YES! Board, Staff, Interns & Contributing Editors

Board of Directors

Staff

Interns

Contributing Editors

Board of Directors

David Korten, Chair and Co-founder

David Korten is president and founder of the People-Centered Development Forum, and serves as a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, and co-chairs the New Economy Working Group. He is an associate of the International Forum on Globalization and a member of the Club of Rome. He holds MBA and PhD degrees from the Stanford Graduate school of Business and is a former faculty member of the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He was previously a Ford Foundation project specialist in Manila and an Asia Regional Advisor on Development Management for the US Agency for International Development. David has authored numerous books, including Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, When Corporations Rule the World, and The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism. He is a regular guest on talk radio and television and a popular speaker at conferences around the world.
www.davidkorten.org

Jill Bamburg, Vice-Chair

Jill Bamburg is part of the core faculty of the MBA program at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI), where she also teaches in the area of sustainable business.  She is also the author of Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business without Selling Out (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). Adult education is her third career, following previous seven-year stints in community journalism and high tech marketing. She has a BA in English from Washington University, an MBA from Stanford University and is currently enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Washington College of Forest Resources. She lives on Bainbridge Island with her partner Nancy Baran, and her daughter, Kate Gao.

Tanya Dawkins, Secretary

Tanya is the founder and executive director of the Global Local Links Project, an initiative working to put people and communities at the center of the global economy. Her work focuses on engaging the question of what it means to build citizen and community power in an age of intensifying globalization(s). She is dedicated to developing a new generation of globally minded, community centric tools, policies, networks and metrics that captures maximum community benefit from the positive aspects of globalization, challenges its negative impacts and builds new models of leadership, policy, civic engagement and democratic practice. Previously, she has served as director of the Inter-American Forum; co-director of the Globalizing Civil Society from the Inside Out Project and senior vice president of the Collins Center for Public Policy. Tanya is an independent analyst, social entrepreneur, writer and regular commentator on the interconnectedness of global and local issues including trade, globalization, foreign policy, migration, human rights, social justice, public policy, leadership and citizen action.

Alisa Gravitz, Treasurer

For 25 years, Alisa Gravitz has led Green America (formerly Co-op America), the national green economy organization. Green America develops marketplace solutions to social and environmental problems with key focus on community investment, fair trade, corporate responsibility, climate change and solar energy. Green America's major events and publications include Green Festivals, the Green Business Conference, National Green Pages, and Real Money. Green America operates the nation’s largest green living and green business networks. Alisa Gravitz is also a nationally recognized leader in the social investment industry. She authored Green America's acclaimed Guide to Social Investing, with over a million copies in print. As vice president of the Social Investment Forum, she played a key role in the dramatic growth of the socially responsible investing industry to $2.7 trillion dollars from less than $40 million in 1985. Alisa Gravitz’s board service includes the Positive Futures Network, Ceres, Anacostia Watershed Society, Social Investment Forum, OptiSolar, Inc., and Network for Good. She earned her MBA from Harvard University and her BA in economics and environmental sciences from Brandeis University.

Puanani Burgess

Puanani Burgess is a community building facilitator, trainer, and consultant in Hawai'i, the U.S., and the Pacific. She is also a poet, cultural translator, and has been a lecturer with the Urban Studies and Regional Planning Department of the University of Hawai'i. She was a Weinberg Fellow and the Myles and Zilphia Horton Chairholder for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. She is noted for her experience in community, family, and values-based economic development, mediation and storytelling processes as part of conflict transformation, and in developing community-based organizations.

Richard Conlin

Richard Conlin is President of the Seattle City Council. He co-founded Sustainable Seattle, and is former director of the Earth Service Corps and Community and Environment programs for Metrocenter YMCA. In addition to playing a key role in the innovative "Indicators of Sustainable Community," he has given talks and led workshops on sustainability around the United States and in Europe.

Danny Glover

Danny Glover combines his acting career with a dedication to the common good. He is well-known for his film and television works, including the Lethal Weapon series, Beloved, To Sleep with Anger, and Freedom Song. He serves as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, works on behalf of AIDS victims in the U.S. and Africa, and helps a wide range of organizations advance the causes of civil right and economic justice.

Dal LaMagna

Dal LaMagna was one of the architects of the corporate social responsibility movement using the company he founded, Tweezerman, as a model of the kind of multi-national company that could operate in the Global Economy and benefit all stakeholders. He has worked as a citizen diplomat, attempting to negotiate a cease fire with the Sunni Iraqi insurgents in Iraq during 2006. He has Executive Produced four Iraq war films, The Ground Truth, The War Tapes, Iraq For Sale, and Meeting Resistance. He also produced War Child, the story of Emmanuel Jal, a child soldier from the south Sudan who is now a hip hop artist in England. Dal now runs ReelU Films which he founded in 2008. The company is distributing War Child in the North American market.

Nate Moxley

Nate Moxley is a Seattle native, proud father of two children, and Executive Director of the Service Board. The Service Board is a local non-profit that mixes Seattle area high school students and caring adults in an innovative mentoring program. The program blends community service projects, life/job skills, and snowboarding adventures. Nate has worked as an executive director, community organizer, naturalist, assistant lobbyist, and development specialist for a the following local non-profits: The Service Board, Community Coalition for Environmental Justice, Seward Park Environmental Learning Center, Minority Executive Directors Coalition, and the Boys and Girls Club. Over the past five years Nate has been an NDOA scholar and volunteer, attended courses from fundraising expert Susan Howlett, and taken part in a wide variety of fundraising trainings. Nate is a graduate of Huxley Environmental College at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. 

Michael Ramos

Michael is the Executive Director of the Church Council of Greater Seattle. Michael is a former Jesuit Volunteer who has served with the Washington Association of Churches (WAC) and coordinated the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride. Ramos also worked for the Catholic Archdiocese of Oakland, developing a community-based ministry among Spanish-speaking people. Ramos was WAC’s staff organizer for the Washington Living Wage Movement—a joint effort of religious groups, community-based organizations, and labor unions. To build solidarity and power, they organized the ‘Walk with Workers Project,’ a Gandhian effort to build relationships between middle-class people and low-wage workers, a majority of whom are immigrants and people of color. 

Sarah van Gelder

Sarah Ruth van Gelder

As co-founder and executive editor of YES!, Sarah leads the framing and development of each issue of YES! and writes a column introducing each issue. Sarah blogs at YES!, and Huffington Post, writes articles and does interviews for YES! magazine, and speaks on leading-edge innovations that show that another world is not only possible, it is being created. Topics she has covered include the new economy, solutions to climate change, alternatives to prisons, food, water, nuclear disarmament and active peacemaking, education for a better world, beyond the superpower, happiness, and many more. As part of her community involvement, Sarah volunteers on the Port Madison Reservation where she lives, working with the Suquamish Tribe on enhancing the quality of life for all area residents. She is co-founder of Suquamish Olalla Neighbors where she co-led a statewide effort to return the home of Chief Seattle to the Suquamish Tribe. She is also a member of the board of directors of the tribally-chartered Suquamish Foundation. Sarah has traveled and lived in Latin America, India, China, and Central America. She was a founding board member and resident of Winslow Cohousing, and previously was a television and radio producer, a community organizer, a classical Indian dancer, and founder of a cooperative of food co-ops that linked organic farmers to urban markets. She has two young adult children.