|
Marianne Manilov, Chairwoman
Founder, Center for Commercial-Free Public Education
Marianne Manilov is a grassroots organizer, campaign and
media strategist, and author. Currently, she is working on a book about personal stories
about EarthRights International co-founders, Ka Hasw Wa and Katie Redford and
the landmark Unocal case. She is also
the national outreach coordinator for “Luna,” a feature film about Julia
Butterfly Hill.
Manilov’s 20-plus year career began with youth organizing
for the 21st Century Leadership Project, a program she came up in as a youth
leader. Since that time, she has run national campaigns and programs for groups
such as Amnesty International and Greenpeace International. She was the co-founder and former Executive
Director of The Center for Commercial-Free Public Education. Under Manilov’s
direction, the Center was credited with a bi-partisan coalition of local groups
in 22 states that brought the issue of corporate influence and advertising in
schools onto the national agenda, including congressional hearings.
She has appeared in a host of media outlets, including: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post,
and The New York Times. Good Housekeeping, Business Week. She has also appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN,
and Good Morning America, and the BBC. She also serves on the board of directors of the Movement
Strategy Center and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.
Dr. Charlie Clements, Co-Chairman & Secretary
Executive Director, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)
Charlie
Clements is a public health physician and human rights activist. As a
young Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force Academy, he
refused to fly further missions in support of the invasion of Cambodia. After
graduating from medical school and believing another Vietnam was unfolding in
El Salvador, he volunteered his medical services in a community that
would become a 'free fire zone' -- bombed, rocketed, or strafed almost
daily by American supplied aircraft. As president of Physicians for Human
Rights, he represented that organization in both the treaty signing and the
Nobel prize ceremonies for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. As a
man who has squarely faced moral dilemmas in his life, he is well qualified
to lead the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee as CEO and
President.
David Hunter, Esq., Treasurer
Professor of International Environmental Law,
American University's Washington College of Law;
David
Hunter is assistant
professor and director of the Program on International and Comparative
Environmental Law at WCL. He is also the director of the Washington Summer
Session on Environmental Law. He is the former executive director of the Center
for International Environmental Law and was previously an Associate with the law
firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom. In addition to the Board of
EarthRights International, he also currently serves on the Boards of Directors
of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide-US, the Project on Government
Oversight, the Bank Information Center, and Greenpeace-US.
Toshiyuki Doi
Senior Advisor, Mekong Watch-Japan
Kumi Naidoo
Secretary-General and CEO, CIVICUS: the World Alliance for Citizen
Participation
Kumi is Secretary-General and CEO
of CIVICUS: the World Alliance for Citizen Participation, an international
alliance of organizations dedicated to strengthening citizen participation and
civil society worldwide. He was founding director of the South African NGO
Coalition and served on the task team that drafted new NGO legislation. He has
worked extensively in adult education and on social and economic justice issues,
and has been an African National Congress activist. After spending some years in
exile he was centrally involved in the first democratic elections in
South
Africa, in 1994. He has a doctorate in political science
from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar, and currently
serves as chairperson of the Partnership for Transparency Fund, which supports
civil society efforts to eradicate corruption. Kumi was appointed by the UN
Secretary General to the Panel of Eminent Persons on UN Civil Society Relations,
and is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Governance Initiative.
Neil Popovic
Shareholder, Heller Ehrman LLP; Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Director, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund United Nations Program
Neil A.F. Popovic is a shareholder (partner) at Heller Ehrman LLP,
where he has a litigation practice that includes international dispute
resolution, white collar criminal defense and complex civil
litigation. Mr. Popovic also has a pro bono practice in international
environmental law, and serves as Chair of the firm's San Francisco Pro
Bono Committee. He teaches international environmental law at the
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and has
published numerous articles on international environmental law,
including human rights and the environment. Mr. Popovic previously
worked as an attorney in the International Program of the Sierra Club
Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice), and continues to work with
Earthjustice as a consultant. Mr. Popovic has served on the board of
ERI since its inception. He also sits on the board of the Center for
Youth Development through Law.
Education: University of California, Berkeley (A.B., Political
Science, 1983); University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School
of Law (J.D., 1987); Note and Comment Editor, California Law Review;
Tufts University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A.,
International Relations, 1992), Ford Foundation Fellow in Public
International Law; Academy of European Law, Summer Session 1995.
Mr. Popovic served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alicemarie H.
Stotler of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles and Santa Ana, and
was a judicial extern for Justice Joseph R. Grodin of the Supreme Court
of California.
Rebecca Rockefeller
Graduate student in Natural Resources at UVM
Rebecca is currently a graduate student in Natural Resources at the University
of Vermont, concentrating in Environment, Society and Public Affairs. She has
worked with various groups and foundations in support of socially progressive
work, including with America Coming Together (ACT), which sought to organize,
inform and empower voters in the lead-up to the 2004 election. Most recently,
she promoted renewable energy and land conservation through two small
non-profits in Maine. She is a significant and enthusiastic supporter of ERI's
work. Having researched community and environmental issues in Latin America and
traveled in Burma, she is not only familiar with the work being done by
EarthRights – she is also familiar with the places where that work is being
done. Rebecca graduated with honors in anthropology from Brown University in
2003.
Kate Tillery
International Human Rights Attorney
Katherine (Kate) Tillery is a lawyer with the law firm of
Korein Tillery LLC, with offices in St. Louis, MO and Chicago,
IL. She has served on a variety of non-profit
boards, including: the Illinois Bar
Foundation, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southwestern Illinois, and Trailnet,
Inc.. In addition to the ERI Board, she
currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Illinois College
and the Center for the Arts in Crested Butte, Colorado.
Pursuing her life-long interest in human rights and
environmental issues, Ms. Tillery resumed her formal education in 2000, when
she entered the International Affairs Program at Washington University,
from which she earned a master’s degree in 2003. She has served as a pro-bono lawyer for Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation and
has written and lectured on the subject of the Alien Torts Claims Act and Sustainable
Globalization. She is particularly
interested in ERI’s school in Thailand,
where she has taught International Human Rights Law for the past two years.
|
