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Tim Blunk
Director of the Puffin Cultural Forum, a project of the Puffin Foundation a
center for art, music, theatre since its founding in 1983. The Puffin Foundation
Ltd. provides grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded
from mainstream opportunities.
Bob Bralove
Composer, songwriter, MIDI wizard, producer, Bob spent many years
providing his talents to the Grateful Dead, plus 8 years as computer
music director for Stevie Wonder, as well as performing solo concerts
in the U.S. and Japan. With his Masters Degree in composition,
he studied with Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Wayne Peterson.
Bob’s paintings and prints have been featured in gallery
exhibitions and installations throughout the United States while
his most recent exhibition "Sympathetic Resonances" was
an installation in video, music, and digital prints at the Morris
Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, California.
Mark Busse and Ben Garfinkel
Mark Busse and Ben Garfinkel are partners in Industrial Brand Creative, a graphics design firm, branding consultancy and advertising agency based in Vancouver, Canada. The firm's partners, their support staff - indeed the entire organization - are all committed to environmentally and socially responsible projects while participating positively in both local and global communities. Mark is currently the President of the British Columbia Chapter of GDC, the Society Of Graphic Designers of Canada.
Mike Cerletti
State Cabinet Secretary, New Mexico Tourism Department
Lora Yan Chen
Lora Chen has successfully implemented business development and strategic planning programs for US firms doing business in China since the 1990's, including for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Parks and Sony Pictures Entertainment. She's also served as Associate Director of Business Development and Strategic Planning for the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies.
Before coming to the United States in 1985, Ms. Chen attended Beijing Film Academy along with other 5th Generation filmmakers. She was a professional cinematographer in China, with five features to her credit.
Ms. Chen has an MBA from USC, an MA in Cinema Production from Ohio State University and a BA in Cinematography from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982.
Maggy Cuesta
Maggy is the Dean of Visual Arts at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. She holds a Masters Degree in Graphic Design from California Institute of the Arts and has served on the board and as president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts [AIGA]-Miami Chapter, earning the AIGA Fellows Award in 2004. She had been instrumental in contributing to such collaborative exhibitions as ě°propaganda! Cuban Political and Film Posters", "Shared Dreams: Cuba and The U.S. Across the Digital Divide", and "World Day of Design".
Scott Fischler
President and CEO Netozoic, a technology consulting
company specializing in advanced telecommunications deployment and
alternative energy commercialization. Scott is also a District
Export Council Appointee to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the
U.S. Commercial Service
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Sumita Ghosh
Sumita Ghosh is an Analyst for
The Conference Board's Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability in
New York. She Co-Founded and was Partner of Internships
China at Peking University and was previously Associate at Tiger
Capital Partners in Beijing. Sumita has demonstrated an ongoing
commitment to social & economic development and responsibility
with her work in China and India and in support of both The Farmworker
Justice Fund and The United Nations Development
Programme in Washington D.C and The Economist
Group's Economist Conferences and Economist
Intelligence Unit in Beijing.
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Jennifer Gardner
As founder of Global Artists Management, Jennifer represents
fine artists, designers, independent film producers, directors, writers,
distributors, and inventors. She also develops new media content
for the next generation of interactive and virtual environments.
With offices in Los Angeles and Berlin, she has been a practicing
attorney for 18 years, providing general and creative counsel to
artists and entrepreneurs worldwide.
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Eban Goodstein
Project Director of Focus The Nation, coordinating with universities
and high schools in the United States to collaborate in a nationwide,
interdisciplinary discussion around the theme of "Global
Warming Solutions for America". The project culminates
January 31, 2008, with a one-day, national symposia held simultaneously
on campuses across the country. Eban is Professor of Economics
at Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon, and the author of
several books.
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Burton Hamner
As principal of Cleaner Production International LLC, Burton Hamner
provides sustainable business training and consulting services
around the world, specializing in the development of practical
tools for increasing environmental performance. Selected clients
include the US Agency for International Development, Asian Development
Bank, Pacific Northwest Economic Region, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, Asia Foundation, Nike Inc., Oberoi
Hotels, UN Industrial Development Organization, World Bank, as
well as professor at the Asian Institute of Management and the
Universidad de Pacifico in Lima, Peru. With Common Ground, Burton
is turning his attention to using art to promote industrial sustainability.
