Board

Who is on the Board of Directors?

  • Julie Belaga. Ms. Belaga currently serves on the Boards of CT Fund for the Environment/Save the Sound, National Audubon CT, and the Westport Public Library, and was Co-Chair of the CT League of Conservation and a co-founder of the CT League of Conservation Voters. A member of Governor Rell’s L. I. Sound Liquefied Natural Gas Task Force, she also served as the Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by President George H.W. Bush, and as a member of the Board of the Import-Export Bank, appointed by President Bill Clinton. Ms. Belaga was the Republican candidate for Governor in 1986, having represented Westport from 1976 to 1986 in the CT House of Representatives.
  • Marcia Chambers, MSL. Ms. Chambers is Research Scholar in Law and Journalist in Residence at Yale Law School. She has been a reporter for the Associated Press and The New York Times and a columnist for The National Law Journal, and she is now editor of the on-line news site, the Branford Eagle. She is a former member of the Poynter Advisory Board at Yale.
  • William Cibes, Jr., PhD. Dr. Cibes was Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management under Governor Lowell Weicker (1991-1994) and Chancellor of the Connecticut State University System (1994-2006). While professor of government at Connecticut College (1969-1991), Cibes also served in the Connecticut General Assembly (1979-1991).
  • Shelley Geballe, JD, MPH. Attorney Geballe is the founding President of CT Voices for Children and now its Distinguished Senior Fellow. A former civil rights attorney and founding member of Yale's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), she currently teaches at Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health. Her publications include Forgotten Children of the AIDS Epidemic (Yale University Press, 1995).
  • Robert Hohler. Mr. Hohler is Executive Director of the Melville Charitable Trust and 2009 recipient of the national Grantmaker of the Year Award from the Council on Foundations. He has also headed a consulting company focused on enhancing the effectiveness of non-profits, and he wrote and produced twenty film, radio, and TV programs, among many other endeavors over his long career. He currently serves on the National Film and Media Archive Advisory Board at Washington University in St. Louis.