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Board of Directors
JRI has a distinguished Board of Directors from the philanthropic, media, and medical communities. Click on the following names to find bios of our Board members.
James Redford, President and Founder
Neal Baer MD, Executive Producer, Law and Order; Special Victims Unit
Jennifer Brokaw, MD, University of California San Francisco
Tom Brokaw, NBC
Carolyn Chin, Cebiz!
Jake Eberts, Filmmaker
Fredrika Edwards, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International
Burton Gordon, Gordon Management Company
Howard Nathan, Gift of Life Donor Program (formerly DVTP)
Robert Redford, Filmmaker
Byers W. Shaw, Jr, MD., University of Nebraska Medical Center
David Sheff, Author
Lola Van Wagenen Ph.D., President, Clio Inc., Visualizing History
Robert E. Gipson, Gipson, Hoffman & Pancione
Dr. Neal Baer is Executive Producer of the NBC television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. During his tenure, the series has won the Shine Award, the Prism Award, and the Media Access Award, and has grown in both critical and popular stature. The series regularly appears among the top ten television dramas in national ratings.
Prior to his work on SVU, Dr. Baer was Executive Producer of the NBC series ER. A member of the show's original staff and a writer and producer on the series for seven seasons, he was nominated for five Emmys as a producer. He also received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Writing in A Drama Series for the episodes "Hell and High Water" and "Whose Appy Now?" For the latter, he also received a Writers' Guild of America nomination.
Dr. Baer's other work includes "Warriors," an episode of China Beach, nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for best episodic drama, and the ABC Afterschool Special "Private Affairs," which he directed and wrote. The Association of Women in Film and Television selected the program, dealing with sexually transmitted diseases, as the Best Children's Drama of the Year. He recently wrote "The Doctor Corps," a feature film for Twentieth Century Fox; "Outreach," a pilot for the WB Network, which he also produced; and "The Edge," a pilot for CBS.
Dr. Baer graduated from Harvard Medical
School and completed his internship in Pediatrics at Children's
Hospital, Los Angeles. He received the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial
Scholarship from the American Medical Association as the most outstanding
medical student who has contributed to promoting a better understanding
of medicine in the media. The American Association for the Advancement
of Science selected him as a Mass Media Fellow. In 2003, he was
honored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, Lupus L.A., and
the Media Project.
Dr. Baer's primary medical interests are in adolescent health. He
has written extensively for teens on health issues for Scholastic
Magazine, covering such topics as teen pregnancy, AIDS, drug and
alcohol abuse, and nutrition. Dr. Baer taught elementary school
in Colorado and also worked as a research associate at USC Medical
School, where he focused on drug and alcohol abuse prevention.
Dr. Baer graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science
from Colorado College. He holds master's degrees from Harvard Graduate
School of Education and from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences in Sociology. Before working in television, he spent a
year at the American Film Institute as a directing fellow. In 2000,
he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Colorado College.
Dr. Baer serves on the boards of many
organizations related to health care, including the Venice Family
Clinic, RAND Health, Advocates for Youth, Children Now, the Huckleberry
Fund of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the National Organization
on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS). He is a trustee of the Writers
Guild of America Health and Pension Fund, and a member of the Board
of Associates at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
Dr. Baer received the Valentine Davies Award for 2004 from the Writers
Guild of America, West for "public service efforts in both
the entertainment industry and the community at large, bringing
dignity to and raising the standard for writers everywhere."
In 2003 he received the Special Individual Achievement Award from
the Media Project; the Leadership Award from NOFAS; the Loop Award
from Lupus LA for educating the public about lupus and autoimmune
diseases; and the Socially Responsible Medicine Award from Physicians
for Social Responsibility for "accomplishment in crafting compelling
health messages." Dr. Baer lives in Los Angeles with his wife,
Gerrie Smith, who is on the board of the service organization City
Hearts, and his son Caleb, 14.
Jennifer Brokaw has been a practicing Emergency Physician for 11 years and currently practices in San Francisco. She is on staff at California Pacific Medical Center and at San Francisco General Hospital. Jennifer received her B.A. from Stanford University and her MD from Dartmouth Medical School. Her Emergency Medicine training was completed at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. Jennifer has been a long-time advocate of organ donation, having participated in the process in “real-time” during her medical training. She is a member of the Board of Overseers of The International Rescue Committee, a non-governmental organization that assists refugees. Jennifer’s husband, Allen is a practicing Radiologist. They have two children: Claire, 10, and Meredith, 7.
