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Ray C. Anderson
Founder and Chairman, Interface, Inc.

The story is now legend; the “spear in the chest” epiphany Ray Anderson experienced when he first read Paul Hawken’s, “The Ecology of Commerce” seeking inspiration for a speech to an Interface task force on the company’s environmental vision... [more]

Dan Barber
Chef, Creative Director, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

Dan Barber began farming and cooking for family and friends at Blue Hill Farm in the Berkshires. It was there that he was first introduced to and gained respect for locally grown and seasonal produce. After working in California and several restaurants in Paris and the South of France, Dan returned to New York and cooked at the original Bouley until it closed in 1996... [more]

Steve Curwood
Host / Executive Producer, Living on Earth

Steve Curwood is Executive Producer and Host of Living on Earth. Steve created the first pilot of Living on Earth in the Spring of 1990, and the show has run continuously since April, 1991. Today, Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is aired on more than 300 National Public Radio affiliates in the USA. Steve's relationship with NPR goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of Weekend All Things Considered. He also hosted NPR's World of Opera... [more]

Mitchell L. Dong
Executive Director, Mohave Sun Power LLC

Mitchell Dong has been an entrepreneur in the alternative energy business since 1973.  He has founded and run companies involved with energy conservation, solar and hydro power, cogeneration, hazardous waste disposal, uranium and nuclear power and electric power trading for over three decades... [more]

Deborah Fikes
Executive Advisor, World Evangelicals Alliance

Deborah Fikes currently serves as  Executive Advisor to World Evangelical Alliance  and as a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). As the former spokesperson and advisor for Human Rights Advocacy of the Ministerial Alliance of Midland, Texas, she led Protestant, Catholic, and Evangelical parishes in the hometown of President George W. Bush to network with their national and international counterparts to promote human rights advocacy efforts.... [more]

Robert Fox A.I.A.
Partner, Fox + Cook

In 2003, Robert Fox joined with Richard Cook to form "Cook+Fox Architects", a firm devoted to creating environmentally responsible high performance buildings. Winner of the prestigious Urban Visionary Award from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (2002), Bob's work has been featured in exhibitions and publications internationally... [more]

Jesse Johnson
Co-Founder and CEO, Q Collection & Q Collection Junior

Jesse is the CEO and co-founder of Q Collection, a leading designer of sustainable home furnishings. The company operates a to-the-trade collection of furniture and upholstery textiles (Q Collection) and a retail collection of children’s furniture and bedding (Q Collection Junior).  The collections have won numerous design and sustainability awards. .... [more]

Kevin Klose
President Emeritus, National Public Radio

Kevin Klose is president emeritus of NPR, America's premier non-profit news and cultural radio programming service, renowned for journalistic excellence and standard-setting news and entertainment programming.... [more]

Winsome McIntosh
Founder and Director, Rachel's Network

Winsome McIntosh has over 30 years experience in the philanthropic community. She was a founder of the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties and has served on the board of the McIntosh Foundation since 1972, while actively participating in its management... [more]

William Moomaw
Professor of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University

Bill Moomaw received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT, and has been translating science into policy relevant terms for 30 years.  He worked on energy and forestry policy and the elimination of CFCs in spray cans while serving on a U.S. Senate staff as a Science Fellow in the 1970s... [more]

Nell Newman
Co-Founder & President, Newman's Own Organics

Nell Newman launched Newman's Own® Organics: The Second Generation® with business partner Peter Meehan in 1993. Great tasting products that happen to be organic is the company's motto. She is the President of the company, which started as a division of Newman’s Own and has been  an independent company since 2000...[more]

Michel Nischan
President and CEO, Wholesome Wave Foundation

A son of displaced farmers, Michel Nischan grew up with a deep appreciation for sustainable agriculture and those who work the land. As a professional chef and advocate for a more healthful, organic and sustainable food future, he has built on those childhood values and become a catalyst for change and new initiatives in local and regional food systems... [more]

 

Franklin W. Nutter
President, Reinsurance Association of America

Frank Nutter has been president of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) since May of 1991. He held the same position with the RAA from 1981-1984. In the interim, he was president of the Alliance of American Insurers and the Property Loss Research Bureau, which have now merged to be part of the PCI (Property Casualty Insurance Association of America)...[more]

