GLOBAL MOMENTA LEADERSHIP

Founder and President Diana Ayton-Shenker works with private philanthropists, families, foundations and corporations to advance high-impact philanthropy, strategic partnerships and inspired social giving. Currently heading The Fast Forward Fund, she brings decades of work with philanthropy, the United Nations and other international organizations to promote practical and profitable solutions for effective human rights management, sustainable development, social entrepreneurship, and private-public partnerships. She has taught at the American University of Paris, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Hunter College where she directed the first undergraduate human rights program in the country. As an adjunct Professor at Bard College, Ms. Ayton-Shenker led seminars on Human Security, Conscious Citizenship, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with a focus on human rights and the international finance sector. The author of numerous articles on human rights, CSR, sustainable development and culture, her most recent book, A Global Agenda, analyzes contemporary issues facing the UN. Ms. Ayton-Shenker, currently the Senior Fellow in Venture Philanthropy & International Affairs at Bard College, is now working on a book on social leadership and philanthropic innovation. She has held senior positions with Mercy Corps, PEN, Human Rights Watch, and has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations. Ms. Ayton-Shenker received her LLM in International Law from the University of Essex Law School Human Rights Centre, and her BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, she is a certified yoga instructor, and the author of Tumbalalaika, an original collection of poems. After living and working in France, England, Spain, and Israel, Diana Ayton-Shenker has settled in Rhinebeck, New York, where she lives with her three children, and her husband and partner, British artist Bill Ayton, www.ayton.net. 

WHO WE ARE: GLOBAL MOMENTA NETWORK
To carry out its work, Global Momenta calls on a growing international network of consultants and strategic partnerships. Our collective expertise is drawn from diverse fields including law, business, philanthropy, finance, social entrepreneurship, public policy, international relations, organizational management, media and the arts.

Featured Consultant Partners:

Deborah Leipziger focuses on supply chain strategy and sustainability standards. She is the author of many books and articles in the field of corporate responsibility, including The Corporate Responsibility Code Book (Greenleaf, 2003), and played a key role in the development of the standard Social Accountability 8000. Widely recognized as a leading expert in these fields, Ms. Leipziger lectures frequently on these topics and has served as a corporate responsibility consultant advising multinational companies, investment funds, and standard-setting bodies. Ms. Leipziger holds an MPA from Columbia University and a BA (magna cum laude) in Economics and International Studies from Manhattanville College. Her native English and Portuguese are complemented by Spanish.

Joanne Bauer consults with foundations in the human rights arena, and is a specialist in environmental issues, human rights, international policy and Asia. She is Senior Researcher and New York Representative for the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, where she also manages a project on HIV/AIDS. She will be teaching a course on Business & Human Rights at Columbia University fall 2008.
 
For over ten years Joanne Bauer was Director of Studies at the Carnegie Council, where she founded and directed the Council's Human Rights Initiative and its multi-year project on values and environmental politics. From 1991-1994, Bauer was director of the Council's Japan Programs. Prior to joining the Council, Bauer held research positions in media, government, and banking.
 
An Asia specialist, Bauer is co-editor, with Daniel A. Bell, of The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 1999). From 1994-2005 she was the editor of the magazine Human Rights Dialogue and has published a number of articles and reviews on human rights and environmental topics. Her most recent book is Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments (M.E. Sharpe, 2006).

SPECIAL PROJECTS

ADAM BAZ, Arts & Social Justice Project Manager

Adam Baz is currently on leave to pursue independent creative art work. Adam coordinates Global Momenta’s partnerships with various sponsors, museums, organizations, and artists. Adam received his BA from Bard College, with a double major in Human Rights and Integrated Fine Arts, where he received the Bard College Human Rights Scholarship and the Bard Junior Fellowship Award, which financed an internship with political artist Paul Chan. Adam has done independent research and journalism in the Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico, and at the 2006 World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela. He has worked with the Anti-Racist Action Coalition, Greenpeace, Democracy Resources, and AmeriCorps. Adam is the author of The Inimical Gaze: Abu Ghraib, Digital Cameras, & the Subjugation of Vision as a Means to Power, a combined written and visual exploration of the correlation between vision and power

CONTACT US:
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