Jim Jourdonnais

Jim Jourdonnais, a graduate of Dartmouth College, has an MBA in International Finance and a Degree in Tax Law. His extensive background in finance and management experience includes work at the financial firms Cargill, Continental Grain, and Binney & Smith. Founding Jourdonnais & Associates in San Francisco in 1981, Jim  provides financial, management and tax services in more than thirty states, as well as several foreign countries. Most of his clients are entrepreneurial enterprises in the creative fields, including graphic, product and fashion design, photography, and video and film production. He is also adviser to several leading foundations and non-profit organizations.

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Tendzin Choegyal

Tendzin Choegyal is the younger brother of the Dalai Lama. He was recognized as a reincarnate lama (Ngari Rinpoche) at the age of three, and underwent intensive training as a child before fleeing Tibet at the time of the Chinese invasion. Later he left the monastic life and has worked actively for the freedom of Tibet by serving in a variety of capacities, including as a resistance fighter, a Member of Parliament and secretary to H.H. the Dalai Lama. He currently resides in Dharamsala, India.

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Rinchen Khando Choegyal

Rinchen Khando Choegyal is the founder and director of the Tibetan Nuns Project, a former Minister of Education in the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, founding President of the Tibetan Women’s  Association, and sister-in-law of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She resides in Dharamsala, India.

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Jonathan Logan

Jonathan Logan is president of the Center for Investigative Reporting, founded in 1977. CIR is the nation’s oldest nonprofit investigative news organization, producing multimedia reporting that has impact and is relevant to people’s lives. Building on a long track record of award-winning print, broadcast and web reporting, CIR is now seeking to help lead the way in transforming journalism for the 21st century.  Jon is also president of the Reva and David Logan Foundation, supporting projects focused on education, the arts, religion, and community.

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Marilyn Fowler

Marilyn Fowler is Founder and President of the Women’s Intercultural Network (WIN), a non-governmental organization consultative to the United Nations, based in San Francisco, California.  WIN links women across cultures globally and in U.S. communities for collective action and is founded on the idea that the voices of women and girls need to be heard around the world, and to understand a country’s politics we must understand its culture.

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Zoë Elton

As a long time film and video programmer, Zoë Elton serves as Program Director of Mill Valley Film Festival, California, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the United States. Since the festival’s inception, she has distinguished herself by pioneering the exhibition of new and digital media in the 80s, initiating the festival’s recent Active Cinema program, and conducting interviews with festival guests such as Ang Lee, Helen Mirren and Uma Thurman, both onstage and in print. Zoë has served on panels for the Rockefeller Foundation, the Haas Foundation’s Creative Works Fund and the Independent Spirit Awards. She is a graduate of New College of Speech and Drama in London.

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Padma Holland

Padma Holland, specializing in finance and organizational consulting, has served as a pivotal player for 20 years in the communications arena working with private and non-profit organizations in film and video.  For the last 5 years, Padma has been a financial consultant for Frame of Mind Films, Inc.

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Winston Ching

Until his retirement in 2002, the Rev. Winston W. Ching enjoyed a long and distinguished career as Executive Officer of the Episcopal Asiamerica Ministry in New York City.  Following his retirement, he served as Interim Pastor at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Manhattan. In October of 2009 Winston moved to Hong Kong to accept the responsibilities of Chaplain, Academic Tutor in Psychology, and Student Counselor at St. John’s College at the University of Hong Kong. He also teaches Pastoral Counseling and Practical Theology as an Adjunct Lecturer at Ming Hua Theological College (Anglican) in Hong Kong.

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Joan Porter

Joan Porter is the founder of the Stillheart Institute in Woodside, California. After a successful business career in corporate America, Joan attended the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology’s doctoral program where the foundation was laid for her to follow her hearts calling: to facilitate the reemergence of the Divine Feminine and the Sacred Masculine as manifested in the Stillheart Institute.

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