Advisory Board
Cecile Andrews, Ed.D
Community Educator, Seattle, WA
Erik Assadourian
Research Associate, Worldwatch Institute, Washington DC
Elizabeth Barbour, M.Ed.
Life & Business Coach Asheville, NC.
Ed Begley Jr.
Film and Television Actor, Environmental Activist, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Belk
Manager, Belk Department Store, Mt. Airy, NC
Les Blomberg
Executive Director, Noise Pollution Clearinghouse, Montpelier, VT
Max Carter, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
Nathan Dungan
President & Founder, Share Save Spend, LLC, Minneapolis, MN
Alisa Gravitz
Executive Director, Co-op America, Washington, DC
Carol Holst
Co-Director, Simple Living America, Los Angeles, CA
George Hornik
Program Manager, Minnesota International Center-A World Affairs Council Minneapolis, MN
Melvin N. Johnson, D.B.A.
President, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
Stan King, M.B.A.
Chairman, Simplicity Forum, Santa Clara, CA
Frances Moore Lappe
Author, Activist, Co-Founder, The Small Planet Institute, Author, Cambridge, MA
Brett Olson
Creative Director, Renewing the Countryside, St. Paul, MN
Wenda O'Reilly, Ph.D.
President, Birdcage Press, Palo Alto, CA
Dale Pollock
Faculty, North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
Burke Robertson
Real Estate Developer, Community Leader, Mount Airy, NC
Juliet Schor, Ph.D.
Faculty, Boston College, Author, Boston, MA
Van W. Shields
Director & CEO of the Culture & Heritage Museums, Rock Hill, SC
Reginal Smith
President, Speaking Smart, Herndon, VA
Sarah Susanka
Architect & Author, Raleigh, NC
Richard A Swenson, M.D.
Physician, Author, Futurist, Menomonie, WI
Kathy Treanor
Senior CEO, Piedmont Land Conservancy, Greensboro, NC
Ann L. Vaughn, Ed.D
Executive Director, Gilmer-Smith Foundation, Mount Airy, NC www.visitmountairy.com
John E. Wear, Jr., Ph.D.
Director, Catawba College Center for the Environment, Salisbury, NC
Katherine Stern Weaver
President, Residence Development Company, Greensboro, NC
Pat Gwyn Woltz
Artist, Civic Leader, Mount Airy, NC