“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
Core Team 2016 (scroll names for bio links) - The Global Summit role / Other titles
Melanie St.James - Convener & Lead Link, Partnerships Circle / Founder, Empowerment WORKS
Theresa Williamson - Rio Host Committee / Founder & Executive Director, Catalytic Communities (CatComm.org)
Rodrigo Arantes - Steering Committee / Playmaster & Founder at project #AJOGADA (ajogada.com.br)
Stephan McGuire - Steering Committee / Board Member, Empowerment WORKS / Founder, Cernunnos Media
Tawanda Mutukwa - Citizen Engagement, Zimbabwe & 1PIE Hackathon / Co-Founder & CTO, Hurukuro
Diego De Souza Nunes - Rio Host Committee / Courier & Logistics, EcoBike Courier Rio de Janeiro
Jay Markert - Lead Link, Global Outreach Circle / Director of Education, Empowerment WORKS / Founder, Living Mandala
Madelynn Perry - Lead Link, Social Media Circle / Community Engagement Intern, Empowerment WORKS
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Global Advisors & Strategic Support
Jan Black, PhD, Human Rights Advisor & Honorary Co-Chair / Board Member, Amnesty International (USA)
Anu Keshavan - Program Adviser/ Board Member, Empowerment WORKS / Global Social Innovation Mentor & Advocate
Bandita Thapa - Global Program Co-Chair, East Asia Region / Founder, Women Foundation Nepal
Samantha Sweetwater - Transformation & Community Engagement / Founder, Dancing Freedom
Tonya Ridgely - Master of Inspiration / Director of Community Relations, Center for Integral Wisdom
Lorenzo Falzarano - Appropriate Technology & SEED Change Programme / Founder & CEO, Stealth Startup
Holly Mosher - Transparency Programming / Filmmaker for Change (Pay2Play; Bonsai, the vision of Muhammad Yunus)
Bill Shireman - Multi-stakeholder Engagement and Strategy / President & CEO, Future500
Debra Giusti - Outreach and Production Advisor / Founder of Harmony Festival
Fedor Ovchinnikov - Participatory Process Advisor / Managing Partner of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership
Lindsay Gatz - Branding Adviser, Creative Genius / Co-Owner & Creative Director, Artsy Geek
Alex Theory - Adviser, Cultural Events / Governor on the board of the Recording Academy (Grammys®)
Gibson Momo Tulay Jr. Community Engagement / Founder, Humanity & Knowledge Conveyance Association, Liberia
Scholastica Sylvan Kimaryo - Programme Chair / Former UNDP Deputy Regional Director for Africa
Pamela Millar - Green Business Writer at Examiner, Owner & CEO - Bridgemakers Consulting
Sophie Lapaire - Fulbright Scholar, Consultant to NASA
Sean Ahearn - Concert & Production (Music Director, Harmony Music Festival)
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Legacy Circle Contributors
Jenny Huang - Co-Founder, The Global Summit / The President’s Volunteer Service Award, TM Forum Fellow
Jeff Weigel - Global Business Management Consultant, Co-Founder, Road Warrior Group
Holly Mosher - Filmmaker for Change (Pay2Play; Bonsai, the vision of Muhammad Yunus -USA)
Lainie Liberti – Creative Director (Principal, Jungle8)
Jose Luis Nazar - Philanthropist / Entrepreneur, English Without Borders (USA/Chile)
