Board
Members

Nizar Farsakh
Middle East Expert, Farsakh Training & Consulting, LLC

Nizar Farsakh is a trainer, private consultant, and public speaker who focuses his work around leadership, negotiation and advocacy. Between 2003 and 2008 Farsakh served as an adviser to senior Palestinian leaders including President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and various ministries. He is currently involved in several non-violence initiatives in Palestine and the U.S.

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Lisa Genn
Lawyer, Community Organizer & Activist
Lisa is currently working with numerous progressive Senatorial, Congressional and other campaigns on a major series of fundraising campaigns as well as on field organizing strategy. She works closely with emerging member leaders of communities most deeply affected by societal injustices on community-based campaigns designed to improve civic literacy and engagement as well as to empower underserved communities in the political arena.

Sulaiman Khatib
Co-founder of Combatants for Peace

Sulaiman Khatib is an elected member of the Peace NGO’s Forum. He is Co-Founder and former Director of Combatants for Peace, and was nominated for the 2017 & ’18 Nobel Peace Prize, on behalf of Combatants for Peace. He is a local organizer who has been recognized internationally for his contributions to promoting, peace, social justice and equality for all. He is a renown speaker and lecturer worldwide.

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Don Raphael
Chief Executive Officer and a Director, at Italfoods

Don Raphael worked as a CPA for Grant Thornton in the early 1980’s. In 1983 he became the Chief Financial Officer in the start-up of Descente America and Arena North America, and continued in that organization through the late 1990’s. Since 1999, he has been the Chief Executive Officer and a Director, at Italfoods, a locally owned importer and specialty food distributor in the Bay Area and on the West Coast.

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Carrie Skarda
Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a focus on Trauma and Mindfulness

Carrie Skarda has been a licensed clinical psychologist for 20 years, with particular interest in the impact of childhood trauma on adult relationships, forgiveness, and the practice of mindfulness.  She worked as co-director of training for psychology interns at the Antioch facility of Kaiser Permanente HMO in California, and is currently in private practice in Salt Lake City.

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Joseph Montville
Originator of “track two” diplomacy used by the USA State Department

Joseph V. Montville is the originator of “Track Two,” nonofficial diplomacy. He is Director of the Program on ‘Healing Historical Memory,’ School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, at George Mason University. He is also a Senior Associate and Chair of the Goldziher Prize Committee in the Center for the Study of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Relations at Merrimack College.

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Ben Linder
CEO of LunchBots, an environmentally sustainable lunchbox manufacturer
Ben Linder was born in Jerusalem and emigrated to the US as a child in 1976. He is a passionate advocate for a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During his time in Silicon Valley, Ben served as a leader in J Street’s local chapter, and as a liaison to Rep. Anna Eshoo. He actively participates in lobbying efforts with Congress and accompanies Congressional Delegations to Israel/Palestine with J Street.
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