People

Dedicated people, building resilience

We are a diverse team of more than 100 people, with a small core office in Bolinas, California, and staff working in many parts of the world. Our visionary program directors lead from the heart and dedicate themselves to the challenges that face their own communities.

Board of Directors

Angela Oh

Board Director

Director, Gift of Compassion

Catherine Dodd

Board Director

Jaune Evans

Board Director

Katherine Fulton

Board Vice Chair

Lisa Simms Booth

Board Director

Omar Brownson

Board Director

Robert Mulhall

Board Director

Serena Bian

Board Director

Steven Bookoff

Board Treasurer

Stewardship Council

Arlene Allsman

Chief Operating Officer

Director, Commonweal Cancer Help Program

Oren Slozberg

Executive Director

Co-Director, Healing Circles Global

Stanley Wu

Steward

Director, The Resilience Project & Omega

Vanessa Marcotte

Chief Financial Officer

Victoria Santos

Director, Center for Healing and Liberation

Commonweal Staff

Alexa Pal

Bookkeeper

Program Coordinator

Amber Faur

Director, Power of Hope

Burr Heneman

Co-founder, Commonweal

Advisor, Environmental Health

Doron Hovav

Events and Database Coordinator

Elon Slozberg

Bookkeeper

Erin O'Reilly

Donor and Grants Manager

Francis Weller

Advisor, Commonweal Cancer Help Program

Heidi Paul

Payroll and Accounting Assistant

Jacob Scheidler

Site Manager

Kimmy Haines

Retreat Center Coordinator

Ladybird Morgan

Advisor, Commonweal Cancer Help Program

Melinda Stone

Bolinas Community Liason

Sharon Tonski

Donations Manager; Executive Assistant

Steve Heilig

Advisor, Environmental Health

Susan Grelock-Yusem

Director of Narrative Development

Tu2, YingMing Tu

Co-director, GoCompassion

Visual Artist

Waz Thomas

Senior Advisor, CCHP

Program Directors

Alex Dorsey

Director, Platform Impact Leaders Fellowship

Alexandra Destler

Director, SafetyNEST

Andrea Frey

Co-Director, Omega Resilience Awards

Anna O'Malley

Director, Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine

Armando Zumaya

Director, Somos El Poder

BJ Miller

Director, Center for Dying and Living

Barbara Sattler

Director, California Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice

Brenda Salgado

Director, Racial Healing Initiative

Cassandra Lynn Ferrara

Director, The Center for Ethical Land Transition

David Spaw

Director, Healing Circles Houston

David Steinhart

Director, Juvenile Justice Program

Deborah Cohan

Director, Foundation of Embodied Medicine

Diana Lindsay

Co-director, Healing Circles Global

Elin Stebbins-Waldal

Director, Healing Circles Langley

Em Miller

Director, Visual Thinking Strategies

Erina Mitich

Director, Partners For Youth Empowerment

Irwin Keller

Director, Taproot Gathering

James Stark

Director, Regenerative Design Institute

Jenepher Stowell

Director, Commonweal Retreat Center

Jenyng Wu

Director, project SOUL

Jim Quay

Director, Courage & Renewal Network of Northern California

Jordan Luftig

Director, Kinship Blooms

Kate Holcombe

Director, Healing Yoga Foundation

Kristin Schafer

Director, Collaborative for Health and Environment

Kyra Epstein

Director, The New School

Communications Manager

Lindsay Espejel

Deputy Director, Healing Circles Global

Madeleine Corson

Director, West Marin Review

Mark Valentine

Co-Director, Omega Resilience Awards

Michael Lerner

Commonweal Founder and Chair Emeritus

Board Chair Emeritus

Milicent Johnson

Director, Octavia Fund

Nancy Netherland

Director, Kids and Caregivers

Pauline Tesler

Director, Integrative Law Institute

Rachel Naomi Remen

Medical Director, Commonweal Cancer Help Program

Sharyle Patton

Director, Commonweal Biomonitoring Research Center

Valerie Chafograck

Director, Movement Liberation Fund