Fredrick Osborn III
Philanthropist

Fred Osborn grew up in suburban Philadelphia, PA and received his elementary and secondary education at the Episcopal Academy. In 1966, he dropped out of Princeton University and was drafted into the Army, earning the Army Commendation Medal for service in Vietnam... [more]

Carl Safina Ph.D.
President, Blue Ocean Institute and Author

Carl Safina grew up loving the ocean and its creatures. His childhood by the shore led to scientific studies of seabirds and fish, and to his doctorate in Ecology from Rutgers University. During his research and his recreational and part-time-commercial fishing, he noticed declines in sea turtles, white marlin, sharks, tunas, and many other fishes. It seemed to him as though a kind of "last buffalo hunt" was occurring in the seas. For over a decade Dr. Safina has worked to put ocean fish conservation issues into the wildlife conservation mainstream...[more]

Lise Van Susteren M.D.
Psychiatrist

Lise received her Doctorate in Medicine in 1982 from the University of Paris. After interning at hospitals in Paris and Lome, Togo, she completed her residency in psychiatry at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Board certified in both general and forensic psychiatry...[more]

Ray C. Anderson
Founder and Chairman, Interface, Inc.

The story is now legend; the “spear in the chest” epiphany Ray Anderson experienced when he first read Paul Hawken’s, “The Ecology of Commerce” seeking inspiration for a speech to an Interface task force on the company’s environmental vision.  Twelve years and a sea change later, Interface, Inc., is approximately 40 percent up “Mount Sustainability,” the journey towards a vision that no one would have imagined for the company, or the petroleum-intensive industry of carpet manufacturing which has been forever changed by Anderson’s vision.  Interface describes its journey as Mission Zero, the company’s promise to eliminate any negative impact it has on the environment, by the year 2020.  Interface is making strides by redesigning processes and products, pioneering new technologies and reducing or eliminating waste and harmful emissions while increasing the use of renewable materials and sources of energy. 

An honors graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, Ray learned the carpet trade through 14-plus years at various positions at Deering-Milliken and Callaway Mills, and in 1973, set about founding a company to produce the first free-lay carpet tiles in America.  Today, he commands the world’s largest producer of commercial floorcoverings and interior finishes.  Interface has diversified and globalized its businesses, with sales in 110 countries and manufacturing facilities on four continents.

In 1997, Ray described his vision for his company, then nearly a quarter-century old, that stands true today:  “If we’re successful, we’ll spend the rest of our days harvesting yester- year’s carpets and other petrochemically derived products, and recycling them into new materials; and converting sunlight into energy; with zero scrap going to the landfill and zero emissions into the ecosystem.  And we’ll be doing well … very well … by doing good.  That’s the vision.”

The once captain of industry has eschewed a luxury car for a Prius and built an off-the-grid home, authored a book chronicling his journey, “Mid-Course Correction,” and become an unlikely screen hero in the 2004 Canadian documentary, “The Corporation.”  He’s a sought after speaker and advisor on all issues eco, including a stint as co-chairman of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, and as a confidante of Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott as the company becomesmore aware of its environmental impact and opportunities.

Anderson has been lauded by government, environmental, and business groups alike. In 1996, he received the Inaugural Millennium Award from Global Green, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev, and won recognition from Forbes Magazine and Ernst & Young, which named him Entrepreneur of the Year. In January, 2001, he received the George and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development. He also has been honored by the Georgia Conservancy, SAM-SPG (Switzerland), the U.S. Green Building Council, the National Wildlife Federation, the Design Futures Council, the Children’s Health and Environmental Coalition, the Harvard Business School Alumni (Atlanta Chapter), and the World Business Academy. Interface has been named as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and to Business Ethics Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List for the last two years. In 2006, Sustainablebusiness.com named Interface to their SB20 list of  Companies Changing the World. 

Ray also serves on the boards of The Georgia Conservancy; Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper; Ida Cason Callaway Foundation; Rocky Mountain Institute; the ASID Foundation, Melaver, Inc. and is an honorary advisor to the President of Peking University.  He holds honorary doctorates from Northland College (public service), LaGrange College (business), N.C. State University (humane letters), University of Southern Maine (humane letters), The University of the South (civil law), and Colby College (law). 

Dan Barber
Chef, Creative Director, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

Dan Barber began farming and cooking for family and friends at Blue Hill Farm in the Berkshires. It was there that he was first introduced to and gained respect for locally grown and seasonal produce.

