In my first career, I was a lawyer. I enjoyed my work for the first several years, but increasingly I felt that it was out of alignment with my passions and interests. I represented corporations, not real people. And often, I didn’t believe in the issues about which I was asked to advocate.

The Peter C. Alderman Foundation’s (PCAF) mission is to create a sustainable, culturally effective trauma treatment system in post-conflict countries around the globe by providing expert professional training to indigenous caregivers and establishing trauma treatment clinics to heal the emotional wounds of victims of torture, terrorism and mass violence. One billion people, a sixth of humanity, have directly experienced mass violence through civil war, ethnic cleansing or genocide in at least 50 countries around the world.

Debra Alderman is the director of the Center for Continuing Education at Antioch University Seattle
http://www.antiochseattle.edu/ce/index.html

Debra holds a master’s degree in education and has been trained as a facilitator of the conscious aging workshop curriculum based on Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's book From Age-ing to Sage-ing.

In 2000, Allen Andersson, chairman of Paperboy Ventures, launched the Riecken Foundation. His goal? To use a quintessentially democratic institution – a library – to bring prosperity and opportunity to Central Americans.

I have spent thirty years in sales, marketing and general management for traditional and new media businesses: CBS Television Network, ABC Radio Networks, WebMD, The Weather Channel, weather.com, Boomerang Mobile Media and The HealthCentral Network. I am an agent for change, an advocate for women, love outdoor activities and adventure travel.  I am actively involved in not-for-profit and for-profit advisory boards: College trustee, ThirdAge, Brandeis Center for Women and Aging, Wildlife Trust Bayer Diabetes Health Care, and Simmons School of Managment.