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STEPHEN HEINTZ - Board Chair
Stephen Heintz is President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and former President of Demos. He has also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the EastWest Institute, where from 1990-2000, he worked and lived in Eastern Europe helping in the transition to democracy. Mr. Heintz has also served in the State of Connecticut as both the Commissioner of the Department of Economic Development and Commissioner of the Department of Income Maintenance.
BEN BINSWANGER
Ben Binswanger is Senior Vice-President of The Case Foundation. During the course of his career, he has held senior leadership positions in the government, business, and nonprofit sectors. After serving as Senator Edward Kennedy's senior political advisor, he was Director of Business Development at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and the senior communications officer at Telespectrum Worldwide, a publicly traded direct marketing company. Mr. Binswanger then joined America Online as Vice President for corporate communications, and, following AOL's merger with Time Warner, he worked in the corporate relations department and at the AOL Time Warner Foundation. Ben was instrumental in creating and promoting giving and volunteering programs at AOL Time Warner, and presently serves on the boards of National Voting Rights Institute, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
CHRISTINE CHEN
Christine Chen is the Executive Director of APIAVote, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that encourages and promotes civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public policy processes at the national, state and local levels. She served from 2001 to 2005 as national executive director of the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), one of the leading APIA civil rights organizations in the country. Prior to being appointed OCA executive director, Ms. Chen served as the organization's director of programs for six years. Her track record in building coalitions and working at the grassroots and national levels established her as one of the strongest voices in the APIA community. Ms. Chen is an advisory board member for the Progressive Majority Racial Justice Campaign, and has served on numerous boards such as the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership, Youth Vote, Gates Millennium Scholarship Advisory Council, Kennedy Center Community Advisory Board, and Board of Advisors for the Midwest Asian American Students Union, East Coast Asian American Students Union, and the Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association. In 2003, she was a founding member of the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund.
ROBERT FRANKLIN
Reverend Robert Franklin, Jr., is the Presidential Distinguished Scholar of Social Ethics at Emory University. He formerly served as President of the Interdenominational Theological Center, the nation's foremost center of historically African American religious training and graduate theological education. Prior to that, Dr. Franklin was a program officer at The Ford Foundation-where he was responsible for grants to African American churches engaged in secular social service delivery. Dr. Franklin is author of Liberating Visions: Human Fulfillment and Social Justice in African American Thought (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997).
JEHMU GREENE
Jehmu Greene is the National Director for Project Vote in Washington, DC. Prior to being President of Rock the Vote, Ms. Greene served as the Director of Women's Outreach and Southern Political Director at the Democratic National Committee, a Program Director a the Center for Policy Alternatives' Youth Voices Project and National Student Voter Education Day, and a Volunteer Coordinator for the University of Texas's Neighborhood Longhorns Project.
AMY HANAUER
Amy Hanauer is the founding Executive Director of Policy Matters Ohio, a policy research institute dedicated to examining issues that matter to Ohio's working families. Since she founded the organization in January of 2000, Policy Matters has produced more than 100 reports, generated more than 1,000 newspaper stories, and begun to change the economic debate in Ohio. Ms. Hanauer has a Master's of Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA from Cornell University. She previously served as a Senior Associate at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, and as a Policy Analyst for Wisconsin State Senator Gwendolynne Moore, now a member of Congress. Ms. Hanauer has also done research and policy work in Colorado and Washington D.C. For Policy Matters, in addition to running the organization, Ms. Hanauer does research on work, wages, tax policy, energy policy and other issues.
SARA HOROWITZ - Treasurer
Sara Horowitz is the founder and Executive Director of Working Today, a non-profit organization that represents the needs and concerns of America's growing independent "freelance" workforce by providing access to key protections such as health insurance and other benefits. Previously, she was a labor attorney in private practice and a union organizer with 1199-the National Health and Human Service Employees Union. Prior to joining 1199, Sara was a public defender in New York City.
ERIC LIU
Eric Liu is an author and educator who has served in senior leadership roles in national politics, media and business. He was a White House foreign policy speechwriter during President Clinton's first term and the President's deputy domestic policy adviser in the second term. Before that he served as a legislative aide to Senator David Boren. Liu is founder of the "How We Teach" initiative, a new multimedia education project. From 2000 to 2002, Liu was a Vice President at RealNetworks, the pioneering Internet media firm. Mr. Liu's most recent publication is Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life (Random House, 2005).
CLARISSA MARTINEZ DE CASTRO
Clarissa Martinez De Castro is Director of State/Local Public Policy for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest constituency-based Hispanic organization in the United States. In that capacity, she launched and now oversees NCLR's state-based policy and advocacy efforts in Texas and California, and works with community-based organizations, legislators and coalitions in other states lending assistance and support to increase Latino engagement in policy debates. She also directs NCLR's Latino Empowerment and Advocacy Project, a civic engagement and voter mobilization initiative focused on long-term, electorate expansion and local capacity building. Prior to her work with NCLR, Ms. Martinez served as public policy coordinator for the Southwest Voter Research Institute (Willie Velasquez Research Institute), where she covered issues related to passage and implementation of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and contributed to the creation of the North American Development Bank (NADBank). She also served as Assistant Director of the California-Mexico Project at the University of Southern California, convening opinion leaders from both Mexico and California to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing their regions. Her background includes work with the Ladies' Garment Workers Union (now UNITE), and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) Local 11, organizing and representing largely immigrant workers in several states. A Salzburg Seminar Fellow, Ms. Martinez holds a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Bachelors degree in Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College. Ms. Martinez was born and raised in the Mexican State of Sinaloa.
ARNIE MILLER
Arnie Miller is a founder of Isaacson Miller, a national executive recruiting firm headquartered in Boston. Previously he served in the Administration of President Jimmy Carter as the Director of the Presidential Personnel Office in the White House from 1978 to 1980. During his tenure, more women and people of color were appointed to positions in the Executive Branch and the Independent Regulatory Agencies than ever before in our nation's history.
SPENCER OVERTON
Spencer Overton is a professor at The George Washington University Law School, and he specializes in voting rights and campaign finance law. Professor Overton's academic articles on election law have appeared in several leading law journals, and his book, Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression, was published and released by W.W. Norton in June 2006. Professor Overton formerly taught at the University of California, Davis and served as the Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow at Harvard Law School. He was also a commissioner on the Jimmy Carter-James Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, and Overton currently serves on the boards of Common Cause, Demos, and the Center for Responsive Politics.
WENDY PURIEFOY
Wendy Puriefoy is President of Public Education Network, the nation's largest network of community-based school reform organizations. Prior to that, she was Executive Vice President and COO of The Boston Foundation, a community foundation with an endowment of over $750 million supporting public health/welfare, educational, cultural, environmental, and housing programs in Boston, Massachusetts.
DAVID SKAGGS (on leave 2007)
David Skaggs is Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education. Prior to this position, he was the Executive Director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at The Council for Excellence in Government. He was also Counsel to a Washington-based law firm and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado. Previously, Mr. Skaggs was a six-term Democratic U.S. Congressman from Colorado and a three-term member of the Colorado legislature.
ERNEST TOLLERSON (on leave 2007)
Ernest Tollerson is Director of Policy and Media Relations for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City. Prior to this position, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Policy at the New York City Partnership, a business-led nonprofit. Before that, he was a Program Officer at the Beldon Fund and served for two years as a member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times. Mr. Tollerson began his career in journalism in 1975 at The Wall Street Journal. He also was editorial page editor at New York Newsday.
AMELIA WARREN TYAGI
Amelia Warren Tyagi is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of The Business Talent Group. Previously, she co-founded HealthAllies, a health benefits firm which was later acquired by United Health Group, the 2nd largest health insurer in the US. Prior to founding HealthAllies, she was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company. Ms. Tyagi is the co-author of two best-selling books, The Two-Income Trap and All Your Worth. She has written for Time, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, and other publications on a variety of topics including the US economy, health care, and women and work. She is a regular commentator for the nationally syndicated radio show Marketplace. Ms. Tyagi holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA from Brown University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two daughters, ages 5 and 1.
RUTH WOODEN
Ruth Wooden is President of Public Agenda, a non-profit that conducts public opinion research, on critical public policy issues. Prior to joining Public Agenda in August 2003, Ms. Wooden was Executive Vice President-Senior Counselor at the international public relations firm of Porter Novelli where she led the Advertising and Cause-Related Marketing Practice. She also served from August 1987 to June 1999 as President and CEO of The Advertising Council, Inc.
CHARLES R. HALPERN - Founding Board Chair Emeritus
Charles R. Halpern is currently a Scholar in Residence at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. While founding Demos and serving as its first Board Chair, he was President and CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. From 1982 to 1987, Mr. Halpern was the founding Dean and Professor of Law at the CUNY Law School at Queens College. He was also co-founder and director of the Network for Law and Social Policy in Washington, D.C., and co-founder and attorney for the Mental Health Law Project.
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