Board of Directors

Sarah Ansari (Treasurer)

CEO, Artizara.com

MBA from the institute of Business Administration

Kate Azar

Vice President, Nonprofit Strategy, PNC

Dr. Al Bennett

Dean Emeritus, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, UC Irvine

Former Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives, Executive Vice Chancellor, UC Irvine

Dr. Rudi Berkelhamer

Former Associate Dean Division of Undergraduate Education at UC Irvine

Aaron Cohen

Senior Staff Psychologist at UC Berkeley's Counseling and Psychological Services

Global Institute for Counseling and Student Mental Health

Dulcie Kugelman (Chair)

Board Member, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, UC Irvine

MA in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ulster

Dr. Roberta Lessor

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Chapman University

Former Dean of the Wilkinson College of Art, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Chapman University

David Rosten (Secretary)

President Rosten Capital Investment

Former Deutsche Bank Trader

Alex Schmitt

Former Middle East Program Alumni

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk

Dr. David Snow

UCI Distinguished Professor of Sociology

Co-Director, Center for Citizen Peace-building, UC Irvine

Daniel Wehrenfennig

Executive Director and Founder, Center for International Experiential Learning