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Andrew Behar, CEO

Andrew Behar, As You Sow CEO, has 30 years of experience as a Senior Executive and strategist in the clean-tech, communications and life science sectors. Prior to joining As You Sow, Andrew founded and was CEO of a clean-tech start-up developing innovative fuel cell technologies. He served as COO for a social media agency focused in the sustainability space and has been a strategic consultant in the non-profit sector. He has founded and run start-ups in the medical device and communications areas and serves on the boards of several high-tech innovation companies.

Larry Fahn, President

Larry Fahn has been with As You Sow since 1998. An accomplished trial attorney and environmental lawyer, Larry received dual Bachelors in Environmental Studies and Rhetoric from U.C. Davis in 1976, and his J.D. from UC/Hastings College of Law in 1979. During the 1990's, Larry chaired the Sierra Club's enormously successful California political program, was subsequently elected to its national Board of Directors of the Sierra Club in 1999, and served two terms as national Sierra Club President. In December of 2009, Fahn will be joining environmental leaders from around the world and serving as a delegate to the U.N.’s COP-15 Climate Change treaty negotiations summit in Copenhagen Denmark. Under Larry's leadership, As You Sow's Environmental Enforcement program has focused on environmental health by bringing enforcement actions leading entire industries to reformulate consumer products to reduce or eliminate toxic chemicals and heavy metals.

Conrad MacKerron, Senior Program Director

Conrad MacKerron has more than a decade of experience managing corporate dialogues and shareholder advocacy initiatives on cutting-edge social and environmental issues. Conrad founded the As You Sow Corporate Social Responsibility Program in 1997. He is former senior social researcher at Piper Jaffray Philanthropic & Social Investment Consulting, and Social Research Director at Progressive Asset Management (both social investment firms). He also served as Senior Analyst, Energy and Environment, at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (now part of RiskMetrics Group). Formerly a journalist, he was Washington Bureau Chief for Chemical Week and a writer for BNA's Environment Reporter. He is author of Business in the Rainforests: Corporations, Deforestation and Sustainability (IRRC, 1993) and Unlocking the Power of the Proxy (2004). Conrad served on the board of the Social Investment Forum (SIF), and was chair of the steering committee for its Advocacy and Public Policy Program. He also served on the As You Sow Board of Directors from 1993 until 2005. In 2007, he received the SRI Service Award from SIF for “outstanding contributions to the SRI community.” He holds a Masters Degree in Journalism and Public Affairs from The American University.

Amy Galland, PhD, Research Director

Amy Galland is Research Director at As You Sow. In that capacity she researches, analyzes, and publishes industry reports on Corporate Social Responsibility policies and benchmarks best practices in recycling, sustainability, product safety, purchasing, and supply chain monitoring. Amy also conducts the research for all shareholder campaigns and leads shareholder engagements on sustainability, greenhouse gas reduction/renewable energy, and environmental health. Prior to joining As You Sow, Amy worked as a consultant providing strategy, business development, marketing, and organizational design expertise to nonprofit organizations and small businesses. She has worked as project manager and production coordinator in the music industry and as an adjunct assistant professor of art history at Binghamton University. Amy was awarded an MBA and a PhD in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles, an MA in anthropology from Stanford University, and a BA in philosophy and art history from Tufts University.

Patricia Jurewicz, Director, Responsible Sourcing Network

Patricia Jurewicz is Director of Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN), which is a new project of As You Sow. RSN advances global value chains that are accountable to the people and natural habitats they touch, at the raw commodity level.

Since fall of 2006, Patricia has been managing the Human Rights department inside As You Sow's Corporate Social Responsibility Program. During her four years with As You Sow, she has led the Human Rights Program to tackle labor abuses at the factory level, she contributed to the report Best Current Practices in Purchasing: The Apparel Industry, and she began ground-breaking work addressing forced labor and extortion at the commodity level of supply chains. Preceding As You Sow, she was at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) directing the Global Cooperation Project. She co-authored the report, The Treaty Database: U.S. Compliance with Global Treaties.

At Gap, Inc. she spearheaded a rewrite of the company's Vendor Handbook, which was distributed to 3000 manufacturing facilities worldwide. She is fluent in Spanish, and has past work experience with natural dyes, Latino political outreach, and women's craft cooperatives in Latin America.

