Leaders of National Peace Foundation
National Peace Foundation Advisory Board Members
Richard T. Arndt, President, Americans for UNESCO, Former President, Fulbright Association
Mariann Laue Baker, Olga Bessolova, Russian Association of University Women
J. Thomas Bertrand, JD, Chair
Elise Boulding, Ph.D., Professor Emertia, Dartmouth College
Betty Bumpers, Founder Peace Links
Thaddeus J. Burns, Esq. Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Brussels
David Cohen, Co-Director, Advocacy Institute
John P. Dunfey, Chair, Global Citizens Circle
Roger Fisher, Ph.D., Harvard Law School
Nancy McElroy Folger
Father Theodore Hesburgh, CSC President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
Herbert C. Kelman, Ph.D. Harvard University
Jane Mapes
Jeff Meer, USA for UNHCR
Libby Rouse, Centers for Human Understanding
Abdul Aziz Said, Ph.D., School of International Service
Stephen Salyer, President & CEO
The Hon. James Symington, O'Connor & Hannan, LLP
The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, South Africa
Thomas C. Westropp, Former Board Chair, National Peace Foundation
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Chair of the Board & the President of National Peace Foundation
Sarah Harder has worked for thirty years on issues involving women at grassroots, national and international levels. She serves as President and Board Chair of the National Peace Foundation in Washington DC, where she also co-chairs the National Women’s Conference Committee and serves on the National Council of Women’s Organizations. As the president of the American Association of University Women (1985-89), she chaired its $46 million Education Foundation. She served as vice-president of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW) based in Geneva. Her study and action guide, “Women’s Future, World Future: Education for Survival and Progress” is used by IFUW affiliates in 68 countries. She is Professor Emerita from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she served for 34 years as administrator and faculty member. Through the National Peace Foundation, Sarah Harder has worked since 1991on civil society, peace building and social partnership projects involving NGOs, their communities and their government in the Russian Federation.
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Vice President, Member of the Board
Landis Jones has been a scholar and teacher, primarily at the University of Louisville where he has served as chairman of the Department of Political Science, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and interim Director of the School of Urban Policy. For his own university, he helped to develop and subsequently to direct (1988-95) one of the country’s most distinguished prizes in peacebuilding, the Grawemeyer Award in World Order (which in 1998 was awarded to NPF Advisor Herbert Kelman). Dr. Jones is the author of many books and articles on the political and governmental process and is currently reviewing, as a case study, the reorganization of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, about which he is genuinely interested but appropriately dispassionate.
Member of the Board
J. Thomas Bertrand has recently agreed to serve as general counsel of the National Peace Foundation and to co-chair its Board of Advisors. Tom is an attorney, educator, Quaker activist and writer, residing in the mountains of North Carolina near Asheville. A graduate of Rice University with graduate studies in English at the University of Virginia and Bread Loaf School of English, Tom served on active duty as a naval officer during the Vietnam era and taught at the U. S. Naval Academy, Berry College, and the University of Virginia, earned a law degree and studied higher education and management of nonprofit organization at University of Virginia, and later pursued graduate studies in university leadership at the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University. As fellow of the National Peace Foundation he monitored elections in Armenia, Georgia, and South Africa and studied the role of universities in the evolution of new democracies in the former Soviet Union and southern Africa (1991-1994).
Member of the Board
Lee T. Feldman has over twenty years experience in management and consulting, working with the U.S. and foreign governments, research institutes, and corporations in the fields of health care, information services and technology companies. His consultancies have been mainly concerned with the application of advanced analytical methods to health care, international relations and defense intelligence. In the latter area he has served as chief scientist and technical director of a number of classified projects for military planning and intelligence missions, several established by Presidential directive. Lee began his university education at age 14 when he was accepted into a special course of studies in microbial genetics/physics at Rockefeller University. He continued his studies at Vanderbilt University (immunochemistry and oncology) and City University of New York (business management) and simultaneously began his career as a technology analyst. Mr. Feldman has served as a U.S. delegate both to international scientific conferences and election observer missions. For NPF Mr. Feldman has forged a connection with the Yitzhak Rabin Center and is an Advisor-designate to the Center.
Member of the Board
Paul Dornan is a Social Science Analyst for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development where he concentrates on homeless policy. He also manages contracts involving analysis of Housing First, Permanent Housing for Homeless People with Disabilities and Transitional Housing for Homeless Families. His is co-GTM for the contract to develop a national Annual Homeless Assessment Report using Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) data. He graduated from Waynesburg College and pursued graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also taught Political Science at the University of Louisville, Wittenberg University, and Marquette University.
Member of the Board
Bert Brandenburg is the Executive Director of Justice at Stake. Brandenburg was the Justice Department's Director of Public Affairs and chief spokesperson under Attorney General Janet Reno. He served in policy and communications positions for the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the National Performance Review, the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and presidential transition team, Congressman Edward Feighan, and the Progressive Policy Institute. Brandenburg was Vice President of International Programs for the Santéch Institute, and served as an observer during the 1990 Pakistan national elections. Brandenburg serves on the National Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Judicial Campaign Conduct and the Coalition Alliance of the American Bar Association’s Coalition for Justice. He holds a J.D. and B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Member of the Board
Cathy Sultan a native of Washington, D.C. lived in Beirut, Lebanon from 1969 to 1983. Her memoir "A Beirut Heart:One Woman's War," published by Scarletta Press in November 2005, recounts her family's survival during the Lebanese civil war. In her second book "Israeli and Palesetinian Voices: A Dialogue with Both Sides", due to be published by Scarletta in March 2006, Cathy attempts to open eyes to the human realities of life in Israel-Palestine through interviews she conducted in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Cathy brings her expertise to NPF where she coordinates programs designed to educate NPF members about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These include working with Partners for Peace, a Washington-based NGO, to co-sponsor nation-wide tours of "Jerusalem Women Speak:Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Visiion," working with the Bereaved Family Circle to bring Israelis and Palestinians who have lost loved ones to the conflict to tour the US and finally, initiating Israeli-Palestinian Living Roiom Dialogue Groups across the country. Anyone interested in helping Cathy with her work can contact the NPF office.
Member of the Board
Alex Sloan has invested in and helped grow venture-backed companies for over ten years. Alex is a founding partner of Blackwolf Partners, a venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco and Chicago focused on early stage investments in sustainable and clean technologies.
Prior to Blackwolf Partners, Mr. Sloan served as interim Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development for Encirq Corporation. Prior to Encirq, he spent three years with JPMorgan Partners, during which he served as Chief Operating Officer of two major heritage Hambrecht & Quist venture capital funds, which focused on promising technology and information services companies. From 1993 through 1996, Alex was Vice President of Vietnam Fund Management Company Limited, managing the fund's venture investments in Ho Chi Minh City. From 1992-1993, Alex served as a presidential appointee in the Bush Administration as Aide to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
For the last 14 years, Alex has served as Chairman and President of National Youth Leadership Forum, which provides career oriented educational programs for high school students. Alex is a member of the Advisory Council of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University and often lectures on venture capital financing, entrepreneurship and sustainable technologies. Alex earned an B.A. from Tulane University (1991), studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1989-90), and holds an MBA from Cornell University (1998). Alex currently resides in San Francisco, CA.
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