Board of Directors
Martha Belcher (Chair)
Vice President for Sustainable Business Practices, Sungevity
André Carothers
Senior Fellow, Rockwood Leadership Program
Robert Hass
Poet; Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley
Marcia McNally
Associate Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning; Partner, Community Development by Design
Carlos E. Mejia
Vice President, Youth Leadership Institute
Milan Momirov
Entrepreneur and investor
Deborah Moore
Executive Director, Green Schools Initiative
Cymie Payne
Director, Global Commons Project; Associate Director, California Center for Environmental Law and Policy, University of California at Berkeley, School of Law
David N. Pellow
Professor and Martindale Chair of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Lori Udall
Program Director, Sacharuna Foundation
Meeta Vyas
Partner, SRV International; Board Member, MIT South Asian Alumni; Advisory Board Member, South Asian Women's Leadership Forum
International Advisory Board
Célio Bermann
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Joan Carling
Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Philippines
Gustavo Castro Soto
Mexican Movement of Dam-Affected Peoples, Mexico
Nga Dao
Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development, Vietnam
Shripad Dharmadhikary
Manthan Resource Centre, India
Philip Fearnside
National Institute for Research in the Amazon, Brazil
Liane Greeff
Writer/Photgrapher; African Rivers Network, South African Water Caucus, South Africa
Nicholas Hildyard
The Corner House, England
Naeem Iqbal
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Pakistan
Frank Muramuzi
National Association of Professional Environmentalists, Uganda
Astrid Puentes
Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense, Mexico/Colombia
Lúcia Schild Ortiz
Friends of the Earth, Brazil
Himanshu Thakkar
South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People, India
US Advisory Board
Dan Beard
Chief Administrative Officer, US House of Representatives
Patricia W. Chang
Former President and CEO, Women’s Foundation of California
Gigi Coe
Board President, The Bay School of San Francisco
Peter Coyote
Actor and writer
Christina L. Desser
Fellow, Tomales Bay Institute
Huey D. Johnson
Founder and President, Resource Renewal Institute
Barbara Rose Johnston
Center for Political Ecology; Professor, Michigan State University
Dorka Keehn
Commissioner, Commission of the Status of Women for the City and County of San Francisco; Chair, San Francisco’s Justice and Courage Domestic Violence Panel
Lauren Klein Hayes
WELL Network
Nion McEvoy
Chairman and CEO, Chronicle Books
Sylvia McLaughlin
Conservationist; Co-founder and former president and board member of Save the Bay
Juliette Majot
Activist; non-profit consultant; former Executive Director, International Rivers
Mutombo Mpanya
Professor of international environmental studies; Director of the Science and Humanities Integration Project, Sonoma State
Mayumi Oda
Artist; Co-founder, INOCHI and Plutonium Free Future organizations
Drummond Pike
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tides Network
Brian Smith
Partner, Heller Ehrman LLP
Gary Snyder
Poet; Professor Emeritus, University of California at Davis
Paul Strasburg
Activist, farmer. Former Chair, International Rivers Board of Directors
Lara Truppelli
Chair, Ocean Beach Vision Council, City and County of San Francisco; Co-founder and proprietor, San Francisco's Beach Chalet Brewery & Restaurant and Park Chalet Garden Restaurant
