Thanks for sharing, Mark.
I was in the process of reviewing those folks and appreciate you sharing that here. I am going to let the More In Common group know I praised their work in my blog.
Best,
G
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Subject: Re: Hidden Tribes/More in Common
Gregg:
Here's who's in involved --
Governance
More in Common currently has an Interim Advisory Board. A permanent Board of Directors will be established in autumn 2018. Our current Interim Board members consist of the following exceptional individuals
who bring strategic vision, technical expertise and a passion for More in Common's mission:
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Thorsten
Benner, Director, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin
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Sally
Osberg, former President, Skoll Foundation
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john
powell, Director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley
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Will
Somerville (Interim Advisory Board Chair), Program Director, Unbound Philanthropy
More in Common is registered as a company limited by guarantee with a non-profit object in the UK (Registration no 10900540); as an
Association de loi 1901 in France; as a 501(c)3 in the US. We are in the process of setting up a non-profit entity in Germany.
Thorsten Benner is co-founder and director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. His areas of interest include international organizations (focusing on the
United Nations), peace and security, data and technology politics, and the interplay of the US, Europe and non-Western powers in the making of global (dis)order. Prior to co-founding GPPi in 2003, he worked with the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin,
the UN Development Programme in New York, and the Global Public Policy Project in Washington, DC.
His commentary has appeared in DIE ZEIT, International New York Times, Financial
Times,Foreign Affairs, Handelsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others. His publications include The
New World of UN Peace Operations: Learning to Build Peace? (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Critical
Choices. The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global Governance (Ottawa, 2000).
Thorsten is an adjunct faculty member at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, where he has been involved since its founding in 2003. From 2011 to 2015, he worked with the
founding team of the School of Public Policy at Central European University. He is a board member of Make.Org
Foundation and a member of the advisory board of Zahnräder
Netzwerk, a platform for Muslim social entrepreneurs.
He studied political science, history, and sociology at the University of Siegen (Germany), the University of York (UK), and the University of California at Berkeley. From 2001
to 2003, he was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he received a master's degree in public administration. He received scholarships from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the German
National Academic Foundation.
Languages: German, English, French, Spanish
Sally Osberg
BIOGRAPHY
As the first President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg helped build it into the leading philanthropy in the field of social entrepreneurship. During
her tenure, the Foundation supported more than 100 entrepreneurial organizations driving equilibrium change on many of the world’s most pressing problems and developed innovative platforms for connecting civil society, government and private sector leaders
with societal problem solvers. Among these platforms are the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the Skoll Centre at Oxford University’s Said Business School, and the Sundance Institute’s “Stories of Change” initiative.
In 2015, Sally and Roger Martin published Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, which articulates a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship and distills lessons for practitioners, academics and impact investors. Her thought pieces
have appeared in leading social impact and business journals and books; in 2015, she and Roger Martin were honored by Thinkers 50 for their intellectual leadership in the field of social enterprise.
Prior to joining Jeff Skoll and the Skoll Foundation, Sally served as the founding Executive Director for Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, a pioneering institution in the field.
Sally currently serves as the Chair of the Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education in Africa) USA Foundation, on the Philanthropy Advisory Council of the Royal Bank of Canada, on the Advisory Council of the Elders, and as a board director of the Social Progress
Imperative and the Palestine-based Partners for Sustainable Development. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School of Oxford University.
She received her M.A. in English and American Literature from the Claremont Graduate School and her B.A. in English from Scripps College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Born in Boston, Sally grew up on the east coast but has spent most of her adult
life in California. She now lives outside Philadelphia, in Wayne, Pa., within walking distance of her two grandchildren.
john a. powell
john a. powell is
an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty, and democracy. john is the Director of the Haas
Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley, a research institute that brings together scholars, community advocates, communicators, and policymakers to identify
and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society and to create transformative change toward a more equitable world.
john holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion and is a Professor
of Law, African
American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Kirwan
Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University where he also held the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law.
john has written extensively on a number of issues including structural racism, racial justice, concentrated poverty, opportunity-based housing, voting rights, affirmative action
in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, and the needs of citizens in a democratic society. He is the author of several books, including his most recent work, Racing
to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society.
john also founded and directed the Institute
on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. He has also served as Director of Legal Services in Miami, Florida and was the National Legal Director of the American
Civil Liberties Union, where he was instrumental in developing educational adequacy theory.
john led the development of an “opportunity-based” model that connects affordable housing to education, health, health care, and employment and is well-known for his work developing
the frameworks of “targeted
universalism” and “othering
and belonging” to effect equity-based interventions.
john has lived and worked in Africa, where he was a consultant to the governments of Mozambique and South Africa, and has also worked in India and Brazil. He is one of the co-founders
of the Poverty
& Race Research Action Council and serves on the board of several national and international organizations. john has taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia University.
Will Somerville
UK Senior Fellow
Will Somerville joined the Migration Policy Institute as a Senior Policy Analyst in 2006, and is now UK Senior Fellow. He is also the Program Director for Unbound Philanthropy (UK) and
Visiting Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield.
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Prior to joining MPI, Mr. Somerville worked at the Commission for Racial Equality, the UK's Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office, and the Institute for Public Policy Research
(IPPR). He has authored more than 60 policy papers, chapters, and journal articles. His most recent book is Immigration
under New Labour (2007, Policy Press).
He holds a master’s degree (with distinction) in social policy from the London School of Economics.
Mark
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