Advisory Board

Ed Begley, Jr. is a well-known actor in film, television, and stage. He is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series St. Elsewhere, for which he received six Emmy nominations. He began his acting career in adolescence, on the long-running television series My Three Sons. He also spent several years working as a standup comedian and as a cameraman in television studios and commercial production houses. Mr. Begley is a committed environmental activist who puts his principles into practice with a fully energy self-sufficient home and an electric car. He uses his website not only as a professional communication channel, but also to educate the public about environmental issues. He serves on the Boards of a number of environmental organizations and his website includes extensive links to environmental resources on the Internet.

Joan Blades is a co-founder of MoveOn.org, a political action web site dedicated to promoting broad public participation in political discourse. Starting in 1998 with an anti-impeachment campaign, MoveOn.org has become a leading Web-based political action and fundraising organization, with many thousands of online supporters and active volunteers. In 2006, she co-founded the non-partisan organization MomsRising< http://www.momsrising.org/>, dedicated to bringing together organizations and people with a shared concern about building “a more family-friendly America.” She blogs at Huffington Post. Ms. Blades is a software industry veteran, having co-founded a leading entertainment software company, Berkeley Systems. Prior to her work in consumer software, Ms. Blades taught mediation at Golden Gate Law School and practiced mediation. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, and her JD from Golden Gate Law School.

Einat Sandman Clarke is an Associate attorney at Cooley Godward Kronish LLP. In her years of political activism, she served on the opposition research team for Gore 2000 and created Spanish-language radio ads for the campaign. She worked for various state and local political campaigns, and in House and Senate offices. Ms. Clarke has also worked in the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, DC, policy think tank; the DNC/Brown-Tully Institute Training Academies; and Sun Microsystems' Global Public Policy department. She has trained activists around the country to integrate the Internet strategically into political campaigns. At the age of 21, Ms. Sandman co-founded the Institute for Silicon Valley Public Affairs, a non-profit promoting interactive voter education on the Internet for the 1998 local elections. More recently she has been active in the Peninsula Young Democrats. Ms. Clarke received her undergraduate degree in Political Communications from George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), where she was a National Hispanic Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her juris doctorate from Santa Clara University in 2004.

Peter Coyote is an actor and author, and an Emmy award-winning narrator of documentaries. His 1998 memoir, "Sleeping Where I Fall", incorporates "Carla's Story" which was awarded the 1993-1994 Pushcart Prize, a national prize for excellence in writing, published by a non-commercial literary magazine. From 1975 to1983, Peter was a member of the California State Arts Council, the State agency which determines art policy, and was its Chairman for three consecutive years. Since the early '80s, Mr. Coyote has been acting and doing voice-overs for documentaries. He has made over 125 movies for film and television, and over seventy documentaries. His mellow voice, often compared to Henry Fonda's, won him an Emmy in 1992 for his narration of the "The Meiji Revolution" episode, part of the PBS American Experience ten-part series called "The Pacific Century." He narrates commercials and documentaries, and donates his voice to films that support issues close to his heart. Early in his career as an actor, he was a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, which performs political street theater on timely topics. In 1967 a play that Mr. Coyote co-wrote, directed, and performed in won the Troupe a special OBIE from New York's Village Voice newspaper. Mr. Coyote's current political interests include environmental pollution, the integrity of the election process, and the hazards of election fraud. He is a board member of Baykeepers, an organization which tracks pollution and polluters in the San Francisco Bay. He was a delegate to the 1996 Democratic National Convention, which he also covered for Mother Jones magazine. Mr. Coyote received a BA in English Literature from Grinnell College and left the Creative Writing of San Francisco State University a few units shy of his MA to "do the Sixties."

Lori Dorfman, who is Director of the Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute, is an expert in strategies for working with the news media to advance public policy goals. The Berkeley Media Studies Group operates out of the belief that the mass media, especially the news, have a significant influence on people's beliefs and actions regarding public health and social issues and that the news media can be a powerful force for advancing healthy public policy. Dr. Dorfman directs BMSG's research and work with community groups, journalists and public health professionals. She teaches a graduate course on mass communication and public health at the UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health; has published articles on public health and mass communication issues; and co-authored Public Health and Media Advocacy: Power for Prevention and News for a Change: An Advocates' Guide to Working with the Media. She consults for government agencies and community programs across the U.S. and internationally on a variety of public health issues including violence prevention and injury prevention, alcohol, tobacco, children's health, child care, childhood lead poisoning, affirmative action, nutrition and exercise, and women and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Dorfman holds MPH and DrPH degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Finseth holds a B.A in English from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in American Studies from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Finseth’s professional background also includes experience as an editor and journalist. He reported on political affairs and served as City Editor for the Daily Californian; reported on police and community issues for the Riverside Press-Enterprise; wrote a column about American political life for an online magazine; and founded and edited an online journal devoted to the study of American culture.