On December 1, 2004, one of the most trusted and respected
figures in broadcast journalism, Tom Brokaw, stepped down after
21 years as the anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly
News." Brokaw will continue with NBC News for the next ten
years, reporting and producing long-form documentaries and providing
expertise during breaking news events.
In June 2005, Brokaw returned to primetime with an hour-long documentary
"Tom Brokaw Reports: The Long War" about the war on terror.
For the documentary, Brokaw traveled around the world - to Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, France and Washington D.C. - to interview
world leaders, intelligence experts and those personally affected
by the events of Sept. 11.
In June 2004, Brokaw traveled to Iraq during those dangerous times
to cover the handover of power and reported for five days for all
NBC News programs and MSNBC. In addition to interviewing a mix of
newsmakers including Iraq's interim president Ghazi Al Yawer, General
David Petraeus, the American General who is charged with rebuilding
the Iraqi security forces, and securing an exclusive interview with
General Ricardo Sanchez, the man who was in charge of the American
forces in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was captured, Brokaw patrolled
the dangerous Baghdad streets in a humvee convoy with the First
Cavalry Division, and also reported on student life in Baghdad with
the class of 2004.
Brokaw was the only network evening news anchor to report from Normandy,
France during the D-Day 60th Anniversary ceremonies in June, 2004.
He had exclusive interviews with French President Jacques Chirac
in Paris and President George W. Bush at the American Cemetery Normandy
Beach in Colleville-sur-Mer, France on June 6, the 60th Anniversary
of D-Day. In February 2004, Brokaw returned to the Asian subcontinent
to report on the challenges Pakistan and Afghanistan face as they
continue to fight the war on terror. In addition to securing exclusive
interviews Pakistan president Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Afghan president
Hamid Karzai, Brokaw traveled with the Pakistani army to mountainous
and barren terrain along the border with Afghanistan as they hunted
for Al Qaeda and also reported from Southeastern Afghanistan, the
base of the 10th Mountain Division, where U.S. soldiers are not
only hunting for Al Qaeda, but trying to win the hearts and minds
of the people as well.
In 2003, as the international controversy escalated over the increasing
likelihood of war with Iraq, Brokaw traveled overseas to the diplomatic
and military hotspots throughout the Middle East and the Gulf. On
March 19, 2003, Brokaw was the first American news anchor to report
that the war with Iraq had begun, and in April 2003, he landed the
first television interview with President Bush after the President
declared the end of major combat. During the summer of 2003, Brokaw
was the first evening news anchor to return to Baghdad to report
for five nights for "NBC Nightly News" and "Dateline
NBC" on post-war Iraq and the reconstruction efforts.
Brokaw has an impressive series of additional "firsts,"
including the first exclusive U.S. one-on-one interview with Russian
President Mikhail Gorbachev, earning an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia
University Award. Brokaw was the first and only anchor to report
from the scene the night the Berlin Wall fell, and was the first
American anchor to travel to Tibet to report on human-rights abuses
and to conduct an interview with the Dalai Lama.
In addition to "Nightly News," Brokaw has recently reported a series of hour-long documentaries, "Tom Brokaw Reports." Tackling such diverse topics as literacy, affirmative action, drunk driving, corporate scandals, immigration policies, and education, his in-depth reporting has earned critical praise. Brokaw has also reported documentaries of international importance, including "The Road to Baghdad" where he documented the path to possible war with Iraq through the eyes of half a dozen people at the center of the crisis, and "The Lost Boys," a story about how the ongoing war in Sudan forced the "lost boys" out of their villages in the 1980s, which won a National Press Club Award.
Brokaw's documentary reporting has been recognized
with numerous awards, including the prestigious Peabody award in
2004 for "Tom Brokaw Reports: A Question of Fairness"
in which he examined the issue of affirmative action through the
controversy surrounding the University of Michigan and its affirmative
action policy, which detailed the continuing struggle to deal with
race, fairness and higher education in America. In 1989, Brokaw
was awarded his first Peabody award for "To Be An American,"
a documentary about the American tapestry: who we are, how we got
here and what it means to become a new citizen. In 2003, he won
an Emmy for Outstanding Interview for "America Remembers: 9/11
Air Traffic Controllers." In 1997, Brokaw won another Alfred
I. duPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast
Journalism for "Why Can't We Live Together," a documentary
that examined the hidden realities of racial separation in America's
suburbs.
