Potential advisers/contributors per suggestions by Nina Roberts

Iantha Gantt-Wright, Founder & President, The Kenian Group

www.keniangroup.com/aboutiantha.html

www.sierrasummit2005.org/interviews/ganttwright_text.asp (An interview, entitled Breaking Down Walls)

Iantha Gantt-Wright has worked on diversity issues in the environmental movement over the past two decades. She provides consulting, training, and facilitation services to organizations who seek skills and tools necessary to diversify their programs, memberships, constituents, workforces, boards and advocates.

Charles Jordan, Chairman, Board of Directors, The Conservation Fund

www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200409/20040906.html# (Interview with Tavis Smiley)

www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=858

Charles Jordan is one of the first African-Americans to chair a national conservation organization, The Conservation Fund. He is the former Director of the City of Portland, OR, Parks and Recreation Department.

Angela Park, Founder & Director, Diversity Matters

www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/fellows/2004fellows.html#Angela

Angela Park is a consultant to nonprofits, companies, foundations, and educational institutions and aims to make diversity and inclusion foundational assets of environmental and social change leaders and organizations.

Robert G. Stanton, Private Consultant & former Director, National Park Service

http://www.rpts.tamu.edu/aapra/Stanton.htm

Bob Stanton, is a former Director of the National Park Service, past consultant to the Natural Resources Council of America and Ambassador to the International Steering Committee of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas in support of the Fifth World Congress of National Parks in Durban, South Africa (2003). He is also a Research Affiliate in the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies where in 2002 he served as a McCluskey Visiting Fellow for Conservation. A lifelong conservationist and an experienced public administrator, Stanton was the first African-American to be appointed as the Director of the National Park Service.

Dorceta Taylor, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment & Program Director, Minorities Environmental Leadership Development Initiative

http://www.snre.umich.edu/profile/dorceta

www.yale.edu/yibs/taylor.html

Dorceta Taylor has worked on diversity issues in the environmental field for the past two decades. Her research interests include social movements, environmental justice, leisure and natural resource use, poverty and urban issues, and race, gender and ethnic relations.

Marcelo Bonta, Founder and Director, The Center for Diversity and the Environment
http://www.environmentaldiversity.org/index.html
Marcelo speaks and writes passionately about his broad vision of diversifying the environmental movement to audiences around the U.S. He is the founder of the Young Environmental Professionals of Color and the Center for Diversity & the Environment, where he works with environmental institutions to strategically diversify their operations. Marcelo serves on the Portland/Multnomah Sustainable Development Commission, Orion Grassroots Network Advisory Board, the Land Trust Alliance Diversity Task Force, and the Diverse Partners for Environmental Progress National Council. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program. His work has been featured in The Oregonian, Colors NW, and homes+gardens northwest magazine.