Participants

About the Program Participants

• Mike Jacobson is a founding member and the executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an organization that advocates for public health and nutrition through better crafted and more transparent public policy.
• Bill Eichbaum is the vice president of the World Wildlife Fund, one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations.
• Anne Allen was for fifteen years the executive director for the Cafritz Foundation, the largest independent grantmaking foundation focused entirely on the Washington metropolitan area.
• Oliver Tessier is the founder of Oliver Tessier and Associates, a Washington, DC-based consulting practice dedicated to building a stronger nonprofit sector by strengthening leadership in the field.
• Chuck Lewis is the president for the Fund for Investigative Journalism and served for many years as the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group that investigates political influence, corruption, and other ethics-related issues.
• Elaine Zuckerman worked for the World Bank for many years before founding Gender Action, an organization dedicated to addressing the feminization of poverty and advocating for better targeting of lending and investment among international financial organizations to help women in poverty.