Co-Architects / Contributors
Stefan Cibian, PhD - Global Policy & Development Strategy (
Marie Stojimirovic, PhD. - Evaluation Director (Sustainable Development Professor, France)
Jennifer Gooding – Brand Director (Project Manager, Jungle8)
Ben Clayton - Founding Program Coordinator / Development Associate
Mike Chamness - Founding Development Associate & Partnerships
Jeff Buderer - Co-Founder, Programming & Digital Village Case Studies Director
Irving Sarnoff - Co-Founder, Liaison to the United Nations (Founder, Friends of the UN)
Joseph Malki – Co-Founder, The Global Summit, CBDO at www.SevenStarEvents.com
Georgia Malki – President, Seven Star Events
Rick Pinckert – Network Administrator, Annenberg School of Communications
Alissa Sears – Director of Global Betterment, Christie Communications
Jessica Plancich, MA, MFT - FoundingFacilitator Team, Education Co-Chair
Autumn Radtke – Development & Information Technology Partnerships
Ed Cherlin – Technology Research Associate (Director, Earth Treasury Institute)
Elinor Averyt - Sustainable Standards Coordinator (Founder, LEAF Certifications)
Scott W. Badenoch Jr., Atty - Director of Mediation Services (CEO, Creative Citizen, LLC)
Hillary Waadt – Communications & Partnerships
Federico Haro - Multimedia Producer (Creative Director, Xlantic Media)
Alex Theory, Ph.D. - Sound Director, Global Sound Conference & Elevate Film Festival
Jennifer Partridge - Media Broadcasting (Producer, Our New Earth)
Susan Daya Hamwi – Co-Director of Mediation (Settlement Works)
Gurminder Singh - Co-Chair Sustainable Technology (Founder, Green Technology Institute)
Tony Greenberg – Strategy (Chairman, RampRate™ Sourcing Advisors)
Jay Levin – Responsible Media & Journalistic Ethics (Founder, LA Weekly & RealTalk LA)
Suad Sulaiman, PhD - Environmental Health (Co-founder of Sudanese Environmental Conservation Society)
Bob Ayres - Production (Executive Director of The Next 20 Years Series, Former Executive Director of the TED Prize)
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The Global Summit Founding Delegates NOV. 16-18, 2008
Presidio - Golden Gate Club - San Francisco, CA, USA
| First name | Last name |
| Aaron Ezra | Ableman |
| Sean | Ahearn |
| Mary | Allen |
| Dana | Arak |
| Elinor | Averyt |
| Katherina | Bach de Pauli |
| Scott | Badenoch |
| Jahn | Ballard |
| Marc | Barasch |
| Carla | Banson |
| John Perry | Barlow |
| Michelle | Barton |
| Janice | Belson |
| Scott | Berry |
| Bonnie | Bibas |
| Giselle | Bisson |
| Kristie | Bryan |
| Jeff | Buderer |
| Chris | Bui |
| Stephen | Bullard |
| Ann | Carr |
| Asha | Castleberry |
| Mike | Chamess |
| David | Chang |
| Suzi | Chang |
| Mark | Chasan |
| Ben | Clayton |
| Christiane Lemieux | Clayton |
| douglas | cohen |
| Geofrey | Collins |
| Shawn | Collins |
| Lawrence Axil | Comras |
| Louis | D’Amore |
| Karil | Daniels |
| Wendy | Daugherty |
| Bill | Daul |
| Howard | Dean |
| Bruce | Dear |
| Jessica | DeJaifre |
| Francis | DellaVecchia |
| Abe | Dertner |
| Ben | Devries |
| William | Edmonson |
| Michael | Elam |
| Elizabeth | Estrada |
| Baba Oosa Gbemi | Israel |
| Sheilah | Evans |