Efrain Garza Fuentes, a psychologist by training, is Director of Multicultural Programs at the Walt Disney Company. He has broad experience in management, training, writing, and teaching, with a strong emphasis and focus on the impact of demographic shifts and multi-cultural markets. His previous positions include Director of Patient & Family Services at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Voluntary Faculty Member at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine. As a Professor at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, and Adjunct Faculty at Boston University, Dr. Fuentes taught courses in cross-cultural psychology, social work and critical thinking. He has done extensive consulting specializing in development, training and qualitative research on multicultural populations. He also has worked closely with law enforcement officials and has provided individual psychotherapy to inmates in the isolation section of a maximum security prison. Dr. Fuentes was also a freelance writer for La Opinion, a Spanish language daily newspaper in Los Angeles, California. He received his M.Ed. and Ed.D. degrees in Counseling Psychology from Boston University.

Dr. Gillette is as Assistant Professor of Drama at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He was previously a postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Stanford University's Introduction to the Humanities program. Dr. Gillette has taught classes in cultural research, theater history, performance theory, and dramatic literature at Stanford, the American Conservatory Theater's MFA program, and programs at UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Oxford University, with an emphasis on exploring the "deep framing" that underlies different cultural, political, ethical, and aesthetic ideas. As a program director at Education Unlimited, he did research and provided guidance on the use of advertising language to convey how prospective students frame their values and identity. Dr. Gillette's most recent article, about the relationship among railroad travel, futurist aesthetics, and Einstein's special theory of relativity, "Loco Motion: Railway Perception, Relativity, and the Stage", was published in Performance Research in 2007. Other work has appeared in academic journals and has been presented at conferences. Dr. Gillette received is bachelor's degree magna cum laude in English and Drama from Trinity University, and a PhD in Drama from Stanford University.

Harvey Gotliffe is Professor of Magazine Journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University. He was previously an Associate Professor at Central Michigan University, where he started and headed the Magazine Journalism program. He has also held academic positions at several other universities in California and Michigan, teaching courses in journalism, writing for broadcast media and film, and advertising. Dr. Gotliffe's early career was in advertising and writing, in roles that included communications consultant, editor, creative services manager, and copy writer. He has been involved in several progressive political campaigns, in which he was in charge of public relations, promotion, and campaign advertising. He also did scholarly research on the effects of paid-for communications in a senatorial campaign. Dr. Gotliffe has a BS degree in Advertising/Marketing from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan; an MS in Print Journalism/Mass Communications from San Jose State University; and a PhD in Radio, Television, and Film from Wayne State University.

Van Jones is the founder and president Green For All, is committed to creating an inclusive green economy with "green pathways out of poverty," while greatly expanding the coalition fighting global warming. He has worked on the local, national, and international levels to promote green jobs legislation and the concept of “Green Cities”. He is also a co-founder of a national coalition that promotes the idea of a national "Clean Energy Jobs Corps." This multi-billion-dollar federal initiative would put hundreds of thousands of people to work rewiring and retrofitting the energy infrastructure of the United States. In 2005, he produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration. UNWED 2005 drew dozens of mayors from around the world to San Francisco, where they developed policies promoting the concept of "Green Cities." In 1996, Mr. Jones co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which promotes alternatives to violence and incarceration. As an advocate for the toughest urban constituencies and causes, Mr. Jones has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the international Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader," and the Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship. Mr. Jones is a board member of the National Apollo Alliance, which advocates for clean energy jobs. He is also a founding board member of 1Sky, a national coalition working to avert catastrophic climate change. Mr. Jones received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin and is a graduate of Yale Law School.

