Governing Board
Marjorie Craig Benton
Cofounder of the Peace Museum in Chicago and the Chicago Foundation for Women, Benton has served as a public delegate to the United Nations, a delegate to the Special Session on Disarmament, and U.S. ambassador to UNICEF. She also has co-chaired Americans for SALT and worked as a special adviser to the United Nations Disarmament Commission.
Michael Bierut
A partner at the renown design firm Pentagram, Bierut currently serves as a director of the Architectural League of New York and New Yorkers for Parks. The former president of the New York Chapter American Institute of Graphic Arts, he has won hundreds of design awards and his work is represented in several permanent collections.
Cathryn Cronin Cranston
The former publisher of Harvard Business Review, Cranston is a senior media executive with expertise in sales and marketing, premium content, and digital distribution. She serves on the Board of Directors of American Media, Inc., the media advisory board of Clickability, and the advisory board of HerCampus.com, a digital magazine launched by four Harvard undergraduates.
Robert Finkel
Finkel is the president of Prism Capital, where he has recruited and coordinated two investment teams and overseen equity fund deployment into 14 portfolio companies and mezzanine fund deployment into 20 companies. Currently, he serves on the boards of Artromick and SterilMed; he is the founder of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, from which he received the prestigious Fellows Award.
Lee Francis (Vice-Chair)
An internist and CEO at Erie Family Health Center, Francis is clinical instructor of internal medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. He is a past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), a national organization dedicated to the prevention of violence and nuclear war, and continues to serve on its Board of Directors.
Seth Grae
Grae is president of Thorium Power, which develops and tests nuclear fuel technology to enhance proliferation resistance and dispose plutonium. His efforts at Thorium Power have resulted in it becoming one of the first Western companies to contract with Russian nuclear institutes, along with becoming an early grant recipient from the Energy Department for nonproliferation-related work in Russia. Thorium Power also provides advisory services to governments seeking to establish new nuclear power programs that meet the highest of international standards.
Jay Harris
Harris is the publisher of Mother Jones and chief executive officer of Mother Jones' nonprofit parent, the Foundation for National Progress. Previously, he worked as general manager of Newsweek's Pacific edition in Hong Kong and as director of special projects for Newsweek International. He holds a Masters in management from the Yale School of Management.
Robert Lipman
A founder of Lipman Hearne, Lipman is a leading expert in conceiving and guiding marketing and communication programs in support of major fundraising campaigns for nonprofit organizations. He has provided leadership for identity and public visibility programs and led the development of public information and advocacy campaigns for the University of Chicago and the RAND Corporation.
Blythe J. McGarvie
McGarvie is the president and founder of Leadership for International Finance, a company that offers a global perspective for clients to achieve profitable growth and provides leadership seminars for corporate and academic groups. She authored the book, Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor--The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life.
William Revelle (Chair)
An American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow, Revelle directs the personality program in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. Formerly, he served on the Federation of American Scientists' Board of Directors. He is chairman of the board of Calcomco, a small information company that publishes the San Diego Daily Transcript and Columbus Business Journal.
Harold Richman
The Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor of Social Welfare Policy Emeritus in the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration and College, Richman was the university’s founding director of the Chapin Hall Center for Children, where he currently is a research fellow. Previously, he has served as the founding director of the university’s public policy studies program.
Lowell Sachnoff (Secretary & Treasurer)
Sachnoff is a lawyer at Reed Smith. Previously, he served as founding partner at Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd, where he represented individual and business clients in complex litigation and business matters. He possesses a strong commitment to pro bono work, active as a board member of the Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Arms Control and Lawyers Alliance for World Security.
Joan Shapiro
A banker with community investment expertise, Shapiro is a pioneer in socially responsible investing. As president of the Social Investment Forum, her work was nationally recognized. Previously, she worked as an executive vice president of ShoreBank Corp.
Joan Winstein
Winstein is CEO of Loan Strategies, Inc., a bank consulting practice, and a consultant for FSVC, an arm of USAID, advising banks in developing countries. Previously, Winstein served as a vice president and credit officer for Midwest corporate banking relationships at First Chicago (now JP Morgan Chase); and a relationship manager for coal, gas, electric, and nuclear utility clients at Bank of America.