After working in California and several restaurants in Paris and the South of France, Dan returned to New York and cooked at the original Bouley until it closed in 1996.

Determined to demonstrate his philosophy of cooking with sustainably grown and local ingredients, Dan established Blue Hill Catering (formerly Dan Barber Catering, Inc.). He quickly earned a reputation for providing warm and attentive service along with unique menus. In 1999 Dan was named a rising star by New York Magazine.

Since May 2000, Dan has seen Blue Hill grow from a noted neighborhood restaurant to most recently named as one of Americas Best Restaurants by Gourmet Magazine. In the summer of 2002, Food and Wine Magazine featured Dan as one of the country’s “Best New Chefs.” He has since addressed local food system issues through op-eds in the New York Times and has been featured in the New Yorker, Gourmet Magazine, CBS Sunday Morning, House and Garden, Martha Stewart Living, and named as “the next generation” of great chefs for Bon Appetit’s 10th annual restaurant issue.

Spring of 2004 signaled a new chapter for Dan. In May, both Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture opened its doors. As the restaurant’s chef/owner and the center’s creative director, Dan focuses on the issues of pleasure, taste and regional bounty-and how these imperatives are threatened. Dan helped create the philosophical and practical framework for Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and continues to help guide it in its mission to create a consciousness about the effects of everyday food choices. Frank Bruni of the New York Times awarded Blue Hill at Stone Barns 3-stars, saying “The time and physical distance between their (peas) harvesting, preparation and consumption was almost as brief as imaginable. This is the point and, in large measure, the glory of Blue Hill at Stone Barns …”

Both Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns have received Best New Restaurant nominations from the James Beard Foundation, and Dan has been nominated as Best Chef - New York City. To expand on his philosophy of cooking with sustainably grown, local ingredients, Dan has been working with such organizations as the Kellogg Foundation, New York City’s Green markets, and Slow Food USA to minimize the political and intellectual rhetoric around agricultural policies and to instead maximize the appreciation of eating good food.

Steve Curwood
Host / Executive Producer, Living on Earth

Steve Curwood is Executive Producer and Host of Living on Earth. Steve created the first pilot of Living on Earth in the Spring of 1990, and the show has run continuously since April, 1991. Today, Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is aired on more than 300 National Public Radio affiliates in the USA. Steve's relationship with NPR goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of Weekend All Things Considered. He also hosted NPR's World of Opera.

Steve has been a journalist for more than 30 years with experience at NPR, CBS News, the Boston Globe, WBUR-FM/Boston and WGBH-TV/Boston. He shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Boston Globe's education team. Steve Curwood is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Green Award for Media Design, the 2003 David A. Brower Award from the Sierra Club for excellence in environmental reporting and the 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award from Tufts University for his work on promoting environmental awareness. He is president of the World Media Foundation, Inc. and a Lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University. He lives in Southern New Hampshire on a small woodlot with his wife Jennifer and children Noah and Amira, and loves whatever time he can get with his adult progeny, Anastasia and James.

Mitchell Dong
Executive Director, Mohave Sun Power LLC

Mitchell Dong has been an entrepreneur in the alternative energy business since 1973.  He has founded and run companies involved with energy conservation, solar and hydro power, cogeneration, hazardous waste disposal, uranium and nuclear power and electric power trading for over three decades.

In 1980, Mitchell started MITEX, Inc., which developed hydroelectric power facilities at existing Federal dams.  MITEX filed for 80 preliminary permits from FERC and received 10 licenses to construct and operate hydropower facilities.  The company built five plants totaling 30 MW and was sold to Sithe Energies, a subsidiary of the Compagnie Generale des Eaux. 

Mitchell then developed gas-fired, cogeneration power plants in 1986.  He founded and ran Tellus, Inc., which executed power purchase agreements for over 500 MW of cogeneration projects.  The company’s flagship project was named Onondaga Cogeneration, located near Syracuse, NY.  The power purchaser was Niagara Mohawk, gas supply was from Enron, and turbines were from GE.  The project was sold to a subsidiary of General Public Utilities.  

In 1991, Mitchell founded FulCircle Ballast Recyclers, in Bronx, NY.  The company disposed of PCB contaminated ballast from fluorescent lighting fixtures removed as a result of utility demand side management programs.   Mitchell and his partners developed a process to destroy the PCBs and reclaim copper, aluminum and steel from the small lighting transformers.  The company was sold in 1995 to a publicly traded environmental firm.