Patricia has an International MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University, and an Associate degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Melanie Hogan, Development Director

Melanie Hogan has nearly 10 years development experience focusing on institutional giving and individual giving programs. Most recently she was the Development Manager for Global Footprint Network where she raised institutional funds from international foundations. She was also the Assistant Director of Development at The Yosemite Fund working to build and maintain a multi-faceted individual donor program including direct mail, special events and on-line giving in addition to institutional giving from foundations and corporations. Prior to that she was the Grants Associate at Women's Initiative for Self Employment where she raised funds from foundations, corporations, and government sources of support. She has a Bachelors degree in anthropology and dance from San Francisco State University and serves on the board of DanceVersity, a multi-ethnic dance program for youth in the East Bay.

Valentina Gurney, Cotton Program Manager, Responsible Sourcing Network

Prior to joining Responsible Sourcing Network, Valentina worked for Social Accountability International (SAI) promoting human rights in workplaces around the world through SAI's accreditation and training programs. For the past several years Valentina was involved in a number of projects with the World Bank, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Switzerland, and United Nations Development Programme in Sri Lanka focusing on integrating sustainable and transparent practices into environmental and management systems, as well as responsible business development in emerging markets and countries undergoing transition. Valentina's work includes publications on the topics of political and reputational risk and environmental impact of development projects. She holds a Master's of International Affairs Degree with a focus on Economic Policy from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Katherine Kassing, Communications Manager

Katherine manages internal and external communications for As You Sow, including outreach to both traditional and new media outlets. Prior to her position as Communications Manager, Katherine provided website, design, and project management expertise to As You Sow's Anti-slavery campaign. She graduated with Honors from the University of Puget Sound and received a Certificat de merit from the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon in 2007.

Corinne Bendersky, Program Manager

Corinne is the Program Manager at As You Sow, where she supports the CSR Program, focusing primarily on energy initiatives. Prior to joining As You Sow, Corinne worked for an environmental consulting group, Wallace Partners, where she analyzed corporate environmental initiatives and identified sustainability strategies for large corporate clients. Corinne assisted the Pew Center on Global Climate Change with CSR research, energy efficiency programs at large corporations, and helped coordinate Business Environmental Leadership Council workshops. Corinne graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies.

Betsy McMahon, Development and Operations Coordinator

Betsy supports development activities including database management and event planning. On the operations side, she supports human resource and technology issues, as well as coordinating the intern program. Betsy was most recently the Program Manager for DanceVersity World Dance school and is a board member for Afsaneh Art & Culture Society, a non-profit world dance and music performance organization. Prior experiences include operations management in arts, finance, and accounting, with skills in supervision, scheduling, marketing, and training. Notably, Betsy has been Operations Manager for Zambaleta World Music and Dance School in San Francisco, Customer Accounts Department Manager at a large brokerage firm in Southern California, and Managing Partner of her own financial planning company. Betsy has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University where she was an honors graduate. She studied for her Master's in Music Education at Teacher's College, Columbia.

Leslie H. Lowe, Senior Strategist (Coal)

Leslie is an attorney who specializes in environmental law and corporate environmental disclosure. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bennington College, a Masters of Science from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and did post-graduate research in economic and social history at the University of Paris. For the past seven years she directed the Energy & Environment Program at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. Leslie is a member of the American Bar Association's Committee on Environmental Disclosure and serves on the boards of the Social Investment Forum, River Network, and the Highlander Research and Education Center. She was Chair of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation's Board of Directors until January of 2009.

Michael Passoff, Senior Strategist (Fracking and Environmental Health)

Michael is a leading practitioner of shareholder advocacy on social and environmental issues. For more than a decade Michael served as the Senior Program Director for As You Sow's Corporate Responsibility Program, and now serves as its senior strategist on environmental health issues. During this time Michael has engaged the nation's largest investors and corporations such as Disney, McDonalds, Starbucks, ExxonMobil and Du Pont among many others. His shareholder advocacy work led him to be named as one of 2009's "100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics", and he also received the 2009 Climate Change Business Journal award for a successful shareholder campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.