Brokaw's insight, ability and integrity have earned him numerous
other awards for his journalistic achievements, including several
Emmy, Overseas Press Club and National Headliner awards. In 2003,
"NBC Nightly News" was honored with the prestigious Edward
R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast, representing the program's fourth
consecutive win in this category.
The NBC News anchor also has a distinguished record
as a political reporter. He has covered every presidential election
since 1968 and was NBC's White House correspondent during the national
trauma of Watergate (1973-1976). From 1984 through this presidential
election cycle, Brokaw will have anchored all of NBC's political
coverage, including primaries, national conventions and election
nights, and he has moderated nine primary and/or general election
debates.
Complementing his distinguished broadcast journalism career, Brokaw
has written articles, essays and commentary for several publications
including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles
Times, Newsweek, Time, Sports Illustrated, Life, National Geographic,
Outside and Interview.
In 1998, Brokaw became a best selling author with the publication of "The Greatest Generation." Inspired by the mountain of mail he received from his first book, Brokaw wrote "The Greatest Generation Speaks" in 1999. His third book, "An Album of Memories," was published in 2001. In November 2002, his fourth best selling book "A Long Way from Home," a reflective look about growing up in the American Heartland, was released.
Brokaw began his journalism career in 1962 at KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska. He anchored the late evening news on Atlanta's WSB-TV in 1965 before joining KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. He was hired by NBC News in 1966 and from 1976-1981 he anchored NBC News' "Today" program.
Carolyn is Chairman and CEO of Cebiz, a consulting and investment firm. She is also co-founder and faculty member for On Board Bootcamps, a training program for those, especially women/minorities, seeking to join boards and learn best practices for corporate governance.
From '01-'04, Carolyn was Chairman of the Board of Commtouch (Nasdaq CTCH) of Mountain View, CA and Netanya, Israel, a dotcom survivor and leading provider of anti-SPAM solutions (currently being sold). In '01-'02, she served as Chairman and interim CEO for KindMark (a leader in e-philanthropy and automated transaction technology and services). She was elected in 2003 to the board of directors of CH2M Hill, a $4 B+ infrastructure services firm (environment, power, energy and design/build engineering services). CH2M Hill was named by Fortune as "one of the top 100 firms to work for" and one of the "most admired." In 2004, Ms. Chin was elected to the board of Holcim US (subsidiary of one of the world's largest provider of cement) and to the board of State Farm Insurance Bank (the fastest growing US community bank).
Her prior work experience includes EVP Marketing, Sales, and Business Development at MarketXT, an e-commerce firm that pioneered extended hours trading for individual investors. She also served as EVP and Chief Marketing Officer for Reuters America where she created and managed a new branding strategy and developed a strategy for moving Reuters content to e-commerce delivery.
Prior to Reuters, Carolyn held a number of senior positions at IBM including Vice President, Corporate Strategy and External Development and General Manager of Electronic Commerce in which she started and managed IBM's global e-commerce business. Prior to IBM, Ms. Chin served in senior positions (VP/SVP) at Citibank in private banking, credit cards, Quotron and business development and was a trouble-shooter and turnaround expert for the Chairman and President of Citibank. She also held general management, marketing and strategic planning positions at AT&T, Macy's and at the U.S. Departments of HUD (Housing and Urban Development) and HEW (Health, Education, Welfare) (where she served as Chief Regulations Officer).
Ms. Chin has served on a number of corporate boards and advisory boards including: stockjungle.com (financial community and mutual funds); Emediat (provider of Linux rapid application design tools); CEO Global Resources (database and community software and services firm); Allegiance Bank; EJV Partners (broker-dealer consortium); RWDOG (Reuters Web Development Operations Group); CRS (Citicorp Retail Services-private label credit cards for national retailers); Identrus (security/identity) Advisory Board, MediaPearls (streaming and multi-media) Advisory Board; Northwestern Mutual Life Internet Advisory Board; Global Asset Management Advisory Board (UBS); Avis Advisory Board; Swissotel Advisory Board; Tiger 21 Advisory Board (investments), Metro-Home (corporate home rentals) and the San Francisco Chronicle Information Services Advisory Board.