In 1995, Mitchell started Chronos Asset Management, Inc, an asset management firm that implemented a statistical arbitrage strategy employing mutual funds, equities and derivatives.  The fund managed over $500 m for institutional clients.

In 2004, Mitchell started Pythagoras Investment Management, his family office which invests in alternative energy, clean technology, infrastructure and Asian emerging markets.  It has invested in power plants in China, infrastructure companies in Vietnam and China, solar and hydro power companies, fuel cell and wind companies. 

In 2006, Mitchell started Solios Asset Management, which runs two hedge funds.  Solios Power Fund trades financial contracts in electric power markets in the US and Solios Uranium Fund invests in physical uranium, the fuel for nuclear power plants. 

In 2008, Mitchell started Mohave Sun Power.  The company’s first project is a 340 MW solar thermal power plant in Arizona, located in the Mohave Desert.  The project is expected to cost $2 billion and has an application pending before the US Dept of Energy for funding.  The project plans to start construction before the end of 2010 and be operational by 2013.  

Mitchell and his wife have served on many philanthropic boards.  He helped his oldest daughter with her efforts to secure textbooks for schools in Guinea, Africa.  He helped his middle daughter develop a teen center for AIDS orphans in Botswana.  He helped his youngest daughter raise funds to build homes for the homeless in Panama City.  He has also served on the boards of the Harvard School of Public Center, the Buckingham Browne and Nichols School and the Boston Symphony.  

Mitchell graduated in 1975 with an AB degree in Economics from Harvard.

Deborah Fikes
Executive Advisor, World Evangelical Alliance

Deborah Fikes currently serves as  Executive Advisor to World Evangelical Alliance  and as a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). As the former spokesperson and advisor for Human Rights Advocacy of the Ministerial Alliance of Midland, Texas, she led Protestant, Catholic, and Evangelical parishes in the hometown of President George W. Bush to network with their national and international counterparts to promote human rights advocacy efforts. The Midland Ministerial Alliance is well known for their advocacy efforts internationally and participation in interfaith dialogue/ peace negotiations in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between North and South Sudan.
Deborah has been involved with outreach efforts to North Korea and serves as an advisor to the newly established Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.  She also serves as a Special Advisor to South Korean Governor Kim Moon-Soo and is a member of the editorial board for The China Law and Religion Monitor.  She was named by Concerned Women of America as an Evangelical Woman of the Year in 2005.   
 

Deborah completed an undergraduate degree from Texas A &M University and a masters degree from the University of Texas.  She is completing a law degree and was recently accepted  as a  graduate degree candidate in International Human Rights Law at Oxford University.  She is married to J. Stanley Fikes, Jr. and they have two daughters. They divide their time between homes in Washington D.C. and Texas. Deborah also travels internationally to encourage dialogue and partnerships that promote human rights and peace initiatives through positive outreach effort

Robert Fox, A.I.A.
Partner, Cook + Fox

Bob Fox is one of New York City’s most highly respected leaders in the green building movement. Widely recognized for leadership in sustainability and design excellence, Bob’s work has established him as an influential voice in the architectural profession, the business community, and in service to the public sector. As a partner at Cook+Fox Architects, he helped lead the design team for the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, a 2.2 million square foot building currently under construction and on track to become the first LEED Platinum high-rise building.

In 2006, Bob was named a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Advisory Council for the Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. The only architect on the Council, he joins other sustainability experts and public policy advisors in guiding the Mayor’s ambitious goals for the future of New York City. In 2006 Bob also received the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest honor, a Leadership Award for service to the green building community. Among other accolades, he has received the New York City Council’s inaugural “Big Green Apple” Award for Environmental Leadership and the prestigious Urban Visionary Award from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

A founding partner of Fox & Fowle Architects, Bob guided that firm to a prominent position of national leadership in sustainable high-rise building and urban design. Among 30 major projects completed in New York was the influential 4 Times Square – Condé Nast Headquarters, which set new standards for energy efficient high-rise buildings, received the Excellence in Design Award from the American Institute of Architects, and has been featured in hundreds of publications worldwide.  

Beginning in 1999, Bob directed a team that created Residential and Commercial Environmental Guidelines for the Battery Park City Authority in New York City. The Authority controls a 92-acre site at the south-western edge of Manhattan on the Hudson River and requires that these seminal documents be followed for all new residential and commercial construction. The Green Guidelines will eventually result in over 5 million square feet of LEED Gold buildings.

In 2003, Bob Fox joined with Richard Cook to form Cook+Fox Architects, a firm devoted to creating beautiful, environmentally responsible high-performance buildings. In addition to designing the Bank of America Tower, Cook+Fox was recently honored with multiple awards for a mixed-use project in the South Street Seaport Historic District, including a Housing Design Award from the AIA-NY/Boston Society of Architects. Most recently, the firm became the first in both New York City and New York State to earn LEED Platinum certification for its project at 641 Avenue of the Americas, the new Cook+Fox Architects “green” office.

A special advisor on green development issues for the World Trade Center site, Bob is currently a member of the President’s Council at The Cooper Union and serves on the advisory boards for the Urban Design Lab at Columbia University and the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Bob was the founding chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council/NY Chapter and is a member of the “Green Team” for Interface Corporation. He has served as a board member for De La Salle Academy since 1995.  

Bob has been a guest lecturer at the National Building Museum, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, the American Institute of Architects, and the United Nations Health and the Environment Conference; he has also taught at Cornell University, Yale University, and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Bob received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Masters of Architecture from Harvard University.  

In the summer of 2006, Bob co-founded the strategic consulting firm, Terrapin Bright Green LLC, with Partners Bill Browning and Rick Cook.  His goal for the firm is to apply his experience designing beautiful, green buildings to a broader spectrum of planning and policy projects, and to help creative clients make a difference at all levels.

He and his wife Gloria live in Manhattan and the Hudson River Valley.

Jesse Johnson
Co-Founder & CEO, Q Collection & Q Collection Junior

Jesse is the CEO and co-founder of Q Collection, a leading designer of sustainable home furnishings.  The company operates a to-the-trade collection of furniture and upholstery textiles (Q Collection) and a retail collection of children’s furniture and bedding (Q Collection Junior).  The collections have won numerous design and sustainability awards.  Notable achievements include - all the furniture is hand-crafted in the US from locally-sourced, certified wood; use of only proven safe and non toxic materials and design of the world’s first and only cribs to receive 3rd party certification for superior indoor air quality. Q Collection’s work has been featured in Time Magazine, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Metropolis, Departures, Town & Country, Domino, Martha Stewart and dozens of others.  
 
Jesse has a joint masters in business (MBA) and environmental management (MEM) from Yale University. He currently serves as a member of Yale's Environmental Leadership Council, Yale’s Center for Business & the Environment and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)’s Global Environmental Leadership Council.  He is on the board of 1% For The Planet (a non profit founded by Yvon Chouinard, owner of Patagonia), Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) and the Johnson Family Foundation.  He lives in New York City with his wife and young son.  He completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University.

Kevin Klose
President Emeritus, National Public Radio

Kevin Klose is president emeritus of NPR, America's premier non-profit news and cultural radio programming service, renowned for journalistic excellence and standard-setting news and entertainment programming.

A former editor, and national and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post, Klose is an award-winning author and international broadcasting executive. Prior to joining NPR in December 1998, Klose served successively as director of U.S. international broadcasting, overseeing the United States Government's global radio and television news services (1997-98); and president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), broadcasting to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union (1994-97). Klose first joined RFE/RL in 1992 as director of Radio Liberty, broadcasting to the former Soviet Union in its national languages.

As RFE/RL president, Klose radically downsized RFE/RL and moved it from Munich, Germany, to Prague, the Czech Republic. He also helped devise and implement a strategy to coordinate all U.S.-funded international broadcasting (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Radio/TV Marti, Worldnet Television) to save money, refocus the mission, and modernize operations in the post-Cold War.

Prior to RFE/RL, Klose was an editor and reporter at The Washington Post for 25 years. His various positions at the newspaper included city editor (1974-76); Moscow bureau chief (1977-1981); Midwest correspondent (1983-1987); and deputy national editor (1987-1990).

Klose received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, at Harvard. A former Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, he serves on the board of Independent Sector in Washington, DC. He is the author of Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society, winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award; and co-author of four other books.

Winsome McIntosh
Founder and Director, Rachel's Network

Winsome McIntosh has over 30 years experience in the philanthropic community. She was a founder of the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties and has served on the board of the McIntosh Foundation since 1972, while actively participating in its management.

