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Art Ruiz CPCU, CLU, Chair - Director, Corporate Communications and External Relations, State Farm Insurance Companies, Washington, DC. Twenty-four years with State Farm. Part-time Visiting Scholar at the Center for Community Development and Civil Rights, Arizona State University. Extensive service on nonprofit Boards, including Raza Development Fund, National Hispanic Corporate Council, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), and Excelencia in Education. Degree in History from California State University, Los Angeles. Has earned the insurance designations of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Charter Life Underwriter (CLU). Mexican American.
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Marcus Scott, JD, PhD, Vice Chair – CEO of Metamorphosis Media and Executive Director of the Fre Institute for Civic Education. Metamorphosis Media is a Washington DC based media and management firm dedicated to facilitating organizational evolution through objective analysis, creative media production and common sense strategies for organizational change and advancement. Metamorphosis Media started with the idea that forward-thinking organizations and agencies of all sizes need reasonable and objective consulting services when it comes to answering fundamental performance and communications questions. The Fre Institute for Civic Education is a 501c(3) nonprofit bipartisan education organization dedicated to educating across generations to inspire democracy, engage equality and celebrate difference. Its unlearning racism and human rights training as well as its entrepreneurial framework help foster high school students’ self-awareness and civic participation. Nonprofit board experience in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe. African American.
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Alejandro Perilla, MPA, Secretary/Treasurer – Senior Director of Operations and Development, Center for Community Development and Civil Rights, Arizona State University, downtown campus, Phoenix. Former Vice President of Strategic Communications Group (SCG), National Council of La Raza subsidiary that manages all NCLR’s major public events. These include the American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Awards, the only English-language Hispanic prime time show on network television; the NCLR Annual Conference, the largest Hispanic event in the nation; and the NCLR Capital Awards, a Washington-based, bi-partisan celebration of members of Congress who promote NCLR’s policy agenda. Expert in nonprofit administration and events fundraising. Colombian American.
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Hung Bui, JD - Founding Partner at the law firm of Stein, McEwen & Bui, LLP in Washington, DC, which specializes in intellectual property (IP) law. Former partner at the law firm of Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP, in Arlington, Virginia. Previously worked in promoting technology and rural development in developing countries. Active with numerous Southeast Asian nonprofits: founding member and former General Counsel for the Vietnamese American Society; former Board member of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association; founding co-Chair of Asian American LEAD, a youth development organization; Chair of the Willows Foundation. Vietnamese American.
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Luís A. Miranda, Jr., - President of MirRam Group, Inc., which provides political consulting and polling services, and of Miranda y Mas, a consulting group that helps clients to navigate the diverse New York metropolitan market, assisting corporations in making strategic investments in communities, especially minority markets, and assisting nonprofit organizations to interact with government. Founder and former President, Hispanic Federation, a membership organization of more than 90 Latino health and human service agencies in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey that provides technical assistance and also makes grants through the Hispanic CORE Initiative, a Latino foundation. Former Chair, New York Health and Hospitals Corporation, which oversees the city’s public hospitals. Senior official in three New York City mayoral administrations. Puerto Rican.
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| Mary-Frances Winters, MBA – President and Founder of The Winters Group, Cheltenham, MD, an organizational development and diversity consulting firm established in 1984 that serves corporate, university, philanthropic, and nonprofit clients. Recipient of numerous awards as an outstanding woman and minority business leader. Life member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester, and a trustee of Roberts Wesleyan College. Author of Only Wet Babies Like Change: Workplace Wisdom for Baby Boomers and Inclusion Starts With "I" Co-author of CEO’s Who Get It: Diversity Leadership from the Heart and Soul. Former affirmative action and senior marketing official at Eastman Kodak Company. African American. |
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Emeritus Chair
Avideh Shashaani, Ph.D., President, Fund for the Future of our Children, Chevy Chase, MD, a nonprofit organization that initiates and supports children and youth programs internationally that work for peace and tolerance, including innovative Internet-based programs. Expert in creating multicultural and religious understanding through lectures, training, and writing. Sufi teacher who lectures internationally on Sufism and on women and Islam, and provides training in stress management and wellness programs. Iranian-American..
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