Board
Catherine Seo (President) — Catherine is an organizational development
consultant and president of Synergistic Solutions, a consortium supporting both for-profit
and non-profit organizations dealing with turbulence, change, and crisis impacting the workplace.
Her background is in communications and systems thinking, as well computer programming and systems analysis. She is based in Cambridge, MA.
Rob Kanzer (Vice President) — Since 1981, Rob has been in business
as an entrepreneur, executive coach, certified mediator, and crisis intervention counselor. Rob coaches global executives, facilitates difficult meetings, and trains people in government. Rob is
president of both the Portsmouth and Cambridge Coaching Collaboratives. He lives in York, Maine and
is a certified personal trainer.
Peter Kent (Treasurer) — Peter worked as a financial analyst and program
manager for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and was Treasurer of Threshold Foundation. He currently serves on the steering committee for the Working Group on Funding Media of
National Network of Grantmakers. He was a founder and Board member of Takoma Village Cohousing in
D.C., where he lives now with his wife Sharon.
Jason Franklin (Board Member) — Jason Franklin has a background in urban cultural and community development, social justice organizing and philanthropy, public education reform, and nonprofit strategy and management. He is Deputy Director of the 21st Century School Fund and a Lecturer on Public Administration and Doctoral Candidate at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He previously managed the Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Leadership Network, housed at the Research Center for Leadership in Action, and has also worked for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, White House Office of National AIDS Policy, Aspen Institute, and Oregon Commission on Children and Families. He co-founded Oregon Students Supporting Education (a student organizing effort to prevent major budget cuts to Oregon public schools), the Multnomah Youth Commission (a youth-led agency that advises city and county leaders on program and policy decisions), and IAM LLC (an urban brownfield development planning firm that won the 2004 Goldman Sachs Global Social Venture Competition). He serves on the boards of directors of the North Star Fund (Treasurer), Zing Foundation, and Resource Generation (Co-Chair), and as a member of the Council on Foundation’s Next Generation Advisory Committee. He has an MS in Urban Policy and Nonprofit Management from the New School's Milano Graduate School and a BA in Political Communication from the George Washington University.
Christopher Ellinger (Secretary-Treasurer) — see bio on staff page.