GoodWeave

Board of Directors

Michela O’Connor Abrams is the president and publisher of Dwell, the award-winning design and lifestyle media company. In 2006, Dwell hit the coveted Adweek HotList as well as the Advertising Age A-List, and was a Cappell's Circulation Top Ten Performer for the second consecutive year. In 2005, Michela helped see Dwell to its first major award when the magazine won General Excellence at the National Magazine Awards. She was also honored in 2005 by Media Industry News (min) as Sales Leader of the Year. Prior to Dwell, Michela was the President of Imagine Medias Business Division, including the flagship publication Business 2.0. She has over 20 years of experience in publishing, trade show management, online branding strategies, and strategic business development. She has held executive positions at IDG, Ziff-Davis, and McGraw-Hill. Michela serves on the Board of Magazine Publishers of Americas Independent Magazine Advisory Group (MPAIMAG, and Clickability, and is an Operating Partner at Meriturn Partners.

Robin Broad is a professor of international development at American University. She teaches courses on economic globalization and development, as well as environment and development, with a focus on social, environmental, and economic accountability. Her most recent book, Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy (Rowman and Littlefield, March 2002) combines her analysis with 45 original documents to demonstrate that opponents to the current corporate-led globalization present viable, sophisticated alternatives. She is author of several books including Unequal Alliance: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines. Robin is widely published in academic and policy publications, including Foreign Policy, World Development, World Policy Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She has previously worked as an international economist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Department of Treasury. Robin received her MA. And PhD in development studies from Princeton University.

JD Doliner is a principal in Opus4, a venture capital and business development consulting group. Previously, she was senior vice president at Environmental Enterprises Assistance Fund where she directed fundraising for investment and operations, deal origination, marketing and strategic planning. During her tenure at EEAF, JD designed some of the first environmental venture capital funds and led efforts to engage $70 million in investments and $25 million in grants. She also served as lead investment officer for several portfolio companies spanning renewable energy, organic agriculture and other sectors, and has participated in more than fifty transactions. JD serves on the boards of directors of Pesticide Action Network and Fiber Futures.

Kul Chandra Gautam is a former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and the former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF. For more than three decades, his work for these agencies included socio-economic development, humanitarian assistance, human rights, and international diplomacy. He also worked to coordinate interagency collaboration, as well as public/private partnerships, for children’s rights and human development among U.N. agencies, donors and civil society organizations. As a senior UNICEF official, the issue of how to deal with hazardous and exploitative child labor was a natural policy concern for Kul, who was first introduced to the work of GoodWeave in 1997, while serving as UNICEF’s Special Representative in India.  He received his higher education in international relations and development economics at Dartmouth College, Princeton University and Harvard University.

Sara Goodman is a professional textile artist who has worked in the field of education, since 1975, as a public school teacher, college professor, curriculum consultant and student teacher supervisor. Sara recently opened a weaving studio called Casa de los Sueños (House of Dreams) where she hosts accomplished weavers from around the country, produces art pieces, and offers fiber arts instruction. She has served on several boards including the Norwich Child Care Center and the Anne Slade Frey Charitable Trust. Sara holds degrees from Vassar College and the Lesley College Graduate School of Education, and did doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Steve Graubart, CFA, has started and managing businesses in the US and internationally, and has devoted his business acumen to the development of impoverished communities and to promoting education. He has served as SVP Global Finance and CFO for leading corporate governance companies, and has been a Managing Director of Calvert Ventures where his worked included advising Grameen Bank. He has advised groups ranging from nonprofit agencies to host country governments to the World Bank on creating jobs and promoting private sector activities throughout emerging markets. He is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Natalie Halich is an investment officer with the International Finance Corporation (IFC). She is responsible for making investments in the mining sector, including structuring mitigation plans for environmental and social impacts of mining projects. Before joining IFC, Natalie was a director at Enron International, where she executed several major corporate acquisitions in the Latin American energy markets and held expatriate commercial positions in Brazil and Colombia. Before joining Enron, she was with the IFC, based in Ukraine, advising the government on economic reform. She has also worked with NGOs on the trafficking of persons and sexual exploitation issue. Natalie received a MBA from the Wharton School and a BA from the University of Michigan.

Patricia Hambrick is president of the Hambrick Group where she develops marketing strategies and solutions for fast-paced Internet and Fortune 500 companies. Pat has served in senior marketing positions at companies such as Saucony, L’Oreal and Clairol with her most recent corporate job as Group Vice President Global Marketing for Reebok, Ltd. In 1999 she started The Hambrick Group, whose clients roster includes The Gillette Company, Microsoft Home Entertainment, Bose, Bag Borrow or Steal, Timberland, and the business enterprise for tennis star Andre Agassi, AEI.  Pat also teaches in the MBA program at Boston University.

Rev. Pharis J. Harvey retired as executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund and as co-chair of the Child Labor Coalition in 2001. He continues his work on labor issues through the Fair Labor Association, where he is a member of the board and chair of the monitoring committee, and as senior program consultant for Stolen Childhoods, a feature-length film on child labor. An ordained minister of the United Methodist Church, Rev. Harvey previously served as executive director of the North American Coalition for Human Rights in Korea, and in a number of teaching and research positions in East Asia on behalf of the United Methodist Church and the Christian Conference of Asia. He is author of Trading Away the Future: Child Labor in India’s Export Industries (1994) and was honored in 1996 by the receipt of the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for “Lifetime Achievement” in advancing the rights of workers.

Dan Viederman is Executive Director of Verité, a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure that people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal conditions. In doing so, Verité conducts social audits to bring transparency to workplaces around the world through a network of staff and partner non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The organization trains employers, corporate staff and the workers themselves on rights, responsibilities and risk, as well as methods for enhancing work so that workers prosper. Dan received the 2007 Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship for his work with Verité. Prior to joining Verité, he headed up the offices of the World Wildlife Fund and Catholic Relief Services in China. He is a graduate of Yale University, the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and Nanjing Teacher’s University.

Betty Wasserman is a professional designer and principal of Betty Wasserman Art & Interiors, Ltd. Betty launched her design business in 1996 by synthesizing ten years as a New York based private art dealer with a passion for design and architecture. Known for her Loft Spaces and Hamptons beach houses, she also designs her own home furnishings and accessories line. A graduate of Northeastern University (Boston, MA), Betty launched an art business in 1990, consulting and publishing artwork for corporations. She co-founded dotcom Gallery in 1994, the first online/offline gallery in New York City. She continues to represent over 50 artists, and seeks to integrate their work into her currents projects. She displays an array of original artwork in her Flatiron loft. Betty has been published in numerous design publications and was nominated by Sherri Donghia for the Fashion Group International’s Rising Star Award, and included in Dakota Jackson’s Dumb Box Project. Betty looks forward to launching her new line of “Alice” rugs for Stephanie Odegard.

Nancy Wilson is Director and Associate Dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, a program working to integrate a public service ethic into all aspects of the Tufts' student experience. Nancy has over 20 years experience in non-profit and for profit management, in the U.S. and overseas, including direct management and bottom-line responsibility. Prior to coming to Tufts, she served briefly as Executive Director of the Africa Foundation, directing the implementation of a new organizational strategy. Before that, she completed five years in an international management consulting firm, where she became partner. She successfully started a new practice area in the firm, growing to a profitable team of 30 consultants within 18 months, directed teams working across all industries, and managed teams working across a wide range of consulting fields: strategy, customer relationship management, supply chain, cost reduction, human resources, change management and finance. Nancy holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University.

Mary Zicafoose is an award-winning fiber artist known for ethnically inspired textiles that reinterpret the ancient techniques of Ikat into a modern context. Mary has lived and travelled extensively in Central and South America, pursuing post-graduate studies in Andean textiles in Peru and teaching impoverished children in Bolivia’s Beni Biosphere Reserve. She is co-director of the American Tapestry Alliance, a board member of the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, and a regular lecturer for various textile organizations. She has exhibited internationally, with her work included in the permanent collections of the San Jose Quilt & Textile Museum and the Museum of Nebraska Art, among others. For the past 15 years, Mary has been affiliated with the United States Arts and Embassies Program, and her work is featured in eleven U.S. embassies worldwide. An Omaha, Neb. resident, Mary leads textile programs from her rural retreat at Pahuk, a sacred spiritual ground for the Pawnee tribe.