IVOH Board of Directors

Roberta Baskin, President

Roberta Baskin has recently accepted a newly created position at the
Inspector General's office in Health and Human Services as Senior
Communications Advisor. The opportunity developed following a series of investigative reports she did on a chain of dental clinics that exposed small children to unnecessary and painful treatments in a scheme to profit from Medicaid. Currently, she's working on a Frontline investigation about for-profit education to air on PBS next year.

Roberta has won more than 75 journalism prizes, including three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Awards, two George Foster Peabody
Awards, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Radio-Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow Award, and numerous Emmys. But her proudest achievements are righting wrongs, changing laws, and transforming the way companies do business.

During her distinguished journalism career, Baskin has served as the Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, the senior Washington correspondent for "NOW with Bill Moyers," senior investigative producer for the ABC News magazine 20/20, chief investigative correspondent for the CBS News magazine 48 Hours, and contributed special reports to the CBS Evening News. Roberta began her career as an investigative reporter in Chicago and Washington D.C.

Jacqueline Cambata, Treasurer

Born in Bombay India, Jacqueline Cambata grew up in five countries. Influenced by the artwork of India, in 2002, she established the Triad Company Limited to exhibit her Limoges porcelain designs based on 15th Century Indian Mughal Art. "Mughal Art" is the synthesis of Persian and Indian cultures converging to create exquisite storytelling of the Mughal Empire.

Prior to establishing The Triad Company Limited, Jacqueline was founder and President of Phoenix Chemical Limited. Entrepreneurship and business as an agent of change are her passions. Ms. Cambata is dedicated to the elimination of global poverty, and a portion of profits from the sale of Jacqueline Cambata Porcelain will be donated toward Microfinance projects. Ms. Cambata is on the Ethical Marketplace Board of WETV, a television series looking at socially responsible business practices. She is featured in the book Merchants of Vision: People Bringing New Purpose and Values to Business by James Liebig. Ms. Cambata is on the Advisory Board of The Center of Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western University.

Rita Cleary, Secretary

Rita Cleary is a social entrepreneur whose background encompasses over twenty years of experience in organizational and community development. She is founder of The Learning Circle, a company that represents thought leaders in the management sciences who offer innovative methodologies in organizational learning, sustainability and appreciative inquiry.

Rita is also Founder of The Visions Of A Better World Foundation. The Foundation was created in 1994 as a result of a global dialogue held at the United Nations. The Foundation is dedicated to igniting the spirit of all people to conceive and make real their visions for a better world. In cooperation with other national, professional and grass roots organizations, the Foundation seeks to build bridges across sectors and cultures through dialogues and appreciative inquiry to generate collaborative learning for the common purpose of creating a better world.

Since 1999 the Visions Of A Better World Foundation worked in partnership with Case Western Reserve University and the Brhama Kumaris World Spiritual Organization to launch and sustain the Images and Voices of Hope Global Conversation Project. This project convenes conversations of media professionals in all parts of the world to explore the question of how the media could become more of an agent of world benefit.

From 1992 to 1995, Rita served as a member of the Governing Council of the MIT Organizational Learning Center. In 1995 she served as a Founding Design Team Member in the creation of the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL).

 
David Cooperrider

David Cooperrider is the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Director of the University Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. He is also Professor of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University.

Mr. Cooperrider's interests include the theory and practice of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as applied to corporate strategy, change leadership, and positive organizational scholarship. David is pioneering the AI Summit method--a large group and network-based approach-- for advancing business innovation and creative design. David's founding theory in AI is creating a positive revolution in the leadership of change, helping companies and communities discover the power of strength-based approaches to planning, empowerment, and multi-stakeholder collaboration. David has worked with clients such as the US Navy, Hewlett-Packard, Parker Hannifin, and the United Nations. With His Holiness the Dalai Lama, President Jimmy Carter, and thousands of religious leaders of every faith, he helped to build the United Religions Initiative that has over 400 peace-building centers located on every continent. David has published 14 books, authored over 50 articles, and has received numerous awards.

Jon Funabiki

Jon Funabiki is a Professor of Journalism at San Francisco State University. He has developed a new interdisciplinary center on emerging opportunities for community and ethnic news media. Before that he was with the Ford Foundation, where he was Deputy Director of the Media, Arts & Culture (MAC) Unit and was responsible for the Foundation's multimillion-dollar grant-making strategies on news media issues.

Funabiki was the founding director of San Francisco State University's Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism. A former reporter and editor with The San Diego Union, he is a graduate of San Francisco State University. Funabiki was awarded the John S. Knight Professional Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, the Jefferson Fellowship at the East-West Center of Honolulu, a National Endowment for the Humanities Professional Summer Fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was a visiting scholar at the Center on Politics and Public Service at the UC Berkeley. Funabiki serves on the boards of the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Insight Center for Community Economic Development.

Gayatri Naraine

Gayatri Naraine has been a part of Images and Voices of Hope since its inception, working as one of the main organizers of the first IVoH Conversation in New York City in 1999 and helping to facilitate conversations in Africa, Malaysia, and various locations in the United States. She currently serves on the board of directors of Images and Voices of Hope.

