Board of Advisors
Mojgone Azemun
Mojgone Azemun has more than a decade of experience working with various environmental, human rights, and social justice efforts. Currently pursuing a law degree at the University of California, Berkeley, she served as a program associate for the IAP from December 2004 through June 2005. She also served as training director for The Ruckus Society. Prior to moving to the Bay Area, she served as campaigns coordinator for the International Campaign for Tibet in Washington, DC and as a founding board member for Students for a Free Tibet. Ms. Azemun has studied and traveled in Iran, Nepal, China, and Tibet.
Lafcadio Cortesi
Lafcadio Cortesi has more than 15 years of experience working in North America and the Asia Pacific region on community-based natural resource management, institutional development, sustainable enterprise and biodiversity conservation. He worked for Greenpeace for over 10 years as a forests campaigner, three years as a senior program officer with the US AID-funded Biodiversity Support Program and more than two years as a volunteer with a local Indonesian community development NGO. Mr. Cortesi is currently the Boreal Forest Campaign Director at Forest Ethics.
Gopal Dayaneni
Gopal Dayaneni is Communications Coordinator for the Clean Computer Campaign of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition based in San Jose, California. He is the former Oil Campaign Coordinator for Project Underground, a human and environmental rights organization, where he worked to support communities resisting oil and mining exploitation around the world. Mr. Dayaneni also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Media Alliance based in Oakland, California.
Smitu Kothari
Smitu Kothari is a regular Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He is one of the founders of Lokayan (Dialogue of the People), a center promoting exchange between socially concerned scholars and other citizens from India and the rest of the world. Trained in physics, communications and sociology, he is a scholar-activist who has been involved over the past three decades in ecological, cultural and human rights issues. He has published extensively on contemporary economic and cultural development, the relationship of nature, culture and democracy, developmental displacement and social movements.
Charles Lord
Charlie Lord is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. After clerking on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, he founded Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE), an environmental justice center based in Roxbury and served on ACE's Board until 2004. Charlie is now the Director of the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston College. He taught environmental law and policy and environmental legal history at Boston College Law School from 1993-1998 and is now a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at Boston College. He is also on the board of directors for the Community Rights Council in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous articles on environmental law, environmental justice and environmental policy.
Katie Redford
Katie Redford is a co-founder and co-director of Earth Rights International, an organization that focuses on human rights and the environment, with an emphasis on corporate and government accountability. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where she received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights . She directs the U.S. east coast office and resource center, assists with ERI's earth rights litigation, and coordinates a coalition of human rights and environmental NGOs in campaigns such as the International Right to Know.
Jack Vanderryn
Jack Vanderryn is the Senior Fellow for Environment and Development at The Moriah Fund, a foundation in Washington, DC. At Moriah, he manages a development portfolio that addresses both reform of the multilateral international financial institutions as well as international trade and globalization issues.