Jeffrey Karan is the Managing Partner of Woodside Capital Partners, a technology investment bank that provides merger and acquisition advice, outsourced corporate development, and financial strategy to visionary, high growth companies. He serves on the Board of the VC-Angel Roundtable in Silicon Valley. Previously, Mr. Karan was the founding CEO of OneDemocracy.com, an Internet e-commerce company that built a marketplace exchange in the political/social arena. He assembled a team of twelve political luminaries for its Advisory Board (including Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas, and Ken Khachigian, Senior Advisor to John McCain for President). OneDemocracy.com was ranked by Time Magazine as the best political web site in March 2000, and was selected by Yahoo! and MSN as site picks of the month. OneDemocracy.com was subsequently sold to Voter.com in June 2000. Mr. Karan's prior background includes twelve years of investment banking experience with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. He holds an MBA from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck Business School (Tuck Scholar, 1980), a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College, and an MA in Comparative Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Celinda Lake is President of Lake Research Partners, a national public opinion research firm that provides services to a wide range of advocacy and non-profit organizations, and foundations. She is one of the nation's foremost experts on electing women candidates and on framing issues to women voters. Ms. Lake and her firm are known for cutting edge research on issues including the economy, health care, the environment and campaign finance reform. Ms. Lake is a regular pollster for U.S. News and World Report. Celinda Lake is also a leading political strategist, serving as tactician and senior advisor to the Democratic Party's national party committees, dozens of Democratic incumbents and challengers at all levels of the electoral process, and democratic parties in several Eastern European countries and South Africa. Prior to forming her present firm, Ms. Lake was partner and vice president at Greenberg-Lake. She has served as political director of the Women's Campaign Fund. She has also been Research Director at the Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Policy Analyst for the Subcommittee on Select Education. Ms. Lake holds a Masters degree in Political Science and Survey Research from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; a certificate in political science from the University of Geneva, Switzerland; and an undergraduate degree from Smith College.

George Lakoff is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a leading expert on cognitive linguistics, the scientific study of the nature of thought and its expression in language. Since the mid-1980s he has applied cognitive linguistics to the study of politics, especially the framing of public political debate. He has served as a consultant to numerous advocacy organizations and political campaigns. Dr. Lakoff was one of the founders of the Rockridge Institute, a California think tank that studied means of reframing public understanding of policy issues. He is author of Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, a guide for progressives; Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision; and Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know that Liberals Don't, an analysis of the differences in how conservatives and liberals formulate their world views and moral perspectives, and how these differences play out in the language they use and their positions in the policy arena. He is also the author of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, and co-author of Metaphors We Live By and More than Cool Reason. Dr. Lakoff got his PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. He taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan and was at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

L. Hunter Lovins is President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions. Trained as a sociologist and lawyer, she co-founded the California Conservation Project (Tree People), and subsequently the Rocky Mountain Institute, which she led for 20 years. Ms. Lovins has lectured extensively in over 15 countries, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos, The International Symposium on Sustainable Development in Shanghai, and the Global Economic Forum in Washington D.C. She has co-authored numerous papers and nine books, including Natural Capitalism, and has consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. Her areas of expertise include sustainable development, energy and resource policy, climate change, land management, community economic development, and globalization. Based on her belief that individuals working together within a market context are the most dynamic problem-solving force, Ms. Lovins has devoted herself to creating and implementing practical affordable solutions to the problems facing life, by working with corporations, communities and citizens. She shared a 1982 Mitchell Prize, a 1983 Right Livelihood Award (often called the "alternative Nobel Prize"), the 1993 Nissan Prize, and the 1999 Lindbergh Award. In 2000, she was named Time Magazine Hero of the Planet. In 2001, she received the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Research and the Leadership in Business Award. Ms. Lovins holds BAs from Pitzer College (Political Studies and Sociology), a JD from Loyola University School of Law (Los Angeles), and several honorary doctorates.

Rudolph Malveaux is President of Paradigm Shift Political Consulting. Paradigm Shift utilizes media, netcentric technology, grassroots organizing, and arts/entertainment events in the development and implementation of political strategies and multicultural diversification initiatives for political organizations and campaigns. During the 2004 Presidential Election cycle, Mr. Malveaux produced the Digital Polemics Film Festival, which brought controversial political documentary films to the public. Since the 1980s, Mr. Malveaux has been involved in the creative application of arts and entertainment as means of consciousness-raising, nonviolent political protest, and fundraising for advocacy. Mr. Malveaux's previous positions in the entertainment and communications industries were as CEO & President of Victory Grill Entertainment (VGE), a nonprofit arts organization; Director of Sales and Marketing for The Mayfield Group, an information technology services company; and Principal of Bass Beats Broadcasting, a radio broadcasting property acquisition and operations company. Mr. Malveaux did his undergraduate studies in Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has done research in the field of ethnic enclave formation and entrepreneurship, and completed a post-baccalaureate program at the Entrepreneurial Institute for the Arts, conducted by the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and The Association of American Cultures.

Will Marshall is President and a founder of the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, DC, think tank affiliated with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. He is editor of Building the Bridge: 10 Big Ideas to Transform America (Roman & Littlefield, 1997) and co-editor of Mandate for Change (Berkley Books, 1992), a policy blueprint for President Clinton's first term. He has written on a number of political subjects, including welfare reform and urban revival, race and affirmative action, new models for governing, and defense and foreign policy. Since 1980, Mr. Marshall has worked on Capitol Hill and in electoral politics, including stints as press secretary, speechwriter, spokesman, and policy analyst for Democratic candidates and officeholders. He was the policy director of the Democratic Leadership Council from 1985 to 1989, and is chairman of the editorial board of the DLC's magazine, The New Democrat. Before becoming involved in politics and public policy, he was a journalist in Virginia. He received his B.A. in English and History from the University of Virginia.

Richard H. Middleton, Jr., a leading consumer advocate, is principal of The Middleton Firm, a plaintiff civil litigation firm in Savannah, GA. His firm specializes in catastrophic personal injury cases, class action/mass torts, environmental claims, employment litigation, and business torts. Mr. Middleton is active in the American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA)), and is a past President of the organization. He previously was a partner in Middleton, Mathis, Adams & Tate, one of the largest plaintiffs' firms in the Georgia. He has nearly 200 publications and presentations to his credit, and lectures extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad. Mr. Middleton received his BA and JD degrees from Washington & Lee University.

Ted Nordhaus is an author, researcher, and political strategist. He is also a managing partner of American Environics, a research and strategic consulting firm that studies the evolution of American social values and their relevance to progressive political issues. He is also Chairman of of the Breakthrough Institute. As a specialist in environmental, transportation, and land use issues, Mr. Nordhaus has been involved with a variety of projects in which his qualitative and quantitative research skills mix with public relations work and strategic consulting for public persuasion efforts. He was previously a vice president at Evans/McDonough, an opinion research firm; a principal at Next Generation; and Executive Director of the Headwaters Sanctuary Project. He has worked with a diverse client base of political, corporate, governmental and non-profit agencies, including the Apollo Alliance, Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, and Clean Water Action. Mr. Nordhaus and public relations consultant Michael Shellenberger co-authored Break Through and The Death of Environmentalism. Mr. Nordhaus holds a B.A. in history from the University of California. Mr. Nordhaus has a BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley.

David Novogrodsky currently lectures in labor studies at San Francisco State University. For twenty-five years he was Executive Director of Professional & Technical Engineers, Local 21 (IFPTE/AFL-CIO). During his tenure the union grew from 500 to over 6000 government employed professionals and related employees in Bay Area cities and counties. Mr. Novogrodsky previously worked for a number of unions, including the AFSCME, SEIU, and the AFT, as well as the AFL-CIO. He organized and represented social service employees, university and college professors, and a multiplicity of other occupations in a number of industries. He served as Chair of the Council of Engineers and Scientists Organizations (CESO) and as Western Vice President of the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers and on the executive board of the San Francisco Labor Council. He has also been a university and college instructor at a number of institutions, including Rutgers, San Francisco State University, and San Francisco City College. Mr. Novogrodsky has a BA in Sociology & Psychology from Reed College and an MA in Political Science from the University of Oregon.

Geoffrey Nunberg is an adjunct full professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as being a senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He is chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. Since 1989, Dr. Nunberg has done a regular language feature on the NPR show, "Fresh Air," and his writing about language and other topics is regularly seen in The New York Times, The American Prospect, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other publications. Dr. Nunberg has worked for many years on behalf of language rights and was active in organizing opposition to the English-only movement. He has written a number of articles on technology policy and the need for universal access, and recently served as the expert for the American Library Association's successful challenge to the mandatory Internet filtering provisions of the Children's Internet Protection Act. He was also the expert witness for the group of Native Americans who successfully petitioned for the cancellation of the trademark of the Washington Redskins in 1999. Some of his writings are available at his web site. Until 2001, Dr. Nunberg was a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He has also taught at UCLA, the University of Rome, and the University of Naples. Dr. Nunberg received his BA from Columbia University, MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD from City University of New York (CUNY). His books include Going Nucular and Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned LIberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show.

Dr. O’Heffernan helped launch the TBS television program "Network Earth", and served as a commentator on National Public Radio. He has received an Emmy, four Tellys, and a Peabody nomination, among other awards. He was Executive Producer of two first-ever global public affairs television campaigns, for the United Nations Conferences on Environment and on Population and Development. He served as Environmental Staff Consultant to California Governor Edmund G. Brown and on the staff of the California Energy Commission.

Dr. O’Heffernan has authored six books and numerous articles and book chapters. He holds a Ph.D. in International Affairs and Technology Policy from MIT, as well as degrees in journalism, advertising, and political science.

