Board of Directors
Vital Voices Global Partnership enjoys the support of a very committed Board of Directors with expertise in foreign policy, development, business, communications and philanthropy.
Vital Voices Honorary Chairs
Hillary Rodham Clinton
United States Senator (D-NY) and Former First Lady
Kay Bailey Hutchison
United States Senator (R-TX)
Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Former United States Senator (R-KS)
Vital Voices Board of Directors
Melanne Verveer, Chair of the Board
Former Assistant to the President of the United States and Chief of Staff to the First Lady
Mary Yerrick, Vice Chair and Founding Board Member
President, Primetime Solutions, Inc.
Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley
Former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal
Betty Bumpers
Co-Founder & Vice Presiden, Every Child By Two
Paul Charron
Chairman Emeritus, Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Tia Cudahy
Attorney
Susan Davis
Chairman, Susan Davis International
Deborah Dingell
Vice Chair, General Motors Foundation
Sonnie Dockser
President, Dockser Family Foundation
Samia Farouki
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, HAIFinance Corporation
Sally Field
Actress and Activist
Carly Fiorina
Former CEO, Hewlett-Packard & Author, Tough Choices
Mary C. Foerster
Vice President, Business Support, Communications and Community Affairs, Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing
Nancy Folger
Former Chairman, White House Endowment Fund
Baroness Mary Goudie
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom
Ambassador Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon
Guerra Associates
Bobbie Greene McCarthy
Director, Save America''s Treasures, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Dr. David Hamburg
President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Dr. Jill Iscol
President, IF Hummingbird Foundation
Kate James
Senior Vice President, Global Corporate Communications, Citi
Ambassador Craig Johnstone
Managing Director, jSolutions; International President, Manti Oil and Gas
Nancy Kamel
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Optima Advisors
Dr. Alice Kandell
President, International Opera Alliance
Nancy Killefer
Managing Director, DC Office, McKinsey & Company
Dr. Carol Lancaster
Associate Professor and Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University
Marlene Malek
President, Friends of Cancer Research
Judith McHale
Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Communications, Inc.
Donna McLarty
Vital Voices Founding Board Member
V. Sue Molina
Retired Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Managing Director, World Bank
Dr. Karen Otazo Hofmeister
Manager, JKH Group LLC; Author and Community Volunteer
Jan Piercy
Executive Vice President, Shore Bank; Former U.S. Director, The World Bank
Dina Habib Powell
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Victoria Sant
President and Co-Founder, The Summit Foundation
Roselyne Swig
Former Director, U.S. State Department Art in Embassies Program
Diane von Furstenberg
Fashion Designer & President of CFDA
Vital Voices Staff
Dana Al-Ebrahim
Program Associate, Middle East & North Africa
Martina Bennett
Regional Program Coordinator, Middle East & North Africa Businesswomen’s Network
Alyse Nelson Bloom
(Co-Founder) President & Chief Operating Officer
Marah Bukai
Manager of Content & Communications, Middle East & North Africa Businesswomen’s Network
Celena D. Green
Program Officer, Africa
Emily Hutchinson
Regional Program Coordinator, Middle East & North Africa Businesswomen’s Network
Mary MacPherson
Program Director, Middle East & North Africa Businesswomen''s Network
Asha Misra
Global Program Assistant
Wendell Norton
Vice President-Director of Finance and Administration
Eugenia Podesta
Program Officer, Latin America and the Caribbean
Gillian Robinson
Program Assistant, Middle East & North Africa
Melysa Sperber
Senior Staff Writer & Editor
Sara Vandepeute
Associate Director of Finance and Administration
Alyson Wise
Global Network Communications Coordinator
Tanya Woynarowsky
Program Officer, Europe and Eurasia
Chris Wright
Chief Technology Officer
Shireen Zaman
Senior Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa