Governing Board
Marjorie Craig Benton
Cofounder of the Peace Museum in Chicago and the Chicago Foundation for Women, Benton has served as a public delegate to the United Nations, a delegate to the Special Session on Disarmament, and U.S. ambassador to UNICEF. She also has co-chaired Americans for SALT and worked as a special adviser to the United Nations Disarmament Commission.
Cathryn Cronin Cranston (Chair)
The executive vice president of Mansueto Ventures, Cranston formerly worked as the publisher of Harvard Business Review, where she developed strategic initiatives that leveraged the Review's brand and doubled its advertising revenues. She serves on the Independent Magazine Advisory Board and the Government Affairs Committee of the Magazine Publishers of America.
Lee Francis
An internist and CEO at Erie Family Health Center, Francis is clinical instructor of internal medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. He is a past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), a national organization dedicated to the prevention of violence and nuclear war, and continues to serve on its Board of Directors.
Seth Grae
Grae is president of Thorium Power, which develops and tests nuclear fuel technology in Russia to dispose of weapon-grade plutonium while generating electricity. His efforts at Thorium Power resulted in it becoming one of the first Western companies to contract with Russian nuclear institutes, along with becoming an early grant recipient from the Energy Department for nonproliferation-related work in Russia.
Jay Harris
Harris is the publisher of Mother Jones and chief executive officer of Mother Jones' nonprofit parent, the Foundation for National Progress. Previously, he worked as general manager of Newsweek's Pacific edition in Hong Kong and as director of special projects for Newsweek International. He holds a Masters in management from the Yale School of Management.
Robert Lipman
A founder of Lipman Hearne, Lipman is a leading expert in conceiving and guiding marketing and communication programs in support of major fundraising campaigns for nonprofit organizations. He has provided leadership for identity and public visibility programs and led the development of public information and advocacy campaigns for the University of Chicago and the RAND Corporation.
Blythe J. McGarvie
McGarvie is the president and founder of Leadership for International Finance, a company that offers a global perspective for clients to achieve profitable growth and provides leadership seminars for corporate and academic groups. She authored the book, Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor--The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life.
William Revelle
An American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow, Revelle directs the personality program in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. Formerly, he served on the Federation of American Scientists' Board of Directors. He is chairman of the board of Calcomco, a small information company that publishes the San Diego Daily Transcript and Columbus Business Journal.
Harold Richman
The Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor of Social Welfare Policy Emeritus in the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration and College, Richman was the university’s founding director of the Chapin Hall Center for Children, where he currently is a research fellow. Previously, he has served as the founding director of the university’s public policy studies program.
Lowell Sachnoff (Secretary & Treasurer)
Sachnoff is a lawyer at Reed Smith. Previously, he served as founding partner at Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd, where he represented individual and business clients in complex litigation and business matters. He possesses a strong commitment to pro bono work, active as a board member of the Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Arms Control and Lawyers Alliance for World Security.
Joan Shapiro
A banker with community investment expertise, Shapiro is a pioneer in socially responsible investing. As president of the Social Investment Forum, her work was nationally recognized. Previously, she worked as an executive vice president of ShoreBank Corp.
Kate Wittenberg
The director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University, Wittenberg serves as project director for the electronic publications Columbia International Affairs Online and Core Integration for the National Science Digital Library, among others. Her work focuses on the creation of sustainable cost-recovery business plans for digital scholarship, digital-rights management, and the evaluation of use and costs of scholarly and educational digital resources.
