About Our Advisory Board Mimi Kennedy,…

                             About Our Advisory Board
Mimi Kennedy, Board Chair, is an actor and activist. She was a charter member of
Artists United to Win Without War, and a leading supporter of Dennis Kucinich's
antiwar presidential campaign in 2004. She has worked on human rights, environmental
and labor issues. Perhaps best known for her role as Dharma's mom on TV's "Dharma and
Greg," Kennedy has appeared widely on TV, the stage, and in movies such as "Erin Brockovich"
and "Pump Up The Volume."

Stephen Shaff, Board Vice Chair, is Founder and President of Community-Vision
Consultants, a community development firm based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to develop
affordable-housing home ownership opportunities while simultaneously addressing local social,
economic and political issues within the inner-city communities it serves. Besides his political
activism,

Cindy Asner has worked as a TV and radio producer, and was nominated for Emmy and
Golden Globe awards as a producer on Bette Midler's CBS film, "Gypsy." She moved
from entertainment to activism, on issues from Autism to campaign finance reform to war
and peace. She is on the board of the California Clean Money Campaign.

Medea Benjamin is the founding director of Global Exchange, helped to bring together
the coalition United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), and co-founded Code Pink, a women-
initiated grassroots movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect
resources into life-affirming activities. In 2005, she was one of 1000 women from around the
world nominated collectively for the Nobel Peace Prize.

John C. Bonifaz, is a constitutional lawyer, voting rights advocate, and co-founder of
AfterDowningStreet.org. In 2003 he served as lead counsel for a coalition of U.S.
soldiers, parents of soldiers, and members of Congress in a federal lawsuit challenging
President Bush's authority to wage war against Iraq. He was also lead counsel for the
Green/Libertarian Party-sponsored recount in Ohio in 2004. He authored "Warrior King: The
Case for Impeaching George W. Bush." In 2006, he was a Democratic candidate for
Massachusetts Secretary of State.

Steve Cobble is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is a former Political
Director and speechwriter for the National Rainbow Coalition, was National Delegate
Coordinator for Jackson for President '88, and directed the Keep Hope Alive PAC. He has
worked on many campaigns, including the winning efforts of Toney Anaya for New Mexico
Governor in 1982, and Carol Moseley Braun for U.S. Senator from Illinois in `92. He served as
an adviser to Dennis Kucinich in the last two presidential electios, and was heavily involved in
the post-election battle over the suppression of African-American votes in Ohio.

Rep. John Conyers, Jr., is chair of the House Judiciary Committee. Serving his 21st
term in Congress, he is the second most senior member of the House and dean of the
Congressional Black Caucus. He was also a founding member of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus, and an original member of President Nixon's "Enemies List."
Among his many accomplishments in Congress: the Violence Against Women Act of
1994, the Motor Voter Bill of 1993, the Martin Luther King Holiday Act of 1983, the
Alcohol Warning Label Act of 1988, and the Jazz Preservation Act of 1987. A legendary
force for peace, civil rights and social justice, Rep. Conyers has worked closely with
PDA to hold the Bush Administration accountable for manipulating Iraq intelligence, and
in exposing voting irregularities in Ohio in 2004. He is a Korean War veteran.

Jodie Evans has worked on behalf of community, social-justice, environmental, and
political causes for more than thirty years. She co-founded CODEPINK and co-authored
"Stop the Next War Now." She worked on the campaigns of California Governor Jerry
Brown and served as his director of administration. Between 1985 and 1990, was a board
member of the Women's Campaign Fund and Women's Political Committee. She serves on the
boards of a dozen non- profits including Rainforest Action Network, Dads and Daughters, Drug
Policy Alliance, Bioneers, 826 LA, and the Circle of Life Foundation.

Lila Garrett is a longtime activist, and award-winning screenwriter. She hosts "Connect
the Dots" on Pacifica's KPFK in Los Angeles. She was Southern California Chair of the
2004 Kucinich campaign, and past president of Southern California Americans for
Democratic Action. She has served on the boards of the ACLU, the Venice Family Clinic and the
Writers Guild of America. She founded Americans against War in Iraq
(AAWWI), and is a founding board member of the California Clean Money Campaign.
As TV-screenwriter, producer and director, she has won two Emmys and the Writers
Guild Award.

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva has been a stalwart advocate for economic justice the
environment, civil liberties and universal health care. He is a strong advocate of Native
American sovereignty. He supports humane, comprehensive immigration reform; his father was
a migrant worker from Mexico who entered the U.S. through the Bracero Program. Before
coming to Congress in 2003, he'd held public office for decades -- on the Tucson school board
and as a member and chairman of the Pima County Board of Supervisors.

Thom Hartmann is an award-winning writer, best-selling author and host of a daily radio show
syndicated nationally by Air America. On talk radio, he is known as a voice of reason and not
rant. His books include "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class," "We the
People: A Call To Take Back America," and "What Would Jefferson Do? A Return to
Democracy." His prophetic 1998 book on global environmental issues, "The Last Hours of
Ancient Sunlight," inspired Leonardo DiCaprio's web movie: "Global Warming".

Tom Hayden was a founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in
1961, and author of its visionary call, the Port Huron Statement. He was an active
opponent of the Vietnam War, helped lead demonstrations against the war at the 1968
Chicago Democratic Convention, and directed the Indochina Peace Campaign. He
was elected to the California state assembly in 1982 and the state senate ten years later,
serving eighteen years in all. Today, he is a leading voice for ending the war in Iraq,
combating sweatshops, and reforming politics through greater citizen participation.

