GoodWeave

Board of Directors

Michela O’Connor Abrams is the president and publisher of Dwell, the award-winning design and lifestyle media company. In 2006, Dwell hit the coveted Adweek HotList as well as the Advertising Age A-List, and was a Cappell's Circulation Top Ten Performer for the second consecutive year. In 2005, Michela helped see Dwell to its first major award when the magazine won General Excellence at the National Magazine Awards. She was also honored in 2005 by Media Industry News (min) as Sales Leader of the Year. Prior to Dwell, Michela was the President of Imagine Media's Business Division, including the flagship publication Business 2.0. She has over 20 years of experience in publishing, trade show management, online branding strategies, and strategic business development. She has held executive positions at IDG, Ziff-Davis, and McGraw-Hill. Michela serves on the Board of Magazine Publishers of Americas Independent Magazine Advisory Group (MPAIMAG, and Clickability, and is an Operating Partner at Meriturn Partners.

Robin Broad is a professor of international development at American University. She teaches courses on economic globalization and development, as well as environment and development, with a focus on social, environmental, and economic accountability. Her most recent book, Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy (Rowman and Littlefield, March 2002) combines her analysis with 45 original documents to demonstrate that opponents to the current corporate-led globalization present viable, sophisticated alternatives. She is author of several books including Unequal Alliance: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines. Robin is widely published in academic and policy publications, including Foreign Policy, World Development, World Policy Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She has previously worked as an international economist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Department of Treasury. Robin received her MA and PhD in development studies from Princeton University.

Claude Fontheim is the CEO of Fontheim International LLC, and serves as chairman of GlobalWorks Foundation. Claude advises companies on international trade and business; government relations; and corporate social responsibility issues. His work includes environment, energy, labor, human rights, health, and economic development issues. Claude is the chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council Project On The Global Economy and Trade; serves on the Executive Committee of the Alliance to End Hunger, the board of directors of New DEAL, and the advisory board of the U.S.-Bangladesh Advisory Council. He is also a senior advisor to the Business Council for Global Development LLC and is chairman of the Trade, Aid and Security Coalition. He has served on the President’s Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations, on the U.S. Trade Representative’s Trade Advisory Committee on Africa, and the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Claude received his JD, MPP and BA from the University of Michigan, and was the managing editor of Michigan’s international law publication.

Kul Chandra Gautam is a former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and the former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF. For more than three decades, his work for these agencies included socio-economic development, humanitarian assistance, human rights, and international diplomacy. He also worked to coordinate interagency collaboration, as well as public/private partnerships, for children’s rights and human development among U.N. agencies, donors and civil society organizations. As a senior UNICEF official, the issue of how to deal with hazardous and exploitative child labor was a natural policy concern for Kul, who was first introduced to the work of GoodWeave in 1997 while serving as UNICEF’s Special Representative in India.  He received his higher education in international relations and development economics at Dartmouth College, Princeton University and Harvard University.

Steve Graubart, managing director of finance at the University of the District of Columbia, has started and managed businesses in the US and internationally, and has devoted his business acumen to the development of impoverished communities and to promoting education. He has served as senior vice president global finance and chief financial officer for leading corporate governance companies, and has been a managing director of Calvert Ventures where his work included advising Grameen Bank. He has advised groups ranging from nonprofit agencies to host country governments to the World Bank on creating jobs and promoting private sector activities throughout emerging markets. He is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Patricia Hambrick is president of the Hambrick Group where she develops marketing strategies and solutions for fast-paced Internet and Fortune 500 companies. Pat has served in senior marketing positions at companies such as Saucony, L’Oreal and Clairol with her most recent corporate job as group vice president Global Marketing for Reebok Ltd. In 1999 she started The Hambrick Group, whose clients roster includes The Gillette Company, Microsoft Home Entertainment, Bose, Bag Borrow or Steal, Timberland, and the business enterprise for tennis star Andre Agassi, AEI.  Pat also teaches in the MBA program at Boston University.

Rev. Pharis J. Harvey retired as executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund and as co-chair of the Child Labor Coalition in 2001. He continues his work on labor issues through the Fair Labor Association, where he is a member of the board and chair of the monitoring committee, and as senior program consultant for Stolen Childhoods, a feature-length film on child labor. An ordained minister of the United Methodist Church, Rev. Harvey previously served as executive director of the North American Coalition for Human Rights in Korea, and in a number of teaching and research positions in East Asia on behalf of the United Methodist Church and the Christian Conference of Asia. He is author of Trading Away the Future: Child Labor in India’s Export Industries (1994) and was honored in 1996 by the receipt of the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for “Lifetime Achievement” in advancing the rights of workers.

Marc Triaureau is the CFO at Voxiva, a global pioneer in delivering interactive mobile health services and leverages the world’s 5 billion mobile phones to communicate, interact, and engage people to help them live healthier lives. Voxiva is recognized by Fast Company as one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the world for its leadership in pioneering mobile health solutions, and ranked #3 on the list of most innovative companies in the mobile industry. Prior to joining Voxiva, Marc held multiple financial leadership roles with companies in software technology and professional service sectors, including Diligence, an international business intelligence consulting firm; Get Well Network, a US-based interactive patient software firm; and Cataligent, an enterprise project management ASP software spin-off of Arthur D. Little. Marc holds a Bachelor’s in Finance from the University of Connecticut, a Master’s in Finance from Colorado State University and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

Dan Viederman is Executive Director of Verité, a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure that people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal conditions. In doing so, Verité conducts social audits to bring transparency to workplaces around the world through a network of staff and partner non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The organization trains employers, corporate staff and the workers themselves on rights, responsibilities and risk, as well as methods for enhancing work so that workers prosper. Dan received the 2007 Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship for his work with Verité. Prior to joining Verité, he headed up the offices of the World Wildlife Fund and Catholic Relief Services in China. He is a graduate of Yale University, the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and Nanjing Teacher’s University.

Nancy Wilson is director and associate dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, a program working to integrate a public service ethic into all aspects of the Tufts' student experience. Nancy has over 20 years experience in non-profit and for profit management, in the U.S. and overseas, including direct management and bottom-line responsibility. Prior to coming to Tufts, she served briefly as executive director of the Africa Foundation, directing the implementation of a new organizational strategy. Before that, she completed five years in an international management consulting firm, where she became partner. She successfully started a new practice area in the firm, growing to a profitable team of 30 consultants within 18 months, directed and managed teams working across all industries and a wide range of consulting fields: strategy, customer relationship management, supply chain, cost reduction, human resources, change management and finance. Nancy holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University.

Pat Zerega, a corporate responsibility consultant, is the former director of corporate responsibility for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Trained as a rehabilitation counselor, Pat has worked with people with disabilities within the manufacturing industry as well as developing programs for people living with HIV. She continues to focus on issues surrounding supply chains, HIV and globalization.

Mary Zicafoose is an award-winning fiber artist known for ethnically inspired textiles that reinterpret the ancient techniques of Ikat into a modern context. Mary has lived and travelled extensively in Central and South America, pursuing post-graduate studies in Andean textiles in Peru and teaching impoverished children in Bolivia’s Beni Biosphere Reserve. She is co-director of the American Tapestry Alliance, a board member of the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, and a regular lecturer for various textile organizations. She has exhibited internationally, with her work included in the permanent collections of the San Jose Quilt & Textile Museum and the Museum of Nebraska Art, among others. For the past 15 years, Mary has been affiliated with the United States Arts and Embassies Program, and her work is featured in eleven U.S. embassies worldwide. An Omaha, Neb. resident, Mary leads textile programs from her rural retreat at Pahuk, a sacred spiritual ground for the Pawnee tribe. 

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