She has extensive negotiations experience and served as a member of the US delegation, working with David Rockefeller, to the Dartmouth Conferences for bilateral discussions with the USSR. Also, she was a US delegate, with Ambassador Woodcock, to bilateral discussions with China on trade and Taiwan. In January '05, she served as a member of a US delegation which met with the President of Taiwan and key business/government leaders in Hong Kong and Beijing to foster improved Taiwan-China and US-Greater China relations.
Ms. Chin was a founding board member of Independent Sector, the national umbrella organization for corporations, foundations and non-profits. She has been active on a number of non-profit boards including: Committee for Economic Development (CED); Committee 100 (prominent Chinese Americans) (Vice Chair); New York City Outward Bound (Audit Chair); The James Redford Institute (to promote organ donation); Nation1 (global teen network) and the Llewellyn Park Committee of Managers. She provided the leadership for a landmark study for the Committee 100, in collaboration with the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), on "American Attitudes towards Chinese Americans and Asian Americans" and currently co-chairs the Committee 100 Research and Policy Committee. She co-chaired the Committee 100/Zogby survey on "American Attitudes towards China" (Phase I) (General Public and Opinion Leaders) presented in Hong Kong in January '05, presented the Phase II (Congressional Staff and Business Leaders) results at a press conference and congressional briefing in Washington DC on April 6th 2005 and presented Phase III (Chinese Americans) findings at CUNY on May 6th 2005 for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Carolyn received her MBA from the Harvard Business School and BS Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (receiving the highest honor for leadership) and was a White House Fellow. Her other honors include selection as one of Glamour's Outstanding Working Women, Outstanding Woman of New Jersey, Who's Who in America. She is a frequent public speaker and has appeared in numerous TV shows and press articles. She has varying language proficiency in French, Russian and Chinese.
Jake Eberts began his business career as a start-up engineer for L'Air Liquide in Spain and Italy. After working on Wall Street and Oppenheimer & Co. in London, Eberts founded Goldcrest Films in London, one of the most successful independent producers of motion pictures. Goldcrest financed development and/or production of a roster of successful films, including Watership Down, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi and The Killing Fields. In 1985 Mr. Eberts founded Allied Filmmakers, an independent feature film development and production company. Since then, he has served as the Executive Producer of The Name of the Rose, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves, Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It, and James and the Giant Peach. Mr. Eberts produced Robert Redford's The Legend of Bagger Vance. In 1991 he published "My Indecision Is Final", his autobiographical study of the film industry. In 1992 he became an Officer of the Order of Canada. He currently serves on the Board of the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Channel. Mr. Eberts studied at McGill University (England) and earned an MBA at Harvard Business School.
Fredrika Edwards began her career in New York as a staff writer for the Fas/Trax Media Information Company. Relocating to Los Angeles and joining the Walt Disney Company in 1992, she is now responsible for the design, production and distribution of marketing and publicity materials to over seventy-five countries. Projects include the "Pirates Of The Caribbean" franchise (team member of Volvo Ocean Race for The Black Pearl), "Gone Baby Gone", "The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian", "Enchanted", "National Treasure Book Of Secrets", "There Will Be Blood" and "WALL-E".
In addition to her work within the film industry, Fredrika is a creative partner in Memphisto Music located in Nashville which was founded by award winning songwriter Rivers Rutherford.
"Many more lives can be saved if organ transplantation were more readily available. I have seen this happen, and feel that anything I might add to transplantation awareness would satisfy an urgent need for mankind".
Education
University of Chicago, PhB 1945
University of Chicago, MBA, 1948
Business Experience
1996-Present Gordon Management Company Chairman of
the Board
1964-1996 Columbia National Bank of Chicago Chairman of the Board,
CEO and Founder
1967-1969 Franklin Park Bank, Franklin Park, IL Chairman of the
Board and CEO
1972-1977 Mid Town Bank and Trust Company of ChicagoChairman of
the Board, President and CEO
1977-Present Mid Town Bank and Trust Company of Chicago Vice Chairman
of the Board
1974-1978 H.M.I., R.E.I.T., (listed on the American Stock Exchange)Director
1978-1990 Evans, Inc. (listed on NASDAQ) Retail Apparel Director
1982-1995 Neotronics PLC (listed on London Stock Exchange) Director
Non-Profit Affiliations
1969-Present Gastro-Intestinal Research Foundation
1996-Present The James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness
1997-present Utah Symphony Orchestra
1997-Present Institute at Deer Valley, Park City, Utah
Howard M. Nathan is the Executive Director of Gift of Life Donor Program GLDP, the regional organ and tissue donor program serving central and eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware, and consists of 12 transplant hospitals with 34 organ specific programs and a network of 163 hospitals providing referrals of tissue and organ donors. Nathan joined GLDP in 1978 as a Transplant Coordinator and has served as Executive Director since 1984.
