhar
Unitarian Universalist Holdeen India Program*, Washington, DC

John Zarafonetis
Washington, DC 
 

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