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CorpWatch Staff and Advisory Board


Terry J. Allen, Editor (free-lance)
Terry is a veteran investigative journalist. An editor for CorpWatch since 2003, Terry brings extensive experience. She is a senior editor at In These Times, and previously edited Amnesty International's US magazine. More recently, Terry's work has expanded into film notes and research, working on such films as Academy Award winner Fahrenheit 911 and Sundance documentary grand prize winner "Trouble the Water." Her reporting has appeared in Harper's, The Nation online, New Scientist, the Boston Globe and other publications.

Khalil Bendib, Political Cartoonist (free-lance)
Khalil is an award-winning political cartoonist based in Berkeley whose work is distributed to 1,500 small and mid-sized newspapers weekly. His cartoons are also featured in dozens of ethnic and progressive print and on-line publications across the USA and Canada. Born under a French colonial regime, Khalil brings a fresh, non-Eurocentric perspective that is mostly absent from US corporate media. His hard-hitting, quixotic cartoons don't shy away from lancing the taboos of Free-Market fundamentalism. In the proud tradition of watchdog journalism, Khalil's work aims to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable and give a voice to the voiceless underdog. More of his work may be seen at
www.bendib.com.

Pratap Chatterjee, Senior Editor (free-lance)
Pratap is an investigative journalist and producer. He is the author of "Halliburton's Army" (Nation Books, 2009) "Iraq Inc.: A Profitable Occupation" (Seven Stories Press, 2004) and "The Earth Brokers" (Routledge Press, 1994). He has many years of experience working in radio, print and digital media, including hosting a weekly radio show on Berkeley station KPFA, working as global environment editor for InterPress Service
and as a freelance writer for the Financial Times, the Guardian and the Independent of London. He has won five Project Censored awards as well as a Silver Reel from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for his work in Afghanistan, and the best business story award from the National Newspaper Association (US), among others. He has also appeared as a commentator on numerous radio and television shows ranging from BBC World Service, CNN International, Democracy Now!, Fox and MSNBC. He has served as a board and staff member with many activist groups such as the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and Project Underground.

Tonya Hennessey, Project Director
Tonya has worked with CorpWatch since 2003, joining as staff in May 2007. Getting her start
in the progressive movement as a door canvasser in 1992, she was Foundations and Major Gifts Officer on the Fundraising & Marketing Team at Greenpeace International for eight years, and received her Masters’ Degree in International Policy and Nonproliferation Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in May 2006. She served a six-month junior political affairs internship at the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs, in its Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch, serving as part of the Secretariat for the 2005 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Main Committee I). Tonya has also interned at Rhino Films, worked as Development Officer for the Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, and served on the board of the SF-based Omulu Capoeira Group. She holds a B.A. in Chinese Language & Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Melissa Marshall, Administrative Coordinator
Melissa has been involved with non-profits and organizations that fight for the cause of social justice since 2000. She graduated from Guilford College with a degree in both Community and Justice Studies and Latin American Studies. During her time at Guilford College she lived in Guadalajara, Mexico and studied the effects of the global economy on communities as well as conducting in-depth research on the effects of privatization on local economies. She has most recently been working with a public interest law firm in Oakland, CA.

Lena Zuniga, Crocodyl.org Project Coordinator
Lena has worked with NGOs and on international development issues since 2001, managing projects and researching social applications of technology, alternative media, knowledge sharing tools and methodologies, open content and free/open source software. She is a founding member of a workers cooperative in Costa Rica and has been involved there in the local Social Economy movement. Lena graduated as a journalist and continued her studies in new media production, information technology and Human Rights. 

    CorpWatch Advisory Board

    Executive Committee: this committee meets quarterly and functions, in part, as a governing board.*

    • China Brotsky, Senior Vice President, Tides and Managing Director, Tides Shared Spaces. China also sits on the Board of Directors of the Global Greengrants Fund.
    • Antonio Diaz, Project Director, PODER (People Organizing to Demand Environmental Rights). Antonio works as part of the environmental justice movement with PODER -- a community-based organization in San Francisco's Mission district.

    • Lisa Hoyos, Northern California field representative with the national AFL-CIO. In that capacity, she works with Central Labor Councils to advance national labor priorities. She also helps to coordinate the international fair trade network “Our World Is Not For Sale.”

    • Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch's founder and executive director from 1996-2002, is also founder of the Green Schools Initiative www.greenschools.net. He currently works as International Team Coordinator for the organization Health Care Without Harm, www.noharm.org

    • Mele Lau, San Francisco Tobacco Free Project, Mele chairs the CorpWatch Advisory Board. She coordinates a coalition of community-based organizations fighting the tobacco industry in San Francisco and internationally.

    • Aditi Vaidya, Independent consultant.  Aditi currently works with ChangeToWin and the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports as well as Human Impacts Partners in Oakland, CA.  She has been a part of the environmental justice movement through her prior work with Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, the Southwest Network for Environmental & Economic Justice and other grassroots organizations across the U.S. and internationally.

    *Note: As a project of the Tides Center, CorpWatch is fiscally and legally accountable to the Tides Center Board of Directors.

    Other CorpWatch Advisory Board Members

    • Nikki Fortunato Bas, Sweatshop Watch

    • Andre Carothers, Journalist

    • John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies

    • Anna Couey, The Data Center

    • Michael Dorsey, Sierra Club National Board

    • Jeanne Gauna, South West Organizing Project - in memorium

    • Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network

    • Richard Grossman, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy

    • Nicholas Hildyard, The Corner House, England

    • Allan Hunt-Badiner, Rainforest Action Network

    • Martin Khor, Third World Network, Malaysia

    • Yoichi Kuroda, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan

    • Joshua Mailman, Social Venture Network

    • Richard Moore, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice

    • Medha Patkar, National Alliance of People's Movements, India

    • S. (Bobby) Peek, groundWork, South Africa

    • Atila Roque, Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Action, (IBASE), Brazil

    • Satinath Sarangi, Bhopal Committee for Information and Action, India

    • Ted Smith, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

    • Michael Stein, Nonprofit Internet Strategist