Tony is the founder of The Humanity Initiative and serves as our Executive Director. He was editor and publisher of our journal, humanity, in the 1990's. Previous positions include Associate Publisher of WorldPaper and Executive Director of the National Advertising Review Board. He was chairman of the British American Educational Foundation (New York City and London) from 1975 to 1980 and served as a trustee for twenty-one years. Tony also was a lecturer in international marketing at Babson College. He holds a BA in English from Wesleyan University and an MALD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Tabi is General Manager of Catalyst Europe AG, an organization that works with business to effect change for women through research, advisory services and communication. She is responsible for developing memberships and partnerships in Europe and addressing the global diversity needs of Catalyst members. Tabi previously was Managing Director of the Paradigm Group, an international human resources research and consulting organization specializing in corporate change initiatives, performance management and cross-cultural diversity. She has presented papers and spoken before numerous audiences in Europe, Asia and North America. Tabi attended Princeton University as an advanced standing scholar and Bryn Mawr College, graduating with an A. B. magna cum laude in history. She went on to earn her M.Sc. in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Poet and farmer, Justen worked with THI for over three years on the premier and second issues of humanity. He also ran our volunteer intern program and established our folklore initiative. Justen completed his master's degree in poetry from Emerson College and is now co-founder and Executive Director of the Martha's Vineyard Writing Residency. In addition, he runs his own landscaping service. He is married, with two young children.

Kylie currently is Director of Education and Training Quality Assurance for Media Works, a multi-media adult education and training company in her hometown of Johannesburg, specialising in the implementation and managing of literacy and numeracy programmes. She consults on a variety of skills development initiatives involving management and learner liaison, conducting and managing skills audits, and developing and aligning learning material to national standards. Kylie previously worked as a training consultant at Learning Resources, as a project manager at Devtrain, and at Morakapula Santho Adult Education Centre as an ABET facilitator. In addition, since 2009 Kylie has served on the Umalusi Adult Educational and Vocational Training Committee. She earned both a BA in Education and a BA with Honours in Publishing.

Writer, filmmaker, and communications consultant, Sheila captures the stories of grassroots visionaries whose innovative solutions to local challenges transform their communities. Her work for nonprofit organizations has taken her from hill tribe villages in northern Thailand to high schools in Serbia, from the rain forests of Costa Rica to farming communities in Uganda. She writes frequently on social entrepreneurship, women's leadership, and corporate social responsibility. She co-authored Our Time is Now: Young People Changing the World, has written four nonfiction children's books, and recently produced a documentary chronicling an effort to radically transform school food in Baltimore. A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, Sheila has taught communications and public relations at the School of Business and Professional Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She serves on the board of the Corfu Foundation and is a member of Women in Film & Video.

Sandra is currently the Gender and Civil Society Advisor for UNFPA in Romania. A native of Romania, she set up and ran the Soros Foundation in Bucharest between 1990 and 1993, served as advisor to Emil Constantinescu when he was President (1998-2000), and also served UNDP in various capacities at the regional and local levels. In addition, Sandra has been involved in giving young Romanians a taste for ethics through the work of the SynergEtica Foundation which she established in 2006. In New York, before returning to Romania in 1990, Sandra was the Promotion Director for Newsweek. She earned her Ph.D in Paris, has an M.Phil from Columbia University and an MALD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She writes extensively on ethics and the development of civil society.

Francie is a visual artist whose work explores the patterns, structures and cycles of the natural world. Her work has been exhibited internationally, has won multiple awards and has been reviewed in The New York Times, Harvard Magazine, and ArtHouse Magazine in Korea, among others. After receiving a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard, Francie traveled through Papua New Guinea on a Radcliffe grant, exploring the interrelationship between culture and village arts. She settled in Australia, later returning to the USA to teach at Harvard for seven years and received an MEd in Visual Arts and Technology. She lives with her husband, painter Thomas A. D. Watson, and their two children in an eighteenth-century farmhouse on Cape Cod. Francie was head of the THI intern program in 1990. (www.francierandolph.com)

Dave is most often an independent web developer and consultant. He has worked with THI for fifteen years as both technical wizard and strategic partner in establishing and developing www.humanity.org. Dave works for Adobe Systems on user community sites and for book and periodical publishers in both the USA and Europe. He specializes in content management systems. Dave also has a concurrent career as an actor, comedian and improv artist, performing regularly at ImprovBoston and at comedy festivals around the world. He is well known for his work as half of the comedy duo Sawyer and Hurley. Dave is a Tennessee Squire, an associate member of the Society of American Magicians, and a graduate of the Second City Conservatory. His consulting company is Metaface Development.

