Board of Directors

Government relations expert, Linda worked on initiatives related to emergency preparedness, multi-sector conferences on critical infrastructure resiliency, bio-terrorism detection, emergency medicine research grants. Her federal government experience includes assignments at the House Armed Services Committee, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Naval Sea Systems Command. Her public service focused on the needs of children and families, including programs of sanitary supplies for African girls.

Professor of English at Duquesne University. He is the author of "Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy" (2015), and "James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound" (2005) and editor of Book History, the journal devoted to every aspect of the history of the book. 

He has written for scholarly and trade publications including Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Humanities, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Research Project Manager at Carnegie Mellon University, Anna Maria has been a long-time contributor to the school's R&D and education mission, including design and assessment of distance-learning technologies, design and assessment of

graduate programs in cybersecurity, and interventions for social science programs. She worked with local government in the context of outreach programs, and served on advisory panels for local non-profit organizations, including the Pittsburgh chapter of Emergency.

Heather is Associate Professor of Sociology at Fordham University.  She has authored academic books and articles on American politics and social movements, and opinion essays for news outlets like the Washington Post and CNN . Heather is a senior policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders.  Currently, she is writing "The New Power Elite", a remake of C. Wright Mills's classic text (Oxford University Press).

Michael teaches teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is best known for his book "Empire" (2000), co-written with Antonio Negri. His most recent book published, also with Antonio Negri, is "Assembly" (2017). He serves as editor of The South Atlantic Quarterly and is co-director, with Sandro Mezzadra, of The Social Movements Lab  at Duke University.

Francesco is a mechanical engineer and industry executive expert on hydrogen-based sustainable technologies for the production of metals. He is currently serving on several committees and associations in Latin America and the United States. From 1994 to 1998 he has been news correspondent from Spain for Italian radio stations and newspapers.

He lives in Pennsylvania since 2008.

Journalist and president of the Milan-section of ARCI, the largest secular non-profit associations in Italy, Maso has been War reporter from Nicaragua, Guatemala, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq. In 2009 he started the PeaceReporter project, which developed into E-ilmensile, the monthly magazine of the non-profit Emergency. In 2018 he was one of the founders of Mediterranea Saving Humans, where he served as vice president for 1 year term.

Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism. She is the Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.  Klein became known internationally for her alter-globalization book No Logo (1999). The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics, solidified her standing as a prominent activist on the international stage.

Achille Mbembe is a philosopher, political theorist, and public intellectual. He is a member of the staff at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and also has an annual visiting appointment at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.

He has written extensively in African history and politics, including “On the Postcolony” (2000), published by the University of California Press, Berkeley.

Cornel West is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual. West focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness." West draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including Christianity, the black church, Marxism, neopragmatism, and transcendentalism. Among his most influential books are Race Matters (1994) and Democracy Matters (2004).