Our board of international advisors guides the Brain Trust. We meets twice a year, but can consults regularly on more pressing issues.
Our Board
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Virginia Heffernan
journalist, critic and author, a contributing editor at POLITICO, a cohost of Slate’s Trumpcast podcast, and a columnist at FastCompany.
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Ann Pettifor
Council Member, Progressive Economy Forum (PEF), Director Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME)
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Savitri D
an artist, activist, the director and principal designer of Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping
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Ilona M. Otto
Ilona M. Otto holds the Professorship in Societal Impacts of Climate Change at the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz. She leads a research group focusing on Social Complexity and System Transformation.
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Nika Dubrovsky
an artist, author, director of the David Graeber Institute, founder of the Museum of Care