She has served on the boards of a number of not-for-profits corporations (both local and national) including the League of Conservation Voters, Defenders of Wildlife, the Tongass Conservancy, Scenic America, Open Space Institute, and the Garden Club of America. She has served as President of the Garden Club of Pam Beach and Vice Chairman of the Community Foundation For Palm Beach and Martin Counties. In the for-profit community, she has served on the boards of American Legal Systems and Island National Bank and Trust Company.  She is the recipient of many awards for civic achievement including the Margaret Douglas medal of Achievement (Garden Club of America), the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce Community Service Award, and the Florida State University Achievement medal. Winsome has served on the Program committee and Host committee of the Council on Foundations and was a founder and executive director of the Association of Small Foundations. 

She has written numerous articles on aspects of non-profit management for the Foundation News and Commentary, the Garden Club of America, and the Association of Small Foundations. She has spoken on the topic of Foundation management for workshops and conferences held by the Washington Regional Grantmakers Association, the Support Center of Washington, the Garden Club of America, the Southeastern Council on Foundations, the Environmental Grantmakers Association, the South Florida Regional Grantmakers Association, the Council on Foundations and the Philanthropy Roundtable.

Winsome has served as President of Philanthropic Strategies, an independent consultant to major donors, families with Family Foundations, Corporate Foundations and non-profit organizations. Her recent clients have included the American Conservation Foundation, the Hanley Family Foundation, the van Beuren Charitable Foundation, the Joshua P. and Elizabeth D. Darden Foundation, the Shared Earth Foundation, the Association of Small Foundations, Beacon Global Investments, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation. She was, in fact, the founding Executive Director of the Association of Small Foundations (3000 membership to date) and is the Founder of Rachel’s Network, a membership organization of leading women funders for the environment. For the past five years, Winsome has nurtured the development of Rachel’s Network and recently assumed the Presidency of the organization with responsibilities of chief executive officer.

William Moomaw
Professor of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University

Bill Moomaw received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT, and has been translating science into policy relevant terms for 30 years.  He worked on energy and forestry policy and the elimination of CFCs in spray cans while serving on a U.S. Senate staff as a Science Fellow in the 1970s. He served as the first director of the Climate , Energy and Pollution Program at the World Resources Institute. In 1989, he left the practice of chemistry to come to Tufts University to work full time on energy, climate and resource policy. He has served as a lead author of four IPCC reports including the special report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in 2005, and has published extensively on climate mitigation technologies and policies. Currently he is serving on an EPA Science Advisory Board panel on nitrogen.

Nell Newman
Co-Founder & President, Newman's Own Organics

Nell Newman launched Newman's Own® Organics: The Second Generation® with business partner Peter Meehan in 1993. Great tasting products that happen to be organic is the company's motto. She is the President of the company, which started as a division of Newman’s Own and has been an independent company since 2000. Nell’s responsibilities are in the areas of product development and marketing.

The daughter of actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Nell had an early introduction to natural foods at their rural Connecticut home. The family had a garden, raised chickens, and Nell was taught to cook by her mother, as well as spending many hours fishing with her father. While in college, she continued to experiment in the kitchen, and is still the designated chef when home for family holiday dinners.

Nell attended the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, graduating with a B.S. in human ecology. She worked briefly at the Environmental Defense Fund in New York, but, preferring a more rural environment, moved to Northern California. She was the Executive Director of the Ventana Wilderness Sanctuary, which was working to reestablish the bald eagle in central California. After two and a half years, she left Ventana Wilderness Sanctuary and began fundraising for the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group.

Nell's commitment to organic foods and sustainable agriculture led her to convince her father to let her establish an organic division of Newman's Own. She won him over by creating a completely organic Thanksgiving dinner, and then suggesting organic food products for the Newman's Own line. "All of Newman's Own products are ones that Dad enjoyed, so we chose ones that he really loved," states Nell. She credits her parents, too, with teaching her by example to be socially responsible, politically involved, and philanthropic.

An ardent supporter of sustainable agriculture, Nell has participated as a featured speaker and as a panel member talking about her commitment to organic products and producing snacks that appeal to the general public. "I have great expectations for our company" says Nell. "By utilizing organic ingredients, we’re supporting the environment through the growth of organic agriculture."

