PhotoPhilanthropy is honored to have the following talented individuals join our Advisory Council:
Phil Borges Award Winning Photographer, Humanitarian, Founder of Bridges to Understanding, Stirring The Fire and Blue Earth Alliance
For over twenty years Phil Borges has documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. He has worked on projects with Amnesty International, Discovery and National Geographic. More recently, Phil’s work has included the project Stirring the Fire, a resource devoted to promoting gender equality worldwide. He is the founder of Bridges to Understanding and Blue Earth Alliance. In 2007 American Photo magazine named him as one of the “10 photographers that inspire us.” Phil graduated from University of California as a Regents Scholar in 1969. He is currently based in Seattle.
Anne Marie Burgoyne Portfolio Director at Draper Richards Foundation
Anne Marie Burgoyne is a Portfolio Director at the Draper Richards Foundation. She is responsible for identifying and supporting Foundation Fellows. Currently, Anne Marie serves on the Boards of One Acre Fund, LivingGoods, Mapendo International, Spark, Agora Partnerships, Global Citizen Year and Mission Continues. She is on the advisory councils for Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Consulting Team, Net Impact and the Global Social Venture Competition. Anne Marie holds an M.B.A. and Public Management Program certificate from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
David Burnett Award Winning Photojournalist and Co-Founder of Contact Press Images
David Burnett has worked as a photographer in over 80 countries, documenting the Vietnam War, the coup in Chile (1973), revolution in Iran (1979), famine in Ethiopia (1984), the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), and the US military intervention in Haiti (1994). He is the co-founder of Contact Press Images in 1976, and is a recipient of the Robert Capa Gold Medal and the World Press Photo “Press Photo of the Year.” A veteran journalist of the political scene in Washington, he has photographed every American president from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama. He is currently based in the New York area.
Valenda Campbell Director of Photography and Manager of Brand and Creative Productions, CARE International
Valenda Campbell is the director of photography and manager of the brand and creative productions teams for CARE, a leading global humanitarian organization. She conceives and directs photo commissions that put a human face on global poverty, while connecting donors and the public to CARE’s work. In 2004 Valenda created CARE’s partnership with photographer, Phil Borges, to develop the “Women Empowered Project” which led to the publication of the book, Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World, as well as a traveling exhibition and four short documentary films. Before joining CARE in 2001, Campbell was a photojournalist for 15 years.
Lou Desiderio President and Founder of Synergy Communications, Inc.
Lou Desiderio is the President and Founder of Synergy Communications, Inc., a public relations and marketing communications agency specializing in photography and consumer electronics. Over the last 28 years, Lou has held a number of positions in the photo, technology, and consumer electronics industries, including Editor of StudioPhotography magazine, Public Relations Director at Polaroid Corporation and Olympus America, and Senior Vice President at Saatchi & Saatchi Rowland. Lou established the Desiderio Family Charities to help feed and house the homeless on Long Island.
Keith Jenkins Supervising Senior Producer of Multimedia at NPR
Keith Jenkins joined NPR in July 2008 as the Supervising Senior Producer for Multimedia. In this role he oversees the multimedia unit of NPR.org. Prior to joining NPR, Keith spent 13 years at The Washington Post. From 1997 to 1999, Keith worked as AOL’s first director of photography. Acclaim for Keith’s work as a photographer and editor has come from the National Press Photographer’s Association, White House News Photographers Association and the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association. Keith currently teaches multimedia as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the Boston University School of Law.
Beth Kanter Award-winning Blogger and Author
Beth Kanter is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising, and marketing. She is the co-author of two books: The Networked Nonprofit with Allison Fine that received Honorable Mention for the Terry McAdams Award, and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit with KD Paine. Both books have reached #1 on the list of nonprofit books on Amazon. She was named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the most influential women in technology and one of Business Week’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media.”
Ed Kashi Award-winning photojournalist and member of VII Photo Agency
Ken Light Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and director for its Center for Photography, and co-founder of Fotovision, and the International Fund for Documentary photography
Doug McConnell Co-Founder and Managing Partner of ConvergenceMedia Productions, Managing Editor for OpenRoad with Doug McConnell, and www.OpenRoad.TV, The Traveler’s Video Guide to the West
Nion McEvoy Chairman & CEO of Chronicle Books LLC and The McEvoy Group LLC
Mauree Jane Perry Co-Founder of Making History Associates
Sandra S. Phillips Senior Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sandra Phillips is Senior Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, responsible for organizing numerous critically-acclaimed exhibitions of modern and contemporary photography, including Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870, Diane Arbus Revelations, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, and An Uncertain Grace: Sebastião Salgado. Sandra was previously curator at the Vassar College Art Museum, and has taught at various institutions including the State University of New York, New Paltz; Parsons School of Design; San Francisco State University; and the San Francisco Art Institute. Sandra holds a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, an M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, and a B.A. from Bard College.
Chris Rainier National Geographic Society Fellow who has spent his career documenting endangered cultures and traditional language loss
Over the course of his 30-year career in photography, Chris has completed projects for The United Nations, UNESCO, Amnesty International, Conservation International, Smithsonian Institution, Time Magazine, The New York Times, and the National Geographic Society. During his tenure with the National Geographic Society, Chris co-founded the Enduring Voices Language Preservation Project and the All Roads Photography Program. Chris also lectures throughout the world on the use of modern technology to preserve ancient cultural stories and language. In 2002 he was the recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award of the Explorer’s Club for his efforts on cultural preservation, and he was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society of London.
