- Lowell McAdam
Lowell C. McAdam is president and CEO of Verizon Wireless, the premier wireless provider with the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network. Prior to this position, McAdam was the executive vice president and chief operating officer for Verizon Wireless. Previously, McAdam was president and CEO of PrimeCo Personal Communications, a joint venture owned by Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch.
- Jonas Chartock
Jonas Samuel Chartock is President & CEO of the Charter School Policy Institute. He was hired in January 2005. Upon graduating from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1997, Chartock joined Teach For America and taught fourth grade for three years at General Rosecrans Elementary School in Compton, California.
- Warren Simmons
Warren Simmons Executive Director Annenberg Institute for School Reform Warren Simmons directs the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. The Institute was established in 1993 to generate, share, and act on knowledge that improves conditions and outcomes in American schools, particularly in urban areas and in schools serving disadvantaged students.
- Cynthia Langlykke
Cynthia Langlykke , Executive Director cynthial@greaterelmwood.org Cynthia is a planner /architect with a professional architecture degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Concentration in Economic Development and Development Finance from UNC Chapel Hill.
- Jim Harkness
Jim Harkness President (612) 870-3403 jharkness@iatp.org Harkness joined IATP in July 2006. Previously he served as Executive Director of the World Wildlife Fund in China from 1999-2005, where he expanded the organization
- Carl Sagan
As you can see I'm not that into myspace. It really only exists because I'm too lazy to click the delete account button. I really only check it once a week or so. If you really want to get a hold of me use facebook...
- Wendy Jaehn
Wendy Jaehn Executive Director Wendy Jaehn serves as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the operational, financial, program and strategic management of MEEA. Ms. Jaehn came to the Midwest from Denver, Colorado, where she served as an analyst for Millennium Energy, an environmental and renewable energy consulting firm.
- Rosten Woo
- Vicki Saporta
Vicki Saporta President and CEO, National Abortion Federation Under Ms. Saporta's direction, the National Abortion Federation has played a critical role in promoting and preserving women's access to safe, legal abortion care. Since taking the helm in 1995, Ms. Saporta has significantly increased NAF's budget, staff and membership, and created and expanded programs.
- John W. Fitzpatrick
John W. Fitzpatrick “Fitz” has been the director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology since 1995. He has led scientific expeditions to remote areas of South America and published extensively on tropical species including seven new bird species he discovered. Dr. Fitzpatrick received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and A.B. from Harvard University.
- Carrie E. Regenstein
Carrie E. Regenstein Carrie E. Regenstein became the Executive Director of Computing Services at Carnegie Mellon University in September 2005. Prior to that she served as Associate CIO and Associate Director of DoIT (Division of Information Technology) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Kirk Cordell
Kirk Cordell was named NCPTT’s new executive director in July of 2002. With more than 23 years of experience in the National Park Service, he has served in a number of preservation-related positions during his career. Prior to coming to the Center, he served as the Chief of all Park Cultural Resources programs in the Southeast Region. Early in his career with NPS, he served in the region’s SHPO Program Review and Preservation Tax Incentives programs.
- Janice Yang
Janice Yang , Executive Director Janice received a B.A. in Art History from Cornell University and a M.A. in Arts and Humanities Education from New York University. She joined the Summer Search staff in 2003, became the Program Director in 2004, and stepped up as the Executive Director in 2006. Before joining Summer Search, Janice worked with the Arts Education Initiative of the East Bay Community Foundation in Oakland, CA.
- Corey Rosen
Dr. Corey Rosen Corey Rosen , Ph.D., is executive director and cofounder of the National Center for Employee Ownership, a private, nonprofit membership, information, and research organization focused on employee ownership. Prior to the NCEO, Corey spent five years as a professional staff member in the U.S. Senate, where he helped draft legislation on employee ownership plans.
- Ellen Hemmerly
Ellen Hemmerly Executive Director, UMBC Research Park Corporation Ms. Hemmerly is responsible for managing the development of the 350,000-square-foot bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park located on the main campus at UMBC. Ms. Hemmerly also oversees the techcenter@UMBC which houses 28 companies including incubator companies and emerging technology companies, most of which are actively collaborating with faculty and students at UMBC.
- Bracken Hendricks
Bracken Hendricks Bracken Hendricks is the Executive Director of the Apollo Alliance for Good Jobs and Energy Independence, a joint project of the Institute for America’s Future and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The Apollo Alliance is a non-profit issue education campaign committed to advancing public debate on clean energy within the national political process.
- Gregg Swanzey
Gregg Swanzey was named "Community Educator of the Year"
- Jeffrey Vasser
Jeffrey Vasser Executive Director email: jvasser@accva.com Jeffrey Vasser was named Executive Director of the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority in April of 2002. Prior to joining the Authority, he served as Controller of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee/2001 Victory Fund, from 2001-2002, where he was responsible for all financial, administrative, and human resource functions for the campaign and oversaw a $20 million budget.
- Charlotte Kahn
Charlotte Kahn , Charlotte Kahn , Director, Boston Indicators Project, The Boston Foundation, USA Charlotte Kahn co-founded and is the Director of the Boston Indicators Project at the Boston Foundation, Greater Boston’s community foundation. A partnership with the City of Boston and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the Boston Indicators Project tracks change across a comprehensive framework of ten sectors through an award-winning website.
- Matt Joslyn
I've recently returned to my collegetown of Ithaca, New York to take on the task of running the State Theatre of Ithaca. I'm 29, been an actor and a director, and now enjoy sitting (sometimes) in the Arts administration chair. I live in a log cabin with my two boys, Ethan Allan Hawley and Atticus Finch (they're dogs). My husband is currently living in Sandusky, Ohio, and will move here when he sells our house. You should buy it.
- Alex Counts
Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, a dynamic nonprofit, Washington D.C.-based organization that has grown to a global network of 46 microfinance partners in 25 countries. Counts became Grameen Foundations first Executive Director in 1997, after ten years of working in microfinance and poverty reduction, primarily in Bangladesh. A 1988 Cornell University graduate, with a degree in economics, Counts
- Sandy Payette
Sandy Payette Cornell University, USA Sandy Payette leads digital library research and development projects at Cornell University’s Information Science program. She is founder and co-director of the internationally-recognized Fedora Project that deploys sophisticated open-source software that forms the basis of digital libraries, institutional repositories, digital archives, and educational software.
- Patricia Campbell Carlson
Patricia Campbell Carlson PATRICIA CAMPBELL CARLSON is Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living.
- Thomas J. Nally
Thomas J. Nally Planning Director Since 1989, Mr. Nally has served as Planning Director of A Better City and its predecessor organization, the Artery Business Committee. Previously, Mr. Nally served as Deputy Director of the Corrections Special Unit of the Massachusetts Division of Capital Planning and Operations which was responsible for overseeing the planning, design, and construction of state and county correctional facilities valued at $750 million.
- Sandy Payette
Sandy Payette Researcher, Cornell Information Science
- Kenneth E. Poole
Kenneth E. Poole In January 2000, Kenneth E. Poole formed an independent non-profit affiliated with George Mason University and C2ER that is focused on developing a stronger understanding of how regional economies can compete effectively in the knowledge-based economy. As part of those efforts, Dr. Poole directs a national nonprofit membership organization (C2ER) serving economic and community development researchers in communities, states, academia, and the private sector.
- John H. Blume
John H. Blume is an associate professor of law at Cornell University. He is a founder and the director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, which fosters empirical scholarship on the death penalty, offers students an opportunity to work on death penalty cases, and provides information and assistance for death penalty lawyers.
- Debbie Segal
Debbie Segal is Kilpatrick Stockton’s Pro Bono Partner and leads the firm’s attorneys in providing pro bono legal services to low-income clients, community groups and nonprofit organizations. In this capacity, Ms. Segal has provided the firm’s lawyers countless opportunities to represent underserved individuals and the organizations which support them. She is the first attorney to be named to a position of this kind in Georgia and North Carolina.
- William Lyakurwa
Prof. William Lyakurwa is the Executive Director of the African Economic Research Consortium. He joined AERC from the International Trade Centre based in Geneva, Switzerland in 1993, where he held the post of Senior Trade Promotion Advisor. Mr. Lyakurwa has since 1994, held the positions of Director of Training and Deputy Executive Director until his appointment to the position of Executive Director in March 2003.
- Judi Hilman
Judi Hilman Executive Director Judi was born in Los Angeles and raised there and in Israel. She has her MA from Cornell University in History and BA (magna cum laude) from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied history of medicine and German literature.
- Bryan Allen
Bryan D. Allen Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
- Gee-Kung Chang
Dr. Chang's interests include optoelectronic and photonic subsystems, optical networks and systems, optical networking technologies, and the next generation Optical Internet. Biographical Sketch Professor Chang earned his bachelor degree in Physics from National Tsinghua University in Taiwan in 1969, and his doctoral degree from the University of California, Riverside, in 1976.
- Charles Moore
Moore currently serves as a member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Governor of the National Art Museum of Sport, Regent of Mercersburg Academy, Director of The Sports Authority (sporting goods retailer), Commissioner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Board member of the Smithsonian Institution.
- Eva Boman
Eva Boman Cochran MS Ed. Eva is originally from Sweden, and relocated to Boston several years ago after living in Ithaca, NY, for over 25 years where she worked with children and families for in many different roles. Most recently, she was chair of the Early Childhood Education program at Tompkins Cortland Community College where she taught a variety of child development courses to students of all ages.
- Elizabeth W. Thorndike
Ms. Thorndike is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, a member of the Advisory Council for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell, a member of the Honorary Board of the Girl Scouts of Genesee Valley, and a Trustee and chair of the Conservation Committee of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks.
- Alex Roberts
Alex Roberts manages a multitude of projects for the Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education. He oversees CasePlace.org, the leading resource for MBA faculty seeking innovative teaching materials on business and sustainability, and also edits and distributes the CasePlace.org Monthly E-Newsletter, sent to nearly 30,000 MBA faculty, administrators, practitioners, and students.
- Janet Lindner
Janet Lindner Janet Lindner is the Associate Vice President for Administration, with responsibility for operational areas including publishing services, travel, parking, transportation, graduate housing, and support services. She has also directed Yale’s human resources and procurement services and helped develop the University’s cooperative labor-management program.
- Marla Porter Gross
Marla Porter Gross is an international adoption attorney and a member of the Florida, New York and New Jersey Bars. Prior to starting her own international adoption law practice, she served as the Director of International Adoption Programs for an adoption agency. In earlier years, Marla served as an attorney with a non-profit adoption and foster care organization and spent several years practicing in the area of international law. Marla, far right, holding baby in Romania
- Annie Kellner
Annie Kellner Development Officer/Executive Assistant Annie Kellner comes to NCTC from Chicago, by way of California’s Eastern Sierra. After graduating with distinction from Cornell University, Annie served as an Americorps VISTA volunteer on the Bishop Paiute Indian Reservation in Bishop, CA. While in Bishop, Annie rekindled her love for theatre by joining the Owens Valley Stage Company for their production of Here Lies Jeremy Troy .
- Edward Muzio
Mr. Edward Muzio President & CEO Mr. Muzio is an educator and advisor to companies worldwide. Prior to founding Group Harmonics, he served as President and Executive Director of a human services organization, and a trainer and developer of leaders at Intel Corporation and the Sematech technology consortium.