Ben H. Bagdikian, Advisory Board Member, is dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. His seven books include The Media Monopoly, now in its seventh edition. He was a member of a group that won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, has been a Washington Bureau Chief, a foreign correspondent who has covered a war and a revolution, and an Assistant Managing Editor for National News of The Washington Post, for which he provided The Pentagon Papers.
Paul Braund, Advisory Board Member, is the Co-founder and Executive Director of RiOS Institute, a partnership organization of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development. Mr. Braund began his career in design and technology development with a leading international consulting group in Silicon Valley, Europe and Asia, and worked for 20 years with startups, multinationals and government agencies. He is a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, focusing on ICT and Development and Social Entrepreneurship, and is head of the the USA World Summit Awards initiative and an adviser to the World Bank Institute. Mr. Braund has an MPhil from the Royal College, Industrial Design Engineering London and a BA (Hons)in Design Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England.
Edward J. "Ted" Costa, Advisory Board Member, is C.E.O. of People's Advocate, Inc., a grassroots voice for individual liberty and government by the people. People's Advocate educates the public on issues of taxation, government spending, financing, and local, state, and national government structures. Ted has qualified four initiatives for the California ballot, including the recall of Governor Davis in 2003. He has a deep interest in fair redistricting of legislative districts and was the Proponent for the redistricting initiative that appeared on the November 2005 California ballot. Ted is also an elected member of his local water board in Citrus Heights, California.
Christian Crumlish, Advisory Board Member, is the author of The Power of Many: How the Living Web is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Life and curator of Yahoo!'s design pattern library. Christian was among the first credentialed bloggers at the Democratic Party's National Convention in Boston in 2004 and covered the Republican convention from the streets of New York in September of that same year. Christian received his bachelor of arts in philosophy from Princeton University.
Thomas R. Miller, Advisory Board Member, is senior partner in the law firm of Miller & Ngo. Miller serves as General Counsel to Global Exchange, the San Francisco human rights organization, and is on the advisory board of the first Afghan-run microlending fund, Parwaz. He also serves as board chairperson of the Nautilus Institute. During the Vietnam War he established the world's largest plastic and reconstructive surgery center to treat war-injured children. Miller has also served as a consultant for the late Senator Robert Kennedy, UNICEF, the Peace Corps, and various public interest research organizations. He is a graduate of Yale University, Stanford Law School, and Columbia University's Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law.
Jeni Sall, Advisory Board Member, is President of Genesis Research Associates, a marketing research consultancy serving the information needs of a wide range of technology, consumer goods, and services firms. Jeni's research helped guide the development of the Macintosh computer, Quicken and QuickBooks software programs, and the Weight Watchers line of frozen desserts. Her clients include Fortune 500 firms like Apple Computer, HP, Intuit, Microsoft, IBM, Xerox, Motorola, Ore-Ida Foods, Nestle, Wells Fargo Bank, and Nissan Motor Corporation. Jeni received her BA in Psychology from Hofstra University and her MA in Psychology from the University of Hawaii.