Gayatri is a spiritual educator, writer and speaker. Since 1980 she has been the Brahma Kumaris' (BK) representative to the United Nations in New York. As the BK's representative to the UN, her role has been to identify areas of UN policies with practical relevance for individuals' lives; to explore and develop values-based and spiritual dimensions of these areas; and to create programs and publications to expand awareness through the BKs network in 120 countries. Gayatri was pivotal in the development of the Living Values Education program and worked closely with UNICEF and UNESCO in its implementation. She has also contributed to ILO's (International Labor Organization) Agenda on Decent Work in their consultation with nongovernmental organizations.

She is also part of the design team for the Call-of-the-Time Dialogues, a global leadership dialogue and has spent the last ten years exploring the transformational depth of silent reflection and the impact this has on the actions we take for world benefit.

Christina Caravallo Pinto

Christina Carvalho Pinto is President and owner of the Full Jazz Communications Group and the most recognized feminine name in Brazil's advertising history. She is a tireless defender of deep reforms of the content of media in a more ethical and constructive way. She was the first woman to lead a multinational group in Latin America - the Group Young & Rubicam, where she was a partner for seven years.

Columnists Award recognized her twice as the "Professional Advertiser of the Year". In 1991 the Brazilian Association of Columnists and Advertisers named her, "Professional of the Decade". In 1997, the same group recognized Christina as one of the five greatest professionals in her sector over the past thirty years. Twice, Forbes Magazine called her The Most Influent Woman in the sector of Marketing and Communications in Brazil. Christina has collected hundreds of awards for her advertising work in national and international competitions. Today she is also a television personality in Brazil, anchoring the program, "Ethical Markets", a planetary media platform on sustainability.

Judy Rodgers

Judy Rodgers is the founding director of Images and Voices of Hope. She was recruited from radio in the pioneer days of the prerecorded video business in 1982, where she started as assistant director of sports production for Twentieth Century Fox Video. She left sports and moved to an educational division of CBS-Fox Video, where she served as Director or Programming and then Vice President. She was one of a small group of investors that bought the division from CBS-Fox in a leveraged buy-out and for many years she was executive vice president for the new company, Video Publishing House. Eventually she left the field, returning for a brief period at New World Entertainment, where she was recruited to start up an educational division. In 1999 she and a small group organized the first Images & Voices of Hope conversation in New York City. Aware they had "hit a nerve," on the topic of media's impact on society, they organized in order to continue to sustain the conversations.

Michael Skoler

Michael Skoler is a 2009-10 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is studying successful online content ventures and writing about new business models to support quality news coverage in today's information-sharing culture.

Skoler entered journalism after leaving the French wine business and buying a book titled How to Be a Freelance Writer. His work in print, radio, television and the Web has received numerous honors including the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Robert Kennedy F. Memorial Award, and a Nieman fellowship.

Skoler has written for magazines ranging from Glamour and Reader's Digest to American Health and Medical World News. He produced a daily, syndicated radio show on science for CBS, reported for WGBH-TV in Boston and wrote for the popular Let's Go budget travel guides. He spent a decade at National Public Radio, first as a science editor and correspondent and then as a foreign correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya, where he covered Mandela's election in South Africa, the Rwandan genocide, Sudan, and other stories.

In 1999, Skoler earned an MBA at the University of Virginia as a Frank Batten Media Fellow and joined McKinsey and Company as a management consultant serving media and technology companies.

In 2003, he became managing director of news for American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio. There, he created Public Insight Journalism, a new model that efficiently brings newsrooms into partnershp with the audience on defining stories, newsgathering and production.

Public Insight Journalism relies on a growing citizen source network of 75,000 and has spread to eight other news organizations around the country. Partner newrooms, Minnesota Public Radio News, and national shows, such as Marketplace and Speaking of Faith, use the network to identify emerging stories, define major news projects, gather information on deadline and communicate daily with diverse public sources to help set the coverage agenda.

In 2006, Skoler became the founding executive director of the Center for Innovation in Journalism at American Public Media. Skoler was executive producer of the audience-designed show, In The Loop, and led the creation of 4 popular online news games that tap public knowledge. The most recent game, Budget Hero, was released for the 2008 election.

Skoler left the Center in July 2008 to take a one-year family sabbatical in southern Mexico. He has taught and lectured on journalism in the U.S., Europe and Africa.

Dr. Robert M. Steele

Dr. Robert M. Steele is the Director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He is also a professor at DePauw specializing in courses in Leadership and Responsibility; Journalism Ethics; and Values and Storytelling. He is a 1969 graduate of DePauw where he majored in economics. He earned a masters degree in television-radio from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from The University of Iowa where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on journalism ethics. He has received an honorary doctorate in journalism from DePauw University and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Emerson College. He served in the U.S. Army from 1969-1972, including ten months as a communciations officer in Vietnam where he was awarded a Bronze Star for Meritorious Service.

In addition to his work at DePauw, Bob Steele is also the Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, FL where he was on the faculty for nearly 20 years. At the Poynter Institute he has worked with thousands of professional journalists on issues of ethics, values and leadership.He led ethics workshops for over 100 news organizations around the United States. He has also conducted journalism ethics sessions in South Africa and in Latin America.