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Jeff Hayes
Principal at The Vector Group, a consulting organization focused
on accelerating the growth of green business nationwide. Recipient
of several International Monitor Awards as an animation director
in visual effects and video games, all held in the permanent collection
of the Museum of Radio and Television in New York City. Mentor
in the world renowned SAGE entrepreneurial program (Students for
the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship).
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Jon Hendry
Film producer, director and longtime executive in the hospitality
business. Also former Director of the New Mexico Department of
Tourism, and the City of Santa Fe film liaison.
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Michael S. Katzman
Michael has spent 30 years merging his passion for teaching children
with a focus on technology integration. From implementing distance
learning solutions for technology giants AT&T and NCR, to independent
consulting for the health education and E-Learning sectors, to
years spent in the classroom designing and implementing a ‘holistic’ approach
to curriculum development and learning skills. Michael sees Common
Ground as a vehicle to provide children a voice in the most important
debate of our (their) lives: How we treat the environment.
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David Koss
The Honorable Mayor of Santa Fe New Mexico
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William Ming Sing Lee
Mr. Lee is on the Board of Directors of The 1990 Institute a non-profit U.S.-based corporation, dedicated to the study of economic and social issues relating to China. He is also the Project Coordinator on a collaboration with CNCC (China National Children's Center), connecting children from U.S. and China via Art and the Environment, and active with e-Planet, an educational component of the Institute in association with the Children's Art on the Environment Project. The CAEP mission is to encourage dialogue about the environment among children and teachers in China, the USA, and throughout the world, using the universal language of art, news media and the Internet.
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Muriel Magenta, a native of New York City, is a "new genre" artist
who creates extraordinary visual experiences for transmission over
electronic networks into virtual environments. Her works include
computer and web art, video, multimedia performance, as well as sculpture,
and has been shown internationally in Europe and Asia and throughout
the United States. Magenta is a Professor of Art at Arizona State
University teaching both graduate and undergraduate studio courses
in new media concepts. She received her training at Queens College
in New York City, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Arizona
State University.
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Victor Raphael
An artist, curator and filmmaker whose works can be found in the
permanent collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France,
the Skirball Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles and the Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Victorís work was included
in the 50th Anniversary exhibit Polaroid 50: Art and Technology
that toured European Museums from 1996-98, as well as American
Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, which toured
Japanese Museums in 2000-2001. A 20 year survey exhibition of Victorís
work was held in May 2000 at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at
Pepperdine University.
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Susan Rodgerson
Director of the Boston-based Artists For Humanity, Susan is an accomplished
artist in her own right, and has been the recipient of the 2005
Alumni Community Service Award from Lesley University, the 2004
Changing People's Lives Award from Grand Circle Foundation, the
first Carlisle Foundation Creative Entrepreneurs Award in 1999,
and one of the Top 100 Finalists for the 2004 Volvo for Life Awards.
Susan was also the Fall 2005 Social Entrepreneur in Residence at
Pace University.
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Ben Rodriguez-Cubenas
Program officer with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's New York City
program and the Charles E. Culpeper Arts and Culture program. Ben
was also a program officer at the William Randolph Hearst Foundations.
He is the secretary of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and
served as a national advisory board member of New Ventures in Philanthropy,
a foundation-led initiative to promote philanthropy in the United
States.
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Clayton Spada
Artist, curator, writer, and adjunct faculty member in the Photography
Department of Cypress College, and regular guest lecturer
at Tsinghua University, He is a former Executive Director and Director
of Exhibitions at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,
and a co-founder and editor of the cultural arts quarterly, NoMoPoMo:
A Contemporary Artist's Resource. Spada has produced several exhibition
catalogs, including Hsin: A Visible Spirit. Contemporary Photography
from the People's Republic of China, which won a national design
award.
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Charles Traub
Chair of the Graduate MFA Program at the School of Visual Arts in
New York City for Photography, Video and Related Media. President
of the Aaron Siskind Foundation for support of creative photography,
and former director of the Light Gallery. Awarded the New York
State Council on the Arts, the Hendricks Foundation Award from
the Illinois Art Council, and the Manda Grant, Olympic Arts Organization
Committee. Galleries nationwide have held one-person exhibitions
of his work, and he is the author and editor many books.
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Daniel Traub
Daniel Traub has lived in China since 1999 where he has worked as a
photographer and documentary film cameraman, filming numerous documentaries
and reports throughout Asia for broadcasters including German Television
ZDF and Arte. Traub came to China from New York City after receiving
an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts where he studied
with Joel Sternfeld and Raghubir Singh, after undergraduate work at
the University of Chicago and Sarah Lawrence College.
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