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About the IFG |
IFG History |
IFG Board of Directors |
IFG Staff
Victor Menotti (bio | email)
Executive Director |
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Jerry Mander (bio | email)
Founder and Distinguished Fellow |

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Eileen Hazel (bio | email)
Finance Manager
Katie Damasco (bio | email)
Office Manager |
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IFG Scholars
Oronto Douglas (bio | email)
Africa Scholar in Residence
Dale
Wen (bio | email)
IFG China Scholar
2009-2010 Staff Transitions
Laura Delman
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Administrative Assistant
Claire Greensfelder (email)
Consultant, Land is Life
Coordinator, Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change
Alexis Halbert
Yeshica Weerasekera
Program Officer, International Development Exchange
2010 Summer & Fall Interns
Karen Abella
Noemi Barrios
| Susanna Beck (bio) |
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Megan Brogan (bio)
Maria Centeno (bio)
Keli Cerquera
Cody Field
Kelsey MacLeod
Debby Oscar
| Linnea Richter (bio) |
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Paola Romero
Fernanda Sausen (bio)
| Annaick Seifollahi (bio) |
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| Henry York (bio) |
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IFG
Board Announces Leadership Transition, March 2009
Employment and Internship
Opportunities
Communications Internship Positions Available
Basic Function:
Provides program assistance and administrative support for the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) Communications Department. Current priorities include updating IFG's website, Facebook, and YouTube Channel pages; drafting and sending email blasts; maintaining IFG's database; outreach and networking; graphic design; and publication production support.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Communications:
* Updates IFG's website, Facebook, and YouTube Channel pages.
* Builds and maintains contacts in FileMaker Pro 7 database.
* Designs graphics and layouts for web and print.
* Monitors and posts current events and news.
Administrative Support:
* Copy, edits and proofread.
* Develops and maintains spreadsheets and databases.
* Screens calls to determine purpose and nature of requests.
* Maintains paper and electronic files.
* Prepares and sends mass mailings.
Must have experience in: FileMaker Pro 7, Dreamweaver 8, Microsoft Office, EmailNow, Facebook and YouTube.
To apply for the internship, please submit a cover letter and
resume to:
kdamasco@ifg.org
Staff Biographies
Full length bios available upon request.
Victor
Menotti, Executive Director (email)
Victor Menotti was the IFG's first employee upon its founding in 1994 and in 2009 became its Executive Director. Victor has written and spoken extensively about the impact of globalization on ecosystems, and he has helped build international networks among the traditional farming, forest, fishing, and indigenous communities whose survival depends on them. He is the author of the IFG report, “Free Trade, Free Logging: How the World Trade Organization Undermines Global Forest Conservation,” “The Other Oil War: The Halliburton Agenda on WTO Energy Services,” the chapter “WTO and Native Sovereignty" in Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization, and, ”The WTO and Sustainable Fisheries” for the Institute for Fisheries Resources. Victor learned to speak Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and some Slovak, after earning his degree in International Relations from UCLA.
Jerry
Mander, Founder and Distinguished Fellow (email)
In addition to his role at IFG, Jerry Mander is the former program
director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, and is the former
founder and executive director of the Public Media Center. Back in
the 1960s Mander was president of a major San Francisco advertising
company before turning his talents to environmental campaigns that
kept dams out of the Grand Canyon, established Redwood National Park,
and stopped production of the Supersonic Transport. His books include Four
Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), In
the Absence of the Sacred (1991), The Case Against the Global
Economy And For a Turn Toward the Local, co-edited with Edward
Goldsmith (1996), and Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A
Better World is Posssible.
Eileen Hazel, Finance Manager (email) Eileen Hazel has been with IFG since June 2010. From 2004 - 2008, she was the Director of Finance and Operations at Changemakers, an organization working to transform the values and practice of philanthropy in order to assure a more equitable and accountable distribution of resources for creating positive social change. She was also the Business Manager at KPFA Radio, the flagship station of the progressive Pacifica Foundation. She earned her degree in International Relations from the University of Minnesota.
Katie
Damasco, Office Manager (email) Katie
Damasco has been with IFG since February 2006. Starting out as an
intern, she was a primary researcher for IFG’s publication, The
Rise and Predictable Fall of Globalized Industrial Agriculture,
by Debi Barker. Katie also assisted with the production of IFG’s
last two Teach-Ins: Indigenous People’s Resistance to Economic Globalization
(November 2006—New York City) and Confronting the Global “Triple
Crisis” (September 2007—Washington, D.C.). She earned her degree
in Global Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara
in 2005.
