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Melissa Lynn Bradley is founder and president of New Capitalist. She has served as a Financial Regulatory Affairs Fellow with the U.S. Treasury researching the impact of welfare reform, micro-enterprise lending and Individual Development Accounts on the financial industry and providing recommendations to the banking sector. She founded The Entrepreneurial Development Institute-an international NGO focused on social change, economic development and community empowerment.
Joanie Bronfman is a long-time advocate for social justice and donor activism. She is the Associate Dean of the Family Office Exchange Learning Center and a consultant and speaker on issues of wealth. Joanie has served on the boards of Tides Canada and the Threshold Foundation, where she was a founder of Threshold's Social Justice Committee.
Drummond Pike is founder and chief executive officer of Tides. Awarded as an Outstanding Foundation Professional, Drummond helped pioneer the advent of donor advised funds in philanthropy. Through his leadership, Tides has helped increase the capacity and effectiveness of thousands of social change organizations. Drummond was a founder and Associate Director of the Youth Project in Washington, DC, and served as Executive Director of the Shalan Foundation from 1976 to 1981. He was among the original founders of Working Assets, a telecommunications company dedicated to progressive philanthropy and political activism.
john a. powell, a nationally recognized authority on civil rights and civil liberties, is the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, and is the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity in the Americas. He has taught law at Columbia, Harvard, University of Miami, and University of San Francisco, and has served as National Legal Director of the ACLU. john also serves on the board of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.
Charles C. Savitt is President and Publisher of the Center for Resource Economics/Island Press, which he started in 1984 in order to provide the environmental community with the latest informational tools to address the multidisciplinary nature of environmental problems. He is also a director of the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation.
Joel Solomon is President of Renewal Partners seed capital firm and the Endswell Foundation, both focused on a conservation economy in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a founding Board member of Tides Canada, former President of the Threshold Foundation, and a founding member of the Social Venture Network.
