New American Dream Board of Directors
Liz Barratt-Brown (Washington, DC), Board Co-Chair
Senior Attorney, NRDC.
Juliet Schor (Newton, MA) Board Co-Chair
Economist, Boston College; Guggenheim Fellowship recipient; author of The Overworked America; The Overspent American; and Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture.
Jeffrey B. Baer (Portland, OR)
Director, Bureau of Purchases, City of Portland, OR; Steering Committee member, the Responsible Purchasing Network; Member of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP) Green Knowledge Community; and Advisory Board member of the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs.
Alan Balch (Bowie, MD), Board Treasurer
Vice-president, Preventive Health Partnership; former Executive Director of Friends of Cancer Research and Course Instructor in the Environmental Studies Department at University of California, Santa Cruz.
Dr. Julie Gorte (Bethesda, MD)
Senior Vice President, Sustainable Investing, Pax World Management Corp. Former Vice President and Chief Social Investment Strategist at Calvert Group
Robert Engelman (Takoma Park, MD)
Vice President for Programs, Worldwatch Institute; author of dozens of articles on population’s connection to environmental change, economic growth and civil conflict. Former newspaper reporter and founding member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Chris Jordan (Seattle, WA)
Photographer represented at Paul Kopeikin Gallery (LA), Von Lintel Gallery (NY) and Winsor Gallery (BC). Author of In Katrina's Wake and Intolerable Beauty.
Gay Nicholson (Ithaca, NY)
President & CEO, Sustainable Tompkins.
Wendy Philleo (Charlottesville, VA)
Consultant, Hewlett Foundation. Former Program Officer at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Program Officer at World Wildlife Fund. Also worked for UNEP and the U.S. State Department.
Daesha Ramachandran (Baltimore, MD)
Senior Associate for Corporate Relations and Foundation Giving at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW).
Also worked for Development Resources and the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children.
Dr. Eleanor Sterling (New York, NY)
Director of the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. Board member of the Society for Conservation Biology and the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation.
Betsy Taylor (Takoma Park, MD)
President, 1sky, Former President, Center for a New American Dream; former Executive Director of the Merck Family Fund; author of What Kids Really Want that Money Can’t Buy and co-editor of Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century.
Michael P. Totten (Takoma Park, MD)
Senior Director, Biodiversity, Climate and Water Program, Conservation International. Former Executive Director of Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST); former Co-Director, Sustainable Enterprise Program, World Resources Institute.