About

Alex Arriaga is currently an independent consultant and is the Co-Chair of the CEDAW Working Group (CEDAW being an acronym for the U.N.'s Convention to End All Forms of Discrimination Against Women). She served as the Director of Government Relations for Amnesty International USA. At the Inter-American Dialogue, a non-profit organization that focuses on policy toward Latin America, she served as a Senior Fellow and Director of Legislative Affairs.

From 1999 through January 2001, Alex served as Special Assistant to President Clinton and as Chief of Staff to the Special Envoy for the Americas that role. In 1995 Alex was appointed as Special Coordinator for External Affairs and later as Senior Advisor for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the Department of State. She served as Executive Director of Secretary Albright's Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad, U.S. Delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and Chair of the Bureau's Working Group on Women's Human Rights. From 1987 to 1995, Alex was the Director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Two years ago Jordan Bankhead started the Citizens for Global Solutions chapter in Oxford, Mississippi. At present, his efforts focus on regional networking with other like-minded nonprofits wishing to pursue international peace and justice. In addition to his CGS activities, Jordan is active in the local nonprofit sector and currently serves on the board of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, and is also a founding member of the Entrepreneurial Alliance of Lafayette-Oxford-University (L.O.U.). Jordan also teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with an A.B. in History and Russian in 1998 and from the University of California, Berkeley with a J.D. in 2001. He moved to Oxford, Mississippi where he started a law practice. In 2007, he received a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Mississippi.

Tom has been an activist in Citizens for Global Solutions since 1983 (President of the Southern California Region for nine terms and several years as a Board member). He holds a B.A. in Sociology and a J.D. He has professional experience as a union representative, leadership in the Labor Community Strategy Center and the national board of the U.S. Institute for Peace.

Lee's professional life has been as a teacher and researcher of biology at the University of Maine. In recent years, Lee has been an active participant in Earthwatch Expeditions, which engages in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and actions necessary for sustainability of ecosystems.

Lee belongs to and supports numerous wildlife and conservation organizations. Lee has been a long time member of the American Association of University of Women, as well as many environmental groups. Her interest in world federalism began during her graduate education at Cornell University. Lee has more recently been involved in transitioning a local peace group to become the Maine Chapter of Citizens for Global Solutions.

Ken Forsberg is a Manager for Legislative Affairs at InterAction, the largest coalition of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nonprofits. From 2002-2004, he was a Legislative Associate in the office of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (IL). He worked at Common Cause in 2001 and 2002, and served as a Legislative Aide in the office of U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey (NE) in 2000. Ken holds a Ph.D. in Government/International Relations from Cornell University and a B.Sc. in Applied Math, Engineering, and Physics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Tom Hastings has served since 2008 as the President and Chair of Citizens for Global Solutions California Region, which is comprised of nine chapters. Prior to that position he served as the Chair of the Region's board. Now retired, Thomas most recently worked as a principal scientist at Xerox Corporation. Prior to his work at Xerox, Thomas was a consulting software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. He led the Operating System team developing program data processors, and was a member of the architecture team.

Tom holds both undergraduate and master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Victor Lang has served on the Board of the Chicago chapter of Citizens for Global Solutions since 2005. He sits on the CGS Grassroots Leadership Council. He is a principal at Cloudview Real Estate, LLC., a real estate fund with offices in the U.S. and Hong Kong. Victor is also Managing Director of the Model United Nations Development Organization, Inc. (MUNDO), a Chicago-based non-profit that develops international relations curriculum for students from the elementary school to the university-level. Victor is also a Partner at MUNWorld.Com, a web-based business that provides services the Model UN community. In 2006, Victor was recognized by Business Week as one of Asia's top entrepreneurs under 25 years old. In 2007, he graduated from DePaul University with a double degree in International Studies and Economics.

Karen Mulhauser, President of Mulhauser and Associates, has been providing consulting services to nonprofit organizations, grantmakers and candidates for public office since 1988. In addition, she brings many years of leadership experience as CEO and board member of domestic and international nonprofit groups, with particular expertise in management assistance, public affairs, elections, meeting and program planning and facilitation, fundraising, coalition building, strategic planning and evaluation. Clients concerned with global issues include InterAction, Ashoka, Population Action International, AED, USAID (Global Development Alliance Chief of Party), AWID, International Center for Research on Women, International Women's Health Coalition, Physicians for Social Responsibility, WAND and Women's Edge (now Women Thrive). Karen currently serves as President of UN Association of the National Capital Area. She was the President and founder of America's Impact, a donor network to support and elect candidates for Congress with global commitment and has served on boards such as Women's Thrive (founding member), International Development Conference (Chair), Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and Association for Women in Development. Karen was a Senior Advisor to Obama for America and coordinated Women for Obama in the D.C. area. Karen graduated from Antioch College in 1965 and did graduate study at Tufts University.