Nell’s thoughts on how to make a difference are highlighted in her book, The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live (Villard, 2003), written with science writer Joseph D’Agnese. It is filled with realistic, practical advice on why living a more environmentally conscious life helps us all.

Michel Nischan
President and CEO, Wholsome Wave Foundation

A son of displaced farmers, Michel Nischan grew up with a deep appreciation for sustainable agriculture and those who work the land. As a professional chef and advocate for a more healthful, organic and sustainable food future, he has built on those childhood values and become a catalyst for change and new initiatives in local and regional food systems.

A two-time James Beard Foundation award winner, Michel is Chef/Owner of Dressing Room: A Homegrown Restaurant, located at Westport (CT) Country Playhouse, and President /CEO of Wholesome Wave Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on making locally and sustainably grown foods available to all.

Through Nell Newman, the driving force behind Newman's Own Organics®, Michel met her father Paul, who planned to become involved in a restaurant. Paul and Michel found their beliefs on food, family and community to be remarkably aligned, and in 2006, Dressing Room was opened, as the place where their shared values could have a dynamic and engaging platform.

Wholesome Wave was created in 2007 with funding from Newman’s Own Foundation and the Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation, and is now supported in part by funding from Grow for Good, a philanthropic initiative of FOOD & WINE Magazine. Wholesome Wave and Dressing Room work in tandem to create grassroots initiatives that celebrate local food systems and heritage recipes. Wholesome Wave funds and manages two farmers markets and is working with low income communities to create greater access to local foods and also created and manages Green Wave Farm-to-College, a value-added local food initiative for college dining halls. Newman and Nischan appeared on ABC World News with Charles Gibson in November 2006 as Persons of the Week for their community outreach efforts, as well as ABC News Nightline on May 2007.

When his five year old son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes in 1994, Michel was inspired to create a "cuisine of well-being", focusing on pure, flavorful, local, organic food without highly processed ingredients. He introduced his groundbreaking new cuisine at Heartbeat restaurant at the W Hotel in midtown Manhattan in 1997, and was immediately propelled to the forefront of New York’s culinary scene.

Michel puts his healthful and sustainable culinary focus into print as a contributing editor for Food Arts Magazine, where he was a Silver Spoon Award honoree in 2006, and in two well-received cookbooks, Homegrown Pure and Simple: Great Healthy Food from Garden to Table (Chronicle Books, 2005) and Taste Pure and Simple: Irresistible Recipes for Good Food and Good Health (Chronicle Books, 2003). Taste made the New York Times and Wall Street Journal’s best seller lists and won a 2004 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award, given by industry peers and more than 600 culinary professionals.

Most recently, his appearances on PBS Victory Garden were honored a 2007 James Beard Foundation Best National/Local TV Food Segment.

He also serves on the boards of the Amazon Conservation Team and Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment. Michel lives in Fairfield CT with his wife, Lori and their five children.

Michel resides in Fairfield, Connecticut with his wife, Lori, and their five children.

Franklin W. Nutter
President, Reinsurance Association of America

Frank Nutter has been president of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) since 1991. He held the same position with the RAA from 1981-1984. 

In the interim, he was president of the Alliance of American Insurers and the Property Loss Research Bureau, which have now merged to be part of the PCI (Property Casualty Insurance Association of America).

Mr. Nutter currently serves on the Board of the International Hurricane Research Center; the Advisory Board of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, an adjunct to the Harvard University Medical School; the Council of the American Meteorological Society; and the Board of the University Center for Atmospheric Research, a consortium of universities managing the National Center for Atmospheric Research sponsored by the National Science Foundation. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the OECD’s International Network for the Financial Management of Large Scale Disasters and has served on the Board of the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences.

He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Worker’s Compensation Research Institute, and the Board of Overseers of the Institute for Civil Justice, a subsidiary of the Rand Corporation. 

Mr. Nutter has a Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Nutter was an officer in the U.S. Navy and is a Vietnam veteran. He is listed in Who’s Who in America.

Fredrick Osborn III
Philanthropist

Fred Osborn grew up in suburban Philadelphia, PA, graduating from the Episcopal Academy there in 1964. In 1966, he dropped out of Princeton University and was drafted into the Army, earning the Army Commendation Medal for service in Vietnam.

