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Board of Directors
Michelle Yozzo Drake has over twenty years of experience as a professional speaker and executive coach. As CEO and co-founder of the marketing consulting firm The Cove Group, Inc., she specializes in programs designed to motivate, educate, and entertain. Michelle hosts a weekly radio show titled "Workplace Wisdom" on WXCT Talk Radio 990 AM and is the author of the upcoming book From the Kitchen to the Corner Office. Michelle's clients include Fortune 100 companies such as Pfizer, Sun Life Financial, General Electric - Electric Insurance division, and Siemens.
Website: michelleydrake.com
Van Jones is the Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He is working to combine solutions to Americaís two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Van Jones is the Founder of Green For All and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. In 2008, TIME magazine named him one of its "Environmental Heroes." Fast Company called him one of the "12 Most Creative Minds of 2008." Van's honors include the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the international Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader," and the Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship.
Website: ellabakercenter.org
Kathy LeMay is the founder, president, and CEO of Raising Change, which helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas and philanthropic individuals with social action planning worldwide. Kathy has been a social change fundraiser for fifteen years, raising more than $100 million dollars in the fields of women's human rights, hunger and poverty relief, and movement-building. In January 2010, Kathy will release her first book, The Generosity Plan. She has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows, including Oxygen and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Website:
raisingchange.com
Alex Rivera is a New York-based digital media artist and filmmaker. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, premiered at Sundance 2008 and won two awards, including the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Rivera is a Sundance Fellow and a Rockefeller Fellow. His work, which addresses concerns of the Latino community through a language of humor, satire, and metaphor, has also been screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, MOMA New Directors/New Films, the Guggenheim Museum, PBS, Telluride, and other international venues.
Website:
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