Scott T. Paul was most recently the Making Amends Campaign Fellow for CIVIC. Scott directed the organization's advocacy at the United Nations in order to build support for the principle that all warring parties should help the civilians that they harm during armed conflict. Before joining CIVIC, Scott served as Deputy Director, Government Relations for Citizens for Global Solutions. In this capacity, he directed numerous coalition campaigns dedicated to promoting a pragmatic, principled and multilateral vision for U.S. foreign policy. He also served as the organization's in-house expert on strategic communications relating to international issues and was a frequent contributor to the popular blogs Bolton Watch and The Washington Note. Scott did his undergraduate work at Columbia University and St. Petersburg State University, during which time he co-founded SustainUS, a nationwide youth organization promoting sustainable development at the UN and in local communities and served as its first Chairperson. He is currently a J.D. candidate at the New York University School of Law.

Anita Sharma is currently the North American coordinator for the United Nations Millennium Campaign. In this capacity she engages with civil society, government leaders, the private sector, faith groups, and individuals in an effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Sharma was previously the executive director of ENOUGH, an initiative of the Center for American Progress and the International Crisis Group to abolish genocide and mass atrocities. She also served as governance advisor in Indonesia with the Office of the United Nations Recovery Coordinator and has held several international posts with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe.

In the United States, she directed the Conflict Prevention Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Role of American Military Power Project, and the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds a bachelor's degree with honors from Syracuse University and a master's degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Ayca Ariyoruk was a Senior Associate at United Nations Association of the USA where she led the association's efforts in promoting renewal of the United Nations. She also worked for a senior editor at Newsweek. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Center for U.N. Reform Education, a New York based non-profit specializing in UN reform. There Ayca monitored reform progress at the United Nations and founded UNReformWatch, the program's primary print and electronic publication offering brief analyses of breaking events and issues. In an effort to promote a "public element" to the selection process of the UN's top official, she conducted exclusive interviews with four secretary-general candidates. In 2002, Ayca was named the Marcia Robbins-Wilf International Young Scholar and Research Assistant at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where she researched issues relating to U.S. engagement with Turkey and Israel prior to and immediately following Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ayca received her M.A. from the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University and a B.A. in political science from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

For nearly three decades, Larry was a volunteer for the World Federalist Association. As WFA Board Chairman he was a leader in transforming WFA into Citizens for Global Solutions. Larry is a Fellow of the World Federalist Institute and a Trustee of the WFA Endowment Fund. He is an entrepreneur and project leader experienced in small business development. As co-founder of College Survival, Inc., Larry oversaw development and marketing of seven editions of Becoming a Master Student, the best-selling college textbook in America. He is currently Chairman of the Board of CytoLogic, Inc., a medical device company based in Boulder, CO. CytoLogic is focused on a new cancer therapy.

Edison W. Dick is partially retired from a law practice focusing on public international Law. From 1968 - 1988 Mr. Dick was a partner in the law firm of Quinn, Jacobs, Barry and Dick (Washington office of a Chicago law firm). Mr. Dick has served as General Counsel to the National Association of Marine Services (ship suppliers). Mr. Dick served, from 1976 to 1999, as Attorney-Consultant to the American Bar Association's Section of International Law and from 1979 -1999 as Executive Director of the ABA's International Legal Exchange (ILEX) program. From 1999 - 2005 he was Chair and/or Co-Chair of the ABA's United Nations Affairs Committee. He was also Deputy Policy Officer for the Section of International Law. Mr. Dick was President of the United Nations Association for the National Capital Area (UNA/NCA) from 1992 to 1995. He served as a Board Member of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA/USA). In 2007 he became Chair of the UNA's Committee on the World Federation of UNA's (WFUNA). Edison Dick is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia Law School.

Tony Fleming is an online communications and global issues consultant. He is the creator/publisher of GlobalMemo.org, a website covering the processes and actors involved in the selection of high-level multilateral leadership. In 2006, Tony published UNSG.org, which was considered the authoritative site on the selection of the UN Secretary General that year. A WFA/CGS member since 1995, he has served as a local chapter president, co-chair of the national Youth Caucus, Board member, and committee chair. In 2000, he joined staff as Director of Member Communications, departing in 2004 to complete his Masters in Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He joined the Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund board in 2008 and is currently chair of the Leadership Committee. Since 2002, he has been a member of the World Federalist Movement's governing council and is chair of its membership and credentials committee.

Daniel Giovannelli is the Executive Director of Global Solutions Pittsburgh. Daniel has been involved in Global Solutions' programming for over eight years, beginning as an intern. While his interests are wide-ranging he places a special emphasize on student outreach and alternative learning methods. A strong proponent of learning through experience, Daniel has worked extensively to develop Model United Nations programs at both the collegiate and high school level across western Pennsylvania. Daniel holds a J.D. and Masters of Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jordie Hannum is the deputy director at the Better World Campaign of the United Nations foundation in Washington, D.C. He joined the Better World Campaign in April 2008 and supports its legislative and advocacy efforts. Before coming to BWC, Jordie worked as a policy analyst for the Council of State Governments. Prior to this, he worked on the Wesley Clark presidential campaign and as a legislative aide to Congresswoman Constance Morella. Jordie received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1998), and his master's in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University (2005).

