Our Team
- Kevin Danaher: Executive Director
- Lou CasaBianca: Communications Director
- David Pascal: Operations Director
- Joey Shepp: Website Designer, Earthsite.net
- Michele Ferri: Website Designer, Earthsite.net
- Pandora Thomas: Green Careers Program Director
- Abby Reider: Assistant to the Executive Director
Our Board of Directors
- Mujahid M. Abdullah
- China Brotsky
- Dr. Kevin Danaher
- John C. Harrington
- Van Jones
- Dan Leibsohn
- Kirsten Moller
- Greg Roberts
- Michael Simmons
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Lou CasaBianca: Communications Director |
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Lou CasaBianca is the Communications Director of the Global Citizen Center. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing and managing the Center's media and community outreach efforts. A Sausalito-based writer, producer and social ecopreneur, Lou provides a unique visionary and triple net (people + planet + profit) value-added sustainability perspective to his work. In 1988, he edited and co-published HyperMedia Magazine and subsequently New Media Magazine, the first periodicals to predict and serve the needs of the emerging new media and Web development communities. He has provided pro bono media and technology consulting to the Centro de Desarrollo Integral, in Ecuador; the Indigenous People's University of Ecuador; and the Sierra Club, among others. He is the author or co-author of the Digital Video Handbook; the CD ROM Yearbook; and the NewTV, the Comprehensive Survey of High Definition Television.
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Mujahid M. Abdullah is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Sustainable Capital, LLC. Sustainable Capital is a boutique investment bank providing advisory services to Clean Technology startups and social enterprises. The Firm also designs and structures Energy-efficient/Resource-efficient financial instruments (Green mortgages, Green Small Business loans, etc.).
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China Brotsky is the Vice-President, Special Projects at Tides Network. In this capacity, she is responsible for Tides Shared Spaces initiatives that create, operate and promote sustainable work space for nonprofits. Ms. Brotsky joined Tides in 1990 as Chief Financial Officer. During her tenure at Tides, she managed the restoration and development of the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, a multi-tenant nonprofit center in San Francisco's Presidio National Park and home to Tides Network. Ms. Brotsky also co-founded and directs The NonprofitCenters Network, an emerging network of nonprofit real estate practitioners. She has also served as the founding Executive Director of Groundspring.org.
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John C. Harrington has been a leader in the socially responsible investment movement for over thirty years, and was a key architect of the divestment movement against the apartheid government in South Africa. Mr. Harrington is currently the President and CEO of Harrington Investments, Inc. Author of Investing with Your Conscience, he is also one of the founders and former chairman of the board of Working Assets and Progressive Asset Management, and two pioneering socially responsible financial services companies. Mr. Harrington's current affiliations and positions include: Board Member & Treasurer, Global Exchange; Board Member, CANICCOR, an interfaith council on corporate accountability; Advisory Board Member, The Rose Foundation; Board Member, Community Development Finance; and Advisory Board Member, Women for Women International.
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Van Jones, esq. is the founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC). Headquartered in San Francisco, EBC is a national organization that challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system.
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Dan Leibsohn is the Financial Director of the Global Citizen Center. In this capacity, Mr. Leibsohn is responsible for all aspects of the Center's financial planning and the development of its financing strategies. Mr. Leibsohn is an experienced community development executive and an innovator in low-income real estate lending. He was President, Executive Director, and Founder of the Low Income Housing Fund (now Low Income Investment Fund), which currently has in excess of $100MM under management. Mr. Leibsohn currently maintains an active management role in Community Development Finance, a nonprofit financial and research organization.
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Kirsten Moller is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Global Exchange, a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. In her capacity as Executive Director, Ms. Moller is responsible for a staff of 48 and a budget of $7.5 million. Since its founding in 1988, Ms. Moller has been instrumental in growing the membership and programs of Global Exchange. She developed Global Exchange branches in Washington, DC, South Africa, Haiti, Honduras and Cuba, and oversees the organization’s political, civil rights, social and economic rights campaigns, the Fair Trade Program, Reality Tours, and the Public Education Program.
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Greg Roberts is co-creator of the Green Festival, and since 2002 he has produced the event in San Francisco, Austin, and Washington, DC. He currently serves as the Festival’s Producer and Strategic Business Development Director. In addition to the Green Festival, Mr. Roberts has been involved with a number of other Green and progressive events. He has been the Sponsorship Manager for SolFest from 2003-2005 and he co-created and produces the Co-op America Green Business Conference. Mr. Roberts was formerly CEO of Whole Life, Inc. where he produced over 50 national events between 1989-2001. He maintains an active media and event production consultancy whose clients include: Mother Jones Magazine, West Coast Greens—Green Building Trade Show, San Francisco Department of the Environment / United Nations, Medium Rare Music, Learning Annex, and Collective Eye Film Production.
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Michael Simmons is co-founder and Principal of Paramount Development Group. Mr. Simmons has over 15 years of experience in real estate development and specialized in project management and delivery from due diligence through construction. His experience includes both for-profit and affordable residential projects as well as commercial and institutional developments.
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