E-MAIL:  diana [at] ips-dc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Support staff

CURRENT WORK: Starting as an intern, Diana worked with the Paths Project and the Bringing Pinochet to Justice Campaign. Under these projects she researched related information for both projects, and translated and edited articles and publications. Currently, besides being support staff for Dorian Lipscombe and IPS in general, Diana works on a variety of IPS projects including SALSA, Democracy Action Project, FPIF and the Break the Chain Campaign. For these projects she has researched relevant material, promoted lectures on current issues, and assisted in investigations on worker abuse cases.

BACKGROUND: Diana holds a BA in Spanish and a BA in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland. In the fall of 2002 she will be starting her Masters work in U.S. Foreign Policy with a focus on International Law at American University. She has volunteered for area Hispanic organizations promoting diversity in the workplace and educational advancement for minorities.

E-MAIL ADDRESS: 
kitbob [at] erols.com

ROLE IN IPS: Director, Nuclear Policy project 

CURRENT WORK: Robert Alvarez is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies.

BACKGROUND: Between 1993 and 1999, Mr. Alvarez served as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment.  While at DOE coordinated the effort to enact nuclear worker compensation legislation. In 1994 and 1995, Bob led teams in North Korea to establish control of nuclear weapons materials. He coordinated nuclear material strategic planning for the department and established the department’s first asset management program. Bob was awarded two Secretarial Gold Medals, the highest awards given by the Department.Prior to joining the DOE, Mr. Alvarez served for five years as a Senior Investigator for the U. S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, chaired by Senator John Glenn, and as one of the Senate’s primary staff experts on the U.S. nuclear weapons program. While serving for Senator Glenn, Bob worked to help establish the environmental cleanup program in the Department of Energy, strengthened the Clean Air Act, uncovered several serious nuclear safety and health problems, improved medical radiation regulations, and created a transition program for communities and workers affected by the closure of nuclear weapons facilities.In 1975 Bob helped found and direct the Environmental Policy Institute (EPI), a respected national public interest organization. He helped enact several federal environmental laws, wrote several influential studies and organized successful political coalitions. He helped organize a successful lawsuit on behalf of the family of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear worker and active union member who was killed under mysterious circumstances in 1974.  Bob Alvarez is an award winning author and has published articles in prominent publications such as Science Magazine, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Technology Review and the Washington Post. He has been featured in television programs such as NOVA and 60 Minutes.  

E-MAIL ADDRESS: saraha [at] igc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Director, 
Global Economy Program

CURRENT WORK: 1) Conducting research and writing on the impact of the international financial institutions and free trade and investment policies on inequality, poverty, environmental sustainability, and human rights. 2) research on executive compensation, particularly in the defense industry, and strategies for narrowing the pay gaps between CEOs and workers.  3)  research to document how poverty in impoverished countries undermines jobs and the environment in the United States.

BACKGROUND: Sarah has written numerous studies, articles and books on global corporations and the social and environmental impacts of trade and investment liberalization. She sits on the steering committee of the Alliance for Responsible Trade and served on the staff of the International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission (“Meltzer Commission”), which presented their recommendations for World Bank and IMF reform to the U.S. Congress in 2000.

Prior to coming to IPS in 1992, Anderson was a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development (1989-1992) and an editor for the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (1988). She holds a Masters in International Affairs from The American University and a BA in Journalism from Northwestern University.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Executive Excess 2006: Defense and Oil Executives Cash in on Conflict (August 30, 2006 by Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy) and 12 previous annual reports on CEO pay.

Cracking Down on War Profiteering (June 13, 2006 with the Center for Corporate Policy)

Field Guide to the Global Economy (New Press, November 2005)

Alternatives to Economic Globalization (Berrett-Koehler, September 2004)

The Debt Boomerang: How Americans Would Benefit from Cancellation of Impoverished Country Debts, Institute for Policy Studies, October 2005.

