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Administration | Board of TrusteesBoard of Trustees 2009Janet Berglund Berglund began her journey with Antioch as an undergraduate, earning her B.A. in 2001 and her master's in psychology in 2005. She has shown a relentless commitment to the learning community here ever since. Berglund previously served on the Antioch Seattle Board of Visitors and has been an active supporter of the Horace Mann Awards event. She established a scholarship to support single moms who want to complete their educational goals at Antioch. Because Antioch has changed her life, Berglund is delighted to be part of Seattle's inaugural board of trustees so she can give back to the community that has given her so much. Berglund and her husband Anders have five children and two grandchildren. Richard Conlin Conlin's accomplishments include successfully moving 37 neighborhood plans through Council approval as the chair of the Neighborhoods, Sustainability, and Community Development Committee. As chair of the Transportation Committee, he worked on implementing the region's plan for improved transit, developing new funding sources for transportation maintenance, and supporting pedestrian and bicycle improvements to reduce dependence on the automobile. He currently chairs the Environment, Emergency Management, and Utilities Committee, which oversees solid waste, water, drainage and sewer utilities, emergency management programs, and a wide array of environmental initiatives. In 2007, Conlin launched the Zero Waste Strategy (ZWS) in order to significantly increase Seattle's recycling rate and improve waste prevention programs. Last year, he also launched the Local Food Initiative to increase Seattle's access to nutritional foods, reduce costs for farmers bringing their produce to markets in Seattle, and strengthen the security of our food supply. He has also been instrumental in launching new committees on Open Government and Economic Recovery. Prior to his City Council service, Conlin was director of the Community and Environment Division at Metrocenter YMCA from 1985 to 1996. He led the Seattle YMCA Earth Service Corps, supporting youth development through environmental education and action, and the Master Home Environmentalist program. Conlin also co-founded Sustainable Seattle in 1989. Conlin and his wife, Sue Ann Allen, have lived in Madrona since 1982. They have three adult children. Anil Coumar Coumar was born in Kerala, a state renowned for its natural beauty, on the west coast of South India. He received his bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery from Madras University in India. He completed one year of psychiatry residency in Pondicherry before moving to London. While employed at a teaching hospital in North London, he completed a three-year training in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy. Upon moving to the U.S. in 1992, Coumar enrolled at Antioch University Seattle, graduating with a master's degree in psychology in 1994. He chose to pursue his master's degree at Antioch because of its process for granting credit for documented life experience. Coumar is a 2003 AUS Distinguished Alumni Award winner. He was also honored for outstanding work as a trainer by the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1996. Coumar has served on the AUS Continuing Education Advisory Board since 2007. Currently, Coumar does volunteer work with Byron Katie and is involved with developing her work into a psychological intervention called Inquiry Based Stress Reduction® (IBSR). He describes his vision for the future as helping to end human psychological suffering and pursuing his main interest: promoting mental well-being. Previously, he served as board member for the Northwest Vipassana Foundation and as volunteer/trainer for Seattle Crisis Clinic. Coumar is attracted to serving on the board of trustees for Antioch University Seattle because of his very deep respect and love for what he sees as Antioch's values – "a non-traditional, bold, inclusive institution that focuses on education that is truly transformative." He says that he is "excited about this opportunity to be associated with an educational institution like Antioch that stands for social change." Coumar resides in Seattle with his wife Arlyce and 14-year-old son Arun. Steve Crandall Crandall is managing director of ProMotion Arts, LLC, a full-spectrum new-media company he founded in Seattle, Washington. He works with clients such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Vonage, General Mills, Hilti and the State of Washington to deliver new-media solutions and accessible communications via the web and traditional media. Through Premiere Realtime, the legal services division of ProMotion Arts, Crandall offers expertise on the use of technology in litigation support and at trial and has worked on a number of high profile cases including the September 11th litigation, Exxon Valdez, and City of Seattle v. Professional Basketball Club. Crandall's previous experience as CEO of a multinational consulting firm providing marketing and client servicing to some of the world's leading firms—such as Chase Manhattan, Wells Fargo, Grady White Boats, Kleinwort Benson U.K. and the Government of Singapore—combined with his knowledge of technology, makes him a natural and strategically powerful business partner. Crandall is a guest faculty member at the Art Institute of Seattle and has guest lectured in digital media at the University of Washington. He serves on the Program Advisory Committees for both the Art Institute Video Production program and the Green River Community College Court Reporting and Captioning program. Crandall earned his juris doctorate from Seattle University School of Law, his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Washington, and an Associate of Applied Arts in Video Production from the Art Institute of Seattle. He holds a number of professional certifications and has received many awards and professional recognitions, including the Greater Seattle Business Association Business Man of the Year. As an "army brat" who grew up all over the world, Crandall's exposure to a variety of cultures and lifestyles helped to shape his truly global perspective. He is passionate about diversity, inclusion and accessibility, values that he shares with Antioch. Alejandro Di-Tolla Previously, Di-Tolla handled Oracle Alliance Program's international accounts at PennWell Corporation, and he worked as a project manager at BDO Seidman, LLP. He also served as director of business development for a pre-IPO technology firm, TranSenda International, LLC. Additionally, he served as an adjunct professor at the University of Lima, where he taught information technology. Di-Tolla sits on the board of LARF, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to rural areas in undeveloped countries. He has served as a board member for the Washington State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (WSHCC) to promote economic development and community leadership opportunities. He's an active supporter of Doctors Without Borders as well as The International Community School in Kirkland, where his wife Diane teaches Spanish. Regionally, the arts community and social justice causes benefit greatly from Di-Tolla's philanthropic efforts as a Seattle Rotarian. Di-Tolla earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de Lima in Peru and his M.B.A. from Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics. He graduated with honors and is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma honors society for business and management. He is also a graduate of the University of Washington's Technical Communication Certificate program. Di-Tolla's commitment to Antioch University Seattle began when he served on the board of visitors, volunteering as its chair in 2007-08. He says he was drawn to Antioch because his experience and travels allow him to witness the great difference that learning and analytical thinking can make in a person's life and in the pursuit of true social justice, two areas critical to the mission of Antioch. Ken Friedman, Chair Since 1999, Friedman has been a partner with Friedman, Rubin & White, with law offices in Bremerton, Washington and Anchorage, Alaska. Friedman has appeared on behalf of plaintiffs in courts in Hawaii, Arizona, California, Nevada, Montana, South Dakota, Washington and Alaska. He has successfully tried cases involving claims of sexual harassment, defamation, personal injury, police misconduct and insurance bad faith. He is a member of the American Association for Justice and is an Eagle member of the Washington State Association for Justice. A 1983 graduate of Antioch College where he earned his B.A. in History, Friedman's family has a long history with Antioch. His father Stan, '53, his mother Roberta, '54, and his two brothers Richard, '76, and Jeffrey, '81, are all graduates of Antioch College. Friedman received his J.D. from New York University School of Law. He served on the Antioch University Seattle Board of Visitors from 2005 to 2008 and on the University's Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2009. Charles A. Heinrich Previously, Heinrich served as senior consultant and shareholder for Management Actions Programs, Inc., a firm dedicated to building client performance, productivity and professional management skills. These intensive programs focused client competencies in communicating, planning (including setting and achieving goals), organizing, staffing and assuring performance with leaders from more than 150 organizations representing large and small business, not-for-profit organizations, education and government. At age 28, he was the youngest person ever to head a major office of McCann-Erickson Worldwide. He served as senior vice president and managing director of the Seattle and Portland operations for this leading global marketing and communications agency headquartered in New York City. Heinrich's role was to analyze strategy for communication campaigns, lead client services, manage organization P & L, recruit and position staff to succeed, and lead numerous change initiatives. Heinrich is committed to community and consistently gives back to the causes that are important to him. He was the national president of Camp Fire Boys and Girls, Inc. where he received the Wohelo Award. He earned the Will Ross Medal while serving as the national board chair for the American Lung Association. Heinrich also has been named an Honorary Lifetime member of the American Thoracic Society where he served on the national board. The local community benefited from his incredible leadership when he served on the board and executive committee of the United Way of King County, where he won several national awards for materials he developed there. Heinrich is a past member of Seattle Rotary and an avid supporter of the American Cancer Society. A lifelong learner himself, Heinrich was drawn to Antioch's board because of his shared vision for growth at Antioch Seattle and his desire to see Antioch become better known and understood for the values it embraces and teaches. He says he believes diversity should be fostered and achieved in all its aspects, especially in the area of education and learning. Because Heinrich cares about well-conceived and committed action, he says he looks forward to working with the entire Antioch Seattle leadership team to clearly state intentions, robustly discuss issues and lead decisions and actions for the good of the campus. Heinrich earned his B.S. in Business as well as an M.B.A. from San Jose State University. Heinrich and his wife Karen have two children and four grandchildren. Paula M. Kinney Kinney is a national and international adviser and consultant working with schools throughout the United States, Japan and Korea. Her scholarship and research focuses on how schools and organizations are impacted or influenced by race, ethnicity, social and economic factors. Her primary concentration has been on equity and excellence in education, business and society. Prior to her current position as director of Park Academy, a school serving students with dyslexia, she was a School Change coach with an outstanding non-profit organization, E3: Employers for Education Excellence, respected for a number of its initiatives, one of which was Oregon Small Schools, funded by the Meyer Memorial Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She has served and continues to serve on numerous boards, both statewide and nationally. She has been actively involved in her community, with her interest and passion being in education and health . Kinney received her B.A. from Yankton College (S.D.), her M.A. in Psychology from Antioch University Seattle, and Ed.D from Lewis & Clark College. She has been married to her husband, Dan, for 37 years; they have two adult daughters and one grandson. Anna Liotta Prior to founding Resultance, Inc., Liotta coached the employees of world famous Pike Place Fish during her membership in the premiere business consulting team, BizFutures Consulting. The work of the BizFutures team resulted in the best-selling books, Fish! and Fish Sticks! Liotta is an award-winning speaker who has presented at the International Rotary Conference, Best of Organizational Development Summit, Institute for the Development of Educational Activities, eWomen Networks and The Idea Conference, where she was ranked at first place among 400 of her peers. The Puget Sound Business Journal honored her in 2003 as one of the region's "Top 40 Under 40." Liotta is president of NW Next and serves on the board of First Tee of Greater Seattle, Columbia Tower Club, Executive Women International and the National Speakers Association Northwest. She also has worked with the board of the Seattle Jr. Golf Foundation and is past president of Women Taking A Swing At Cancer. Liotta holds a master's degree in Interpersonal Communication from the University of Washington. She was a member of the UW faculty for four years, leading continuing education courses for more than eight years in self-expression, leadership and effective communications. Currently an adjunct faculty member in the University of Washington's Executive M.B.A. program, Liotta also teaches at the premiere Executive Women International Leadership Academy and is a co-facilitator for Leadership Eastside. Sean Maloney Maloney began his practice as a licensed mental health counselor and later joined Pediatric Interim Care Services, an outreach program of Catholic Community Services of Western Washington (CCSWW). Maloney oversaw a program that gives training and support to foster families with drug-exposed infants. In this capacity, Maloney also worked with biological families to provide access to recovery support and community linkages that foster lasting reunification and healthy family development. Director of clinical training at CCSWW since 2001, Maloney offers coaching to CCS staff and volunteers whose community connections and training empower survivors to become more functional community members. Maloney was a founding board member of Mi Casa, an agency that finds low-income housing for families. A change agent at the legislative level, he was one of the original members of the Child Welfare Advocacy Coalition and has served on the DSHS Regional Advisory Council for Region Five. As a former member of the board of directors of Children's Alliance, Maloney lobbies for fairness in foster care, nutrition, health care and early learning opportunities for all of Washington's children. He is a former member of the Antioch Seattle Board of Visitors. Maloney earned his master's degree in psychology from Antioch Seattle in 1987. Jim Moore Moore is a contributing editor to the Private Equity Review and the author of three "how-to" publications on venture development investment. A co-founder of Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) Early Stage Investment Forum, Moore is a frequent speaker on business strategy, business plans, raising private equity capital and nanotechnology. Moore was a long-time board member of NWEN's predecessor organization, the Northwest Venture Group, the region's largest organization dedicated to assisting entrepreneurial ventures toward success. Earning a B.A. in Engineering and Applied Physics from Harvard University, he then joined the Peace Corps to assist Nepali villagers to complete road construction in the eastern hills. He created a development plan for the Kathmandu Valley which included tourism, housing, transportation and urban service components. Following three years in Nepal, he returned to Harvard to complete his master's degrees in Business Administration and Regional Planning. He is past president of the Harvard Business School Club of Puget Sound, a founding board member of Water 1st International, and a board member of the Institute for Learning and Brain Science at the University of Washington. Moore is also past VP for Service at Rotary Club of Seattle and past chair of its International Service Committee. Moore has been honored with Rotary International's "Service Above Self" award for his work on international projects; the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs "Peace Corps Masters International Service and Leadership Award," and Harvard Business School's Meritorious Service Award. He and his wife Kristi Branch have two children and one grandchild. They have also hosted eight children from Norway, Uzbekistan, China, Georgia and Thailand who lived with them for a year or more, whom they consider to be "just like our own kids." Moore says that "Kristi and I have a passion for reducing poverty in our community and abroad. We also have a strong affinity for educational endeavors that create better world citizens and open opportunities for worthy students." That is why he was drawn to Antioch: the opportunity to assist a viable, local institution of higher learning that is growing to meet the needs of a larger population throughout our region. Mauri Moore Prior to her career in public service, Moore was an internationally recognized news producer and manager, living and working in various countries around the world for more than thirty years. As NBC Bureau Chief in Tel Aviv, Israel, she achieved what had never been done before: live broadcasts from Jerusalem's Old City. She became a specialist in war zones, trouble spots, disasters, uprisings and protests. She has driven roads mined with explosives, been hit with stones, shelled by rocket launchers, sprayed with high-powered water cannons, tear-gassed, stalked, phone-tapped and threatened. She says she believes journalism is a public trust, thus she felt an obligation to deliver fair, honest, complete reporting. Her passion for the integrity of that public trust stayed with her beyond her years in journalism. Moore is the 2004 Distinguished Alumna at Antioch University Seattle and has been a strong supporter of Antioch Seattle since graduation from the B.A. program. She has also supervised programs for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and for the American International School in San Jose, Costa Rica. Moore says that we are living in revolutionary times and that warp speed changes are necessary in the education field. She feels that Antioch Seattle is poised to be at the forefront of that change, and that her experience at the two-year college level of governance will blend well with her service on the board of trustees. Moore resides in Edmonds with her husband Mark Shuler. They have three grown children, all of whom are college graduates. Eddie Pate Prior to joining Starbucks, Pate was a director on Microsoft's global diversity and inclusion team and was responsible for overseeing the implementation of Microsoft's internal diversity and inclusion initiative globally, including leadership accountability, strategy integration, and training and education efforts. Pate was also the diversity manager for Microsoft's Enterprise and Partner group, where he was responsible for driving all aspects of diversity and inclusion into that 700-person global business group. Pate earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in sociology, specializing in comparative race and ethnic relations/stratification and social psychology. Pate also holds a B.A. in Wildlife Management and an M.A. in Sociology from Humboldt State University. Before going to graduate school and working in corporate America, Pate served as the assistant director of admissions and school relations at Humboldt State University. He also had a short stint in the NFL, but severe knee injuries cut his career short. He has been married for 21 years to Valeri and they have two children, Karley (16) and Arthur (10). Eddie spends his "second shift" as a dad-taxi, getting his kids to sporting events and various activities, as well as coaching, managing and planning activities for sports teams. Michael E. Sotelo In addition to his career in the construction and workers' compensation fields, Sotelo works tirelessly with the Latino community. He was instrumental in unifying the Hispanic Chambers of Commerce of Washington State and King County, creating the Association of Washington State Hispanic Chambers of Commerce where he currently serves as co-chair. Additionally, he assembled a team of local business leaders to found Plaza Bank, a community bank that serves local families and businesses within the Latino community and in the general public. Under his leadership, a series of shopping centers was created, beginning with La Plaza of North America in Kent, Washington. His goal with La Plaza is to project a positive, confident and accomplished image of the richness of the Mexican cultures in Washington state. Sotelo has enjoyed many accomplishments over the years, but he most enjoys his service to the community. He belongs to various community and business boards such as the Scoutreach Foundation board of the Chief Seattle Council, the UW Suppliers Diversity Team, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Urban Enterprise Center, the Washington Economic Development Commission and the community board of Regence Blue Shield among others. Sotelo was drawn to the Antioch Seattle Board of Trustees because he wants to work with the great people he has known for years at Antioch. He is especially excited by the prospect of enhancing educational opportunities for people of color at an institution like Antioch. This is a passion for Sotelo because he was raised by a single mom and immediately began working after high school. Sotelo wants to provide access for other young people to educational opportunities that he missed. Sotelo and his wife Lori have two sons, Joel and Nicholas. Deborah Wege Wege has an extensive background in international development through her certification and active involvement with the national Credit Union Development Education Program (CUDE). She has more than 25 years of experience developing and implementing community and educational strategies. Wege serves on numerous boards, including an advisory board for Seattle Public Schools and the newly formed board for Express Advantage, a credit union sponsored by the Medina Foundation that focuses on the underserved. In addition, Wege is an accomplished facilitator and speaker with both national and international experience. Wege shares Antioch's mission of a socially engaged citizenship who live lives of meaning and purpose. Her not-for-profit work mirrors Antioch's social justice focus and commitment to inclusiveness. Wege says she supports programs that welcome people of diverse backgrounds and viewpoints and that provide tools to positively impact society on any scale. Wege's extensive travels in the Philippines, Europe, Canada and South America give her a distinctive and thorough understanding of global issues and cultural practices. She and her partner Karen I. Simpson enjoy spending time with their two adorable Shar-Peis and a large extended family in the Pacific Northwest. |
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