BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The As You Sow Board of Directors is comprised of talented and dedicated volunteers. Our Directors, all of whom are independent voting members, bring a broad range of expertise and interests including experience in social activism, publishing, education, environmental law, business, socially responsible investing, fundraising, and philanthropy.

 
 

Cari Rudd, Chair of the Board

2014 – current

Cari Rudd is a strategic communications consultant for social good. Cari helps organizations optimize their institutional assets towards clear, effective, and productive results. Cari is a solution seeker, bringing experience from public, private, and non-profit sectors to her leadership roles. Cari’s background as a film and television professional led her to produce award-winning ads and designing winning campaigns for candidates, companies, and causes. A former leadership aide to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Vice President at Fenton Communications, Cari blends her diverse background in politics, advertising, and marketing to her clients, advocacy, and funding priorities.

Cari is a member of Rachel’s Network, a collection of women committed to environmental protection and conservation. She currently serves as a board member to the Catalogue for Philanthropy, Rachel's Action Network, and the EthicMark Award for socially responsible advertising.

Cari has produced award-winning ads and designed winning campaigns for Democratic candidates.

Cari has produced award-winning ads and designed winning campaigns for candidates, companies, and causes.

 
 
 

Amanda Hanley, Vice President

2016 – current

Amanda Hanley has been promoting sustainable solutions for over 30 years. She is the Founder and Executive Director of a climate justice fund. This follows her role as a Co-Founding Director of the Hanley Foundation. In addition to As You Sow, she currently serves as a board member of the Global Catholic Climate Movement, working to promote Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ encyclical to care for our common home, and as a board member of the Academy for Global Citizenship, a green Chicago Public Charter School. Amanda helped found and advises the Hanley Sustainability Institute at the University of Dayton, one of the Sierra Club’s Top 20 Coolest Schools of 2018 and 2019. She is a member of the Natural Resources Defense Council‘s (NRDC) Green Leaders for Change, and an advocate and signatory of Divest-Invest Philanthropy. Amanda is a founding steering committee member of North Shore Green Women and a WIGhead organizer of Chicago Women In Green. She has served on the advisory board of Loyola University Chicago Institute for Environmental Sustainability, the advisory circle of the Archdiocese of Chicago Encyclical Working Group, and as a member of Fresh Taste, an initiative to advance the Midwest’s good food system. She has written about sustainability for local publications including Better and Crain’s Chicago Business. Amanda graduated from Northern Illinois University with a B.S. in Business Administration. She lives in the Chicago area with her kids.

Amanda helped found and advises the Hanley Sustainability Institute at the University of Dayton.

Amanda helped found and advises the Hanley Sustainability Institute at the University of Dayton.

 
 
 

Kaveri Marathe, Secretary

2018 – current

Kaveri Marathe is AYS’s Board Secretary and leads sustainability reporting at Quantis International, a global sustainability consultancy. She has dedicated her career to finding win-win-win solutions for business, the environment, and people, working with organizations large and small including the World Bank, Global Innovation Forum, IKEA, the United Nations, and others. From 2017-2019, she ran a clothing recycling startup called Texiles in the Washington, DC region. She is a frequent public speaker on sustainable fashion and circular economy and has presented at Sustainable Brands, Net Impact, on NPR, and for numerous student groups. She currently resides in Miami, Florida.

Kaveri is the Founder and CEO of Texiles, a clothing recycling startup.

Kaveri is the Founder and CEO of Texiles, a clothing recycling startup.

 
 
 

Annarie Lyles, Treasurer

2018 – current

Annarie Lyles, PhD, is on a mission to protect and restore the health of living systems, from individuals to habitats. Her work spans governance and activism with corporations (both for-profit and tax-exempt), supporting applied R&D initiatives, and managing impact investments. She also leads the family side of a closely-held private business, and advises several entrepreneurs and funds. She leads working groups on how businesses can better align with eco-health for a few impact business networks. At home, in New Jersey, with ecology professor Andy Dobson, she relishes rambles with hounds, getting her hands dirty doing local forest restoration, and other nature adventures.

Previously, she gained a decade of deal-making experience as a Business Development executive with publicly traded Genmab and Medarex (acquired by BMY). After earning a BS from Yale and a PhD in Biology from Princeton University, she worked in non-profit management as an animal curator at NYC's Central Park and Bronx Zoos. A frequent speaker, Dr. Lyles has authored over three dozen publications.

A frequent speaker, Annarie has authored three dozen publications.

A frequent speaker, Annarie has authored three dozen publications.

 
 
 

Thomas Van Dyck, Founder

1992 – current

Thomas has been a leader in the field of socially-responsible investing for more than 35 years. In 1992, he founded As You Sow, a shareholder advocacy organization, which engages corporations on environmental, human/labor rights and corporate social responsibility initiatives. In 2014, Thomas was a featured guest on Bill Moyers and Company and discussed the Divest/Invest movement which he helped initiate with his clients. In 2019, he was named for the second time as one of the Financial Times’ Top 400 Financial Advisors. He was also a featured speaker at the TedX Wall Street conference in 2012 and provided his expertise on SRI investing, which incorporates environmental, social and governance factors in institutional/individual client portfolio management to help lower risks and potentially improve returns. Thomas graduated from Duke University in 1980 with a B.A. in Political Science. He is a member of the advisory board at Center for Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua Business School. He is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and holds his Series 7 and Series 66.

