New American Dream Board of Directors
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.
Liz Barratt-Brown (Washington, DC), Board Co-Chair
President, Oikos Group; former Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council.
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.
Dr. Julie Gorte (Bethesda, MD) New American Dream Board Co-Chair
Senior Vice President, Sustainable Investing, Pax World Management Corp. Former Vice President and Chief Social Investment Strategist at Calvert Group
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.
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.
Dr. Eleanor Sterling (New York, NY)
p>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.
Alicia P. Wittink (Washington, DC)
Trustee, Park Foundation; board member of Environmental Grantmakers Association, Friends of the Earth, and the Foundation for National Progress (publisher of Mother Jones magazine).