Board of Directors
Anne Marie Burgoyne
Anne Marie Burgoyne is responsible for identifying and supporting Draper Richards Foundation Fellows and creating infrastructure for the support of the Fellows and their organizations. The Draper Richards Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship invests in early-stage nonprofit organizations with start-up funding and technical support.
Before joining Draper Richards, Anne Marie was the Executive Director of United Cerebral Palsy of the Golden Gate where she undertook a successful financial and operational turn-around and program merger. Prior, Anne Marie was a Roberts Enterprise Development Fund Farber Fellow at Community Gatepath, a non-profit that provides services to children and adults with developmental disabilities. During her time with the agency, she doubled the capacity of the children’s center and grew the agency’s client-staffed business enterprises. Before entering the non-profit arena, Anne Marie was the Vice President of Service at Digital Impact, a publicly-traded email marketing company, and an Associate at Robertson Stephens, where she did investment banking with emerging market clients.
Currently Anne Marie serves on the Boards of Reentry Strategies Institute, Little Kids Rock, Scojo Foundation, Grassroot Soccer, Build Change, Genocide Intervention Network and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Consulting Team; she is on the Advisory Council of Net Impact. She has been a judge for the Civic Ventures Purpose Prize, the New York University Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Program, and the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition.
Anne Marie received her Master of Business Administration and Public Management Program certificate from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and was selected by her peers as the recipient of the Ernest C. Arbuckle Award. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School, respectively.
Bennett Freeman
Mr. Freeman manages Calvert's Social Research Department and directs its research and advocacy work. From 2003 until early 2006, he led Burson-Marsteller's Global Corporate Responsibility practice advising multinationals on policy development, stakeholder engagement and communications strategies related to human rights, labor rights and sustainable development. During the Clinton Administration he served in three positions as a political appointee in the State Department, most recently as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 1999 to early 2001. In that capacity, he led the development of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, the first human rights standard forged by governments, companies and NGOs for the extractive sectors. Earlier in his career he was Manager, Corporate Affairs for General Electric and a presidential campaign aide to former Vice President Walter Mondale. Mr. Freeman earned an MA in Modern History from Oxford and an AB in History from Berkeley, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Oxfam America and the Steering Committee of Amnesty International USA's Business and Human Rights program.
Mark Hanis
Mark Hanis is the Founder & Executive Director of the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net), an organization created with the mission to empower citizens and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. Mark is a recent graduate from Swarthmore College with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Public Policy. He is the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors and was raised in Quito, Ecuador. From February - August 2003, Mark worked for the Office of the Prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He is a 2006 a Draper Richards fellow and a 2006 Echoing Green fellow. Mark has been featured in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New Republic, and appeared on CNN Headline News and NPR.
Randy Newcomb
Randy Newcomb is President of Humanity United, an independent grantmaking organization committed to building a world where modern-day slavery and mass atrocities are no longer possible. Humanity United supports efforts that empower affected communities and address the root causes of conflict and modern-day slavery to build lasting peace. Humanity United invests in the power of ideas and individuals, bringing together the best in research, policy, and public pressure to activate local and global solutions.
Before his work at Humanity United, Randy served as Vice President of the Omidyar Network, Pam and Pierre's organization supporting nonprofit and for-profit efforts to expand opportunities for individuals and make lasting contributions to their communities. From 2003 to 2006, Randy concentrated on developing global partnerships and investments for the Network across public, private, and social sectors. Prior to joining the Omidyar family's network of social investment activities, Randy served 14 years as CEO of Golden Gate Community Inc. (GGCI), a community-based social enterprise.
Randy was an inaugural fellow of the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of San Francisco and master's degrees in cross cultural studies and development economics from the University of Bath, England.
Samantha Power
Samantha Power is a Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy. Powers New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting. Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-2002). From 1993-1996, Power covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and the Economist. Power is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact (St. Martin's, 2000). A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She is currently on leave from the Kennedy School and writing a political biography of the UN's Sergio Vieira de Mello, while working as a foreign policy fellow in the office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama.
Darian Weltman Swig
Darian Weltman Swig is deeply engaged in global affairs, particularly related to international human rights, human security, and civil protection issues. She currently serves as co-chair of Human Rights Watch California Committee North, a trustee of the World Affairs Council, and as a board member for the US Association for UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency). In addition, Darian sits on the advisory board to the African Institute for Arbitration, Mediation, Conciliation and Research (AIAMCR), the advisory council for Instituto Terra in Brazil, is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and a 2005/2006 cohort of The Philanthropy Workshop West, a leadership program in strategic philanthropy through the Hewlett Foundation.
From 2001-2006, Darian studied as an adjunct World Peace Scholar at the Rotary Center for International Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examined the tension between sovereignty and human rights, and its impact on civil protection through case studies of genocide, mass atrocities and forced displacement. She holds a M.A. in Political Science, a M.A. in International & Area Studies, and a B.A. in Social Science.
Darian founded and served as President of Weltman Protocol Group (WPG), a protocol consulting business formed in 1996, which specialized in high-level foreign dignitary coordination. Prior to forming WPG, Darian served as the senior protocol advisor to the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco under the Jordan Administration (1991 – 1995). In 1996, Darian served as protocol consultant and then Consular Corps Liaison to the San Francisco Mayor’s office under the Brown administration.
