Staff, Board, and Trustees

Staff

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Michelle Long, Executive Director

Alissa Barron, Communications & Network Services Director

Mary Rick, Business Development Director

Michael Shuman, Research & Economic Development Director

Alie Walker, Administrative Coordinator & Executive Assistant

Chid Liberty, BALLE Fellow

Board of Directors

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Merrian Fuller, Chair, Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Matt Bauer, Vice Chair, founder, Lowcountry Local First

Paul Saginaw, Treasurer, co-founder, Zingermans' Family of Businesses

Don Shaffer, Development Committee Chair, CEO, RSF Social Finance

Ellen Shepard, Secretary and Governance Committee Chair, Local First Chicago

Baye Adofo-Wilson, founder, Lincoln Park/Coast Cultural District

David Korten, founder, People Centered Development Forum

Derrell Ness, CEO, Ready Distribution

Jamila Payne, founder, Milla by Mail; consulting director of business services, Queens Economic Development Corporation

Guillermo (Bill) Quiroga, director of rural and tribal entrepreneurship initiatives, McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship

Judy Wicks, founder, White Dog Café and founder, Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia

Sandy Wiggins, founder and principal, Consilience LLC

Trustees

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Cathy Berry, Sandy River Charitable Foundation

William Shutkin, chair, sustainable development and director of the Initiative for Development and Sustainability, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder