Nipun Mehta
Nipun Mehta is the founder of CharityFocus.org, a fully volunteer-run
organization that has delivered millions of dollars of web-related
services to the nonprofit world for free. The recipient of the Jefferson
Award for Public Service and the President's Volunteer Service Award,
his work creatively leverages web technologies for collaborative and
transformational giving, lending him insight into…
Oren Cohen
Oran Cohen is the founder and director of Living Peace Foundation, South
Africa. Encouraged by the power of dreams and determination in the life
of Nelson Mandela, Oran spent a year and a half in his birthplace,
Israel, creating positive perceptions between Israeli and Palestinian
youth.
Patricia M. Mische
Patricia M. Mische, Ph.D. is the Lloyd Professor of Peace Studies and
World Law at Antioch College and formerly taught in the Peace Education
Program at Teachers College Columbia University. She is also the
co-founder and President of Global Education Associates, a network of
people in 90 countries working to advance global systems that will
assure greater peace, social justice,…
Patricia Szczerba
Pat Szczerba began teaching at the School for New Learning in the Winter
Quarter of 1996. She teaches courses on website design, Microsoft
Office Suite and the United Nations, including a study travel course
where students attend the UN's annual three-day conference for
affiliated nonprofit organizations that is held each September.
In the spring of 1999, Ambassador Ahmad Kamal, Pakistan, (from…
Patrick U. Petit
Patrick U. Petit is a Mediator (M.M.) and Start-Up Counsellor. Graduated
in Political Science from the Munich School of Political Science, he is
the European Representative and Representative to the United Nations of
the Goi Peace Foundation. In this capacity, Mr. Petit initiated and set
up more than thirty peacebuilding and peacemaking events in
collaboration with regional and global…
Peggy Holman
Peggy Holman convenes and hosts conversations that
matter, inviting the diverse people of a system to tackle what is most
important to them. By growing their capacity to bring forth the human
spirit for individual and collective good, Peggy has been honored to
witness organizations and communities unleash energy and wisdom to move
their dreams to action. The vastly expanded second edition of The…
Peter M. Senge
Peter M. Senge Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He is also Founding Chair of the Society for
Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community dedicated to the
“interdependent development of people and their institutions.” He is the
author of the widely acclaimed book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and
Practice of The Learning Organization (over…
Petra Pieterse
Petra Pieterse currently partners with The Spiral Dynamics Group and The
Institute for Values & Culture, where she helps design and direct
seminars, training programs, and business consultation. She immigrated
to the United States in 1997 from South Africa, where she excelled as
award-winning journalist, national magazine editor and book publisher.
She holds degrees in Communications and…
Philip M. Hellmich
Philip is Director of Individual Giving at Search for Common Ground, an
international organization dedicated to transforming the way the world
deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards
collaborative problem solving. Philip has over 18 years of experience in
international development and peacebuilding.
His own spiritual journey
began in the bush of Sierra Leone, West…
Philomena O’Dea
Philomena O’Dea is a photographer with a passion for nature. She
exhibits at the Piitsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
and the Philadelphia Center for Emerging Visual Artists. She has an MPH
in International Health and her eclectic work experience has taken her
around the world serving as a health project manager in The Sudan, a
refugee camp coordinator on the Thai-Cambodian…