Mary Wald, Chairman and President

Mary has worked in marketing, promotions and public relations for the publishing and graphic design industries for fourteen years. She worked on promotional and marketing campaigns for four New York Times best sellers and acted as Account Executive and/or Art Director on promotional projects for clients that have included Pepsi, Sprint, Warner Records, and more.

Mary owned New West Media, a San Francisco Bay Area web development firm, for three years, simultaneously running the Tibetan Students Project, a non-profit project which generated resources for Tibetan children in exile. She sold the firm in 2000 to work on TheCommunity.com full time.

Jose Ramos-Horta, Chairman of the Advisory Board

The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from East Timor has been a chief advisor to The Community.com almost from its inception.

He is the President of his country, but still finds the time in his hectic schedule to take our calls and emails, spend a few hours over dinner, and keep us pointed in the right direction on our priorities.

From the outset, when this site was little more than the germ of an idea of a web developer, and over the course of the last eight years, Jose has unfailingly provided the perspective and insight needed for us to keep us on track in what can be a very confusing area, peacemakers and peace-building.

Jesse Kornbluth, Director

If he's name sounds familiar, it is probably from a Vanity Fair cover article, or something in the New Yorker, Esquire, the New York Times or another national publication. Jesse was Editorial Director of America Online from 1996-2003 and has authored six books.

Bobbi Dunphy, Senior Vice President Media

Bobbi has a great passion for getting vital social issues on screen and creating awareness about the forces that shape our lives. She has a wealth of experience in both feature and documentary filmmaking, having worked for over 15 years in the film industry as a Producer, Line Producer and Researcher. She is well-versed in contemporary humanitarian issues and has served on the boards of a range of non profit organisations.

Bobbi is one of the founding members of the Global Peace Index (GPi) initiative and worked as its Project Manager from its inception.
 
She has recently made the move to California from her home in Sydney, Australia to assume the role as Senior VP Media for TheCommunity.com. She is looking forward to furthering her research on the links between Peace, Human Rights and Sustainability and believes that TheCommunity.com is the perfect arena for her current focus in this exciting new area.

Pat Boutin, Education Coordinator

A lifelong human rights activist, Pat served for seven years as Tibetan Coordinator for Amnesty International.

Already holding a Master's Degree in Fine Arts, she then went back to school for her teaching credential. A long time Artist in Residence for the school systems in the State of Washington, Pat was then contracted to develop Learning Essential curricula for the Washington school systems.

She has worked for six years as the Education Coordinator for the Hands on Children's Museum in Olympia, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she is recognized for innovative breakthroughs in educational programs for children.

Ian White, Designer

Ian was Creative Director for one of the large multinational ad agences in Australia when he dove off into the developing world. We first met up with him in East Timor where he was making films for the UN while training six young Timorese in the art of web design. These young people went on to set up the first web design firm in East Timor.

Ian provided provided support to us for a section of our documentary for the event celebrating East Timor's inauguration into the UN as a new nation, editing a short film that was used for East Timor's induction into the United Nations as its newest member state.

He has been known to send us designs from places such as Thailand where he was making a documentary on the young girls sold into sexual slavery from neighboring hill towns. One of his lastest missions was filming a documentary about unexploded bombs and landmines in Vietnam. He keeps in touch from random Internet cafes along the way.