Windcall Institute Board
Common Counsel Foundation is the fiscal sponsor of Windcall. However, the Windcall Board functions in every other way as the governing body of Windcall.
Elsa Barboza • SCOPE/AGENDA • Los Angeles, CA
Margi Clarke (Chair) • Consultant to grassroots organizations • Berkeley, CA
Scott Douglas (Secretary/Treasurer) • Greater Birmingham Ministries • Birmingham, AL
Bob Fulkerson • Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada • Reno, NV
Christopher Ho • Employment Law Center • San Francisco, CA
Rev. Mac Legerton • Center for Community Action • Lumberton, NC
Donna Parson • Demos • New York, NY
Janet Robideau • Montana People's Action • Missoula, MT
Elsa Barboza • SCOPE/AGENDA • Los Angeles, CA
Elsa Barboza has spent the last 13 years fighting for social justice through the building of a grassroots South Los Angeles organization, AGENDA and a community institution, SCOPE, a social justice organization focused on alleviating poverty in low-income and working class communities of color. Elsa was initially trained as an organizer through the Center for Third World Organizing's MAAP Program. She was a Windcall Resident in 2005.
Margi Clarke (Chair) • Consultant to grassroots organizations • Berkeley, CA
Margi Clarke's work history includes 24 years as an activist, fundraiser and administrator in the Central America solidarity movement, community economic development and environmental justice groups. Margi is bilingual Spanish-English and traveled widely in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s. For the last five years, she has worked as a consultant to community organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Mujeres Unidas y Activas, WAGES Cooperatives, Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, and the Environmental Health Coalition. She was a Windcall Resident in 2004.
Scott Douglas (Secretary/Treasurer) • Greater Birmingham Ministries • Birmingham, AL
Scott Douglass is Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, an interfaith organization that provides a faith-based response to poverty by meeting emergency needs while pursuing social and economic justice. Previously, Scott served as Environmental Justice Organizer for the Sierra Club-Southeast, Executive Director of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice and Southern Field Representative for the Partnership for Democracy Foundation. He serves on boards including the Alabama Organizing Project, Democracy South, the Southern Organizing Cooperative, the Highlander Center, the New World Foundation and the Needmor Fund. He was the recipient of the Charles Bannerman Fellowship for activists of color in 1994. He was a Windcall Resident in 2001.
Bob Fulkerson • Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada • Reno, NV
Bob Fulkerson is State Director and co-founder of PLAN. He worked as Executive Director of Citizen Alert from 1984 to 1994. Bob is a fifth-generation Nevadan and a gay father to a 19-year old daughter. He has played a key role in the formation of several social change organizations in Nevada, including the Citizen Alert Native American Program (1987), PLAN (1994), Latinos for Political Education (1996) A Rainbow Place, Northern Nevada’s Gay and Lesbian Community Center (2000) and the Nevada Conservation League (2001). Bob currently serves on the boards of Great Basin Mine Watch and The Note Ables, a performing arts group for the disabled. He also serves on the Washoe County Growth Management Task Force and the Washoe County School District Diversity Task Force. He is a recipient of the University of Nevada Thornton Peace Prize, Reno Jaycees Man of the Year, Anne Martin Women's Political Caucus Good Guy Award, ACLU Community Service Award, Latinos for Political Education "Empowering the Latino Community" Award, UNR’s Santini Cup Award, and the Nevada AFL-CIO’s Friend of Working Families Award. In 2005, he received the Leadership for A Changing World Award from the Advocacy Institute and the Ford Foundation. Away from the office, he is an avid fisherman, gardener and yoga teacher. He was a Windcall resident in 1997.
Christopher Ho • Employment Law Center • San Francisco, CA
Chris Ho is a senior staff attorney at the Employment Law Center, where he most often works in defense of the workplace rights of recent immigrants. Chris has litigated against workplace speak-English-only rules, discrimination against persons because of their limited English proficiency, challenges to bilingual education, and the exclusion of language minorities from equal access to government services. Recently, he has devoted an increasing amount of time to expand the workplace rights of undocumented workers. Chris is the co-director of the Language Rights Project, a joint project of the Employment Law Center and the ACLU, and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the East Palo Alto Community Law Project. He was a Windcall Resident in 2001.