Previous board governance includes The City Club of San Francisco, the Commonwealth Club of California, Partners Ending Domestic Abuse and the Goldman Institute on Aging. By Mayoral appointment, Darian served as City Commissioner of the San Francisco Public Library (1999 – 2002) and Juror for the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury (1999 – 2000). She also served as California State Representative of Friends of Art and Preservation in the Embassies (2000). Born in Germany, Darian lives in San Francisco where she has been a resident for over 30 years. She is married to Richard L. Swig, Jr. and has two stepsons, Ben and Adam.
Advisory Board
Holly Burkhalter
Ms. Burkhalter is a frequent witness before Congress, publishes articles and opinion pieces regularly, and writes a column on human rights law and policy for Legal Times, the quarterly legal newspaper. Her most recent publication is a chapter in the Council on Foreign Relations publication, Humanitarian Intervention: Crafting a Workable Doctrine (2000). Ms. Burkhalter graduated from Iowa State University in 1978 (Phi Beta Kappa) and received the University's "Outstanding Young Alumnus" award in 1984. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the advisory committees of Mental Disability Rights International and of the International Justice Mission. She is a founding board member of the International Labor Rights Fund. Ms. Burkhalter was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be a member of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace and confirmed in that position by the U.S. Senate for a four-year term.
Anthony Lake
Anthony Lake is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Dr. Lake most recently served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1962 and his State Department career included assignments as U.S. Vice Consul in Saigon and Hue, Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor, and Director of Policy Planning. Dr. Lake was Five College Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College and has also worked for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and International Voluntary Services. He is the author of several books, including Somoza Falling and The "Tar Baby" Option: American Policy Toward Southern Rhodesia, and co-author of Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmasking of American Foreign Policy. In addition, he edited After the Wars and was a contributing editor to Legacy of Vietnam: The War, American Society and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy. Dr. Lake received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Trevor Neilson
Trevor Neilson is a senior advisor APCO Worldwide, a global public affairs firm with offices in major cities throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Prior to that, Mr. Neilson was executive director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC). During his tenure at the GBC, he helped grow corporate membership to more than 200 multinational companies who are involved in the fight against the world’s deadliest diseases. He also opened and managed offices in New York, Paris, Beijing, Geneva and Johannesburg, and established partnerships in 20 countries around the world.
Mr. Neilson served as director of public affairs and special projects at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was responsible for grant-making, government relations and public affairs. He also was the spokesperson and managed relationships with the United Nations, governments, corporations and NGOs. In addition, he worked for Bill and Melinda Gates on personal projects and served as spokesperson for the Gates family.
Mr. Neilson worked in the Clinton White House in the Office of Scheduling and Advance, and the White House Travel Office. He is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Wikimedia Foundation advisory board, the Genocide Intervention Network advisory board, the Business & Human Rights Resource Center and a number of other organizations. He is vice-chairman of Saflink, a technology company focused on biometric security solutions for government agencies in the United States, and is a visiting practitioner at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute in the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership, where he lectures on the role of philanthropy and corporate responsibility in public policy and international relations.
John Prendergast
John Prendergast is Co-Chair of ENOUGH. Previously, John worked at the White House and State Department during the Clinton administration, where he was involved in a number of peace processes throughout Africa. John also has worked for members of Congress, the UN, human rights organizations, and think tanks. He has authored eight books on Africa, the latest of which he co-authored with actor/activist Don Cheadle, entitled "Not on Our Watch." John travels regularly to Africa's war zones on fact-finding missions, peace-making initiatives, and awareness- raising trips involving network news programs, celebrities, and politicians.
David Scheffer
David Scheffer has joined Northwestern Law as a faculty member holding an endowed professorship and serving as the new Director of the Center for International Human Rights. He teaches International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law. He was previously the U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and led the U.S. delegation in U.N. talks establishing the International Criminal Court. During his ambassadorship, Scheffer negotiated and coordinated U.S. support for the establishment and operation of international and hybrid criminal tribunals and U.S. responses to atrocities anywhere in the world. He also headed the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group.
During the first term of the Clinton Administration, Scheffer served as senior adviser and counsel to the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Madeleine Albright, and served from 1993 through 1996 on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council. Scheffer recently held visiting professorships at Northwestern Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and George Washington University Law School and taught earlier at Duke University School of Law and Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. He has published extensively on international legal and political issues and appears regularly in the national and international media. He is a CNN Legal Analyst. Scheffer is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars, the American Society of International Law (formerly serving on the Executive Council), and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Law Students Association.
Gayle Smith
A Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Director of the International Rights and Responsibilities Program and Energy Opportunity Program, Gayle Smith served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from 1998-2001, and as Senior Advisor to the Administrator and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1994-1998.
Smith was based in Africa for over 20 years as a journalist covering military, economic, and political affairs for the BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Toronto Globe & Mail, London Observer, and Financial Times. Smith has also consulted for a wide range of NGOs, foundations, and governmental organizations including UNICEF, the World Bank, Dutch Interchurch Aid, Norwegian Church Relief, and the Canadian Council for International Cooperation. She won the World Journalism Award from the World Affairs Council and the World Hunger Year Award in 1991, and in 1999 won the National Security Council’s Samuel Nelson Drew Award for Distinguished Contribution in Pursuit of Global Peace. Smith is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of Oxfam America, the Africa America Institute, USA for Africa, and the National Security Network. She also serves on the policy advisory boards of DATA, the Acumen Fund, and the Global Fairness Initiative, and is the Working Group Chair on Global Poverty for the Clinton Global Initiative.