Dennis Paull has been a grass roots political activist for over 30 years, and is currently deeply involved at the county, state, and national levels with the problems of electronic voting machines and election procedures. Now retired from a career as a software development engineer and instrumentation engineering consultant, he devotes his time to several nonprofit organizations. Mr. Paull has been the President and Treasurer of two local Democratic clubs and an officer of the California Democratic Council (CDC). He is a Board member of the Silicon Valley Public Access Link, a 501(c)3 internet service provider. He is active in amateur radio emergency communications and is on the Half Moon Bay Emergency Preparedness Advisory Committee. Mr. Paull holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology.

Paul Ray is CEO of Integral Partnerships, LLC, a consulting firm that helps those organizations whose constituencies or customers are Cultural Creatives to be more successful, by aligning their internal activities and values with the values and needs of their constituencies or customers. He is co-author of The Cultural Creatives (Harmony Books, 2000). Over a 14 year period, while he was Executive Vice President of American LIVES, Inc., Dr. Ray studied over 100,000 Americans, showing how the subcultures of values permeate all aspects of American life, including consumer behavior, politics, media use, and altruism. His evolving analysis of the American political landscape, The New Political Compass, can be seen at http://www.culturalcreatives.org/. Dr. Ray's earlier positions include: Chief of Policy Research on Energy Conservation, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources of the Government of Canada; Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Vice President of Set Theoretic Information Systems Corp. He co-developed the world's largest, most complex, and realistic urban gaming simulation, METRO-APEX, used to train managers in over 100 universities and in governments in 5 countries. Dr. Ray has a BA in Anthropology from Yale University and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan.

Paul Sheldon, Consultant, is Senior Manager for Policy and Research programs in the Durango, CO office of Ecos Consulting. He serves as Senior Consultant with Natural Capitalism Solutions, and previously taught "Principles of Sustainable Management" and "Implementing Sustainable Business Practices" at the Presidio School of Management in San Francisco, CA, with Hunter Lovins and Bob Dunham. In addition, he acts as a private development consultant specializing in sustainability, non-profit fund raising, board development, and philanthropic advising. Mr. Sheldon helped organize the Rocky Mountain Institute, the Los Angeles-based TreePeople, Friends of the Los Angeles River, and many other progressive organizations. He has been a motivational consultant to General Motors, Bank of America, Muzak, and the City of Aspen, CO. Mr. Sheldon is a former Board member of Colorado Mountain College, the City of Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission, the Aspen Lodging Association, and several Chambers of Commerce in Colorado and California. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, CA.

Previously, Ms. Spivak served as a consultant with a strategic marketing firm working on public interest campaigns and the multi-million dollar Ford Foundation Corporate Involvement Initiative campaign. In this capacity, Ms. Spivak advised national nonprofit organizations on marketing, communications, and public relations. Throughout her career, she has created numerous marketing and communications strategies, plans, and materials for a variety of private, academic, and nonprofit entities.

A 2000 - 2001 US-UK Fulbright Scholar, Ms. Spivak received the distinguished British American Chamber of Commerce Fulbright award to study public-private partnerships. She holds master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research.

Brooke Warrick is founder and President of American LIVES, Inc., a marketing research firm specializing in psychographic market segmentation. He has been a leader in value- and lifestyle-based market research for almost two decades. He specializes in turning quantitative and qualitative data into rich and insightful stories about how to reach and sell to different kinds of consumers. He is also an international speaker on the impact of value and lifestyle trends on consumer behavior and new developments in market research. Before becoming President of American LIVES, Mr. Warrick was the Director of Marketing at the VALS program at SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute), where he created the well-known video, ãAn American Portraitä. He later authored The Builder's Guide to Moveup Buyers, about the present and future state of the homebuilding industry and home buyers. Mr. Warrick holds an MS degree in Psychology from San Francisco State University.

David Zucker is a Senior Vice President and Partner of the multinational, multicultural public relations firm, Porter Novelli, and is the director of CauseWorks, Porter Novelli's cause-related marketing and strategic philanthropy specialty. Mr. Zucker is a recognized leader in the field, having worked on a broad variety of issues in the US and throughout the developing world. In addition to counseling corporate clients, he has provided training and technical assistance to community-based organizations and government agencies in the US, Latin America, Asia and Africa, regarding social marketing, strategic planning, issues management, research and evaluation, message development, mass media, and workplace and community-based interventions. He has also served as the global key account leader for all of Porter Novelli's anti-tobacco projects, and has had extensive experience developing communications programs addressing particularly challenging behaviors and audiences. Prior to joining Porter Novelli in 1989, Mr. Zucker was a Vice President at Jordan, McGrath, Case & Taylor, where he managed marketing planning, research and advertising for corporate clients; he earlier worked for several advertising agencies in Boston and New York. Mr. Zucker has a B.A. in French Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton.