INTERGROUP INSTITUTE - Key Persons
Aaron Sojournor has also been a great source of insight, information, and support. His research on the huge economic benefits that arise from helping children very early in life should be required reading by economists.
Andy Stern has been both a source of encouragement and insight, and his new book about the potential power and value of an income floor for Americans helped shape some of the more recent thinking about the InterGroup topics.
Art Caplan has provided much appreciated feedback and responses to some of the key pieces and has been an ethical inspiration for the work.
Arthur Rolnick has also been a source of inspiration, insight, and support.
Chip Hauss not only wrote an extremely wise book about Peacemaking; he has been encouraging on the direction these thoughts and pieces have taken.
Job Titles:
- Editor
- Logistics Coordinator
- Digital Content Manager
Chris maintains the working files for Institute materials and is involved in putting together future content at various levels - including supporting multiple drafts of many of the thought pieces and presentations.
Chris DeJohn is the Institute's Content Editor and Logistics Coordinator at Large.
Chris helps make important things happen for the Institute. He helps with logistics and some research on books, postings, thought pieces, and various speech and meeting support materials and activities.
He maintains the working files for Institute materials and is involved in putting together future content at various levels - including supporting multiple drafts of many of the thought pieces and presentations.
He does slide show equivalents and materials for some meetings and maintains a working file of old presentations for the past decade for re-use and distribution as needed.
Chris works with the Institute team to develop, define, communicate, and maintain the editorial process, guidelines, and working practices for inclusive online publishing. He also helps with the design of the artistic content of the site and was largely responsible for the covers of the five Institute books.
Chris has worked as a digital content editor for Apple, a CX interaction designer and content strategist for Wells Fargo, and as a marketing manager for Huawei's Enterprise Business Group in Cupertino, CA. He also worked as a copyeditor for Restoration Hardware and Cost Plus World Market.
Chris holds a B.A. in Print and Online Journalism from San Francisco State University and is an expert in CMS editing, digital content migration, content creation, technical/copy writing, information architecture - and content globalization, localization, and inclusivity.
When he's not working on the Institute website, he anchors a Sausalito band as the drummer - and he has been heard in multiple Bay Area settings for a number of years.
Conor Williams has been a solid source for important research and has offered appreciated encouragement for these efforts and this work.
Dean Ornish has provided strong support and insight for several parts of this agenda, and has made appreciated connections with key experts and people in relevant positions for significant portions of this work.
Dr. Mehmet Oz has been a strong supporter for key parts of the process. His national support for both the brain development activities and the need and opportunity to provide health care to every American are very much appreciated.
Dr. Paul Dovre has been particularly wise and insightful, and his encouragement, guidance, insights and feedback have been much appreciated at multiple levels. His book of Chapel Meditations as President of Concordia College inspired a couple of the Institute insights.
Dr. Randy Steer is also very much appreciated for his wisdom and support, and for the extremely insightful reviews he wrote for each of the main books.
E. O. Wilson has not been directly involved in any way, but his insights in many areas were foundational for much of this work and this work is heavily in his debt.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Chairman
- Chairman and CEO of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding
George founded the Institute for InterGroup Understanding to help reduce InterGroup conflict and stress in America, and to offer advice to people who face InterGroup conflicts in other areas of the world. George served as chair of the First 5 Commission for Children and Families for the state of California, and he is the author of four books on intergroup understanding - one on early brain development in children, and seven on health care quality improvement and reform. George has served as CEO for multiple health care delivery systems and financing organizations for more than three decades.
George has served on nearly 40 health care delivery and reform, and public policy related boards, commissions, and task forces - and has chaired nearly a dozen of them. He founded the Institute because he believes that issues of InterGroup Understanding will determine the future success (or failure) of our country. He wants to create a resource that will help InterGroup Peace become the culture, the shared commitment, and our functional future reality. George deeply believes we need to save every child, and that we need to collectively achieve the goals, and "do the right things at the right times" to save every child in order to give Peace a chance.
George Halvorson is the Chair and CEO of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding. He has served for more than 30 years as CEO of six different health care delivery and financing organizations in the U.S., and he has helped start and run similar organizations in several other countries. Health care organizations served by Halvorson included Kaiser Permanente, where he was Chairman and CEO from 2002 until early 2013, and the Health Partners Health Plan and hospital system where he served for 15 years before moving to Kaiser in 2002.
Both Kaiser Permanente and Health Partners are vertically integrated care systems that own both hospitals and clinics, so Halvorson has served as a CEO in functional care systems for a couple of decades.
Halvorson served as CEO for three smaller health plans before that time, and he served as a senior officer for the Minnesota Blue Cross plan before actually managing health plans and health systems.
Halvorson served for eight years as chairman of the First Five Commission for Children and Families for the State of California - appointed to that position by Governor Jerry Brown and then extended for a year into the administration of Governor Gavin Newsom.
Howard Ross has been a source of wisdom, feedback, and encouragement for the books and site as well. His own almost iconic books about bias and diversity also shaped some of the thinking in the books and web site and his feedback has been very much appreciated.
Ian Morrison has not only been an inspiration and provided encouragement for several pieces of this work, but he also wrote much-appreciated reviews of the books included in the tool kit.