Louisa Hart is a communications consultant, based in Washington, D.C., and traveling nationally and internationally to help a wide variety of businesses, non-profits and government agencies with media training, messaging and video production. Louisa started her career at "Meet The Press", and then became a news producer for WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C. and Special Projects Producer for USAToday on TV. In 1991, she founded the Department of Broadcast and Video Services at Porter Novelli, Inc., a multi-national public relations firm. Louisa has worked as a strategic consultant and media trainer for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and nonprofits including the American Diabetes Association, Celera Genomics, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the Food and Drug Administration, Princeton University, Kellogg, PhRMA, Johnson & Johnson, and Procter & Gamble.

A member since 1948, Wendell Harter has served as volunteer Executive Director of the Southern California Region since 1990. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the California Institute of Technology. He spent the greater part of his career as a member of the engineering management of the Northrop Corporation Aircraft Division. Community activities have included leadership in the YMCA Board of Managers, the Manhattan Beach Community Church (UCC), AFS, Sister City Committee, and Rotary International.

Highlights from Hamilton Kean's wide ranging legal career include: Attorney and Treasurer of the Natural Resources Defense Council and longtime member of the NRDC Board of Trustees; former Lecturer at Rutgers University School of Law and SUNY-Purchase, NY; Founder and Supervising Attorney for the Clinical Program in Environmental Law at NYU School of Law; Partner at Clapp & Eisenberg; Assistant U.S. Attorney of New Jersey; Law Secretary for the Hon. Nathan L. Jacobs, New Jersey Supreme Court; Assistant Counsel, Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor. Mr. Kean has previously served on Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund's board and is a past chair of Citizens for Global Solutions finance committee. He holds a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and an A.B. from Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs (cum laude). Ham is a World War II veteran and Purple Heart recipient. Currently, he is a Trustee of the Center for U.N. Reform and Chairman of the Center for War/Peace Studies.

Dr. James V. Riker is Director of the Beyond the Classroom Program, an interdisciplinary living and learning program at the University of Maryland that equips undergraduate students with the educational and professional leadership skills to understand and to contribute constructively to civic engagement and social change in a global context. Jim has led multi-stakeholder consultation processes involving civil society leaders, scholars, and policy-makers, and served as a consultant to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Ford Foundation, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, Citizens for Global Solutions, the Asian Pacific Development Centre (APDC, Malaysia) and the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC, the Philippines). He received his B.A. degree in Environmental Policy from Pomona College, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Government from Cornell University.

David Shorr is a program officer in Policy and Outreach at the Stanley Foundation, currently focusing on national security strategy and the US role in the world. He is coeditor of Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide (Routledge), which collects the results of one of the foundation's projects. From 1986-2000, Shorr worked in Washington on a range of foreign policy issues for Human Rights First, Refugees International, Search for Common Ground, British American Security Information Council, Arms Control Association, and Physicians for Social Responsibility. He is currently a contributor to the foreign policy blog Democracy Arsenal. Shorr received his B.A. from Brown University and masters in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is also associate lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he teaches US foreign policy.

Lucy Law Webster has been an active world federalist since she started a chapter at Princeton Day School. During her senior year at Wellesley she was National Student Chairman of the United World Federalist, and after graduating spent four months in charge of the World Student Federalist office in Amsterdam and working at the Copenhagen Congress of the World Movement for World Federal Government. She later went around the world and spoke to federalist groups in 50 U.S. cities. After she married and lived in London, England, she worked in marketing and opinion research and raised two sons.

From 1981 to 1996 she worked for the UN (mostly in NYC) as a Political Affairs Officer and Editor of two UN publications. After reaching the UN mandatory retirement age she was director of Economists for Peace and Security and later of the Center for War/Peace Studies. She served as the first Steering Committee leader for the World Federalist Institute. She is also Vice Chairman of the international Council of the World Federalist Movement. Lucy has an earned B.A. in Political Science, an MSc in International Relations and an M.A. in Global Political Economy and Finance.

Anne Broderick Zill is the Founder and Director of The Center for Ethics in Action (launched at the University of New England), an organization created to promote women's leadership across disciplines with a spiritual, values perspective to make our local and global public policies work better. Highlights of the dozens of other organizations and initiatives founded, directed and/or assisted by Anne include: The Women's Campaign Fund; the Women's Campaign Research Fund; the Fund for Constitutional Government; and International Action, where she serves as a Trustee with Ed Rawson. For 30 years Anne has been a foundation program officer with the Stewart Mott Charitable Trust, where she focuses on peace, human rights, government and military reform, civil rights/civil liberties, and international reproductive rights.