| Lorenzo | Falzarano |
| Janet | Feldman |
| Andrew | Ferrera |
| David | Ferrera |
| Colin | Finlay |
| Thomas | Flach |
| Andrea | Franchini |
| Nicole | Franco |
| Evan | Fraser |
| Missy | Galore |
| Esperanza | Garcia |
| Robert | Gillespie |
| Julian | Gonzales |
| Michael | Gosney |
| Sian | Gowan |
| Amie | Grenier |
| Chloe | Hall |
| Susan Daya | Hamwi |
| Brandon | Hance |
| James | Hanusa |
| Byron | Head |
| Becca | Herrman |
| Claudia Maria (Diamar) | Herrmann |
| Mike | Hobbes |
| Nicklas | Hoeg |
| CHRISTOPHER | HORNOR |
| Philip | Horvath |
| Michael | Howard |
| Libby | Hubbard |
| Johnathan | Human |
| Judith | Iam |
| Mariko | Ihara |
| Pilar Stella | Ingargiola |
| Casey | James |
| Cyd | Jenefsky |
| Reese | Jones |
| Michael | Kaliski |
| Gurutej | Kaur |
| Alhaji Jeffery | kamara |
| Paul | Katzeff |
| Human | Kindness |
| Adam | Krim |
| Chandra | Krown |
| Sophie | Lapaire |
| Judith | Iam |
| Kim | Langbecker |
| Elizabeth | Lapan |
| Michael | Leifer |
| Christiane | Lemieux |
| Wendy | Levicoff |
| Nancy Asrid | Lindo |
| Alpha | Lo |
| Sharon | London |
| Hunter | Lovins |
| Sonia | Lub |
| Joanne | Lyon |
| Christopher | Macrae |
| Mark | Mahon |
| Zoael | Markrysta |
| Andy | Mannle |
| Cecilia | Mansilla |
| Magalie | Bonneau-Maral |
| Bryan | Marks |
| Gregg | Marks Choat |
| KRISTEN | MARTIN |
| Peter | Matthies |
| Ray | Mawhinney |
| Diana | Maxwell |
| Jessica | Mayoraz |
| Pamela | Millar |
| Camilla | Misser |
| Michelle | Moore |
| Alan | Moore |
| Kianti | Murphy |
| Erik | Negash |
| Susan | Nesbitt |
| Heather | Newbold |
| Matthew | Newnham |
| Marie aka: onamare | Newsom |
| Anne “Starr” | Njoroge |
| Dr. Antonia | Neubauer |
| Doctress | Neutopia |
| Anank Nunink | Nunkai |
| Happy | Oasis |
| Anders | Olsen |
| Dominique | Pacheco |
| Kacy | Palmieri |
| Jeannine | Parker |
| Jennifer | Partridge |
| Gunter | Pauli |
| Joshua | Penman |
| Robert | Perala |
| Evan | Phillips |
| Brock | Pierce |
| Rick | Pinckert |
| Phillip | Poteat |
| Kathy | Poteat |
| John | Raatz |
| Tal | Rachleff |
| Amayea | Rae |
| Autumn | Radtke |
| Jorge | Rebagliati |
| Cory | Reddish |
| Tonya Tbird | Ridgely |
| Neal | Roberts |
| David | Rose |
| Missy | Rosie |
| ERIK | ROTHENBERG |
| Ricardo | Rothhirsoh |
| Andrew | Rufe |
| Steven | Sadleir |
| Marta | Salas-Porras |
| Isabella | Schilpp |
| Shera Angelina | Sever |
| Patricia | Sill |
| Richard | Silver |
| Gurminder | Singh |
| David | Sinclair |
| Emily | Smith |
| Mary | Saint-Marie |
| Melanie | St James |
| Rana | Stewart |
| Jiwei | Sun |
| Richard | Taubinger |
| Peter | Temple |
| Bradford | Tilden |
| Barry Circle | Tillman |
| Alex | Theory |
| Raam | Toerper |
| Gary | Tomchuk |
| Miguel | Toro |
| Patrick | Troup |
| Rosie | Turner Masters |
| Haig | Varjabedian |
| Amalie | Villesen |
| John | Vitale |
| Matt | Voloshin |
| Hillary | Waadt |
| Ruel | Walker |
| Kimberly | Weichel |
| Dana | Wellborn |
| Claudia | Welss |
| Gregory | Wendt |
| Courtney | White |
| Brent Thomas | Willett |
| Sin | Wong |
| Sheri | WoodsGreen |
| Jennifer | Woodward |
| Merlin | Yockstick |