Thomas was named one of the Financial Times, Top 400 Financial Advisors.

Thomas was named one of the Financial Times, Top 400 Financial Advisors.

 
 
 

Cecily Joseph

2021 – current

Cecily Joseph, is a nonprofit and advisory board member, lawyer and sustainability executive recognized as a thought leader and influencer in social and environmental responsibility, ethics and diversity. Cecily is the former Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at cybersecurity company Symantec Corporation, where she oversaw all environment, social and governance (ESG) programs, and led the Symantec Foundation. Cecily is an ongoing champion for diversity and inclusion, having also served as Chief Diversity Officer and pioneering numerous initiatives to increase diversity and equity within the technology industry and broader society.

Cecily has held various corporate leadership roles in her 30 year corporate career and has built and managed programs and teams in ethics and compliance, strategic philanthropy, community relations, environmental sustainability, and diversity and inclusion. Cecily currently serves on the Board of Directors of Mercy Corps and Net Impact, and is Adjunct Faculty and Advisor, Initiative for Equity and Social Justice, at Presidio Graduate School.

Cecily received the CEDAW Award for Human Rights from the City of San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women, recognition as one of the Multicultural Leaders of California by the National Diversity Council, and as one of the Most Influential People in Business Ethics by the Ethisphere Institute. Cecily holds a J.D. from Tulane University Law School and received her B.A. from the University of Miami.

Cecily is Adjunct Faculty and Advisor, Initiative for Equity and Social Justice, at Presidio Graduate School.

Cecily is Adjunct Faculty and Advisor, Initiative for Equity and Social Justice, at Presidio Graduate School.

 
 
 

Geoff Haynes

2021 – current

Geoff Haynes was a partner at Shartsis Friese LLP, a San Francisco boutique law firm, specializing in federal and state income tax law. He served as the chair of the firm's charitable contribution committee, and was instrumental in establishing an annual fellowship for recent law school graduates to work for non-profit organizations, and scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to attend college. He also was the chair of the firm's pro bono committee and frequently represented non-profit organizations on a pro bono basis. He was the President and Treasurer of the Family Violence Law Center, a non-profit legal organization that obtains restraining orders for victims of domestic violence, and received the organization’s first lifetime achievement reward. As an avid nature lover, he has almost fulfilled his goal of attending all of the National Parks in the United States. He received a B.A., M.A. and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

 
Geoff was the President and Treasurer of the Family Violence Law Center, a non-profit legal organization that obtains restraining orders for victims of domestic violence.

Geoff was the President and Treasurer of the Family Violence Law Center, a non-profit legal organization that obtains restraining orders for victims of domestic violence.

 
 

Jason Katz-Brown

2023 – current

Jason Katz-Brown is an engineering leader committed to righteous fights. He started his career in 2008 as a software engineer in Google's Tokyo office, then led internationalization at Airbnb as one of its first engineers. In 2018 Jason moved into politics, first to Des Moines to help elect the first two women ever to represent Iowa in Congress, then to Boston to lead the organizing technology team on Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign, where the team worked under a "Small Tech" mural and strove to empower every volunteer and voter in the fight for big, structural change. In 2020 he joined Data for Progress, a think tank and pollster that empowers political leaders with data and polling to advocate for progressive and popular public policy. Jason graduated with a B.S. and M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska because it is wonderfully welcoming and there are dozens of outdoor natural-ice rinks all winter long — here's to it staying that way.

Jason Katz-Brown is an engineering leader committed to righteous fights.

 
 
 
 
 

Advisory Board

 
  • Taraneh Arhamsadr, Consultant, Arham Communications

  • Nishita Bakshi, Senior Program Officer, Give 2 Asia

  • Ann Blake, Consultant, Health and Safety Standards Development Project at B Lab

  • Michelle Chan, Economic Policy Project Director, Friends of the Earth

  • Bob Clark-Riddell, President & Principal Engineer, Pangea Environmental Engineering

  • Larry Fahn

  • Amy Galland

  • Deborah Goldring, Professor, School of Business Administration, Stetson University

  • Robert Gould, President, SF Bay Area Chapter, Physicians for Social Responsibility

  • Lori Grace, President, Sunrise Center

  • Mark Lancaster, Footprint Network

  • Geoff Lomax, Sr Officer for Medical & Ethical Standards, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

  • Melissa E. Lopez, CFA, Research Analyst and Investment Committee Member, Wetherby Asset Management

  • Ric Lucien, CEO, Lucien & Co, Inc.

  • Jeff Mendelsohn, President/Founder, New Leaf Paper

  • Amanda Metcalf, Attorney, Law Offices of Amanda Metcalf Litigation

  • John Nees

  • Dara O’Rourke, Co-Founder, GoodGuide

  • Michael Passoff, CEO, Proxy Impact and Consulting Senior Strategist, As You Sow

  • Rafael Reyes, Executive Director, Bay Area Climate Collaborative

  • Neerja Raman, Distinguished Scholar, Stanford University

  • Alan Ramo, Emeritus Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law.

  • Tiffany Schauer, Founder & Executive Director, Our Children’s Earth

  • David Shearer, CEO, Full Circle Solutions

  • Guru Singh

  • Tim Smith, Senior Vice President, Environmental, Social, Governance Group, Walden Asset Management

  • Ruth Stringer, International Science & Policy Coordinator, Health Care Without Harm

  • Adam Werbach, Chief Sustainability Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi