CEC Advisory Board Members: (formerly the Earth Corps for Global Service)
"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead
Grant Abert
(philanthropist, activist)
David Astin
(Minnesota State Science Teacher of the Year, Wayzata HS, Wayzata, MN)
Carol Bellamy
(Former Exec. Dir, Peace Corps, UNICEF, President and CEO, World Learning and President, School for International Training)
Linda Bergh
(Founder, Principal Instructor, Novalis Institute)
Orland Bishop
(founder of the Shade Tree Foundation for inner-city youth)
Tom Braun
(owner, Wild Rumpus bookstore, co-founder, Linden Hills Power & Light)
Felicity Britton
(co-founder, Linden Hills Power & Light)
Gigi Coyle
(former President of the Ojai Foundation and Director of the School of Lost Borders)
Timothy den Herder-Thomas
(student activist, organizer of climate & youth movement)
Sharon Franquemont
(expert on intuition, author You Already Know What to Do)
Tom Gegax
(author, motivational speaker, philanthropist)
Joshua Gorman
(Global Passageways)
Paul Hawken
(environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, co-founder of the World Index for Social and Environmental Responsibility (WISER))
Juliana Hepp
(IDEM, youth organizer)
Katherine Hirsh
(author and expert in Meyers Briggs)
Jan Hively
(Vital Aging Network)
Chris Johnson
(Center for Vocational Reflection, Gustavus Adolphus College)
Matt Leighninger
(Deliberative Democracy Consortium, author, The Next Form of Democracy)
Frances Moore Lappé
(author of Diet for a Small Planet and Hope's Edge, and co-founder of the Small Planet Institute)
Richard Leider
(expert on vital aging, author, Claiming Your Place at the Fire)
Michael Meade
(author, Men and the Water of Life, and story-teller, "The Branches of Mentoring, the Roots of Elders")
Melissa Michaels
(Golden Bridge, international youth rites of passage)
Frank C. Miller
(Emeritus Professor, Anthropology, U of Minnesota)
John Miller
(co-founder Community Earth Councils, Senior Fellow, U of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality & Healing, Head of School, Quest Academy)
Rick Moody
(ethicist and gerontologist, AARP, International Longevity Center)
Craig Neal
(Heartland Circle, Thought Leader Gatherings, The Art of Convening)
Mary Utne O'Brien
(Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning)
Greg Ranstrom
(President, Outside Insights; Program Director, American Leadership Forum, Silicon Valley)
Suzanne Richman
(Director, Health Arts & Sciences program, Goddard College)
Lisbeth Shepherd
(co-founded Unis-Cite, France's national volunteer civilian youth service program, author, coordinator, Green Jobs & Service Collaborative)
Chris Schaefer
(author, educator, Sunbridge College)
Don Shelby
(journalist, TV news anchor)
Will Steger
(polar explorer, environmentalist)
Arthur Zajonc
(Professor of Physics, Amherst College, and convener of dialogues between scientists and the Dalai Lama)
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