Board members
New World Foundation leads by example. Our Board is made up of social justice practitioners, past and present grantees, movement thinkers and leaders.
The Board's finance committee includes non-Board members who bring financial expertise to the management of the foundations assets.
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BoardChairNsombi Lambright (Chair) is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Mississippi. She is the first African American to hold this position. Previously, she worked for Southern Echo, a training and education organization working to build strong grassroots leadership and organizations in Mississippi and throughout the southern region.
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BoardVice ChairMichael Leon Guerrero (Vice Chair) is the Coordinator of the national Grassroots Global Justice Alliance. For 17 years, he was with South West Organizing Project, organizing low-income communities in New Mexico and campaigns on environmental justice, corporate accountability and globalization. Michael serves on the Boards of National Jobs with Justice, and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network. He also serves on the International Council of the World Social Forum.
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BoardTreasurerDavid Neubert (Treasurer) has worked in international finance for over 15 years. He developed a methodology while trading index derivatives in Brazil that uses technology and quantitative methods to automate proprietary trading systems. Since leaving the corporate world in 2005, David has dedicated his energies to writing, teaching, and helping foundations understand investments. He also sits on the board of PS122 in New York City.
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BoardSecretaryMaria del Rosario Rodriguez (Secretary) is the founding Director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, an immigrant-led, statewide network that educates, organizes and advocates for the fair treatment of all people, including immigrants. For the past 20 years she has worked to defend the basic human rights of low income and migrant peoples. She also served as Deputy Director of the Human Services Coalition where she helped found a variety of groups including the Union of the Uninsured.
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BoardMemberAndrea van den Heever is President of the Connecticut Center for a New Economy, an organization spearheading a broad movement that includes community and faith organizations, civil rights groups, and labor unions. Andrea was a leader of a historic 10-week strike by Yale University’s clerical workers in the 80s. A South African by birth, she was also a leader of the anti-apartheid movement in Connecticut.
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BoardMemberBrenda Hyde is the Assistant Director of Southern Echo, a training and education organization working to build strong grassroots leadership and organizations in Mississippi and throughout the southern region.
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BoardMemberCharles S. Hey-Maestre is the Executive Director of Puerto Rico Legal Services Inc, the primary provider of legal representation and counsel for the 48% of Puerto Rico's population who fall below federal poverty levels. Hey-Maestre also sits on the Board of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
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BoardMemberFred Azcarate (Chair) has been a social movement leader for 20 years. For over 12 years he has been the Executive Director of Jobs with Justice, a national coalition campaign for workers' rights, social and economic justice. Jobs with Justice works with coalitions leading the fight on workers' rights, economic and social justice and global justice in more than 40 cities in the United States.
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BoardMemberJonathan Glionna is a Director and senior fixed income research analyst at Barclays Capital, where he is responsible for analyzing the U.S. banking industry. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Project STEP in Boston, a charitable organization that prepares talented music students of color to enter the profession of classical music.
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BoardMemberJulia Classen is co-founder of Aurora Consulting. She has been a leader on numerous nonprofit boards of directors for more than 30 years, serving organizations that are national, regional and local in scope. Currently, she serves as the chair of the board of directors of the Minneapolis Charities Review Council. She is an expert in a variety of arenas, including nonprofit governance, strategic management, and facilitation. She has conducted workshops and training sessions at state, local and national conferences.
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BoardMemberLisa Abbott is Director of Organizing and Leadership Development of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. She received a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University of Maryland in 2001. Lisa Abbott was also a Program Associate at the Grassroots Policy Project in Washington DC from 1999-2000. She serves on the board of the Progressive Technology Project in Minneapolis, and was recently elected to the policy-making board of the local elementary school of her two children.
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BoardMemberMaria Echaveste is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a co-founder of the Nueva Vista Group. She served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton from 1998-2001, managing domestic policy initiatives on education, civil rights, immigration and bankruptcy reform. From 1993-1997 Echaveste was the administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor.
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BoardMemberPenn Loh is Executive Director of Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE), an environmental justice organization working in low-income communities and communities of color in Greater Boston. Penn was formerly a Research Associate at the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California and a Research Analyst at the Tellus Institute for Resource and Environmental Strategies in Boston.
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BoardMemberVincent Warren is the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He spent seven years as national senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where he led national constitutional and impact litigation to advance civil rights and civil liberties. In that capacity, he litigated Gratz v. Bollinger, the companion to the landmark case upholding affirmative action in college admissions. Beyond the courtroom, he is a leading African-American voice for affirmative action
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BoardAdviser to Finance CommitteeJulie Goodridge is President and founder of NorthStar Asset Management in Boston. She is a financial advisor and a very active member of the Social Investment Forum. She was Assistant Vice-President at Dean Witter Reynolds, and a stockbroker at EF Hutton and Merrill Lynch. Julie was a lead plaintiff in a legal case that won marriage rights for same-sex couples in Massachusetts. She served on the New World Board for 6 years, and was its Treasurer for 5.
United StatesMassachusetts