Following the Army tour, he received a B.A. in economics from Colby College in Maine with the class of 1971. He helped start and run an electronics research business in Boston, MA. In 1974, he volunteered to work in the Finance Department at the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.

In 1976, he went to the Diocese of Maine as Administrator; in 1980, to Connecticut as Director of Administration. In 1987, he switched from funds management to funds raising, becoming the National Episcopal Church's Staff Officer for Development and Planned Giving where he taught church leaders around the country how to develop significant resources for their ministries.

In 1995 he became Director of Philanthropic Services at The Episcopal Church Foundation, continuing fund raising training and running a complete Gift Planning operation for Episcopal Churches nationwide, including an investment service. He retired at the end of 2005.

Fred and his wife Anne, a watercolor artist, emergency medical technician, and consulting forester, live in Garrison, NY. They have three children and five grandchildren. They are avid sailors and have crossed the Atlantic Ocean twice in their 44-foot sloop, "Easter." Both Fred and Anne are involved in civic, environmental, educational and arts not-for-profits. In 2006 they started the "Easter Foundation" through which their family now does the bulk of its charitable giving.

Carl Safina
President, Blue Ocean Institute and Author

Carl Safina grew up loving the ocean and its creatures. His childhood by the shore led to scientific studies of seabirds and fish, and to his doctorate in Ecology from Rutgers University. During his research and his recreational and part-time-commercial fishing, he noticed declines in sea turtles, white marlin, sharks, tunas, and many other fishes. It seemed to him as though a kind of "last buffalo hunt" was occurring in the seas. For over a decade Dr. Safina has worked to put ocean fish conservation issues into the wildlife conservation mainstream. He has helped lead campaigns to ban high seas driftnets, re-write U.S.fisheries law, use international agreements toward restoring tunas, sharks, and other fishes, achieve a United Nations fisheries treaty, and reduce albatross drownings on commercial fishing lines. Safina is author of over one hundred publications, including the books Song for the Blue Ocean and Eye of the Albatross. He also co-authored Seafood Lover’s Almanac. Safina is a recipient of the Pew Scholar's Award in Conservation and the Environment, a World Wildlife Fund Senior Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award, John Burroughs Writer’s Medal, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is now president of Blue Ocean Institute, a non-profit that he co-founded in 2003.

Lise Van Susteren M.D.
Psychiatrist

Lise received her Doctorate in Medicine in 1982 from the University of Paris. After interning at hospitals in Paris and Lome, Togo, she completed her residency in psychiatry at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Board certified in both general and forensic psychiatry, Lise worked as a staff psychiatrist in public mental health centers in Alexandria and Fairfax, Virginia.

For more than twenty years Lise has maintained a private practice in psychiatry. An Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University and an active member of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, she has worked to educate the public on mental health issues through writing in professional journals, the press and other media outlets.

A frequent guest on local and national radio and television, Lise has addressed a range of issues on violence, trauma, and mental illness. Through Physicians for Human Rights, she conducts evaluations of victims of torture seeking asylum in this country and advocates on their behalf. She has served as a consultant to the CIA where she developed psychological assessments of world leaders. In the aftermath of  Hurricane Katrina, Lise traveled to Houston to assist those in need of mental health treatment.

In 2005, concerned about the direction the country was taking -- and believing that a background in science and human behavior would strengthen the political process -- she ran for the U.S. Senate seat in Maryland.

In September, 2006, she was chosen as one of the first fifty persons to be trained in Nashville by Al Gore to give her version of his global warming slide show, the basis of the documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth. She has given her presentations on climate change to more than 100 educational, religious, political, environmental and business audiences in the United States, including the US Department of the Treasury and the US Secret Service, and abroad.  In the spring of 2008 she developed a slide show on the health effects of global warming, which she has presented to medical professionals, educational institutions, and foundations. During the summer of 2008 she traveled to the Arctic Circle to speak on the impact of Global Warming in the Arctic. In collaboration with the National Wildlife Federation and with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation she organized a conference held in March 2009 on the mental health and psychological impacts of climate change.

Lise is on the board of the National Wildlife Federation, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and former Vice President Al Gore’s foundation “The Climate Project”. Governor Martin O’Malley named her to the working group of the Maryland Commission on Climate in 2007 and to the Board of the Chesapeake Bay Trust in 2008. In July 2009 she was named to the Metropolitan Council of Governments, where she is a member of the Committee on Climate, Energy and the Environment.