Senior Management

Marc Freedman, CEO and Founder
Marc Freedman spearheaded creation of the Experience Corps, now one of America’s largest nonprofit national service programs engaging people over 55, and The Purpose Prize, which annually provides five $100,000 prizes and five $50,000 prizes to social innovators in the second half of life.

Freedman was described by The New York Times as “the voice of aging baby boomers who are eschewing retirement for … meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” while The Wall Street Journal stated: “In the past decade, Mr. Freedman has emerged as a leading voice in discussions nationwide about the changing face of retirement.” He is author of Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life; Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America; and The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Voluntarism. His new book, Shift, about midlife and the transition of the boomer generation to a new stage of life, will be published in January 2011.

Recognized by Fast Company in 2007, 2008 and 2009 as one of the nation’s leading social entrepreneurs, Freedman is widely published and quoted in the national media and has been honored with numerous awards and fellowships, including an Ashoka Senior Fellowship. Civic Ventures and Freedman received the 2010 Skoll Award in Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University in April 2010. 

Freedman is a high honors graduate of Swarthmore College with an MBA from Yale University and was a Visiting Fellow of Kings College, University of London. He lives with his wife and children in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Email: mfreedman@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7480

Jim Emerman, Executive Vice President
From 2005 to 2008, Jim Emerman was a Civic Ventures vice president, directing The Purpose Prize. For 17 years prior to joining Civic Ventures, Emerman worked at the American Society on Aging (ASA), the largest association of professionals working with and on behalf of older adults. Most recently as Chief Operating Officer, he had primary responsibility for day-to-day operations and supervised all programmatic activities of the organization, including membership services and programs, publications, marketing, educational programs, special projects, administration, finance, human resources, operations and information systems. He also led ASA’s efforts on issues ranging from older worker employment and corporate eldercare to assistive and information technology, family caregiving, medication use and public policy, among many others. Prior to ASA, Emerman held positions of increasing responsibility in the development office of the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Director of Corporate and Foundations Relations at the time he left the university. He graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in English literature.
Email: jemerman@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7487 

Marci Alboher, Vice President
One of the nation’s top experts on career issues and workplace trends, Marci Alboher is working to help people searching for encore careers. A former blogger and columnist for The New York Times, Alboher is the author of One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success. She wrote the blog Working the New Economy for Yahoo and has been a regular contributor to The Takeaway on public radio. Alboher is regularly called upon for commentary by national media outlets, including NBC’s Today and Nightly News, MSNBC, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, National Public Radio, More and USA Today. She is on the advisory boards of SheWrites.com, a site for women readers and writers, and The Op-Ed Project, which focuses on enlarging the pool of women experts accessing (and accessible to) key print and online forums. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from the Washington College of Law at The American University.
Email: malboher@civicventures.org
Phone: (347) 614-1922 

David Bank, Vice President
David Bank deploys his journalistic and entrepreneurial skills to advance innovative ideas and connect people who are making a difference with encore careers. In his pre-encore career, Bank was a technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal and launched the paper’s philanthropy beat. His book, Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft, was named one of the “Best Business Books of 2001” by the Harvard Business Review and Amazon.com. His magazine articles have appeared in Newsweek, Wired, Mother Jones, Ode and Out. Bank, who was a 1996 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, has a bachelor’s degree in politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Email: dbank@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7488

Judy Goggin, Vice President
Judy Goggin leads the development of the Civic Ventures Next Chapter™ program. She has worked in the field of aging and lifelong learning for more than 25 years. Prior to joining Civic Ventures in 2001, Goggin was associated for 18 years with Elderhostel. At that organization, she served as Vice President for U.S. programs and was involved in the development of Elderhostel’s service learning programs and the Elderhostel Institute Network, a membership organization of lifelong learning institutes. She began her career in the field of continuing education, where she was involved in the early development of external degrees and credit for prior learning at colleges in Oregon and Colorado. Goggin speaks nationally, conducts workshops for national organizations and writes for publications about aging, higher education, civic engagement and encore careers. She advises several national organizations and programs, including AARP, the American Society on Aging, the National Council on the Aging, The Transition Network and the American Libraries Council.  
Email: jgoggin@civicventures.org 
Phone: (617) 522-1587