Jim Hightower, national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the forthcoming
book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow, he has spent three
decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be--consumers, working
families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. Twice elected Texas Agriculture
Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom,
and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find
themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.

Rep. Barbara Lee is co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. She was elected
to Congress in 1998 in California's 9th district; she is the most senior Democratic woman on the
House International Relations Committee. She was the only member of Congress to vote against
the resolution broadly authorizing President Bush's use of force. She sponsored legislation
disavowing the preemptive war doctrine and led bipartisan efforts to end the genocide in Darfur.
She has been a leader in the global battle against HIV/AIDS, and for civil rights and civil
liberties. She formally objected in Congress to certifying Ohio's electoral votes after the 2004
election

Joe Libertelli is an administrator at the University of the District of Columbia's David A.
Clarke School of Law. He worked for years on grassroots political efforts in California,
including the Campaign for Economic Democracy and Democrats for Peace Conversion.
After earning a JD from the Antioch School of Law in 1985, he coordinated the
successful campaign to reestablish Antioch as the District of Columbia's public law
school and was subsequently elected to its Board of Governors.

Rep. James (Jim) McGovern, has been a Democratic member of the United States
House of Representatives since January 3, 1997, representing the 3rd District of
Massachusetts. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, earned a Masters of Public
Administration at American University in Washington, D. C., and was a staff member for
Senator George McGovern of South Dakota (to whom he is not related) and for
Representative Joe Moakley. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the House Rules
Committee, Chair of the House Subcommittee on Rules and Organization of the House,
sits on the House Budget Committee, and is a member of the Congressional Progressive
Caucus.

Joel Segal is a senior legislative assistant covering Social Security, veterans affairs,
housing, HIV/AIDS in Africa, and poverty issues for Rep. John Conyers. He has been a
long-time activist for universal health care, affordable housing, and environmental and
public health. He is the coordinator for Mr. Conyers' Congressional Universal Health Care Task
Force, "the Poor People's Caucus," and is the grassroots coordinator for the
new Incarceration & Sentencing Policy Caucus. He founded the Free China Movement
of over thirty groups inside and outside China, working for peace and democracy.

State Rep. Kyrsten Sinema is the youngest state legislator in Arizona.The ranking Democrat on
the Environment Committee, she was named the Sierra Club's Most Valuable Member in 2005.
She is known as a leading voice for equal rights for migrants and for LGBTQ people. She led
Arizona Together, a statewide political committee that defeated an anti-gay marriage amendment
in November 2006. Kyrsten works as an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work at
Arizona State University and practices criminal defense law. She co-hosts The Truth to Power
Hour on Air America Phoenix.

Norman Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. He has been
writing the weekly "Media Beat" column since 1992. Solomon is the founder and executive
director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is a longtime associate of the media watch group
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting). He is also senior advisor to the National Radio
Project. His most recent books include "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's
Warfare State" and "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death"
which was made into a documentary movie. Solomon has appeared as a guest on many media
outlets including the PBS "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, C-
SPAN, public radio's "Marketplace," and NPR's "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition"
and "Talk of the Nation."
David Swanson is the Washington Director of Democrats.com, co-founder of the
AfterDowningStreet.org coalition and creator of Meet with Cindy.org. He has worked as a
newspaper reporter, and as Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 campaign, Media
Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as
Communications Coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now. He is a member of and has served on the Executive Council of the
Washington/Baltimore Newspaper Guild. His website iswww.davidswanson.org.

Rep. Maxine Waters chairs the Out of Iraq Caucus, having entered Congress in 1991.
Following civil unrest in Los Angeles in 1992, she appeared widely in national media to discuss
the despair in urban America. She has called for redirecting resources from the "war on drugs" to
prevention and treatment, and for repealing mandatory minimum sentencing laws for minor drug
offenses. She spent 14 years in the California State Assembly, where she rose to the position of
Democratic Caucus Chair. She was a leader in the movement to end South African Apartheid.

Rep. Diane E. Watson became the first African-American woman to be elected to the Los
Angeles school board in 1975, after years working as a teacher and school psychologist,. In 1978,
she was elected to the California State Senate where she became chair of the Health and Human
Services Committee. In 1999, President Clinton appointed her to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the
Federated States of Micronesia. She was elected to represent California's 33rd Congressional
District in Congress in 2001. She chairs the Congressional Entertainment Industries Caucus.

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey is co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
and the first former welfare mother to serve in Congress. She entered the House in
1993 and chairs the Workforce Protections Subcommittee. The San Jose Mercury News called
her "the unofficial matriarch of the [anti-war] movement." A member of the House International
Relations Committee, she introduced the first resolution calling for troops to come home from
Iraq and convened the first congressional hearing on military exit strategies. She is an advocate of
conservation and clean, renewable energy sources.

Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., is the president and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus, a
national coalition of pop-culture social/political groups and youth leadership
organizations who believe in the collective power of persons aged 14-39. A community
activist, freedom fighter and hip-hop connoisseur, he has been a senior consultant for the
Russell Simmons' Hip Hop Summit Action Network and P. Diddy's Citizen Change
(Vote Or Die). Rev. Yearwood has been responsible for successful Hip-Hop Summits
in New York, L.A. Detroit, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Miami. He founded Hip Hop Voices
(H2V) as a subsidiary of Voices for Working Families (AFL-CIO). During the 2004 presidential
campaign, he helped create the first ever Hip Hop Team Vote Bus Tour, to involve young people
in political change.