Michelle has just founded the Center for Inspired Learning, whose mission is to link research in neuroscience to the practice of education. She also is principal of Sullivan & Associates, a private firm that assists philanthropists, foundations and nonprofits to maximize their effectiveness. She has served as president of the Ucross Foundation, as director of Wyoming operations for the Daniels Fund, and as a senior associate at the Aspen Institute's Community Strategies Group and Global Interdependence Initiative. For six years Michelle was on the Wyoming State Board of Education. She is a trustee of the Homer & Mildred Scott Foundation and the Foundation for Community Vitality. In 1997 she was awarded a three-year Kellogg National Fellowship, during which she examined the leadership issues that emerge out of cross-cultural conflict. She was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University in 1995 to 1996 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Colorado College for founding the Snake River Institute. Married with three children, she has just returned to Wyoming after receiving a Masters Degree in Eduction from Harvard.

Shashi is a member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. Formerly Chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Shashi was the official candidate of India for the succession to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, and came a close second out of seven contenders in the race. His career began in 1978, when he joined the staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, and included key responsibilities in peace-keeping after the Cold War and as a senior adviser to the Secretary-General, as well as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information. Shashi is also the award-winning author of nine books, as well as hundreds of articles, op-eds and book reviews in a wide range of publications. He has served for two years as a Contributing Editor and occasional columnist for Newsweek International. Since April 2001 he has authored a fortnightly column in The Hindu and since January 2007 in The Times of India. See also www.shashitharoor.com.

Half English and half Venezuelan, Jacqueline has worked for environmental and humanitarian projects on 5 continents. Her experience includes the Red Cross, working in an orphanage in Nepal, teaching English and sustainable development in Mexico, and on a marine project with Philippe Cousteau. Currently she is running The Book Bus for children in Zambia. Jacqueline also has led 5 expeditions for VentureCo, mainly in South America. These include learning the local languages and working on community projects. She is a yoga teacher and personal trainer as well. She has a BA Hons from Exeter University in English and Drama, and a diploma with distinction from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Her love of travel, adventure and giving back, and her belief that essentially we are all one influence her life choices, and she's delighted to be a part of humanity.org.

Professor Emeritus of English at the Institute of International Relations in Beijing, Ningkun spent 22 years in internal incarceration in his native China. During the 1980's he held visiting fellowships at Cambridge University, Northwestern University and the University of California. In 1990 he was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from Manchester College in Indiana. In 1992, he was Mansfield Visiting Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Montana. Ningkun has lectured at Cambridge, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard and other universities. He was a member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center but resigned in 2006. His publications include his memoir, A Single Tear - A Family's Persecution, Love, and Endurance in Communist China, written in collaboration with his wife, Li Yikai. They have been married for 57 years and live now in Virginia.

Mike currently is the Assistant Director at the Historical Society of the Courts of New York, where he works to preserve not just the history of the law, but of the judges, lawyers and citizens involved in crafting it. He joined THI in the summer of 2010 and, among other responsibilities, has developed new initiatives on education and on travel-for-positive-change. He also serves as head of our extern program, coordinating the efforts of our other volunteers. Mike is a native of Marblehead, Massachusetts and graduated from Colgate University in 2010 with honors in History and a minor in Peace & Conflict Studies.

Amoreena is a Creative Director with 14 years of experience designing award-winning websites for clients such as the American Museum of Natural History, Snapple, American Express, Jamba Juice, RC Cola, the "Got Milk" campaign, Golden Gate National Parks, the National Film Preservation Foundation, and Vail Ski Resorts. This experience was gleaned while working at top San Francisco advertising agencies during the height of the Silicon Valley dot-com boom, through running her own business (founded in 2001), and most recently as Creative Director at the digital services firm 33Delivered in Kingston, New York. Amoreena has a BA in Mandarin Chinese and Political Science from Middlebury College and is fluent in Italian, having been born and raised in Italy. (www.amoreena.com)