ABOUT >> Board Members
Ryan Burg
Ryan led an SRI campaign at the University of Pennsylvania
as president of the Penn Student Alliance to Reform Corporations
(SARC). Working with both students and administrators at
Penn, SARC made SRI a palatable option for Penn’s
trustees. Under his tenure, SARC took up the cause of the
active shareholder and the community investor alike.
In
May of 2003, the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
followed a SARC proposal and commissioned the Social Responsibility
Advisory Committee (SRAC). Ryan now sits on the SRAC which
inspired Penn’s trustees to vote the first proxy
resolutions in decades.
Currently, Ryan is a Ph.D. student
in Business Ethics and
Legal Studies at the Wharton School of Business at the
University of Pennsylvania. He writes on corporate power,
ethics and
legitimacy.
Julie Gozan
Julie Gozan is currently Director of Corporate Governance at Amalgamated Bank. Julie is responsible for executing shareholder initiatives on behalf of union members who have invested their retirement savings with the Bank: overseeing research on portfolio companies, filing shareholder proposals, engaging in dialogue with boards and management, and developing active proxy-voting strategies.
Julie has 15 years of professional experience in corporate accountability advocacy and activism. Prior to joining the Bank, she was a Senior Research Analyst with the Service Employees International Union’s Justice for Janitors campaign. She has also held positions with the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union and the Multinational Monitor magazine.
Julie holds a B.A. from Oberlin College (1992), where she was student representative to the Campus Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, and an M.A. from the University of Oklahoma.
Julie is also a director of the Syracuse Cooperative Federal Credit Union, a member-driven credit union and non-profit community development organization. She lives in Syracuse, NY with her partner and their 3-year old daughter.
Rose Levine
Rose Levine is an '05 graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she was a leader in the SRI student movement. After several years of strategic campaigning, the Mount Holyoke Board of Trustees voted in 2004 to approve an official SRI committee and to help raise funds for a trial investment. Rose sat on this committee until her graduation and served as a mentor for younger students just learning about SRI. Her areas of expertise include committee formation and student organizing, and she is especially passionate about community investment.
Rose currently lives in Philadelphia, where she works as an arts educator. She is also involved in prison reform and antiwar activism, and she loves to cook and eat.
Lillie Ris
Lillie Ris graduated from Duke University in May 2006. She is currently a Fulbright Fellow in Amman Jordan where she is learning Arabic and studying public elementary schools and the formation of national identity.
Lillie discovered SRI her freshman year at Duke when students launched a campaign calling for divestment. She wanted more information and so signed up to be an intern in social research at Trillium Asset Management in August 2003 and during the summer of 2004. As a sophomore Lillie worked with several existing Duke activist groups, Environmental Alliance, United Students Against Sweatshops, and others, as well as the Duke Coalition for Socially Responsible Investing to advocate for more student involvement and input regarding the social and environmental impacts of Duke's endowment investments. Duke University has since approved a socially responsible investing policy.
Lillie is from Lexington, MA. She currently lives in Amman and enjoys traveling around the region and attempting to prepare local cuisine.
Sarah Pritchard, the student representative on the board, is also an
active member of the Socially Responsible Investment Committee of Mt.
Holyoke College. The Mt. Holyoke committee invests and oversees a
fund separate from the College's endowment and is primarily focused on
Community Investment. Having been involved in decisions to invest in
Community Development Financial Institutions and screened mutual funds,
Sarah continues her work with the Mt. Holyoke committee through
outreach and fundraising.
In addition to her passion for Socially Responsible Investment, Sarah
is also committed to anti-war and fair labor activism on campus. Sarah
will graduate from Mt. Holyoke in the spring of 2009 with a major in
Critical Social Thought.
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