Martha Belcher
Vice President for
Customer Care, Sungevity
Brent Blackwelder
President Emeritus, Friends of the Earth
André Carothers
Independent Consultant, Senior Strategist at The Madera Group, Senior Fellow at the Rockwood Leadership Institute
Robert Hass (Honorary) Poet; Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley
Leslie Leslie
Grant Director, Fred Gellert Family Foundation
Marcia McNally (Co-chair)
Associate Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning; Partner, Community Development by Design
Carlos E. Mejia Independent Consultant on International Humanitarian Issues
Sarah Minick
Stormwater Planner, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Milan Momirov
Entrepreneur and investor
Deborah Moore (Co-chair)
Executive Director, Green Schools Initiative
Cymie Payne Lecturer, University
of California at Berkeley,
School of Law
David N. Pellow
Professor and Martindale Chair of Sociology, University of Minnesota
International Rivers also has Advisory Board members based in the US
and worldwide. Periodically they are called upon by International
Rivers’ Board and staff to provide advice in their areas of expertise.
They do not receive financial compensation from International Rivers in
their roles as Advisory Board members.
International Advisory Board
Célio Bermann
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Lila Buckley Environmental Change Institure, Oxford University, UK
Joan Carling
Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Philippines
Gustavo Castro Soto
Otros Mundos Chiapas, Mexico
Nga Dao
Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development, Vietnam
Shripad Dharmadhikary
Manthan Resource Centre, India
Philip Fearnside
National Institute for Research in the Amazon, Brazil
Liane Greeff
Writer/Photgrapher; African Rivers Network, South African Water Caucus, South Africa
Nicholas Hildyard
The Corner House, England
Naeem Iqbal
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Pakistan
Frank Muramuzi
National Association of Professional Environmentalists, Uganda
Astrid Puentes
Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense, Mexico/Colombia
Lúcia Schild Ortiz
Friends of the Earth, Brazil
Himanshu Thakkar
South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People, India
US Advisory Board
Dan Beard
Chief Administrative Officer, US House of Representatives
Patricia W. Chang
CEO, Feed The Hunger Foundation
Gigi Coe
Board President, The Bay School of San Francisco
Peter Coyote
Actor and writer
Christina L. Desser
Fellow, Tomales Bay Institute
Huey D. Johnson
Founder and President, Resource Renewal Institute
Barbara Rose Johnston
Center for Political Ecology; Professor, Michigan State University
Dorka Keehn
Commissioner, Commission of the Status of Women for the City and County of San Francisco; Chair, San Francisco’s Justice and Courage Domestic Violence Panel
Lauren Klein Hayes
WELL Network
Nion McEvoy
Chairman and CEO, Chronicle Books
Sylvia McLaughlin
Conservationist; Co-founder and former president and board member of Save the Bay
Juliette Majot
Activist; non-profit consultant; former Executive Director, International Rivers
Mutombo Mpanya
Professor of international environmental studies; Director of the Science and Humanities Integration Project, Sonoma State
Mayumi Oda
Artist; Co-founder, INOCHI and Plutonium Free Future organizations
Drummond Pike
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tides Network
Brian Smith
Partner, Goodwin Proctor LLP
Gary Snyder
Poet; Professor Emeritus, University of California at Davis
Paul Strasburg
Activist, farmer. Former Chair, International Rivers Board of Directors
Lara Truppelli
Chair, Ocean Beach Vision Council, City and County of San Francisco; Co-founder and proprietor, San Francisco's Beach Chalet Brewery & Restaurant and Park Chalet Garden Restaurant
