Board of Directors & Officers

Christopher Phillips, PhD, Founder/Executive Director

Cecilia Chapa Phillips, MEd, Secretary/Treasurer

James M. Burke, PhD, Director, Performance Management Group, Virginia Commonwealth University

Linda Pierce, MBA, Performance Management Group, Virginia Commonwealth University

Advisory Board

Honorary Board Member, Dr. Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University

Paul Martin, Chief Investment Officer, Martin Capital Advisors, LLP
 
Charlynn Duecy, Public Relations Strategist, Microsoft Corp
 
Danielle Olson, MFA, Visual Strategist, DROdesign, Communications and Content Manager, Hatch Innovation
 
Paul Stahl, Director of Government Sales, DynaTouch Corporation; Chair, San Antonio Public Library Board of Trustees
 
Dennis Dienst,  MSSCM, CPSM, CPIM
 Senior Category Manager, Printed Circuit Board Assemblies, TSI Incorporated
 
Suhail Arastu, Board of Trustees, Mind Science Foundation; Director of Development, Musical Bridges Around the World
 
Jorge Lopez Campos, Entrepreneur, Mexico City
 
Rob Horn, Analyst,U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, MA, Public Policy and Citizen Participation, Tufts
 
T.J. Mayes, Attorney, San Antonio
 
Sam Fairchild, CEO, Estrella Group
 
Peter Schoonmaker, PhD, Founding Chair, MFA Program in Collaborative Design, Pacific Northwest College of Art; Founder and ED, Illahee

Anthoula Katsimatides, actor, board member of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum

Andrew Murphy, Dept. of Political Science, Rutgers University

Shirley Strum Kenny, PhD, Retired President, Stony Brook University

Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law and Leadership, Pro-Democracy Activist, Harvard Law School

Ralph Lewin, Executive Director, Peter E. Haas Junior Family Fund, Former Executive Director, Mechanics’ Institute, Past President and CEO, Cal Humanities

Thaddeus Russell, PhD, historian, scholar, essayist, author of ‘A Renegade History of the United States’

Odin Hartshorn Halvorson — writer, filmmaker, philosopher, geek

Charles Massiatte, BA, cum laude, Harvard University, School of Extension Studies; Founder, Young Scholars of Texas, Associate, Martin Capital Advisors (MartinCapital.com)

Omar Akhil, Founder of Brainiac, Owner of Vaulkshire Investment Advisors

Brian Austin, Captain of Investigative Services Section and Deputy SWAT Commander, Founder of Cops for Labor, Madison, WI

Stewart Harris, Professor of Law, Host, ‘Your Weekly Constitutional’

David Blacker, PhD, Professor of Philosophy of Education and Legal Studies, University of Delaware

Stephen Duncombe, PhD, Professor, Gallatin School and Dept. of Media, Culture and Communications, NYU