As Executive Director, Nathan directs all clinical and administrative activities of GLDP including directing a staff of 80 employees. He also serves as the Executive Secretary to the Greater Delaware Valley Society of Transplant Surgeons, the governing council of GLDP.
Nathan is considered one of the nation's leading authorities in organ and tissue donation. He is currently the President of the Coalition on Donation and has served on the Board of Directors for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) for three terms, including Treasurer and Region 2 Councilor, being the first non-physician to do so. Nathan is a past president of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO), and also serves on numerous other national and state organizations, including: American Association of Bioethics, National Kidney Foundation-U.S. Transplant Games Committee, North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO), Governor’s Organ Donation Advisory Committee for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, American Red Cross Blood Services (Penn Jersey Region), The James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness, among others.
A visible figure in the field of transplantation, Nathan is a regular presenter at both regional and national organ procurement, transplantation and other medical/health care conferences, and has published more than 65 scientific papers. He is consulted frequently by members of the media and has appeared on national TV news and talk programs, including CBS News, CNN, the Phil Donahue Show, Morton Downey Jr., and Geraldo. Nathan recently received the Caring for Kids Award presented by Bell Atlantic Corporation and The Belzer Award for outstanding abstract presented at the 1997 4th International Society for Organ Sharing Congress.
Nathan is a graduate of Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in biology. He has also done graduate work in public health at the University of Pittsburgh. Before joining DVTP, he was a research specialist in microbiology and electron microscopy at The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Robert Redford began his career on Broadway in 1959 and has since been involved in more than 30 films as an actor, producer or director.
Redford won the Best Director Academy Award¨ for his feature directing debut on the intensity emotional family drama "Ordinary People." He was also nominated for an Academy Award¨ for directing "Quiz Show." As an actor, he received Academy Award¨ nomination for his performance in "The Sting."
In addition to his work as an actor, director and producer, Robert Redford has been a noted environmentalist since the early 1970s. He is a founding member of the Natural Resources Defense Council and founder and president of the Sundance Institute, an internationally recognized center for the development of the arts and preservation of the environment.
Dr. Bud Shaw served as chief of transplantation from the time he joined the University of Nebraska Medical Center faculty in 1985, until his appointment as Chairman of the Department of Surgery in early 1997. Under Dr. Shaw's direction, UNMC rapidly became one of the top solid organ transplant centers in the world. He has been named among the best physicians in America by such publications as Good Housekeeping, American Health, and Town & Country. Author of over 300 medical journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Shaw is also co-editor of The Journal of Liver Transplantation and Surgery. His editorials for that journal have addressed such diverse topics as donor liver allocation, leadership in surgery, organ donation campaigns, the foibles of statistical analysis, and the future of transplantation.
An Ohio native, Dr. Shaw earned his bachelor's degree from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He completed his surgery residency at the University of Utah before spending four years in the transplant surgery program at the University of Pittsburgh.
David Sheff’s Game Over (Random House, Vintage), an international best seller published in a dozen languages, is considered “the bible of the videogame industry” (The Wall Street Journal). The New York Times called it “beguiling” and "irresistible. . . almost as hypnotic as a successful video game" and it was universally praised by reviewers for Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes, USA Today, The New York Review of Books, and hundreds of domestic and international magazines and newspapers. The Houston Chronicle said, "For business moguls who someday want to corner their markets, this book is a must-read…. Game Over is about as readable as a business book can be." The Chicago Tribune called it “A cross between Barbarians at the Gate and The Soul of the New Machine.”
Sheff's China Dawn (Harper Business) was described in the Wall Street Journal as “the story of an insurgency, and a momentous one.” Newsweek called it “an engaging look at how the Net revolution is playing out in a nation where the rules of capitalism don’t apply.” Salon.com added, “China Dawn is an arresting read…. China, at the turn of the century, comes alive.” The book was an editor’s pick. “Sheff's prose is as energetic and alive as his chosen subject. [It’s] written with more zeal and energy than most thrillers. You'll find the book to be pleasurable as well as educational, entertaining as well as serious.” Author Gore Vidal wrote, “David Sheff has written a fascinating study of go-getting businessmen at work in a revived China –one that is bound to shape our future.” Marc Andreesen said: “China Dawn tells the spellbinding story of the people who are bringing the Internet to China, energizing the Chinese economy and catalyzing massive social change."
All We Are Saying, based on Sheff’s interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980, was a Literary Guild Selection book. The Times called it, ''A fascinating, detailed glimpse into the workings of a musical genius” and People said it was “the most revealing portrait of John Lennon’s career.” In Time, Jay Cocks wrote: "The interview is lively proof that some of the best Lennon/Ono art was their life."
Sheff’s articles and interviews have appeared in Fortune, Playboy The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, Outside, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, , Esquire and Observer Magazine in England, Foreign Literature in Russia, and Playboy (Shueisha) in Japan. His article “My Addiction Son” in the New York Times Magazine won the 2005 “Outstanding Contribution for Advancing the Understanding of Addiction” award by the American Psychological Association. His interviews, including those with Ansel Adams, nuclear physicist Ted Taylor, Congressman Barney Frank, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Tom Hanks, Betty Friedan, the founders of Google, and Keith Haring, have received wide recognition, as did his "Portrait of a Generation" in Rolling Stone. He also wrote radio documentaries for National Public Radio on the anniversaries of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. In addition, he wrote and edited Heart Play: Unfinished Dialogue, which won a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word Recording of 1984.
Sheff has been an editor of New West and California magazines and was founding editor of Men’s Life and Yahoo Internet Life. He has served as a consultant for other magazines.
Sheff lives in Northern California with his family.
Lola Van Wagenen received her Ph.D. in American History from New York University in 1994. Currently she is Director of Clio Visualizing History, a Vermont not-for-profit history educational organization that seeks to expand the audience for American history through films and new media. Currently Dr. Van Wagenen is also First Vice President of the Vermont Historical society, and has served for eight years on the board of Shelburne Farms, a Vermont environmental education organization. Previously she worked as a consumer and environmental advocate and in this capacity she was President of Consumer Action Now, a public interest organization. Dr. Van Wagenen was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as a Commissioner for the United Nations Year of the Child, and served as the Chair of the Task Force on Appropriate Technology for the United States Office of Technology Assessment.
Investment Management
President, Alpha Analytics Investment Group, LLC, Registered Investment
Advisor. Charterholder, Chartered Financial Analyst (ACFA@) awarded
by Association For Investment Management and Research. Member, Los
Angeles Society of Financial Analysts.
Business
Business First Bank, Santa Barbara, California, Member of Board
of Directors, 2001-current. National Mercantile Bancorp, Los Angeles,
California, Member of Board of Directors, 1996-current, Chairman
of the Board, 1997-current. South Bay Bank, Torrance, California,
Member of Board of Directors, 2002-current. Sundance Catalog Co.,
Member of Board of Directors, 1989-2001.
Charitable and Community
City Scholars Foundation, Member of Board of Directors, 1998-2004;
The History Institute for Education and Media, Member of Board of
Directors; James Redford Institute of Transplant Awareness, Member
of Board of Directors; Los Angeles Venture Association ("L.A.V.A."),
Founding President; Sundance Institute, Member of Board of Directors,
1985-2001; Westwood United Methodist Church, Member.
Academic
Faculty Lecturer, University of Southern California Law Center,
1977-1978.
Claremont University Consortium, Member of Board of Directors, 2002-current.
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, Member,
2002-current.
Professional Education
Yale Law School 1967-1968, 1971-1973. J.D.
Elected to the Yale Law Journal, 1968.
Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal, 1972-73.
United States Military Career
1968-1971
Infantry and paratroop training, 1968. Infantry Officer's Candidate
School, 1969. Executive Officer 561st Military Police Company, Fort
Arlington, Virginia, 1969-1970. Adjutant and Battalion S-1, 40th
Military Police Battalion, United States Army, Support, Thailand
(USARSUPTHAI), 1970. General Staff, Assistant Secretary to the General
Staff; General Staff, Officer Aide to the Commanding General (USARSUPTHAI),
1971.
Undergraduate Education
1963-1967
Harvard College. 1963-1967. Quincy House. A.B. in Government, with
special area of concentration in International Law and Relations.
Personal
Married to Penelope Brandt of Salem, Oregon in 1966. Three adult
sons: Christopher, Jonathan, Elliot.
Leisure
Adventure travel, hiking, movies, philosophy, reading, restaurants,
running, swimming, theology.
