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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

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1997 Nobel Peace Prize as part of “The International Campaign to Ban Landmines”