Rev. Mac Legerton • Center for Community Action • Lumberton, NC
Rev. Mac Legerton is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Community Action (CCA), a multicultural, community-based, nonprofit organization in Lumberton, N.C that specializes in grassroots empowerment and multi-sector collaboration as the foundations of social change. Throughout its 23-year history, CCA has been a leader in the areas of community development, grassroots leadership development, systems change, policy advocacy, family support and literacy, education improvement and reform, youth leadership development, environmental justice, cultural education, legal reform, and multi-sector collaboration. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Rev. Legerton is a frequent lecturer and workshop leader on the local, state, and national level, including on issues of spiritual practice and social justice. He was recently one of six U.S. ministers filmed for the Special Features section "Our Moral Voices" in the recent Robert Greenwald film entitled Wal-Mart: The High Price of Low Cost. He was a Windcall Resident in 1990.
Donna Parson • Demos • New York, NY
Donna Parson is the Special Assistant to the President of Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action. Donna coordinates staff activities, meetings and projects initiated by the President's office, and directs the Demos Forum: Ideas for Change events program. She has over 25 years experience building grassroots advocacy organizations. Donna was formerly the Director of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group and Northeast Action and the Field Director of Public Campaign. She has also worked in the political arena directing several Congressional campaigns. She first became involved in advocacy work when she was a young mother in rural Connecticut and she organized her neighbors to stop an environmentally destructive highway. She went on to work for the Sierra Club and, eventually, for the Connecticut Citizen Action Group. She was a Windcall Resident in 2002.
Janet Robideau • Montana People's Action • Missoula, MT
Janet Robideau is the ExecutIve Director of Montana People's Action. Janet has been an activist since 1973 when she joined the American Indian Movement. In 1989, while working as a nurse's assistant, she co-founded the Montana Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, a community and labor coalition that waged successful battles to improve nursing homes and organize workers. During this period, she also became a member of Montana People's Action and was elected to its board. In 1995, Janet joined the staff of MPA as a community organizer and worked with neighborhood chapters in low-income areas. She founded Indian People's Action in 1997 as an affiliate of MPA to build the voice for Native Americans who live off-reservation in urban areas. Janet also serves as the chair of the Board of the Missoula Indian Center. She is a recipient of the Charles Bannerman Fellowship for long-time activists of color. She was a Windcall Resident in 2001.
Advisory Board
Stuart Acuff • 1999 • AFL-CIO, Organizing Director • Washington, DC
Carl Anthony • 1992 • Ford Foundation • New York, NY
Fran Barrett • 1997 • Community Resource Exchange • New York, NY
Maria Blanco • 1996 • Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights • San Francisco, CA
Linda Burnham • 1992 • Women of Color Resource Center • Oakland, CA
Pamela Chiang • 2000 • Center for Community Change • Belgrade, MT
Walter Davis • 1998 • Southern Empowerment Project • Maryville, TN
Scott Douglas • 2001 • Greater Birmingham Ministries • Birmingham, AL
Emily Goldfarb • 1994 • Nonprofit consultant • San Francisco, CA
LeeAnn Hall • 1997 • Northwest Federation of Community Organizations • Seattle, WA
Taj James • 2001 • Movement Strategy Center • Oakland, CA
Madeline Janis-Aparicio • 1997 • LA Alliance for a New Economy • Los Angeles, CA
Sandra Jerabek • 1994 • Redwood Economic Development Institute • Crescent City, CA
Anthony Van Jones • 2000 • Ella Baker Center for Human Rights • San Francisco, CA
Burt Lauderdale • 2000 • Kentuckians for the Commonwealth • London, KY
David Mann • 1997 • Nonprofit consultant • Minneapolis, MN
Kamau Marcharia • 1992 • Grassroots Leadership • Jenkinsville, SC
Rev. David Ostendorf • 1991 • Center for New Community • Ellsworth, WI
Millard Mitty Owens • 1997 • New York University, New York, NY
Julie Quiroz-Martinez • 1994 • mosaic consulting • Oakland, CA
Rosi Reyes • 2001 • SPIN Project • San Francisco, CA
Janet Robideau • 2001 • Montana People's Action • Missoula, MT
Andy Robinson • 2005 • Nonprofit Consultant • Plainfield, VT
Gary Sandusky • 1990 • Center for Community Change • Boise, ID
Rinku Sen • 2000 • Applied Research Center • New York, NY
Jim Sessions • 1999 • former director of the Highlander Center and the Union Community Fund • Knoxville, TN
Nina Shapiro-Perl • 2004 • Service Employees International Union (SEIU) • Washington, DC
Esmeralda Simmons • 2000 • Center for Law & Social Justice • Brooklyn, NY
Arturo Vargas • 1992 • National Association of Latino Elected Officials • Los Angeles, CA
Eric Ward • 1999 • Center for New Community • Chicago, IL
Carol Prejean Zippert • 1992 • Society of Folk Arts & Culture • Eutaw, AL
