Board of Directors and Officers
Christopher Phillips, PhD, Founder/Executive Director
Cecilia Chapa Phillips, MEd, Secretary/Treasurer
Dennis Dienst, Board Chair, MSSCM, CPSM, CPIM Senior Category Manager, Printed Circuit Board Assemblies, TSI Incorporated
Linda Pierce, MBA, Performance Management Group, Virginia Commonwealth University
Advisory Board
Honorary Board Member, Dr. Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University
Paul Martin, Chief Investment Officer, Martin Capital Advisors, LLP
Harlynn Duecy, Public Relations Strategist, Microsoft Corp
Danielle Olson, MFA, Visual Strategist, DROdesign, Communications and Content Manager, Hatch Innovation
Paul Stahl, Director of Government Sales, DynaTouch Corporation; Chair, San Antonio Public Library Board of Trustees
Suhail Arastu, Board of Trustees, Mind Science Foundation; Director of Development, Musical Bridges Around the World
Jorge Lopez Campos, Entrepreneur, Mexico City
Rob Horn, Analyst,U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, MA, Public Policy and Citizen Participation, Tufts
T.J. Mayes, Attorney, San Antonio
Sam Fairchild, CEO, Estrella Group
Peter Schoonmaker, PhD, Founding Chair, MFA Program in Collaborative Design, Pacific Northwest College of Art; Founder and ED, Illahee
Anthoula Katsimatides, actor, board member of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum
Andrew Murphy, Dept. of Political Science, Rutgers University
Shirley Strum Kenny, PhD, Retired President, Stony Brook University
Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law and Leadership, Pro-Democracy Activist, Harvard Law School
Ralph Lewin, Executive Director, Peter E. Haas Junior Family Fund, Former Executive Director, Mechanics’ Institute, Past President and CEO, Cal Humanities
Thaddeus Russell, PhD, historian, scholar, essayist, author of ‘A Renegade History of the United States’
Odin Hartshorn Halvorson — writer, filmmaker, philosopher, geek
Charles Massiatte, BA, cum laude, Harvard University, School of Extension Studies; Founder, Young Scholars of Texas, Associate, Martin Capital Advisors (MartinCapital.com)
Omar Akhil, Founder of Brainiac, Owner of Vaulkshire Investment Advisors
Brian Austin, Captain of Investigative Services Section and Deputy SWAT Commander, Founder of Cops for Labor, Madison, WI
Stewart Harris, Professor of Law, Host, ‘Your Weekly Constitutional’
David Blacker, PhD, Professor of Philosophy of Education and Legal Studies, University of Delaware
Stephen Duncombe, PhD, Professor, Gallatin School and Dept. of Media, Culture and Communications, NYU