Board of Directors

Joanne Strahl Ashe
Founder and Executive Director

Erica Spellman Silverman
Vice Chairman
Film Producer
Former Senior Vice President, William Morris Agency
Former Senior Vice Presicent, ICM

Claudia Sandler
Secretary, Treasurer
Department Head of Foreign Languages Assistant Director of International Studies
Hamilton International Middle School, Seattle, WA,

Terry Lee Heller
Attorney

National Advisory Board

We are very proud of the prominent members of our National Advisory Board, who volunteer their efforts on our behalf.

                                               Liam Neeson
                           National Spokesperson

Brooke Adams
Actor

Diana Barrett, PhD
The Fledgling Fund

Sharon Bialy
Casting Director,CSA

Janet Davidson
Film Director

Ted Danson
Actor

Professor Alan Dershowitz
Harvard Law School

Gary Foster
Horseshoe Bay Productions

Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Chair of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Jill Iscol
Ed President
IF Hummingbird Foundation

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Harvard Business School

Bruce R. Katz
Rockport Shoe Company

Harold Ramis
Director, Writer, Actor

Richard Reck
Retired Accounting Partner, KPMG

Captain Kevin Roache
Continental Airline Pilot

Emily Shagley
Marketing Specialist

Tony Shalhoub
Actor

Professor Richard A. Shweder
University of Chicago

Mary Steenburgen
Actor

Walter Teller
Entertainment Law Firm

Loung Ung
Spokesperson for
The Cambodia Fund

Sonia Weitz
Council Member, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Elizabeth Clark Zoia
Public Relations Specialist

Program Development

Joanne Strahl Ashe
Founder & Executive Director

Anna Mara Rutins
Director of Programs

Eileen Mattingly
Curriculum Content Specialist

Ethan Silverman
Film Consultant

Amy Shea
Research Planner & Evaluation Analyst

Program Evaluation
and Process Development

Amy Shea
Research Planner and Evaluation Analyst