ROLE IN IPS: Fellow, New Internationalism: The Middle East & United Nations Affairs

CURRENT WORK: The Middle East component of the Project challenges the drive towards U.S. empire in that region and beyond, focusing particularly on ending the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq, and supporting a just and comprehensive peace based on an end to Israeli occupation of Palestine. The United Nations component analyzes U.S. domination of the UN and attempts to strengthen the potential role of the UN as part of a new internationalism and the global resistance to empire. Since September 11, 2001, the New Internationalism Project has also been involved in assessing the root causes of, and critiquing Bush administration responses to, that tragedy.

BACKGROUND: IPS fellow Phyllis Bennis is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She has been a writer, analyst and activist on Middle East and UN issues for many years. While working as a journalist at the United Nations during the run-up to the 1990-91 Gulf War, she began working on U.S. domination of the UN, and stayed involved in work on Iraq sanctions and disarmament, and later U.S. war and occupation in Iraq. In 1999 Phyllis accompanied a group of congressional aides to Iraq to examine the impact of U.S.-led economic sanctions on humanitarian conditions there, and later joined former UN Assistant Secretary General Denis Halliday, who resigned his position as Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq to protest the impact of sanctions, in a speaking tour. In 2001 she helped found and currently co-chairs the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. She works closely with the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition, and since 2002 has played an active role in the growing global peace movement.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer, published by TARI and available in hard copy from IPS, text on-line at the website of the U.S. Campaign (www.endtheoccupation.org).

Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis, Interlink Publishing 2002.

Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN, Interlink Publishing, 2000.

Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader, Interlink Publishing, 1991.

Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order, Interlink Publishing, 1994.

From Stones to Statehood: The Palestinian Uprising, Interlink Publishing, 1990.

Phyllis is frequently published in the Baltimore Sun, Middle East International, Middle East Report (MERIP), TomPaine.com, and many other publications. She is appears regularly on U.S. and international media.

ROLE IN IPS: Director

CURRENT WORK: John Cavanagh has been Director of IPS since 1998. In this capacity, he oversees programs, outreach, and organizational development.

BACKGROUND: John has a BA from Dartmouth College and a MA from Princeton University. He worked as an international economist for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1978-1981) and the World Health Organization (1981-1982). He directed IPS's Global Economy Project from 1983-1997. He is the co-author of 10 books and numerous articles on the global economy.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order (with Richard J. Barnet), Simon & Schuster, 1994.

A Field Guide to the Global Economy (with Sarah Anderson and Thea Lee), New Press, 2000.

ROLE IN IPS: Associate Fellow

CURRENT WORK: Steve Cobble is an Associate Fellow at IPS, focused on antiwar work, voting rights issues, and efforts to force the G-8 to cancel more debt for Africa and Latin America. His most recent project is AfterDowningStreet.org, which he co-founded to help lead the fight to bring the Downing Street Minutes to greater public exposure.

BACKGROUND: Steve is a former Political Director and speechwriter for the National Rainbow Coalition, was National Delegate Coordinator for Jackson for President ’88, and directed the Keep Hope Alive PAC. He has worked on campaigns at every level, including Toney Anaya for Governor of New Mexico in 1982, and Carol Moseley Braun for U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1992. He worked with Nader for President in 2000, served as a Strategic Adviser to Dennis Kucinich in 2003-04, and was heavily involved in the post-election struggle over the suppression of African-American votes in Ohio in 2004.

In 1991, Steve conducted election training workshops for the African National Congress in South Africa, and in 1990 he served as a Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. He was once selected as a Young Political Leader in America, and is listed in Who’s Who in America. Steve has also served as the Director of the Campaign for a Progressive Future, the Director of the Arca Foundation, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy.

E-MAIL: ccollins [at] faireconomy.org

ROLE IN IPS: Senior Scholar

CURRENT WORK: Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy (IPS) and directs IPS’s Program on Inequality and the Common Good.  He is an expert on U.S. inequality and author of several books, including Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (New Press, 2005).  He coordinates a national effort to preserve the federal estate tax, our nation’s only tax on inherited wealth.  He co-authored with Bill Gates Sr., Wealth and Our Commonwealth, a case for taxing inherited fortunes.

BACKGROUND: In 1995, he co-founded United for a Fair Economy (UFE) to raise the profile of the inequality issue and support popular education and organizing efforts to address inequality.  In 1997, he co-founded Responsible Wealth, a project of UFE to bring together business leaders and investors to publicly speak out against economic policies and corporate practices that worsen economic inequality. He was Executive Director of UFE from 1995-2001 and Program Director until 2005.

ROLE IN IPS: Fellow, Cities for Progress Director

Karen Dolan is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Director of the Cities for Progress and Cities for Peace projects based there. She holds an M.A. in Philosophy and Social Policy from the American University in Washington D.C. She has been a researcher, organizer, writer and activist in the peace and social justice communities for many years prior to joining IPS in 1996; she continues with public scholarship linked to movement-based activism. Karen collaborates with organizers and elected officials at the local level as well as with members of Congress and their staff. She participates in building economic and social justice coalitions at the local and national levels focused around a common, broad-based progressive agenda.

Karen’s activism at IPS has included organizing the Cities for Peace movement which facilitated the passage on anti-war resolutions in 170 towns and cities across America in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and is now facilitating a current movement to Bring the Troops Home Now. Karen has also organized town hall meetings, locally-based ad-hoc Congressional hearings, economic rights bus tours and coalition-building community meetings nation-wide in predominantly poor, low-income and minority communities. The purpose of this organizing has been political education for both citizens and policy-makers at all legislative levels, media attention, linking community-led organizations with policy-makers, and the building of a Fairness Agenda/People’s Platform, (see www.citiesforpeace.org) for transformation of our nation’s policies with adversely affect vulnerable populations.

She is currently directing a project that is solidifying the currently lose and disconnected alliances of community-led activists and locally-elected officials. They have built an organized network, Cities for Progress. This is a much needed national infrastructure that will facilitate the passage of the Fairness Agenda nationally and transform our nation’s policies from the bottom up.

Karen regularly appears in print and in broadcast addressing issues of peace and the domestic economy. Some of Karen’s publications include: Our Communities are Not for Sale; Paying the Price: the Mounting Costs of War in Iraq;A Failed Transition: The Continuing Costs of War in Iraq; and numerous articles on domestic economic issues online and in outlets such as The Nation magazine, Common Dreams and in op-ed pages of well-respected newspapers.

E-MAIL: netfa [at] ips-dc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Director, Social Action & Leadership School for Activists

CURRENT WORK: Netfa directs the Institute's school for organizers. This project provides affordable courses covering all aspects of grassroots activism.

BACKGROUND: Netfa holds a BA in History from the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and has been a political organizer/activist for over 17 years. He served as the coordinator of the Committee for Political Education at the Pan-African Resource Center (1984-1989) and has worked as a phone-bank fundraiser for the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES 1988-1990). Netfa has been intimately involved with many movements such as the 1986 International Peace Gathering in response to the U.S. bombing of Libya and the Advocates Plus Save UDC movement (1997). He is currently working with DC organizations to establish a DC-Havana Sister City Project and is an organizer in the No War On Cuba Movement; www.nowaroncuba.org.

E-MAIL: nate [at] ips-dc.org

WEBSITE: www.culturegraphic.com

ROLE IN IPS: Communications/IT

CURRENT WORK: With creative Yin and technical Yang; Nate uses new media kung-fu to educate and inspire generation-spanning audiences on IPS' progressive policy campaigns. He designs, develops and maintains IPS and campaign websites. He's also responsible for design-intensive print material; e-mail campaigns; short flash and video productions; and IT strategy/support in the office.

Working to ensure the Institute for Policy Studies gets more of the presence it deserves.

BACKGROUND: From 2004-06, Nate was lead Interactive Designer for Great Lakes Media Technology, and in 2003-04, Digital Video Editor with Mainly Editing. The majority of his career has been in freelance, where he has developed a diverse portfolio working with over thirty clients (largely non-profits and small businesses) including the Sustainable Endowments Institute; XS [Urban] Megazine; Kholer; Leinenkugel's; and Williams College.

Nate has also served as photojournalist in a Colombian human rights delegation; IT support for a Camden, NJ school reform campaign; case worker and after-school program director for a Washington, D.C. international housing shelter; and editor/producer on a nationwide video for the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee.

E-MAIL: slandau [at] igc.org

WEBSITE: www.saullandau.net
also see his weekly column at www.rprogreso.com

ROLE IN IPS: Fellow

CURRENT WORK: In addition to his work at IPS, Saul is teaching international relations and politics at American Univeristy in Washington, D.C. from Aug 2006-May 2007.

BACKGROUND: Saul has written 13 books, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles and reviews and made more than 40 films and TV programs. He won an Emmy for his 1980 Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (with Jack Willis) and an Edgar for Assassination on Embassy Row (with John Dinges). He won a Golden Apple award for The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas as well as first prizes in many festivals with films about Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende and Subcomandante Marcos. He is a retired professor from Cal Poly University and currently teaching at American University. Recent work includes the books The Business of America: How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend (2004), Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom (2003) and the film Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place. His latest book, A Bushie and Botox World, wll be published in September by Counterpunch Press. Saul has been a fellow at IPS since 1972 and at TNI since 1974.

E-MAIL ADDRESS: erik [at] ips-dc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Research Fellow for Peace and Security/Foreign Policy In Focus.

CURRENT WORK: Erik is a Research Fellow with the peace and security program and serves as the Policy Outreach director for the Foreign Policy In Focus project. His current work includes conducting education and outreach on issues surrounding Iraq and multilateral institutions. In the last year he has been interviewed on numerous radio stations, done appearances on TV shows including MSNBC and ABC, and quoted in publications ranging from The Nation and The Washington Post to Al-Ahram (Egypt).

BACKGROUND: Erik holds an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico. He worked with the Interhemispheric Resource Center in New Mexico on Foreign Policy In Focus before moving to Washington to continue his work at IPS in April 1999.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
“Ending the U.S. War in Iraq: How to Bring the Troops Home and Internationalize the Peace,” with Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy In Focus, January 2005.

“A 'Transition' to Failure,” AlterNet , October 6, 2004.

“Top 10 Reasons for the US to Get Out of Iraq,” TheNation.com, September 24, 2004.

“Iraq Occupation Report: Control of Oil Revenues,” with Michael Renner, Foreign Policy In Focus, September 2003.

“A Coalition of Weakness,” Foreign Policy In Focus, April 2003.

The Next Fifty Years: The United Nations and the United States (with Tom Barry), (Albuquerque: Resource Center Press, 1996).

ROLE IN IPS: Co-Director, Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN)

CURRENT WORK: Nadia Martinez is supporting the efforts of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN) to stop public financing for oil, gas and mining projects in the developing world. Her focus is in Latin America, where she works with local civil society groups, including environmental, development, human rights, and indigenous organizations.

BACKGROUND: Nadia holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the American University in Washington D.C. She was born and raised in Panama. Before joining IPS, she worked at the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in San José, Costa Rica.

Nadia has written numerous reports, articles and op-eds, which have appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, the Long-Worth Star Telegram, the Detroit Free Press, the New Internationalist, Red Pepper Magazine, and others. She appears regularly on radio and television.

ROLE IN IPS: Senior Organizer and Research Associate for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good

CURRENT WORK: Dedrick Muhammad is the Senior Organizer and Research Associate for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. Dedrick's special area of focus is the domestic racial wealth divide particularly between African-Americans and white Americans. Dedrick Muhammad was the a lead writer for the State of The Dream 2004 and co-authored with Chuck Collins a chapter in the Inequality Reader.

BACKGROUND: Dedrick Muhammad was the former National Field Director for Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network. He also was the Coordinator for the Racial Wealth Divide Project of United For A Fair Economy.

E-MAIL ADDRESS: joia [at] ips-dc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Director of Media Relations

BACKGROUND: Prior to joining IPS, Joia worked in Washington media for close to 30 years. She served as Senior Producer at C-SPAN, America's Black Forum, BET and WAMU. As an independent producer, Joia created the "grateful student" profiles seen in the United Negro College Fund's annual fundraising telethon. She also produced live specials for the Pacifica Radio Network. For more than a decade Joia was a network television technician for both NBC and CBS NEWS. Joia ended her technical career in 1985 as the Technical Director of CBS' FACE THE NATION. In 1991, Joia lived and worked in west Africa, reporting on the presidential elections in Ivory Coast and Nigeria.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Joia is researching and writing a book on religion in America.

ROLE IN IPS: Research Fellow, Peace and Security Program

BACKGROUND: Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987. Editor and Research Associate, National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament, 1989-96; Director of the Commission, 1996-98.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

"War Fever Weakens Ailing Economy,"oped, Baltimore Sun, October 21, 2002.

"How Things Should Change," with John Feffer, in Power Trip: U.S. Global Strategy After September 11, Seven Stories Press, forthcoming.

"Life After the Military: US Soldiers Adjust to the Post-Cold War Downsizing," in Demobilization and Reintegration After the Cold War, Bonn International Center for Conversion, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Spring 2000.

A Tale of Two Markets: Trade in Arms and Environmental Technologies (with Michael Renner, National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament and the Institute for Policy Studies), May 1998.

E-MAIL: saif [at] Ips-dc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Peace and Student Movements Coordinator

CURRENT WORK: Saif Rahman is the Movements Coordinator for IPS and FPIF. His role includes using and translating IPS’s research and writing to help make the progressive movement more efficient, more diverse and more organized. He sits on the Steering Committee for United for Peace in Justice and a Coordinating Committee Member of the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition. His current work focuses on working with UFPJ and NYSPC to end the war in Iraq, the cancellation of debt of foreign countries, and to make corporations, such as Firestone, end their abuses of workers and the environment abroad.

BACKGROUND: Saif graduated from Wheaton College with degrees in Political Science and Philosophy. He came to IPS from Global Justice where he was a National Coordinator for the Student Campaign for Child Survival, which is one of the largest and fastest growing grassroots organizations working on the issue of children’s health and rights. He helped start the University Coalitions for Global Health and he also represented SCCS in the Global Action for Children coalition and to the FAIR network. He also spent time working with young students in Istanbul, Turkey. In college, Saif helped manage a free format, pro-free speech radio station and founded and was the president of the Community Action Team. Saif has worked on and publicly spoken and given workshops on about a variety of social justice issues from debt cancellation, to global health, to anti-militarization, nonviolence and power dynamics.

E-MAIL: mraskin [at] igc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Co-founder and Distinguished Fellow

CURRENT WORK: Marc is directing IPS’s Paths for the 21^st Century project. This includes producing a multi-volume book examining international organizations and politics, reviewing what we have learned from the 20^th century of an emancipatory and liberatory nature to serve as guides for new models of equality and alternatives for the 21^st century on questions of peace, economic and social justice, cultural rights, democratic reconstruction, and racial and gender equality. He is also currently serving as a professor at George Washington University.  Marcus has also written extensively on the Presidents in the web exclusive Presidential Disrespect.

BACKGROUND: Prior to founding IPS, Marc was a member of the special staff of the National Security Council in President Kennedy’s Administration. He has served as advisor to the Episcopal Urban Bishops and as co-chair of the Issues Commission of the Progressive Alliance, a group of 150 public interest and labor organizations. He has also served as a member of a Presidential Commission on Education and advisor to the Bureau of the Budget and the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: 

Visions and Revisions, Interlink Publishing Group, 1998.

E-MAIL: beth [at] ips-dc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Director of Development

CURRENT WORK : Director of Development

BACKGROUND : Elizabeth (Beth) has worked on development of progressive organizing and media projects since 1979 when she helped to found Congress For a Working America. Since 1990, she has served variously as chief development officer for In These Times magazine, the Independent Press Association, and the DC office of Advancement Project as well as consulting for numerous other media and advocacy efforts. She serves on the board of Directors of the Institute for Public Accuracy, the Alternative Press Center , and the Independent Press Association. She joined IPS in late 2005.

Recent Articles:

2005 – “Irascible Mentor,” In These Times.

2000 - “Why Independent Matters,”Toward Freedom

E-MAIL: emily [at] ips-dc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Media Director, Foreign Policy In Focus

CURRENT WORK: Emily works on the Foreign Policy In Focus project as its media director. She edits op-eds and endeavors to gets them published in newspapers and online media and also edits some of the commentaries and reports FPIF publishes on its own site. Emily connects FPIF scholars and analysts with journalists seeking their expertise. She also teaches media strategy, primarily through FPIF and the IPS Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (SALSA)

BACKGROUND: Prior to coming to IPS in 2003, Emily covered foreign policy and economics in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as Washington and New York for the Dow Jones and Bloomberg News services She earned a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in Latin American studies and history from the University of Texas at Austin. She has traveled extensively in Latin America, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

E-MAIL ADDRESS: stree [at] ips-dc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Director, Drug Policy Project

CURRENT WORK: Sanho Tree is a Fellow and Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. The project works to end the domestic and international “War on Drugs” and replace it with policies that promote public health and safety as well as economic alternatives to the prohibition drug economy. The intersection of race and poverty in the drug war is at the heart of the project’s work. In recent years the project has focused on the attendant “collateral damage” caused by the US exporting its drug war to Colombia and Afghanistan. Establishing humane and sustainable alternatives to the drug war fits into the IPS mandate as one of the major contemporary social justice issues at home and abroad.  He was featured in the ABC/John Stossel documentary on the drug war which aired in July 2002 and has also appeared on  Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. Currently, he serves on the boards of Witness for Peace and Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

BACKGROUND: Mr. Tree is also a former military and diplomatic historian and he has collaborated in the past with Dr. Gar Alperovitz on The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth (Knopf, 1995). From 1996-97, he assisted entertainer Harry Belafonte and continues to work as an occasional consultant for him on international issues. He was also associate editor of CovertAction Quarterly, an award-winning magazine of investigative journalism. In the late 1980s he worked at the International Human Rights Law Group.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Contributor to The Effective National Drug Control Strategy http://www.csdp.org/edcs.

E-MAIL:  robin [at] ips-dc.org

ROLE IN IPS: Director of Finance and Human Resources

Current Work: Robin serves as Director of Finance and Human Resources

Background: B.A. in history, Grinnell College. Robin has more than 20 years' experience in Washington, DC, including work on Capitol Hill, social science research firms and the nonprofit sector.

ROLE IN IPS: Co-Director of Foreign Policy In Focus

EMAIL emira [at] ips-dc.org

CURRENT WORK:Foreign Policy In Focus co-director.

BACKGROUND: Emira holds a BA in International Relations from Columbia , a certificate in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, a Master's in Government from Harvard, and is ABD in Political Economy and Government at Harvard. She recently was Program Manager for the Committee on Development Policy and Practice at InterAction, serving as a principal staff contact for advocacy at the UN, the international financial institutions, USAID and Treasury. She designed and implemented a strategic campaign around the Monterrey Financing for Development conference, working with both InterAction members and a broader coalition of Southern and Northern agencies. Prior to this position, she served as Program Officer of Oxfam America's Africa program, which involved outreach to the heads of major international institutions and grassroots groups in the most remote communities.

Ms. Woods has recently been interviewed on BBC, CNN, CBC, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer , the Diane Rehm Show, on Liberia and US-Africa Relations. She has hosted a WashingtonPost.com online chat and has published pieces in the Nation, the Baltimore Sun, and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

E-MAIL ADDRESS: dwysham [at] seen.org

Website:  www.seen.org

ROLE IN IPS: Board Member; Fellow; Coordinator, Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN), a project of IPS and the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam

CURRENT WORK: Co-director, Sustainable Energy & Economy Network; , co-host Earthbeat Radio

BACKGROUND: Daphne Wysham is a Fellow and board member of the Institute for Policy Studies, founder and co-director of the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network, a project of IPS , and founder and co-host of Earthbeat Radio,  which airs on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington and is being syndicated to other stations nationwide. SEEN conducted the initial research which drew attention to the disproportionate ratio of fossil fuel investments by international financial institutions, including the World Bank. Translated into numerous languages, these studies resulted in: demands for reform from members of the US House and Senate; hearings held in Italian Senate, Dutch Parliament; Italian Prime Minister and former Vice President Al Gore calling for reforms. SEEN launched an international campaign in 1998 that, in 2001, resulted in World Bank President James Wolfensohn calling for an independent study of extractive industries (EIR). The EIR called for the World Bank to phase out of fossil fuels immediately, and rapidly phase in renewable energy. She is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam; former editor-in-chief of Greenpeace Magazine; and associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting. She is an energy writer for UPI, a board advisor to the Nuclear Information and Resource Service,  a Senior Fellow with the Sierra Club, and a member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice.
 
Ms. Wysham's analysis and critiques have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Grist, The Guardian, the Financial Times, and on BBC, NPR, and Marketplace, among others.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

"How the World Bank's Energy Framework Sells the Climate and Poor People Short."

“Wrong Turn from Rio: The World Bank’s Road to Climate Catastrophe”

“Enron’s Pawns: How Public Institutions Bankrolled Enron’s Globalization Game”

“Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured US Government Focus on Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein”

"OPIC, Ex-IM, and Climate Change: Business as Usual?" (with the International Trade Service and Friends of the Earth.

"The World Bank and the G-7, Still Changing the Earth's Climate for Business 1997-98" (with ITIS).

"The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Fueling Climate Change." (with ITIS, 1997).

"The World Bank's Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest:  Opportunity or Liability for the World's Poorest Women?" (1997).

"The World Bank's Juggernaut: The Coal- Fired Industrial Colonization of the Indian State of Orissa" (1996).

Beyond Bretton Woods: Alternatives to the Global Order (with John Cavanagh), Pluto Press, 1994.

ROLE IN IPS: Director, Break the Chain Campaign

CURRENT WORK: Joy Zarembka directs The Break the Chain Campaign, a coalition of legal and social service agencies, ethnically-based organizations, social action groups and individuals devoted to protecting the rights of the migrant domestic working community. The Campaign has primarily focused on domestic workers who have entered the United States through a special visa program that grants international bureaucrats and diplomats the privilege of bringing hired help in from overseas. Most of these domestic workers are poor women from developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America who enter the United States on temporary A-3 or G-5 visas.

BACKGROUND: Joy M. Zarembka was "born, bred and buttered" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree from Haverford College and Master's degree from Yale University in International Relations. As a Student Professor at Haverford, she designed and taught the advanced-level course, "Sociology of Knowledge." Before coming to the Campaign, Joy had traveled to Burundi - a small country in Central Africa currently experiencing civil war - to conduct conflict resolution workshops between different ethnic groups there, while participating in a project to reconstruct a destroyed guesthouse. Joy has traveled widely throughout Eastern and Southern Africa.

In February 2002, Joy was named one of the Women's Information Networks's Young Women of Achievement for the year.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

The Pigment of Your Imagination: Mixed Race Families in Britain, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Jamaica, is due to come out in 2002.