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Jerry Mander (bio | email) Distinguished Fellow, and Director of the Asia-Pacific Program	Victor Menotti (bio | email) Executive Director	Anjulie Palta (bio | email) Communications & Office Manager

2013 Interns

Michael Pineschi (bio | email)	Taylor Holmes (bio | email)

IFG Scholars

Oronto Douglas (bio | email) Africa Scholar	Dale Wen (bio | email) IFG China Scholar

2009-2011 Staff Transitions

Laura Delman
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Administrative Assistant

Claire Greensfelder (email)
Consultant, Land is Life
Coordinator, Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change

Alexis Halbert
VP of the Chamber of Commerce
Paonia, Colorado

Yeshica Weerasekera
Program Officer, International Development Exchange

Katie Damasco
Blue Sky Consulting

Employment and Internship Opportunities

Internship Positions Available

Communications Intern

Basic Function:

Provides program assistance and administrative support for the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) Communications Department.
Current priorities include updating IFG's website, Facebook, and YouTube Channel pages; drafting and sending email blasts and press releases; outreach and networking; and publication production support.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Communications:
* Updates IFG's website, Facebook, and YouTube Channel pages.
* Builds and maintains contacts in FileMaker Pro 7 database.
* Designs graphics and layouts for web, print and social media.
* Monitors and posts current events and news.

Administrative Support:
* Copy, edits and proofread.
* Develops and maintains spreadsheets and databases.
* Prepares and sends mass mailings.

Preferred experience in:  Microsoft Office, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WordPress

To apply for this internship, please submit a cover letter and resume to: apalta@ifg.org

Research Associate

Basic Function: Provides research support and analysis for IFG programs and ongoing data compiling and updating.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities: 

* Compiles and analyzes original research.
* Develops and maintains data tracking spreadsheets and Google Docs.
* Develops research summaries complete with sources and desired formatting. 
* Updates and tracks available data on NYTimes API and The FEC for IFG use.

Preferred experience in: Microsoft Office, Google Docs

To apply for this internship, please submit a cover letter and resume to: apalta@ifg.org

Design Intern

Basic Function: To assist IFG with design needs related to the website, printed materials and online media campaigns.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

* Design materials for print and distribution. 
*Assist with layout and construction of website. 
*Develop media for IFG and partner organizations' online networks (Memes, Pictographs, Images).

Preferred experience in: Dreamweaver 8, Photoshop, Adobe InDesign

To apply for this internship, please submit a cover letter and resume to: apalta@ifg.org

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, Distinguished Fellow, and Director of the Asia-Pacific Program (email) IFG’s Founder and Former Director, led IFG through its first 14 years and currently serves as Distinguished Fellow for Long Range and Strategic Planning. 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, his latest, The Capitalism Papers, as well as the best sellers, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred, others include, The Case Against the Global Economy And For a Turn Toward the Local, co-edited with Edward Goldsmith, Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible, and, Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization. NY Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin called Mander “The patriarch of the anti-globalization movement,” and Resurgence Magazine (UK) called Mander “One of the 100 leading visionaries of the 20th Century.”

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.

Intern Biographies

Taylor Holmes (email) joined IFG's research team in January 2013. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor's degree at the University of San Francisco in International Studies with an emphasis in International Economics and European Studies.

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.