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CRPI STAFF AND BOARD MEMBERS
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Glynn Washington is the Executive Director for CRPI. Prior to joining CPRI, Glynn
served as the Administrator of the San Francisco Human Services
Network (HSN). At HSN, Glynn worked to turn San Francisco’s
billion-dollar nonprofit human service community into a powerful
policy voice, advocating
for the needs of disadvantaged.
Glynn shepherded several pieces
of precedent-setting legislation through City/County government,
including Nonprofit Contract Reform Legislation, Living Wage provisions,
and the Health Care Accountability Ordinance. While earning his degree from the University of Michigan
Law School, Glynn provided legal assistance to local community
development groups. After graduation, he worked as a consultant
providing technical support to organizations attempting child
welfare and urban renewal projects.
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Dr. Gail Simpson
Gail is an economist, bringing 20 years of consulting and project
management experience to the role of
Managing Director at CRPI.
She is responsible for CRPI's research and advocacy program focussing
on responsible shareholder practices among California's public
pension funds. Recent projects include publishing Beyond CalPERS,
CRPI's inventory of socially responsible practices in California's
county retirement plans.
Early in her career Gail worked for the
UN on draught relief programs in Ethiopia. After graduate school,
she conducted national studies for Congress on the major social
welfare programs and later, consulted to the insurance industry
on core business processes, including claims, underwriting, and
executive compensation.
Gail is the founder of an Inc 500 financial
services firm that partnered with American Reinsurance to restructure
risk associated with injury claims. She is a graduate of Stanford
University, where she studied anthropology, and of the University
of California, Berkeley's College of Natural Resources. Gail's
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t in mobilizing the economic leverage of shareholders grew
out of her involvement with the endowment at her church.
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Sule Gordon
is a Campus Organizer for CRPI's Campaign Against Transnational
Tobacco. Sule was trained as an organizer with the Center for
Third World Organizing (CTWO) Movement Activist Apprenticeship
Program (MAAP). His movement-building experience comes from
working with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on the
Driving While Black or Brown campaign where he lobbied state
legislators to pass a bill on data collection related to racial
profiling.
As a social justice community organizer, Sule volunteers
with
the Racial Justice Coalition representing the DWB campaign and
with the October 22nd Coalition on the Anti-Police Brutality
Campaign. Sule has a BA in Sociology from San Francisco State
University where he concentrated his studies on Race Relations.
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CRPI Advisory Boards |
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Public Health Advisory
Board
The Tobacco Control Section of the California Department of
Public Health funds CRPI’s two anti-tobacco advocacy projects.
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Mele Lau Smith.
In collaboration with the Tobacco
Free Project Director and Health Educator, Mele provides extensive
technical assistance and training to grassroots organizations
and to the SF Tobacco Free Coalition to fight the tobacco industry
in San Francisco and internationally. Mele chairs the CorpWatch
Advisory Board and is on the advisory board of the Asian and Pacific
Islander Tobacco Education Network.
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Kirk Kleinschmidt is
the former VP of Advocacy for the American Heart Association,
Western States Affiliate, which covers California, Utah and
Nevada. In this role, he led a team of 7 staff to make environmental
and policy change to promote heart health.
Kirk was recently appointed by the Speaker
of the Assembly to the Tobacco Education and Research Oversight
Committee, the oversight committee mandated by the Legislature.
He served as co-chair of the San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition.
Kirk earned his MA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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Mark Friedman
is Executive Director for Alameda County Children and Families
Commission. He previously served as Chief of Staff for Alameda
County Supervisors Wilma Chan and Don Perata. He directed several
community non-profits for 20 years including Special Child, a
children's services agency in Colorado. He is a former pre-school
teacher and chairs the Alliance for Public Education in West Contra
Costa County. Mark also serves as a councilmember of the City
of El Cerrito.
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The BASIS Project
Advisory Board
The BASIS Project seeks to strengthen the incentives of public
pensions and other large institutional investors to promote
environmental accountability by US corporations.
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Michelle Chan-Fishel
coordinates the Green Investments project at Friends of the Earth,
focusing on bringing environmental advocacy to Wall Street. The
Green Investments project engages in shareholder activism, promotes
fuller and more accurate corporate environmental disclosure, provides
outreach to financial analysts, and works with financial institutions
to develop environmental policies. She has recently published
The Anatomy of A Deal: A Handbook on International Project Finance,
a textbook for activists seeking financial leverage on project-level
campaigns; and Risk Exposure, an NGO guide to conveying environmental
information to financiers. Michelle has received B.A.s in Economics,
Development Studies and Geography from the University of California
at Los Angeles.
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James
P. Hawley, Professor, Graduate Business Programs, Saint Mary's
College of California Ph.D., McGill University; M.A., University
of California, Berkeley; B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dr. Hawley is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Fiduciary
Capitalism at Saint Mary's College and teaches in the area of
business and society. He has worked and consulted in the areas
of country risk analysis, political assessment and corporate governance.
His current intellectual interests focus on corporate governance
issues and the activity of public employee pension funds. In collaboration
with Professor Andrew Williams, Dr.
Hawley has developed in a series of articles as well as a new
book on concepts in corporate governance involving "universal
investors" and "fiduciary capitalism."
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Andrew T. Williams,
Professor, Graduate Business Programs, Saint Mary's College of
California Ph.D., M.A., Stanford University Professor Williams
is an economist by training, Co-Director of the Center for the
Study of Fiduciary Capitalism at Saint Mary's College, and teaches
economics in the Executive MBA Program. Along with Professor James
Hawley, Dr. Williams has developed a highly regarded line of research
in corporate governance and pension fund activism, and is the
co-author of a recent book on the subject by the University of
Pennsylvania Press. Prior to coming to Saint Mary's, Dr. Williams
taught at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Campus Actions Advisory Board
Two of CRPI’s projects work with college students to pressure
campus administrators to invest university endowment funds in
mission-related
investments.
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Emeritus Board Members
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Steve Schueth
President of First Affirmative
Financial
Network, an independent investment advisory firm that supports
a network of investment professionals who serve socially conscious
investors nationwide. He is also a Director of the Social Investment
Forum, having served as Chair and President of the $2 trillion
social investment industry's national trade association from 1993
to 2000. For a dozen years he has been a nationally recognized
authority, consultant and resource to the social investment industry.
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Stephen Viederman
is an internationally known activist, writer, lecturer and consultant
on issues of mission-related investing, corporate social responsibility,
and sustainability. In March 2000 he retired from the presidency
of the Jessie Smith
Noyes Foundation which under his leadership
pioneered efforts to use the foundation's assets to further its
grant-making goals, through screening, shareholder activity and
mission-related venture capital. While continuing efforts to engage
the interest of institutional investors in these activities, he
is also working with low-income communities of color to develop
environmentally sound, culturally sensitive economic development.
Steve lives in New York City.
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Peter Miguel Camejo is chair and co-founder of Progressive Asset Management Inc, a nationwide company that promotes socially responsible investments. In addition to running for Governor of California as the Green Party Candidate, Camejo has worked as strong advocate of renewable energy; guaranteed universal health coverage for all; and labor rights.
Sixty-three year old Camejo is a first generation Venezuelan-American and grandfather of two. He lives with his wife Morella in Walnut Creek, California.
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