Scholar Biographies
Oronto Douglas , Africa
Scholar in Residence (email)
Oronto Douglas is a leading human rights attorney in Nigeria, and served
as one of the lawyers on the defense team for the Ogoni leader Ken Saro
Wiwa, who was executed by Nigeria's military rulers in 1995. Douglas
co- founded Africa's foremost environmental movement, the Environmental
Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria and has served in the board
of several non profit organisations within and outside Nigeria. Though
he has been arrested and tortured by successive military regimes, he
continues to work for and speak out on issues of social justice in a
corporate- military state. He was the first Niger Delta activist to be
hosted by a serving American President – he presented the Niger-Delta
struggle at the White House to President Bill Clinton. Douglas who advises
the Nigerian Vice President on strategic issues of community and the
environment, is a fellow of both the George Bell Institute (England)
and the International Forum on Globalisation (USA). Widely traveled,
Douglas has presented papers in over 200 international conferences and
has visited over 50 countries to speak and present on human rights and
the environment. He is the author of several works including the ground
breaking WHERE VULTURES FEAST, Shell and human rights in the Niger Delta
which he co-authored with his friend Ike Okonta.
Dale
Wen, IFG China Scholar (email)
Dale Wen is working with IFG on China and globalization issues. Coming from
China in 1993, Dale got her PhD from California Institute of Technology and
previously worked in the high-tech industry. Starting with voluntary work in
rural China, she witnessed the plight of the rural community and began to question
the top-down globalization model. Several of her papers regarding sustainable
development and rural education have been presented in international
conferences in China. Her primary interests are in environment, education
and women’s issues. She also serves as an advisor for the Rural China
Education Foundation.
Intern Biographies
Susanna Beck has worked with several international development organizations around the world and is currently the Foundation Relations Manager for the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association. She has a strong interest in social and environmental issues related to food sovereignty and her work with IFG has helped further these interests. Susanna holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California San Diego and is currently working on a Master of Arts degree in International Relations.
Megan Brogan comes to the IFG by way of Eugene, OR, where she attends the University of Oregon. She is pursuing a degree in International Studies and Economics, and will be studying abroad in Argentina in the fall of 2010, where she is excited to experience a beautiful new culture and language. Originally from San Jose, CA, Megan learned about the IFG through The Story of Stuff, a 2010 book by IFG board member Anne Leonard. Megan is most concerned with climate change and its effects on developing countries, as well as environmentally responsible models of development for communities in the Global South.
Maria Centeno is a student at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and is pursuing a degree in International Relations. Maria is originally from Lima, Peru, though she has lived in California for nine years and considers it a second home. It was a presentation at SFSU by IFG’s Executive Director, Victor Menotti, which originally sparked Maria’s interest in the organization. Human rights and foreign policy are especially important to Maria, who also enjoys experiencing new and diverse cultures.
Linnea Richter hails from Hamburg, Germany. Work, education, and interning have taken her to Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Austria, where she currently attends the University of Vienna. Her education has focused on Development Studies and International Relations. It was IFG’s analysis of agrofuels that first caught Linnea’s attention; she has much respect for the IFG staff and its work. Linnea is especially interested in the Brazilian livestock trade and its links to deforestation; the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP); and the UN’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) program. Linnea also takes inspiration from Bay Area activism, in particular, Food Not Bombs.
Fernanda Sausen Originally from Venâncio Aires, RS, Brazil, Fernanda has been an international student in San Francisco since 2007. Fernanda has a technical degree in Education, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Tourism from the Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil. She is currently working toward a Master’s degree in International Relations at San Francisco State University, through which she initially learned about the IFG. In addition to her educational background, Fernanda has had work experience as an elementary school teacher, events organizer, and NGO director. Through her membership with the Rotary Clubs of Venâncio Aires and San Francisco, Fernanda has also taken part in projects for charity and peace. Fernanda is most concerned with sustainable development, trade relations, water and food sovereignty, human rights, peace, and international security. She is also passionate about the mobilization of communities and organizations for social progress.
Annaick Seifollahi hails from Strasbourg, France, where she studied International and European Law. She also spent a year at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, studying international law as it pertains to energy and the environment. She will graduate in September from the University of Strasbourg with a Masters in Environmental Law. Anna learned about IFG through the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, an NGO based in the Bay Area, and is particularly concerned with climate change, forests, and indigenous communities. She thinks cheesecake is awesome.
Henry York is a student at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and is pursuing a degree in Liberal Studies. Born in Portland, OR, and raised in Boise, ID, Henry considers San Francisco his new home. It was a presentation at SFSU by IFG’s Executive Director, Victor Menotti, which originally sparked Henry’s interest in the organization. Immigration and trade policy are of particular interest to Henry. He also thinks skateboarding and street art are pretty great.
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