Michelle Hynes, Vice President
For nearly 20 years, Michelle Hynes has been a leader in efforts to increase children’s academic achievement, engage the public in improving public schools and create stronger communities. Her current work focuses on encore careers in education and youth development and national service as a pathway to encore careers. From 2003 to 2009, she managed the growth of Civic Ventures’ Experience Corps tutoring and mentoring program – doubling Experience Corps’ size, facilitating a major external evaluation of the program’s impact and spinning the program off as an independent national organization. Before joining Civic Ventures, Hynes was a consultant to several nonprofit organizations in the Washington, D.C., area. Earlier in her career, she directed a multimillion dollar, federally funded children’s literacy program at Reading Is Fundamental; designed an information clearinghouse and other member services for the Public Education Network; and managed several programs focused on connecting community organizations with local public schools. As a volunteer, Hynes has been involved with the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, DC VOICE’s Ready Schools Project, the In2Books pen pal program and an informal network of Washington voters interested in local school governance. She also serves on the advisory board for the Tranquil Space yoga studios. Hynes holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania.
Email: mhynes@civicventures.org
Phone: (202) 478-6167

Nancy Peterson, Vice President
Nancy Peterson works to advance encore career pathways through community programs and national service. Her work at Civic Ventures has also helped develop the Encore Fellows and community college programs and Experience Corps. For more than 30 years, Peterson has worked nationally, throughout California and in communities to increase social-purpose opportunities for people of all ages. Key projects include California’s Aging Opportunity, a statewide study sponsored by California’s state service commission; the California Initiative for National and Community Service of The James Irvine Foundation; startup and management of the Northern California Grantmakers National Service Task Force; and Public/Private Venture’s Urban Corps Expansion Project. During the 1980s, she was instrumental in helping to develop local youth service corps in California. Throughout her career, Peterson has worked with foundations, public agencies and nonprofit organizations, including the Ford Foundation, The Piton Foundation, the National Park Service, the Corporation for National and Community Service and California Conservation Corps. Before becoming involved in community service, she was a regional and environmental planner. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Email: npeterson@civicventures.org 
Phone: (415) 383-6370

Phyllis Segal, Vice President
As Vice President of Civic Ventures, Phyllis Segal leads programs aimed at understanding and expanding encore careers as an important source of talent to meet society’s most pressing needs. These programs include: action-oriented research (including the MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures papers on encore opportunities, the Encore Career Survey and the Survey of Nonprofit Employers); developing pathways and high-impact opportunities for encore careers in health care and other sectors; and promoting promising encore employer practices. This work builds upon Segal’s extensive experience in the nonprofit and public sectors – leading organizations, advocating for social justice, teaching and practicing law. She is a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, a member of the Board of Overseers of The Heller School for Social Policy and Management and co-founder of the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program at Brandeis University. Last year, she served on President Obama’s transition team, preparing an agency review for the incoming administration. In her earlier career, Segal was the founding Legal Director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and subsequently served as the fund’s President. She also served as Chair of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and as a trustee and consultant for other nonprofit organizations. In her prior public service, Segal was Chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority and Deputy Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Email: psegal@civicventures.org

Doug Braley, Vice President, Director of Finance and Administration
Doug Braley has more than 26 years of experience in nonprofit management, accounting and human resources. Prior to joining Civic Ventures in 2002, he served for nine years as the Executive Director of the Horizons Foundation. During his tenure, he initiated collaborative grantmaking and philanthropic programs targeting LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) youth and elders in the San Francisco Bay Area. Work included managing the finances and human resources for Very Special Arts, an educational affiliate of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Braley has master’s degrees in arts management and business administration from the University of Maryland, College Park and San Francisco State University, respectively.
Email: dbraley@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7482