James Heckman was a source of brilliant insight and very useful encouragement for the child-development work. His endorsement of the Three Key Years book is very much appreciated.
Jean Bradford has been a source of encouragement, insight, wisdom, and counsel for the entire Institute agenda. Bradford has also provided strong steerage on some important issues.
Joe has more than two decades of experience in web design, strategy, implementation and operations, and is a highly regarded graphic designer and electronic media and print artist. He designed the covers of the InterGroup books along with key graphics materials.
Joe has more than two decades of experience in web design, strategy and technical management.
He founded WebSight Design Inc. in 1995, and has created and managed multiple digital media companies throughout his extensive career.
Joe has directed a number of multi-media and interactive web projects, and specializes in strategy, user experience, design, operations, and audio-video production. Joe is the lead digital strategist, webmaster, and key digital management leader for the Institute and its online presence.
While responsible for technology, functional strategy, and user experience solutions and approaches - Joe also directs the Institute's visual-design.
An accomplished musician and artist, Joe currently spends part of his time helping villagers in Africa to create musical signatures and products, which helps achieve peace and stability through his non-profit, soulnow.org.
John August is at the top of that list for his consistently wise and insightful, timely and well considered advice, coaching and feedback on the books and site materials over multiple years.
John Cochran has been a thought leader, mentor, ally, and healthcare guru. He led the largest private physician group in America as their executive director, and has personally visited African villages to do life changing plastic surgery for indigent children in those settings. He provides insights, wisdom, and support for several key parts of this agenda.
Katherine Stevens has expanded the learning base for key areas of the child-related books and the national symposium she set up at the American Enterprise Institute for Dr. Beatrice Beebe and the institute chair for the brain development part of this agenda is much appreciated.
Kelli Johnson has been a great source of feedback, insights, wisdom, and her unceasing research and inquiry into related areas has provided unexpected and useful connections and information about multiple key points.
Leah oversees the Internet Marketing Strategy for the Institute for InterGroup Understanding. She has an extensive and solid working understanding of online advertising, blogging, community outreach, content creation and search engine optimization.
Leah oversees the Internet Marketing Strategy for the Institute for InterGroup Understanding. She has a extensive and solid working understanding of social media, blogging, community outreach, content marketing and search engine optimization.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of New York University, and has enjoyed more than 10 years of experience in both marketing and Internet consulting.
Leah is a solutions-oriented tactical thinker. As a practicing yogi and Sausalito community member, she is committed to each person's ethical obligation to promote InterGroup Peace and Understanding.
Lenny Mendonca has been both wise and visionary in his feedback and encouragement of both the child brain development work and the basic Peace agenda.
Linda Halvorson has been a source of wisdom and insight, both from her long-standing work as the leader of Emerge - her human potential training and development program - and from her own extensive and focused reading and thinking in a number of related areas. She has provided excellent editing support, feedback, and guidance at several points in the process.
Lorie Halvorson has provided guidance, feedback, and important steerage, and she has been a major source of direction and support for the entire effort.
Marcus Bright has also provided insight and support, and has written some inspirational pieces that have guided parts of this thinking.
Martin Meeker has been a wonderful creator of context and a strong supporter for several of the agendas.
Melanie Greenberg has also been a much-appreciated source of wisdom, guidance, and encouragement for some of the Peace work - and her Peace Alliance designation of the Institute founder as a Senior Fellow of the Peace effort was very much appreciated.
Michael Goze has provided support, feedback, encouragement, and insights into the use of these materials with the most relevant audiences and his leadership at the American Indian Community Development Corporation has led to sharing of key information with key people in important ways.
Michael Tippett has provided feedback on multiple pieces of the process. He is a rector of an Episcopalian church and brings both his Yale Divinity School training and training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst into context for his understanding of these issues. He spent time in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards as a commander in some challenging settings - and has led several parishes in their faith agendas. Tippett partially represented the Institute on a fact-finding sojourn in Israel and Palestine as context for this work there, and he functions as Chaplain for the Institute.
Patrick Dougherty has been an excellent source of information and feedback for economic linkages to some key issues.
Peggy O'Kane has had a number of areas of both insight and support.
Perry Marshall and George Ellis have each provided several layers of additional information and research on those topics that have been extremely useful.
Ross Thompson not only provided invaluable feedback and wisdom in the initial writing of the Three Key Years book - he has also provided support for the overall inter group interaction agenda and continues to be a strong national leader in the child development movement and industry.
Ron Pollack has been a source of guidance, insight, and support on some key issues. He has been a strong source of encouragement for the whole process.
Ross Thompson not only provided invaluable feedback and wisdom in the initial writing of the Three Key Years book - he has also provided support for the overall inter group interaction agenda and continues to be a strong national leader in the child development movement and industry.
Senator David Durenberger has provided insight, support, wisdom and encouragement in much-appreciated ways. He has shared this information in important ways with important thought leaders who can benefit from knowing it.
Susan True has been a source of guidance, insight, and support that has been much appreciated.
Senator David Durenberger has provided insight, support, wisdom and encouragement in much-appreciated ways. He has shared this information in important ways with important thought leaders who can benefit from knowing it.