Elizabeth Gordon Sachs, President and Founder

Elizabeth Sachs has over 20 years of philanthropic, civic and not-for-profit experience, and is a published author and organizational innovator. Beth, a clinical psychologist, was a therapist in Appalachia, London and Paris, after academic and clinical studies in Vienna, Austria. She has conducted research in women's depression at the University of London, co-authored a book with Verona Gordon and written numerous articles on the subject. She has served as an organizational consultant to institutions including the research division of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. An environmentalist, Beth founded and organized the Greening of Detroit, a successful urban reforestation program there. She is a Board Member of the Bi-Polar Family Treatment Center in New York and a former Board Member of the Hudson Webber Foundation.

Charles C. Bergman, Chair Nominations Committee

Charles C. Bergman is Chairman and CEO of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He sits on many cultural boards here and abroad and serves as an advisor to wealthy families on their corporate social responsibility.

Edmund J. Burns

Ed Burns is an attorney practicing law in New York City since 1967. A New York native, Ed and his firm specialize in matters regarding Corporation Law, Commercial Law, Probate Law, Real Estate Law, as well as Trials and Appeals Law. Mr. Burns has been a very active participant in the many professional activities available in legal practice such as: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York State, and American Bar Association, the Board of Directors, Council for Public Interest Law and others. Mr. Burns graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles A.B. 1964, L.L.B. Fordham University 1967.

B. Thomas Henry, Chair Development Committee

Mr. Henry is the Senior Development Officer at Williams College in Massachusetts. Previously he served as Director of parent fundraising at Deerfield Academy. The 20 years prior were spent in the corporate world where he led and managed numerous venture-backed software companies focusing on information access and analysis.

John A. Herrmann, Jr.

Mr. Herrmann, Jr. is Vice Chairman of Lincoln International. He advises corporations and financial sponsors throughout the world on merger and acquisition strategies and execution. Before coming to Lincoln International Mr. Herrmann was managing director of the Global Investment Bank sector of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. He was a co-founder and served for years as senior managing director in the merger and acquisition department of Lehman Brothers. Mr. Herrmann is currently a member of the NPR board of directors and the president of the NPR Foundation. He is a member of the Yale University Council and former chairman of its Committee on Development, a member of the board of trustees of the Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services, and trustee of the Steep Rock Association.

Castleigh Winston Johnson

Castleigh Winston Johnson graduated from Penn State University in 2003 with a BS in Management and International Business. While at Penn State, he was Bunton Waller Fellow and a member of the varsity soccer team. Following his undergraduate studies, he has worked as a financial advisor for New England Financial and as a project manager for Tyco International. In 2008, he obtained an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he was a Consortium for Graduate Study in Management fellow and the recipient of a JP Morgan graduate scholarship. He currently serves as a Bank Examiner for the Federal Reserve of New York.

Suzanne Karotkin

Suzanne Karotkin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 with a BA in Communications and a minor in Fine Arts. Suzanne began her editorial career in 2001 at “W” Magazine. From “W”, she went to “T”- The New York Times Style Magazine, then became market editor at Vogue, senior market editor at Harper’s Bazaar and for the past two years, senior design editor at In-Style Magazine. Suzanne is now consulting fashion and home brands as well as working to create a stronger relationship between luxury fashion and microfinance.

Andrew Klein

Andrew Klein graduated from Middlebury College in 2001 with a BA in Philosophy. Andrew stated his career as a Mergers and Acquisition Analyst for JP Morgan, subsequently moving to Citigroup, where he worked as an Investment Analyst for their Private Bank and became a Series-7 certified registered representative. In 2003 Andrew left Citigroup to launch a startup clothing company specializing in urban wear. In 2008, he graduated from the New York University School of Law and the Stern School of Business with a J.D and an M.B.A. Andrew is a certified interior firefighter and trained Emergency Medical Technician. He also currently sits on the Board of the Middlebury Fire Department.

Pamela Michaelcheck

Ms. Michaelcheck is a distinguished philanthropist and volunteer. Ms. Michaelcheck serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Southhampton Fresh Air Home, a residential summer camp in Southhampton, NY for handicapped inner city children aged 8-16. She also serves as a board member of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Foundation. Ms. Michaelcheck has devoted significant volunteer and philanthropic energy to organizations including The Family Opera Initiative, the Jane Comfort Dance Company, the Harlem Day Charter School, Prep for Prep, Teach for America, the PEN American Center, and the International Honors Program.

Lisa W. Schermerhorn

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Casey Schlaybaugh

Casey Schlaybaugh is a Vice President Director at BBDO. She currently manages Lowe's Home Improvement in NY and has previously worked on Campbell's Soup, Maybelline and General Motors accounts. She is responsible for strategic development, market analysis, and brand stewardship. For the third year in a row, BBDO Worldwide has been named the "Most Awarded Network in the World" by The Gunn Report.

Ken Stern

Mr. Stern is a leading media and broadcasting consultant and the former CEO of National Public Radio (NPR), an international producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. During his tenure, NPR doubled its audience in seven years to 26 million weekly listeners, increased the amount of news, talk, entertainment, and music content generated and distributed, and achieved financial stability. Mr. Stern has also served as a Senior Advisor to the Director of the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau, the umbrella organization overseeing American worldwide broadcasting operations including Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Voice of America and Radio and TV Marti where he was responsible for policy, affiliate relations, external affairs, business development, engineering, and research.

Charlotte Bannister-Parker

Charlotte Bannister-Parker is Assistant Curate of the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford, England, and is currently working on several projects in Kimberly, South Africa. Her work across the developing world focuses on issues relating to women, children, and development. Charlotte has produced and directed several documentaries in these areas for Channel Four and the BBC working for the TV production company North South Productions. While there she co-founded Learning for Life, a charity which helps to fund schools and education projects in India and Pakistan. She has also made short non-broadcast films for UNICEF, Save the Children Fund, and Oxfam.

Charlotte studied theology as an undergrad at North Thames Ministerial Training Course in London, was ordained in June 2005, and earned a Masters in women and development issues at the Centre of Overseas Research and Development at Durham University.

Edward Mortimer

Edward Mortimer is Senior Vice-President and Chief Programme Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. From 1998 to 2006 he served as chief speechwriter and (from 2001) as director of communications to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has spent much of his career as a journalist, first with The Times of London, where he developed an expertise in Middle East affairs, and later with The Financial Times, where from 1987 to 1998 he was the main commentator and columnist on foreign affairs.

Mr. Mortimer has also served as a fellow and/or faculty at several institutions, including Oxford University (where he is a Fellow of All Souls College), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and (as Honorary Professor) the University of Warwick. He has also served on the governing bodies of several non-governmental organizations, including Chatham House, the Institute of War and Peace Reporting, the John Stuart Mill Institute, and Minority Rights Group International.

Mr. Mortimer received an M.A. in modern history from Oxford University. His writings include: "People, Nation, State: The Meaning of Ethnicity and Nationalism" (co-edited with R. Fine 1999), "The World that FDR Built" (1989), "Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam" (1982)

Elizabeth Gordon Sachs, President and Founder

Elizabeth Sachs has over 20 years of philanthropic, civic and not-for-profit experience, and is a published author and organizational innovator. Beth, a clinical psychologist, was a therapist in Appalachia, London and Paris, after academic and clinical studies in Vienna, Austria. She has conducted research in women's depression at the University of London, co-authored a book with Verona Gordon and written numerous articles on the subject. She has served as an organizational consultant to institutions including the research division of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. An environmentalist, Beth founded and organized the Greening of Detroit, a successful urban reforestation program there. She is a Board Member of the Bi-Polar Family Treatment Center in New York and a former Board Member of the Hudson Webber Foundation.

Simon Weil

Simon Weil is an Attorney specializing in Charity Law. He has worked for the London law firm Bircham Dyson Bell since 1978, and has been a partner since 1983. He is currently head of the firm's Individuals Group, specializing in charities, tax planning, investment property for charities and the resolution of potentially contentious issues arising out of wills, trusts and co-ownership of property for charities and private clients. Simon is a member of the Charity Law Association and the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Practitioners, and he sits on the advisory board of the European Association for Planning Giving. Simon has helped to pioneer the development of real property investment pooling schemes for charities and advised in the creation of the Absolute Return Trust for Charities, the first common investment fund of hedge funds.

Libby Lloyd

An independent media consultant with longstanding experience in the community and public broadcast media sectors. Previously Ms Lloyd was the Chief Executive Officer of the Media Development and Diversity Agency, a public/private partnership to support media development and diversity in South Africa.

From 2000 to 2002 she served as a Councilor on the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa and prior to that was Head of Radio Training at the Institute of Advancement of Journalism.

Frank Meintjies

A management and organizational development consultant, Mr Meintjies has worked in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. In this regard, he has worked in community organisations, for COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) and for Deloite Consulting. He was a Councillor on the Independent Broadcasting Authority. He is a co-founder of Isandla, a development think-tank, and is a regular contributor of articles and columns dealing with culture and transformation issues in South Africa.

Shirley Pendlebury

Chief Executive Officer of the Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town, Dr Pendlebury is well known, nationally and internationally, for her wide-ranging academic work in education. She serves on the editorial boards of several international journals and is widely published in international peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. Social justice and human rights in education are recurring themes in her work. She began her career as an English teacher and is passionate about story-telling and radio, and its potential to stimulate and enthrall.

Vincent Mai

Mr. Mai grew up in South Africa and was educated at the University of Cape Town. He is Chairman of AEA Investors, a private equity investment firm in New York City having joined AEA in 1989 as chief executive officer and has been chairman since 1998. He currently serves as chairman of the board of directors of Burt's Bees. Before joining AEA, Mr. Mai was a partner at Lehman Brothers for 14 years where he was head of that firm's international investment banking activities and co-head of all of its investment banking activities for three years.

He is chairman of the board of Sesame Workshop, producers of Sesame Street, a leading children's educational television program featured in more than one hundred countries. He also serves on the boards of the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Juilliard School. Mr. Mai was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, of which he remains a member, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Fannie Mae.

Brooke S. Beardslee

Ms. Beardslee is a board member of the New York Women's Foundation, co-chair of the International Women's Health Coalition President's Council, and committee member of The Barbara Kleiman Fund. While working at the New York City Department of Homeless Services, Ms. Beardslee oversaw all medical units on the adult, single side. As a Peace Corps Volunteer, Ms. Beardslee served in Niger, West Africa, and in New York City she has worked for the Department of Health in Tuberculosis and Maternal and Child Health.

Dr. Thomas L. Benson

Dr. Thomas L. Benson is the Executive Director of the World Leadership Corps, an international service-learning organization affiliated with the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. Tom is an educator with broad experience in academic leadership and international education. He was a founder and the first chairman of the ASIANetwork, a North American consortium of liberal arts institutions. Currently he serves as the founding chairman of the Africa Network, and is also a board member of the Myanmar Foundation and the Japan ICU Foundation. Dr. Benson was a faculty member at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for 15 years and the first director of its Interdisciplinary Studies and General Honors programs. He is the President Emeritus of Green Mountain College, an innovative, environmentally oriented liberal arts college in Vermont. Dr. Benson has published papers in the fields of international education, the humanities, ethics, and public policy, and he holds advanced degrees from Harvard University and The Johns Hopkins University.

Deirdre Cossman

Deirdre Cossman is a librarian, writer and television producer. She currently works as a consultant at Bickel & Brewer, a boutique litigation firm, in their New York office and also serves as the Assistant Director of the Bickel & Brewer Latino Institute for Human Rights at NYU Law School which is part of the Bickel & Brewer Foundation. Previous to joining Bickel & Brewer in early 2008, she spent several years working on writing and editing projects at Random House and promoted a new public library marketing tool in libraries across the country. She serves as an associate board member of The Bone Marrow Foundation and is the author of Museums of New York City, a guide to the city's museums and historic homes.

Kim Andrew Elliott

Mr. Elliott is an audience research analyst in the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau. From 1995 to 2002, he was producer and host of Communications World, a popular weekly Voice of America program about electronic media and international broadcasting.

Suki Fredericks

Ms. Fredericks is a paintings conservator who is currently involved in The Children's Initiative in Vietnam and Ethiopia and the Selamta Children's Home project of the Human Capital Foundation in Addis Ababa. She participated in the Children's Radio Foundation's first fact-finding trip to South Africa in April 2006.

Barbara Ganley

Ms. Ganley is the Director of The Project for Integrated Expression at Middlebury College. She writes on implementing new media and social software into literature and writing classrooms. Ms. Ganley's special interests include digital storytelling as a means of academic discourse and integrated web technologies as vehicles for expression, community-building, and student-centered learning.

Peggy Elliott Goldwyn

Ms. Goldwyn founded the Samuel Goldwyn Childcare Center of the Motion Picture and Television Fund and served as Chairperson of the Advisory Board until 2005. She is past President of the Beverly Hills, California Board of Education, a member of the Board of Americans for UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund) and LA's Best, an after-school program for children 5-14 in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Bonnie Strauss Gould

Ms. Strauss has had a distinguished career in television journalism and documentary film, and her work has helped initiate legislative and community change. She worked as a reporter and producer at ABC in the 1970s. Following that position, she received an Emmy Award for her investigative journalism work at CBS. In the 1980s, she worked as a special correspondent for Good Morning America and then began contributing reports to Evening News with Peter Jennings and Nightline. In the 1990s, Ms. Strauss received a Gold Cine award for her first documentary about women living in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Currently, Ms. Strauss travels the world researching stories while continuing to develop thought-provoking work for HBO and Showtime.

Joan Grubin

Ms. Grubin is a practicing visual artist in New York City. She exhibits her work widely, and is an active participant in the New York arts community. Previously, Joan enjoyed a career as a documentary film editor, working primarily on films for Public Television. She currently serves on the board of the newly formed Vermont College of the Fine Arts in Montpelier, Vermont, and has served on the Board of Trustees at the Brearley School.

Grethe Barrett Holby

Ms. Holby currently serves as the Founder & Executive Artistic Director of Family Opera Initiative, an initiative begun under her leadership at American Opera Projects, and now a program of Ardea Arts, Inc. Ms. Holby also founded American Opera Projects, a company dedicated to developing new American Opera. She recently completed a Rockefeller Residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy, and currently serves on the Board of MATA, a New York City-based company dedicated to performing the work of young composers.

Lee W. Huebner

Mr. Huebner has been the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University since the summer of 2006. He came to GWU from Northwestern University, where he had served since 1994 as Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism. Mr. Huebner also served as Publisher and CEO of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune for fourteen years. He has been a board member for media companies in Hong Kong and East Africa and is a consultant for the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development.

Ellen Hume

Ms. Hume is the research director of MIT's new Center for Future Civic Media (C4FCM) which develops new techniques and technologies to promote and enhance civic engagement in local communities.Ms. Hume is founding director of the Center on Media and Society at University of Massachusetts Boston and of the New England Ethnic Newswire (www.ethnicnewz.org).

James A. Kelly

Mr. Kelly has a long history of leading education-based organizations. At Widmeyer Communications, Mr. Kelly provides strategic communications expertise to clients facing organizational and communications challenges. Mr. Kelly was president and chief executive officer of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, which he founded. Kelly serves as senior advisor to the Asia Society and the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. He is on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Educational Leadership and the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former program officer at the Ford Foundation and was on the faculty at the Teachers College, Columbia University.

Pamela J. Larson

Ms. Larson has directed the National Academy of Social Insurance since it began operations in 1987. She has worked closely with the Academy's members, board, and staff to develop research and education programs on Social Security and Medicare, long-term care and leadership development. Prior to her work at the Academy, Ms. Larson was the Director of Membership Services for the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. She has taught Medicare policy at Florida State University and written articles on related topics.

Douglas B. Leeds

Mr. Leeds helped build Thomson-Leeds Company into one of the best known in-store media agencies in the world. He is a board member of the Point of Purchase Advertising Institute and a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guild Hall of East Hampton, the Frick Collection and the Checkerboard Foundation. He is member of the Dream Team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and is the President of the Board of Directors of the American Theater Wing.

Dr. Jordan D. Metzl

Dr. Metzl is a nationally recognized sports medicine physician at the Hospital for Special Surgery, America's premier sports medical hospital. He is the co-founder of The Sports Medicine Institute for Young Adults, a center designed to treat and prevent sports injuries in youth athletes. Dr. Metzl lectures and has published numerous articles about children and sports medicine in addition to his 2002 book entitled The Young Athlete: A Sports Doctor's Complete Guide for Parents. Dr. Metzl has completed Sports Medicine Fellowships at Vanderbilt University and Harvard University. He is a former contributor for CBS National News and has provided commentary on CBS News, NBC News, and the New York Times.

The Reverend Canon Anne Mallonee

The Reverend Canon Anne Mallonee has served as the Vicar of the Trinity (Episcopal) Church, Wall Street, since 2004. Prior to that, her ministry included the Cathedral Church of St. Mark in Minneapolis, and the Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford. As Vicar, Reverend Mallonee is responsible for day-to-day congressional life. For three centuries, Trinity has been a catalyst for transformational change from starting schools in New York in the 18th century to fighting apartheid in South Africa in the 20th century. The Trinity Grants Program has long supported work in the Global South and is committed to the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2000.

Jonathan C. Rich

Mr. Rich has worked with international organizations for almost eight years. As the Director of Strategic Communications for Ted Turner's United Nations Foundation, Mr. Rich advised the Executive Office of then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on his U.S. outreach efforts, as well as advising and assisting the offices of numerous other senior UN officials. Mr. Rich founded his own communications, media relations and advocacy consulting firm, JCR Communications, Inc. His clients include UNICEF, UNAIDS, WaterAid, the International Women's Health Coalition and other UN agencies, international NGOs and international foundations. Mr. Rich is also a partner in A&R Global Consulting, an economic development consulting business working with clients on investment opportunities and projects in China, Eastern Europe and other emerging economies.

Jeff Rosenberg

Mr. Rosenberg is a leading international radio expert and the former director of NPR Worldwide, which coordinated the distribution and rebroadcast of NPR around the world. Mr. Rosenberg was a senior producer in the News Division of NPR for 30 years and helped to develop the news-magazine program, All Things Considered. He is a member of the Indo-US Sub-commission's media advisory committee, working with All India Radio. Mr. Rosenberg was the Senior Pool Producer for all U.S. radio networks on trips of the President overseas.

Dr. Alan R. Ruby

Mr. Ruby has been a Senior Fellow for International Education at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania since 2005. Prior to that position, Mr. Ruby was the Senior Vice President of Programs at The Atlantic Philanthropies where he oversaw the Disadvantaged Children and Youth Program, the Ageing Program, and the Health of Populations Program. Mr. Ruby was the Director of the Human Development Sector for the East Asia Region of the World Bank, and he served for six years as deputy secretary in the Australian Department of Employment, Education, Training, and Youth Affairs.

Alexander Sachs

Mr. Sachs is a design and development entrepreneur with strong project management, marketing, technology, web design, architectural design and operations experience. He is active in hotel development projects in New York and New Jersey, as well as philanthropic endeavors in the arts, environment and humanities.

Bill Siemering

Mr. Siemering is the President of Developing Radio Partners, which helps to bring information to those people who need it most - in developing countries and in rural areas. He is a founding member of the National Public Radio Board of Directors and author of the network's original mission and goals. He developed "All Things Considered" as NPR's first Director of Programming. Mr. Siemering began working internationally in radio by assisting community radio stations in South Africa's townships as a 1993 recipient of a five-year MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Mr. Siemering served as president of the International Center for Journalists and also served a senior radio advisor for the Open Society Institute.

Dr. Spencer Wells

Dr. Wells is a geneticist and anthropologist, an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, and director of the Society's Genographic Project. His fascination with the past has led him to the furthest reaches of the globe in search of human populations who hold the history of humankind in their DNA.

Edmund J. Burns

Ed Burns is an attorney practicing law in New York City since 1967. A New York native, Ed and his firm specialize in matters regarding Corporation Law, Commercial Law, Probate Law, Real Estate Law, as well as Trials and Appeals Law. Mr. Burns has been a very active participant in the many professional activities available in legal practice such as: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York State, and American Bar Association, the Board of Directors, Council for Public Interest Law and others. Mr. Burns graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles A.B. 1964, L.L.B. Fordham University 1967.

JPMorgan Chase: Christopher Guadalupe

Mr. Guadaulpe is a Private Investment Banker at the JPMorgan Chase bank in New York.

Rosemary A. Burns

Rosemary A. Burns is a CPA and co-founder of Lafond, Hagan, Burns &smp; Associates (LHB), a firm offering financial, regulatory and consulting services to the financial service industry.

Elizabeth Gordon Sachs, President and Founder

Elizabeth Sachs has over 20 years of philanthropic, civic and not-for-profit experience, and is a published author and organizational innovator. Beth, a clinical psychologist, was a therapist in Appalachia, London and Paris, after academic and clinical studies in Vienna, Austria. She has conducted research in women's depression at the University of London, co-authored a book with Verona Gordon and written numerous articles on the subject. She has served as an organizational consultant to institutions including the research division of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. An environmentalist, Beth founded and organized the Greening of Detroit, a successful urban reforestation program there. She is a Board Member of the Bi-Polar Family Treatment Center in New York and a former Board Member of the Hudson Webber Foundation.

Sue Valentine

Sue is a media consultant and journalist (print and radio) with a special interest in public health journalism, truth and reconciliation, oral histories and storytelling. She is also a qualified high school teacher.

Her career over the past 20 years spans the transition to democracy in South Africa. During this time she has worked in the mainstream South African media (including The Star newspaper and the South African Broadcasting Corporation) as well as in the non-government sector with the Institute for Democracy in South Africa and the Open Society Foundation.

Sue was actively involved in the "Free the Airwaves" campaign to create a new broadcasting framework during the transition to democracy, as well as the Democratic Education Broadcast Initiative that co-ordinated voter education on TV and radio prior to the first democratic elections in 1993/94.

From 1997-1999 she was the Executive Producer of "AM Live" and "Midday Live" on SAfm, the daily news & current affairs shows on the SABC's national English language radio station. In August 1999 she established Health-e News Service, an online news agency producing features on public health issues, especially HIV/AIDS, for newspapers and radio, where she worked until December 2004.

She was a Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in 2002/2003.

Dr. Mike Rahfaldt

Mike is a radio producer, journalist, trainer, and academic specializing in youth media and education, popular music, and arts journalism. Originally from the US, he has been living and working in Cape Town for eight years.

Before joining the Children's Radio Foundation as Programme Director, Mike taught radio production and social anthropology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from 2001-2007. He was responsible for designing the new radio curriculum for UCT's Centre for Film and Media Studies, and also developed a series of media production and digital storytelling projects.

Mike has been involved in a wide range of youth radio projects, including collaborative productions with prisoners, asylum seekers, primary and high school students, and other children and young adults. As a journalist, he has also contributed to "The World," a Public Radio International, BBC World Service, and WGBH co-production.

Mike received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan in 2007. His research investigates the radio listening habits of young people in South Africa.

Gabriel Urgoiti

Gabriel is a medical doctor working in the field of child health, health promotion and communication for development and social change. He has traveled broadly and worked in South America, India and Africa. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has been living in Cape Town, South Africa since 1981.

He was active in anti-apartheid health organizations in South Africa and specifically in the National Progressive Primary Health Care Network (NPPHC) and was a founder member and Director of the NPPHC Media and Training Centre, and Radio Zibonele which was one of the first community radio stations in South Africa to broadcast illegally and pro democracy during South Africa dark days under the apartheid regime. He has a special interest in the area of children's participation and media.

For the past 10 years Gabriel has worked as an independent consultant, providing services to organizations and institutions in 20 African countries. Some of the organizations with which he has worked in the field of children's participation and media include: the Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town, Sesame Workshop (New York), Takalani Sesame South Africa, IBIS HIV and AIDS Regional Programme (Namibia), and community radio stations in Africa.