Stefanie Weiss, Vice President, Director of Communications
For several years, Stefanie Weiss wrote a column called "MidLife" for The Washington Post’s Health section and contributed articles on education topics for the paper’s Sunday magazine. Prior to her current job, Weiss was communications director at Experience Corps, then a signature program of Civic Ventures. With her colleagues, Weiss helped to build Experience Corps and launch it as an independent nonprofit. Before joining Civic Ventures, Weiss worked as Communications Director for the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. She also worked for 16 years at the National Education Association (NEA) in the human and civil rights, publications and communications departments. In her last post at NEA, Weiss served as an editor of NEA Today, the organization’s flagship publication with a circulation of 2.5 million. While working for People for the American Way, Weiss co-authored a book, Protecting the Freedom to Learn. She also handled communications and public relations duties for the United Auto Workers, both in Detroit and during a groundbreaking organizing drive in Ithaca, N.Y. Weiss has a bachelor’s degree in English and American studies from Cornell University.
Email: sweiss@civicventures.org
Phone: (202) 478-6151

The Purpose Prize

Alexandra Céspedes Kent, Director
As a teen runaway, Alexandra Céspedes Kent decided she wanted to work for social change and has focused her career on identifying, training and investing in emerging social sector leaders. Previously, Kent designed and led leadership programs for people across the life span – urban teens, working professionals and retirees – at the Coro Center for Civic Leadership. There, she oversaw part-time and contract programs, including the University of California, San Francisco Faculty Leadership Collaborative, an intensive program for 32 professors interested in enhancing their profiles and their effectiveness as campuswide leaders. She also served as Asset Services Manager at Juma Ventures, a social enterprise that owns businesses to employ low-income teens. At Juma, she introduced young people to money management strategies and financial products to help them achieve their long-term goals. Alexandra also implemented national demonstration projects to determine whether financial literacy seminars coupled with no-fee bank accounts would help low-income urban youth and their families. Kent has a bachelor’s degree in English from Amherst College and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
Email: akent@civicventures.org 
Phone: (415) 222-7486

Vanessa Alabarces, Program Associate
Vanessa Alabarces works primarily on The Purpose Prize. She recently earned a master’s degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focused on the use of media advocacy to build community, change public perceptions and empower marginalized populations. Before coming to Civic Ventures, Alabarces worked at the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization Common Cause as a field organizer in Florida during the 2008 presidential election. After living in places as exotic as Italy and in the Midwest, Alabarces, a native Floridian, recently made San Francisco her home.
Email: valabarces@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7484

Encore Fellowships Network

Leslye Louie, National Director/Senior Fellow
Leslye Louie was a General Manager and Vice President at the Hewlett Packard Company. During her 20-year career, Louie held numerous senior sales, marketing, operations and finance positions in the high-tech industry in the United States and Europe. In 2009, Louie participated in the Silicon Valley Encore Fellows pilot, working at Partners in School Innovation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that works with low-income public schools to achieve educational equity through school-based reform. During her part-time, yearlong fellowship, Louie implemented a performance management system, revamped the human resources policies and practices and served as the group’s interim executive director during a leadership transition. Louie credits the fellowship with enabling her to make a successful transition from an extensive for-profit career to an encore career in the social sector. Louie is now working for Civic Ventures, directing its efforts to expand the fellows program nationally.
Email: llouie@encorefellowships.net

Lyle Hurst, Brand and Network Designer/Senior Fellow
Lyle Hurst was a General Manager and Vice President at the Hewlett Packard Company. During the 20 years he was at HP, he held numerous jobs in finance, marketing and strategy. After leaving HP in 2001, he split his time between strategy consulting and volunteer work. In 2009, Hurst became an Encore Fellow in the Silicon Valley Encore Fellows program, which matches former corporate employees with local nonprofits. He spent his fellowship year at Partners in School Innovation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that works with low-income public schools to achieve educational equity through school-based reform. Hurst is now working to help Civic Ventures expand the fellows program nationally.
Email: lhurst@encorefellowships.net

Janet Luce, Associate Director
Janet Luce oversees the Silicon Valley Encore Fellows program – for people who want to transition from midlife, for-profit careers to encore careers, applying their significant corporate skills and experience to social-purpose organizations. A service learning veteran, Luce worked for 20-plus years in higher education, most recently for eight years at Saint Mary’s College of California as founding director of the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action and for the previous 13 years at the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University. She participated, by invitation, in the seminal Wingspread Conference that developed Principles of Good Practice for Combining Service and Learning and two Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education projects. Luce has been honored for distinguished contributions to the field of service learning by both the National Society for Experiential Learning and the Campus Outreach Opportunity League.
Email: jluce@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7494

Gina Cassinelli, Community Partnerships Director/Senior Fellow
Gina Cassinelli worked at the Hewlett Packard Company for 26 years serving in several executive positions, including Vice President of Marketing for HP’s Technology Systems Group Enterprise Partners. She also held several senior management positions in HP’s business systems organization. Cassinelli became an Encore Fellow in the Silicon Valley Encore Fellows program, which matches former corporate employees with local nonprofits. She spent her fellowship year at Citizen Schools, a national nonprofit that works with high-needs middle schools to expand the learning day. During her part-time, yearlong fellowship, Cassinelli created the organization’s five-year strategy and sustainability plan, assembled the marketing plan and served as the interim executive director. Cassinelli is now working to help Civic Ventures expand the fellows program nationally.
Email: gcassinelli@encorefellowships.net

Betsy Balassone, Encore Fellow
As a member of the Encore Fellowships Network team, Betsy Balassone's responsibilities include community outreach and partnering and process management. After receiving her bachelor's degree and MBA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Balassone held a variety of management, sales and finance positions at Wachovia National Bank, F. Hoffmann-La Roche and IBM. She worked and lived in France for several years. Balassone has served on the boards of several nonprofits, conducting national events, mentoring management and leading annual and capital fundraising campaigns.
Email: bbalassone@encorefellowships.net

Mike Gallagher, Encore Fellow
Mike Gallagher spent his career at the Hewlett Packard Company and Agilent Technologies in various management positions, mainly in marketing. Since retiring from Agilent in 2007, he has served as the Chairperson of the Los Altos Traffic Commission and as a member of the Sierra County Economic Development Committee. In 2010 Gallagher became an Encore Fellow in the Silicon Valley Encore Fellows program, which matches experienced, skilled former corporate employees with local nonprofits. He is working with Civic Ventures, investigating the possibility of extending the fellowship program into rural areas to assist county governments, small school districts and economic development organizations.
Email: mgallagher@encorefellowships.net

Encore Colleges Initiative

Diane Piktialis, Senior Fellow
Diane Piktialis is an expert on issues related to aging and the multigenerational work force. Piktialis has 35 years of experience in product development, product management and consulting for a wide range of organizations, including Marriott International, AstraZeneca and IBM. During the past decade, Piktialis’ work has included analyzing demographic and work force trends and the challenges they present for businesses and nonprofits. She has published widely, including in such journals as& Business and Health, the Journal of Aging & Social Policy and Human Resource Executive, and in research reports by The Conference Board. Piktialis holds a master’s and doctorate degree in sociology from Boston University. She is now consulting with Civic Ventures on its Encore Colleges Initiative.
Email: diane.piktialis@verizon.net

Anna Kelleher, Program Associate
Anna Kelleher staffs the Encore Colleges Initiative, focusing on grants management and program development. Before coming to Civic Ventures, she owned and operated Materia Medica, a health care company focused on the 50-plus population. She worked with the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Section’s Fetal Infant Mortality Review Board and served as a Peer Counselor for parents grieving the loss of babies due to sudden infant death syndrome. Kelleher also worked as Program Manager for the Brookdale Foundation, providing technical assistance for grantees serving older adults with dementia in rural and underserved areas and as Program Manager for the American Society on Aging’s development department. She holds a master’s degree in social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of California, Davis. Kelleher works, studies and teaches yoga to 50-plus students and raises her children in San Francisco.
Email: akelleher@civicventures.org 
Phone: (415) 222-7481

