The Center for Ethics in Action was established in 1996 as a non-governmental organization within the University of New England with a focus on women’s leadership. In 2002, the Center applied for and received its own tax exemption from the IRS.
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Board members include Anne B. Zill, For many years she has been a Program Associate with the Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust, and for the last 10 years at the University of New England she has also been the director of its Gallery of Art. Her traveling photography exhibition Women on War has been seen in seven venues to date.
Lois Barber is the founder and President Emerita of 20/20 Vision, and founder and director of Earth Action, a global network of over 2,500 civil society organizations in 165 countries. Recently, she helped create the World Future Council, a global council of ethical leadership. She is also an artist and author of an award-winning children’s book.
Martha Burk is a PhD political psychologist and the co-founder/president of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy, the past president of the National Council of Women’s Organizations in Washington, D.C., the Money Editor for MS. Magazine, and the author of Cult of Power: Sex Discrimination in Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It.
Kathleen D. Hendrix, a longtime feature writer with the Los Angeles Times, was a political appointee at the State Department during the Clinton Administration where she worked on policy preparations for and follow-up to the 1995 United Nations Beijing Women’s Conference. She was associate director of the President’s Interagency Taskforce on Women, a follow-up to Beijing. Currently she is senior advisor to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s annual Hilton Humanitarian Award, and also works as a consultant for several NGOs, including Women’s Edge and Vital Voices Global Partnership, and for Development & Training Services, a women-owned small business government contractor.
Marjorie Lightman, a doctor of letters in History, is a founder and principal in Q.E.D Associates LLC. She is consulting editor to the forthcoming North Africa volume of Women Writing Africa, and has co-authored two editions of A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Roman Women. She held the original Ford Foundation grant to organize the National Council for Research on Women, and co-founded the DC Women’s Working Group on International Human Rights in preparation for the 1995 United Nations Beijing World Conference on Women.
Victoria Mares-Hershey, a graduate of Michigan State University, is a writer and playwright. She is Director of Development at Portland West, a social Agency in Maine, and has founded the Institute for Practical Democracy and edited its publication, Stories We Must Tell Ourselves. She is a member of the Maine Arts Commission and serves on the Board of the Maine Civil Liberties Union.
Mimi Wolford is an arts educator and the founder/director of the M’Bari Institute dedicated to the promulgation of contemporary fine art by artists from African countries. She has curated two exhibitions at the University of New England, Colors of Africa and Out of Bounds, and co-curated an exhibition of African women artists in Cape Town, South Africa in connection with a Vital Voices Women’s Leadership Summit in January, 2007.