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About the IFG |
IFG History |
IFG Board of Directors |
IFG Staff
IFG STAFF
IFG Scholars
2011 - 2012 Interns
2009-2011 Staff Transitions Laura Delman Claire Greensfelder (email) Alexis Halbert Yeshica Weerasekera Katie Damasco
IFG
Board Announces Leadership Transition, March 2009 Employment and Internship Opportunities Communications Internship Positions AvailableBasic Function: To apply for the internship, please submit a cover letter and
resume to: Staff Biographies Full length bios available upon request. Victor Menotti, Executive Director (email) Victor Menotti was the IFG's first employee upon its founding in 1994 and in 2009 became its Executive Director. Victor has written and spoken extensively about the impact of globalization on ecosystems, and he has helped build international networks among the traditional farming, forest, fishing, and indigenous communities whose survival depends on them. He is the author of the IFG report, “Free Trade, Free Logging: How the World Trade Organization Undermines Global Forest Conservation,” “The Other Oil War: The Halliburton Agenda on WTO Energy Services,” the chapter “WTO and Native Sovereignty" in Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization, and, ”The WTO and Sustainable Fisheries” for the Institute for Fisheries Resources. Victor learned to speak Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and some Slovak, after earning his degree in International Relations from UCLA. Jerry Mander, Founder and Distinguished Fellow (email) In addition to his role at IFG, Jerry Mander is the former program director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, and is the former founder and executive director of the Public Media Center. Back in the 1960s Mander was president of a major San Francisco advertising company before turning his talents to environmental campaigns that kept dams out of the Grand Canyon, established Redwood National Park, and stopped production of the Supersonic Transport. His books include Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), In the Absence of the Sacred (1991), The Case Against the Global Economy And For a Turn Toward the Local, co-edited with Edward Goldsmith (1996), and Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Posssible. Eileen Hazel, Finance & Operations Manager (email) Eileen Hazel has been with IFG since June 2010. From 2004 - 2008, she was the Director of Finance and Operations at Changemakers, an organization working to transform the values and practice of philanthropy in order to assure a more equitable and accountable distribution of resources for creating positive social change. She was also the Business Manager at KPFA Radio, the flagship station of the progressive Pacifica Foundation. She earned her degree in International Relations from the University of Minnesota. In her spare time, she plays a lot of music. Anjulie Palta, Communications & Office Manager (email) Anjulie Palta has been with IFG since November 2011. She previously worked on equitable housing issues with several non-profit organizations in Minneapolis/St Paul and with EAH Housing in the Bay Area. Anjulie has traveled extensively in Asia and recently spent time in Central America where she volunteered and lived in an ex-guerilla coffee plantation community in Guatemala. There, she became involved in indigenous rights issues and women issues surrounding domestic violence and self-sufficiency. She received a BA in Urban Studies and Art with an emphasis in Social Justice from the University of Minnesota. Lilly Alvarez (email) is working with IFG’s Climate, Energy And Global Resource Crises program, focusing on the rights of indigenous peoples and forest conservation, and she has also been a supporting hand in IFG’s Plutonomy program. A graduate from UC Berkeley, Lilly earned double degrees, focusing on Music Composition and Global Environmental Politics. While at Berkeley, Lilly studied issues of globalization in Mexico and China and traveled to Kenya to study land and climate conflicts at Kenyatta University. Originally from Santa Barbara, Lilly is living in West Oakland and is currently involved in the organization efforts of the anti-cuts and public education movement at UC Berkeley. Scholar Biographies Oronto Douglas , Africa Scholar in Residence (email) Oronto Douglas is a leading human rights attorney in Nigeria, and served as one of the lawyers on the defense team for the Ogoni leader Ken Saro Wiwa, who was executed by Nigeria's military rulers in 1995. Douglas co- founded Africa's foremost environmental movement, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria and has served in the board of several non profit organisations within and outside Nigeria. Though he has been arrested and tortured by successive military regimes, he continues to work for and speak out on issues of social justice in a corporate- military state. He was the first Niger Delta activist to be hosted by a serving American President – he presented the Niger-Delta struggle at the White House to President Bill Clinton. Douglas who advises the Nigerian Vice President on strategic issues of community and the environment, is a fellow of both the George Bell Institute (England) and the International Forum on Globalisation (USA). Widely traveled, Douglas has presented papers in over 200 international conferences and has visited over 50 countries to speak and present on human rights and the environment. He is the author of several works including the ground breaking WHERE VULTURES FEAST, Shell and human rights in the Niger Delta which he co-authored with his friend Ike Okonta. Dale Wen, IFG China Scholar (email) Dale Wen is working with IFG on China and globalization issues. Coming from China in 1993, Dale got her PhD from California Institute of Technology and previously worked in the high-tech industry. Starting with voluntary work in rural China, she witnessed the plight of the rural community and began to question the top-down globalization model. Several of her papers regarding sustainable development and rural education have been presented in international conferences in China. Her primary interests are in environment, education and women’s issues. She also serves as an advisor for the Rural China Education Foundation. Intern Biographies Maxie Elizabeth Groh (email) attended Saint Ignatius College Prep in San Francisco. She graduated from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in 2010, with a B.S. in Ethnobotany and a Certificate in Latin American and Iberian Studies. While in college she was an NCAA water polo player, and also studied at the Universidad de Viña del Mar in Chile. She has recently returned from Zambia, where she was working with the Forestry Department on food security and environmental conservation projects as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She hopes to continue studying ethnobotany, post-colonial studies, migration, and human rights. |
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