Program Research and Policy

David Cohen, Policy Adviser
David Cohen is one of The Advocacy Institute’s two founders. He pioneered the institute’s work in its international capacity-building programs, for which he facilitated workshop and strategy sessions. He had a leadership role in the institute’s Leadership for a Changing World program. Advocates around the world have translated Cohen’s writings on advocacy, civil society and lobbying into many different languages. His writings have appeared as essays in college textbooks and in major U.S. newspapers. He has co-authored two books on advocacy and contributed essays on advocacy to books published by the Urban Institute, The World Bank and New York University. Cohen has been an advocate and strategist on many of the major social justice and political reform issues in the United States since the early 1960s. He played a leading role in the fight for Congress to end its support for the Vietnam War. From 1984 to 1992, he led the Professionals’ Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control to stop the U.S. nuclear arms buildup by supporting arms control agreements and reducing the military budget. He served as president of Common Cause, the largest voluntary membership organization in the United States working on government accountability issues.
Email: dcohen@civicventures.org
Phone: (202) 478-6192

Cal J. Halvorsen, Program Associate
Cal J. Halvorsen works on education and employer programs. He graduated from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned a master’s degree in social work and researched in-depth policies and programs affecting older adults, especially in areas of civic engagement. Halvorsen was a graduate intern for The OASIS Institute, a national nonprofit that provides lifelong learning and volunteer opportunities for older adults, and he was an intern at the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging. He earned a bachelor’s degree in international studies at the University of Iowa and studied in Dortmund, Germany, while an undergraduate student. A native Iowan, Halvorsen currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Email: chalvorsen@civicventures.org
Phone: (202) 478-6186

Bill Pace, Senior Fellow
Bill Pace recently completed a year as an Encore Fellow, working with Civic Ventures and Aspiranet. Previously, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA), an international, multidisciplinary management consulting firm focused on the consumer and health care industries. Prior to KSA, he co-founded and led Swander Pace & Company, a leading strategy consulting firm based in San Francisco, and was a founding partner of Swander Pace Capital, a private equity investment company with more than $1 billion under management. Prior to Swander Pace & Company, Pace was a partner at Edgar Dunn & Company, a management consulting firm in San Francisco, and a consultant with Boston Consulting Group in Australia. His previous experience also includes serving as an elementary school teacher and as an assistant dean of students. Pace has been involved with numerous education and community service organizations, most recently as a member of the Yale School of Management board of advisers, founding chair of the advisory board for the Yale Center for Customer Insights, a member of the advisory board of Aspire Public Schools and chair of the board of directors of Pacific Community Ventures. Pace earned a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College, a master’s degree in education from Claremont University Center and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Email: williambpace@gmail.com

Ed Speedling, Senior Fellow
Ed Speedling works to engage religious and faith-based organizations as partners in the encore careers movement. His own encore career began 10 years ago when he left a long career in academic health care to work on issues of homelessness in Philadelphia. During his midlife career, Speedling held faculty positions at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and the Penn State College of Medicine, along with senior administrative roles at their respective medical centers. He is an associate faculty member at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches courses on conflict management and negotiation. He volunteers with Project H.O.M.E., a service and advocacy organization pledged to end homelessness, and is a board member at the Welcome Center, a drop-in center offering hospitality and respite to people living on the streets of Philadelphia. Speedling is also an active member of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Ardmore, Pa. The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations recently honored his work with a 2009 Human Relations Award. Speedling has a Ph.D. in sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received advanced training in conflict mediation at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Email: espeedling@civicventures.org
Phone: (610) 645-0211

Communications

Jennifer Coate, Associate Director
Jennifer Coate’s experience includes developing and delivering communications strategies and messages on a range of public interest issues, including health care and the environment. Most recently, Coate worked for the country’s largest labor union, the Service Employees International Union, managing communications for several campaigns, including a national registered nurse program focused on health care reform. As Deputy Director of Communications for the National Environmental Trust, Coate ran successful media strategies, protecting America’s national forests and exposing the health effects of toxic chemicals. As U.S. Rep. George Miller’s Deputy Press Secretary and Legislative Assistant, Coate handled communications and policy for national and local issues. She got her start in communications as a research assistant for Hedrick Smith’s PBS Frontline documentary, Critical Condition: How good is your healthcare? and as an intern at San Francisco’s local news television station, BayTV. A graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Coate earned dual degrees in political science and history.
Email: jcoate@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7490

Michele Melendez, Publications Manager
Michele Melendez brings to Civic Ventures 15 years of experience as a journalist and a deep belief that people should have the chance for meaningful, enriching work beyond their first careers. At the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Newhouse chain of 26 daily newspapers, she covered generational issues for eight years. As a national correspondent there, she illuminated stories of old and young, pop culture and politics, family relationships and personal journeys. She worked previously at The Plain Dealer, the daily newspaper in Cleveland, as a metro news reporter and later as a features writer concentrating on women’s issues. She has a print journalism degree from The American University in Washington. 
Email: mmelendez@civicventures.org 
Phone: (202) 478-6183

Terry Nagel, Managing Editor, Encore.org
A longtime journalist, Terry Nagel worked as a reporter and editor for the San Mateo (Calif.) Times, a writer and editor for the San Francisco Chronicle and Assistant Managing Editor of Forbes ASAP magazine. She also was the founding Community Manager for Expedia.com's Family Travel and Adventure Travel forums, and she ran an out-of-print book search firm. Nagel transitioned to the nonprofit world in 2002, when she became Managing Editor of GreatSchools.net. She later served as Communications Officer for the Skoll Foundation. She was elected in 2003 to the Burlingame City Council. She is a 2003 graduate of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership’s Community Fellows leadership program and a 2006 graduate of the League of California Cities’ Civic Leadership Institute. In 2007, Nagel served as Burlingame’s mayor and was re-elected. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Email: tnagel@civicventures.org 
Phone: (415) 222-7489

Interactive Services

Carol Rudisill, Director
Carol Rudisill brings a wealth of experience from her management roles in e-commerce, interactive product development and strategic marketing. She is a veteran of respected companies and organizations, such as Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Disney Interactive and TechSoup Global. Rudisill was Vice President of Product Development at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive for the launch of Newsweek.com and the award-winning redesign of washingtonpost.com. Her encore career began in 2004 at nonprofit leader TechSoup Global. For five years, she was responsible for the development and implementation of approximately 30 product donation programs, including those for Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco Systems and Flickr. Rudisill’s role at TechSoup gave her detailed insight into more than 90,000 nonprofits that TechSoup served during a period when TechSoup outreach more than doubled. She has led interactive design workshops and social media panels at venues including the University of California, Los Angeles; the Art Center College of Design; and the Wharton Business Technology Conference. 
Email: crudisill@civicventures.org 
Phone: (415) 222-7496

Jeremiah Faria, Web Developer
Jeremiah Faria executes and runs the behind-the-scenes operations for Civic Ventures websites. He came to Civic Ventures with a background in direct response and social media. He discovered his love for the Internet in the early 1990s and has since worked to improve the standards as a developer. Faria also manages his own web development consulting company, Jmfcool.com. As a member of the Web Design and Developers Association, a member of the International Webmasters Association and a supporter of the World Wide Web Consortium movement promoting interoperable technologies and guidelines, he strives to standardize the Net one page, interaction and packet at a time.
Email: jfaria@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 300-0102

Sarah Maple, Web Designer
Focusing on intuitive interactive design, Sarah Maple integrates video, animation and imagery into engaging online experiences. Her previous experience includes interactive marketing, commercial investment and, with other nonprofits, design and direction in developing websites and web applications for a wide range of clients and audiences. Maple holds a degree in design from Virginia Commonwealth University, with an emphasis on digital media.
Email: smaple@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7491

Finance and Administration

Marco Austin, Staff Accountant
Marco Austin manages employee payroll and benefits and other accounting functions within the finance department. He has more than 15 years of accounting experience in the fields of travel, technology, law and education and the nonprofit sector. Austin holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Phoenix and a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Email: maustin@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7493

Wubitu Weldie, Staff Accountant
With roughly 15 years of experience in accounting and finance, Wubitu Weldie’s professional background includes financial accounting, reporting and analysis. Prior to joining Civic Ventures, she worked for school districts and software, online retail and biotechnology companies. Weldie has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in finance from Golden Gate University. A native Ethiopian, she resides in Greenbrae, Calif.
Email: wweldie@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7483

Ann Bussard, Office Manager (Washington, D.C.)
Ann Bussard has had 17 years of administrative support experience in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Before joining Civic Ventures, she held positions as a Training Coordinator with NeighborWorks America and as the Member Services Coordinator with the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce in Maryland. Most recently, Bussard was the Assistant Operations Manager with a for-profit operation. She resides with her husband in the Washington, D.C., area. 
Email: abussard@civicventures.org 
Phone: (202) 478-6305

Richard Smith, Office Manager (San Francisco)
A graduate of San Jose State University, Richard Smith has served as an office manager for a number of public and private organizations during the past 15 years. Most recently, he worked at the San Francisco County Transportation Authority. Smith teaches tap dance and is a former cast member of the Broadway production 42nd Street and the San Francisco production of Beach Blanket Babylon.
Email: rsmith@civicventures.org
Phone: (415) 222-7497

Senior Advisers

David Bornstein
David Bornstein is the founder of Dowser.org, a media site that reports on social innovation. He is the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank and Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Susan Davis). He co-wrote To Our Credit, an early documentary about microfinance, which premiered on PBS. He is a founding board member of VisionSpring, a social enterprise that markets low-cost reading glasses to villagers in developing countries. He has been an Avina Leader and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Entrepreneurship. Bornstein has received awards for journalism and leadership in social entrepreneurship and human security. How to Change the World, which chronicles the work of social entrepreneurs around the world, has been translated into 20 languages and has been described in The New York Times as “a bible in the field.” The Price of a Dream, which traces the history of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Grameen Bank, was described by Jane Jacobs as a “monumental work” that played a key role advancing understanding of microfinance. Bornstein was a leading participant in early conferences on social entrepreneurship in Spain, Germany, France, Taiwan and China. He has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Newsday and other publications, and his articles and interviews have been published in 15 countries.
Email: dnbornstein@gmail.com

Andy Goodman
Director of The Goodman Center, Andy Goodman is a nationally recognized author, speaker and consultant in the field of public interest communications. Along with Storytelling as Best Practice, he is author of Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. He also publishes a monthly journal, free-range thinking, to share best practices in the field. Goodman is best known for his speeches and workshops on storytelling, presenting and strategic communications. He has been invited to speak at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and at major foundation and nonprofit conferences. In 2007, former Vice President Al Gore selected Goodman to train 1,000 volunteers who are currently helping Gore engage more Americans in the fight against global warming. In 2008, Andy co-founded The Goodman Center to offer online versions of his workshops and additional communications classes for nonprofits, foundations, government agencies and educational institutions worldwide. When not teaching, traveling or recovering from teaching and traveling, Goodman also serves on the advisory boards of VolunteerMatch and Great Nonprofits.
Email: andy@agoodmanonline.com

Alex Harris
Alex Harris is Professor of the Practice of Public Policy and Documentary Studies at Duke University and a co-founder of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. He is a distinguished photographer, editor and writer who, during the last 30 years, has focused on the American Southwest and, more broadly, on aging in America. In four books – The Old Ones of New Mexico, River of Traps: A Village Life, Red White Blue and God Bless You and Islands in Time – he has examined the world of the Ancianos, the elders in Hispanic communities in New Mexico. In the early 1990s, Harris began to look more broadly at issues of aging in America. He published Old and On Their Own with Robert Coles in 1998. He also worked with Civic Ventures founder Marc Freedman to provide photographs for Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America in 2000, which led to a broader collaboration with Civic Ventures making photographs for six publications in the Innovations series. 
Email: aharris@acpub.duke.edu