🔷 Mother Jones

◾ Our nonprofit newsroom is a reader-supported investigative news organization. Founded in 1976, Mother Jones is America’s longest-established investigative news organization. We are based in San Francisco and have bureaus in Washington, DC, and New York. We are independent (no corporate owners) and are accountable only to you, our readers. Our mission is to deliver hard-hitting reporting that inspires change and combats “alternative facts.”

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◾ CEO is Monika Bauerlein

Bauerlein was born in Germany, but has lived in several countries, including Italy, where her father, Heinz Bäuerlein, was a foreign correspondent. She came to America on a Fulbright scholarship and worked as a stringer for a variety of publications including Germany’s Die Zeit and the Associated Press.Between 1991 and 2000, she was a writer, managing editor, and interim editor in chief at City Pages, which became the sister paper to the Village Voice in Minneapolis/St. Paul in 1997.

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◾ Board of Directors

• Chairperson is Judy Wise-She served on President Obama’s Commission on White House Fellowships. Previously, she served as executive director of the Committee on Illinois Government and worked in the news department at both NBC TV and **CBS TV **in Chicago.
• Richard Melcher-He is a founding principal of Melcher & Tucker Consultants, a Chicago-based strategic marketing and communications firm advising small and midsize companies and nonprofit organizations. He spent two decades at Business Week magazine, managing bureaus in Chicago and London.
• Sara Frankel-couldn’t find any confirmed info other than what the site says: She founded and ran two internet startups, invested in multiple startup companies, and is currently working on a book.
• Susan Sachs-In 2004, she joined Common Sense Media as the founding COO and returned for a stint as president in 2010. Prior to that, Sachs worked for 18 years at Time Warner Inc., where she held various finance, advertising and publishing positions worldwide.
• Rafael Agustín-He serves as CEO of the Latino Film Institute, where he oversees the Youth Cinema Project, the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF), and LatinX in Animation.
• Omar Alam-He is Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Salesforce, where he leads the M&A Legal team. In this role, he serves as a trusted advisor and business partner to Salesforce’s global M&A program and Salesforce Ventures, the company’s in-house venture capital arm. Prior to Salesforce, Omar practiced **corporate law at WSGR **in the Bay Area, representing innovative technology companies throughout their business life cycles. Omar began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Virginia Kendall on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
• Jane Butcher-Co-founder of the Butcher Symposia and Seed Grants • Board member of the Local Theater Company • Trustee of the Boulder Community Health Foundation • Former chair of the Conference on World Affairs • Foundation for National Progress Board Member
• Bích Ngọc Cao-She has enjoyed an unconventional career path that includes stints at organizations and companies such as Define American, (RED), the Los Angeles Times, Harvest Records, Warner Bros. Records, and MySpace. A lifelong Angeleno and USC alumna, she served for eight years as president of the Board of Library Commissioners for the city of Los Angeles.
• André Carothers-He is also general partner at the Batchery, a Berkeley-based early-stage startup incubator, and serves on the board of directors of the Furthur Foundation, the Weinmann Charitable Trust, the New Place Fund, the Rainforest Action Network, and the Story of Stuff Project.
• Lauri Fitz-Pegado-In the private sector, she advised countries, corporations, individuals, and nonprofits as a senior executive at Hill and Knowlton and Gray and Company, and as a partner at the Livingston Group. She also was an executive at Iridium, the global mobile satellite communications company.
• Bill Gee-He owned and operated a Chicago-based commercial baking business (Cloverhill Bakery) for 30 years. He has served for nine years as a board member for Chicago Public Media (WBEZ), participated on ProPublica’s Leadership Council, and worked closely with the Global Press Institute and The Trace.
• Linda W. Gruber-She is the president of the Gruber Family Foundation, established in 1987. The foundation funds in the areas of women’s issues, human rights, the arts, progressive journalism, and education.
• Emily Harris-(can’t find any more info) She joined the staff in 2018 after working in accounting in a variety of industries, including advertising and politics.
• Angie Jean-Marie-She is the founder and principal of Fait La Force Strategies, a boutique social impact consultancy and more than a decade working in policy and politics.
• Clara Jeffery (Editor in Chief)-Before joining Mother Jones, Jeffery was a senior editor of Harper’s magazine; she cut her journalistic teeth at Washington City Paper.
• Jonathan Logan-He is the founder and CEO of the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, which supports investigative journalism, documentary film and arts and culture and whose work is dedicated to social justice and strengthening democracy.
• Susan Mayer Hirsch-She is the founder of Hirsch Philanthropy Partners (now joined with Third Plateau), where she guides philanthropists to think bigger and bolder – to continually imagine new possibilities that create lasting impact.
• Grace Molteni-She is a senior designer at Mother Jones
• Gina Pell-Currently she is the Content Chief of The What. She also presides over The What Alliance, a private invitation-only social and professional network of world-class leaders from early stage entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 executives.
• Ken Pelletier-He has led several software and design projects over a 30-year career, most recently as CTO at Groupon.com. He is an investor and adviser to several early-stage startups and serves on the board of the Old Town School of Folk Music, and the Awesome Foundation of Chicago, and is partner and board member at City Winery Chicago.
• Ashok Ramani-He is a partner with Davis Polk, where he heads the firm’s IP Litigation practice.
• Vincent Robinson-He founded the firm The 360 Group in 2004 to realize his commitment to leadership in social sector organizations. He previously worked in the investment management division of Goldman Sachs.
• Robert “Rosey” Rosenthal-He worked for 22 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer, starting as a reporter and becoming its executive editor in 1998. He became managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle in 2002.
• Rinku Sen-She is a writer and a political strategist. She is currently the executive director of Narrative Initiative, where she weaves the power of narrative together with other social change strategies to advance equity and justice.
• Phil Straus-He served for 10 years on the board of the Center for Defense Information and is still fighting to control the Pentagon’s budget.
• Gabriel Stricker- Previously, he served as chief communications officer at Color Health, chief communications officer at Emerson Collective, vice president of policy and communications at Google Fiber, vice president of communications at Niantic and chief communications officer at Twitter.
• Ekow Yankah-He is a professor of law at Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. His work focuses on criminal theory and punishment and political theory, and particularly questions of political obligation and its interaction with justifications of punishment.

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