Board of Directors
Rick Allen
President and CEO, Snag Films
Dave Brubaker
CEO and Founder, HealthWell Ventures
Chairman of the Board, USC/Norris Cancer Hospital
Rosario Dawson
Activist/Actress
Jonathan Estrin
Screenwriter/Director
Executive Director, Constitutional Rights Foundation
Jeff Franklin
Film and Television Producer
Stanley Frileck, M.D.
Physician/Surgeon
Peter Greenberg
Travel Editor, CBS Television
Drew Hagen
Founder/Executive Producer, InVision
Louis J. Ignarro, PhD
Nobel Laureate, Medicine (1996)
Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, UCLA
Bob L. Johnson*
Attorney/Entertainment Executive
Gary Larsen*
Board Vice Chair
Business Investor
Foreign Service Officer (Ret.)
Michael Mahdesian*
Board Chair
President, Servicon, Inc.
Former Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Response
Tom Moore, Jr. *
Health Policy, Benefit Programs and Information Systems Consultant
Paul O’Rourke, MD
Public Health Specialist
Health Policy Consultant
Jack Shakely
President Emeritus, California Community Foundation
Derek N. Shearer
Director, Occidental College International Policy Center
US Ambassador to Finland (1994-1997)
Meg Starr
Estate Manager, Carollands
Lorin Stevenson
Philanthropist
Maria Mohiuddin Verjee
Partner, Johal & Mohiuddin, Attorneys At Law
Richard Walden*
President and CEO, Operation USA
Skip Whitney
CEO, Sanuk Mak
Julie Yannatta
Music Executive
Founder, Be Why
ADVISORY BOARD
Julie Andrews
Sen. Gary Hart
Larry Heifetz, M.D.
Roland Joffé
Nola Kambanda
Rosanne Katon-Walden
IN MEMORIAM
Tony Adams
Blake Edwards
Shelley List
Piero Patri
Leonard Vernon
Marjorie Vernon
* denotes members of the Executive Committee
