Board Members
Michele Dastin-Van Rijn
Board Chair
Foreign and public policy executive with thirty years of experience in the U.S. Department of State, Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Department of Commerce
Jennifer Wu-Schwab
Director
Founder and Managing Partner at Staterra Advisors, a business advisory firm & Founder and Host of The Founder Spirit
Laura E. Berk Ph.D.
Director
Professor of psychology emerita at Illinois State University.
Joel Bergner
Co-founder, CEO
@joelartista
Max Frieder Ed.D.
Co-founder, Chief Creative Officer
@maxfrieder
Wajma Rasul
Director
Legal Counsel with experience in multinationals and FinTech start-ups, passionate about creative approaches to international development.
Advisory Council
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Martin Fletcher
English author and former NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau chief.
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Shiprah Mutungi
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Ty Flewelling
Senior Medical Attaché for the U.S. Department of State.
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Dean Brooks
Director of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
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Helen (Lena) Verdelli, MSc. PhD.
Scientific Advisory Council member of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the Scientific Advisory Board of Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.
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Tani Deepvali Nawaz
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Rodrigo Moran
SVP Global Group Creative Director at Edelman, NY & leader of the Pirate Team - a collective of creatives from all over the world who identify social injustices/problems
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Fulya Kulabas
Senior fundraising leader with 20+ years of experience in nonprofit organizations and multinational companies.
Global Amassadors
Vik Muniz
@vikmuniz
Artist & Photographer
His work is included in the collections of major international museums such as: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; among many others.
Dustin Yellin
Artist
Founder & Director of Pioneer Works
Pioneer Works is a multidisciplinary cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn that builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world.