The World Trust Board of Directors
- Eileen Sullivan, PhD, Board President, is a skilled, practicing psychotherapist and author. Her writing regarding white privilege and what she calls “unpacking the human package” is ground breaking in the area of social justice and has been successfully utilized in anti-bias workshops. Dr. Sullivan is known for bringing diverse communities together and facilitating dialogue and deeper understanding.
- Shakti Butler, PhD, Treasurer, is the Executive Director of World Trust. She is also the producer and director of the documentaries The Way Home and Light in the Shadows and Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible and World Trust’s newest film in the making Cracking the Codes.
- Yolanda Ronquillo, PhD. Secretary, is an expert in adult transformative learning and change. Dr Ronquillo is nationally known for fostering and developing learning communities and Arts in Education models. She has created the instructional framework known as Cultural Paths to Knowledge (CPK) which has been used effectively to help English Language Learners (ELL) practitioners bridge differences of culture, language groups and role status through different art forms such as drawing, painting, music, theater, storytelling and movie making.
- Rick Butler Director of Photography, is a five-time Emmy award winning cameraman with over twenty years experience in film and television. His work has included many intimate verité documentaries, as well as more conventional documentary and narrative forms. His favorite projects are those which help increase understanding between people and raise consciousness about our communities and environment.
- Peter Shwartz began working in education programs in 1972, at the Upward Bound Program at Southeastern Mass. University. He has designed and taught in-school and after-school reading programs for students of all ages. At Addison-Wesley he wrote and edited elementary school science curricula. During ten years at the Developmental Studies Center (DSC), a non-profit research and development center, he produced over fifty documentary-based videos that have been used in pre-service and in-service teacher professional development, conferences, and fundraising. His firm, Dellaruth Video serves a number of clients including the Japanese Research Lesson Project (NSF/Mills College), the Open Circle Project (Wellesley College), the Strategic Literacy Initiative and the Teacher Professional Development Program (both at WestEd.)
- Shirley Strong is Dean of Students and Director of Diversity at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Prior to her work at CIIS, Shirley directed a national initiative started by the Levi Strauss Foundation that developed and supported multi-racial coalitions and partnerships engaged in antiracist, community building work. Shirley declares herself fortunate that her career enables her to bring together education, activism and spirituality in the service of Beloved Community.
Advisory Board
- Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy. Van is a co-founder of three successful non-profit organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change and Green For All. He is the best-selling author of the definitive book on green jobs: The Green-Collar Economy. He served as the green jobs advisor in the Obama White House in 2009. He is currently a senior fellow at the Center For American Progress. Additionally, he is a senior policy advisor at Green For All. Van Jones also holds a joint appointment at Princeton University, as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
- Connie Cagampang Heller is co-founder of the Linked Fate Salon and the Linked Fate Fund for Justice at the Tides Foundation. The salon offers progressive activities and funders a place to think about and discuss movement building strategies collectively and cooperatively and, at the same time, network with peers working on issues and in sectors outside their own. Through the Linked Fate Fund for Justice, Ms. Heller works with individual donors and national donor membership organizations to deepen commitment to building an inclusive, political infrastructure that has social justice at its core. She serves on the Boards of World Trust Educational Services, Center for Social Inclusion, and Americans For a Fair Democracy.
- Carl Anthony, PhD is the founder and former executive director of the Urban Habitat Program, one of the oldest environmental justice organizations in the country. Until recently he was a Ford Foundation program officer in the Community and Resource Development unit. He is currently a Visiting Scholar/Ford Foundation Senior Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of California Berkeley. The mission of Urban Habitat is to promote multicultural urban environmental leadership for sustainable, socially just communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a colleague, Luke Cole at the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, he published and edited the Race, Poverty and Environment Journal, the only environmental justice periodical in the country.
- Margaret Paloma Pavel, PhD works in the Bay Area and internationally consulting to individuals, communities, and organizations in areas such as strategic visioning, communication, diversity, and leadership development. Dr. Pavel’s organizational clients reflect a core values commitment in areas of health, justice, education, and sustainable development. Dr Pavel is the founder of Earth House in Oakland, CA.
