INTERESTS

            * Education reforms in developing countries and the United States

            * Venture philanthropy

            * US-China relations
 

EXPERIENCE

1987 - now: Founder/President, The Bridge to Asia Foundation, San Francisco

Creation and management of a non-profit organization that helps to provide information to educators and researchers in developing countries. Design and implementation of projects that have delivered 4 million books and journals to more than 1000 universities in China, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines, and projects and services that provide users in China with electronic access to knowledge worldwide.

1986-87: Executive Director, Foundation for Books to China, San Francisco

Fund-raising and administration for a program that provided 1 million books to several hundred Chinese universities.

1985-86: Executive Director, Suicide Prevention and Crisis Center, Monterey, California

Development and long-range planning for a social service agency; supervision of 75 volunteers.

1984-85: Teacher, Chengdu University of Science and Technology (Unified University), Sichuan

Teaching English to 100 mid-career professionals who were preparing to study in the West.

1980-81: Director of Corporate Relations, Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Fund-raising for a computer graphics research laboratory.

1980-81: Director, Freshman Outdoor Program, Freshman Dean's Office, Harvard College

Program design and development for an outdoor orientation program; training of 30 upperclassmen as leaders; supervision of a one-week exercise in the Maine woods for 100 freshmen.

1978-81: Research Assistant, Center for Criminal Justice, Harvard Law School

Interviewing professionals and clients of the Massachusetts juvenile justice system to track long-term impacts of reforms.

1970-76: Founder/Director of three alternative schools -

Redington Pond School, Rangeley, Maine (1970-76)
The Sea School, Stonington, Maine (1971-72)
The V-V Ranch School, Wardlow, Alberta (1973-75)

Design and leadership of year-round residential schools which used progressive approaches including outdoor education and community living. Program and curriculum design; hiring and supervision of staff (75 employees in seven years); fund-raising; teaching; staff and student counseling; liaison with federal, provincial, state and local governments; public relations; leadership of backpacking trips in Maine in all seasons; planning expeditions to Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic and the Brooks Range in Alaska. Responsibility and accountability for operations at three program sites.

1968-69: Teacher, Massachusetts Correctional Institute. Walpole, Massachusetts

Curriculum design, teaching and counseling in an experimental rehabilitation program at a maximum-security prison. Recruitment of Harvard University faculty (Erik Erikson, others) as visiting lecturers. Early release of twelve inmates to Boston-area colleges and universities.

1967 (summer): Field observer, Rhesus macaques colony, Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico

1965-66: Teacher and Coach, Webb School of California, Claremont

Teaching, coaching, co-leading paleontology field trips in the American West.

1964-66: Field Assistant, Peabody Museum, Yale University

Collecting fossil land and marine mammals in Egypt.

1962-63: Field Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

Studying the behavior of baboons in Kenya; collecting Pleistocene fossils in Ft. Ternan, Kenya with L.S.B. Leakey, and in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania; studying the behavior of lemurs in southern Madagascar.

1961-62: Field Assistant, Peabody Museum, Yale University

Collecting Eocene and Paleocene mammal fossils in Wyoming and Montana.
 

CONSULTANCIES

1991   President, Redington Pond Foundation, Oakland, California

Design of a three-year, work/study college for low-income youth.

1990   Advisor, Vietnamese Students Association, College of Alameda, Oakland

1989   Fund-raiser, Cambodian New Generation, Oakland

Raising funds for a refugee resettlement program.

1978   Program Developer, Expedition Training Institute, Boston

Planning field expeditions in the natural sciences.

1977   Instructor, Wilderness Program, State of New Mexico, Santa Fe

Leading backpacking trips in the Pecos Mountains with court-referred youth

1973   Instructor, Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, Rockland, Maine

1970   Teacher, Adult Education Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1969   Senior Addiction Specialist, Phoenix House, New York City

Using rock-climbing and marine sailing to help heroin addicts rebuild their strength.

1968   Instructor, Wang Laboratories. Tewksbury, Massachusetts

Teaching the use of 'electronic math labs' to community college mathematics instructors.
 

AFFILIATIONS

EDUCATION

1982    A.M., Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
            Physical Anthropology
            Advisor: Irvin DeVore

1965    B.S., Yale University
            Scholar of the House, Elihu, Yale Key
            Thesis: Mio-Pliocene forerunners of early man.
 

PUBLICATIONS

1995    "The Internet and Scholarly Communication with China", China
            Exchange News, Committee on Scholarly Communication with China.
            Washington, D.C. May/June.

   "       "Information-transfer Stations for Developing Countries in
            Asia," Proceedings of INET'95. Reston, Virginia. June.

1988    "Christmas in the Wilderness," Yankee Magazine. December.

            Photographs published by Time-Life, American Heritage,
            Prentice-Hall, other US and European book/magazine publishers

            Presenter at national and international conferences: INET'95
            (Honolulu); Internetworking'94 (Beijing); Internet'99 (Leipzig);
            others
 

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL/LIVING

Kenya (3 months); Tanzania (2 months); Madagascar (4 months); Egypt (6 months); England (1 week); Argentina (1 week); Puerto Rico (6 weeks); Alberta (18 months' residence); Virgin Islands (2 weeks); China: Chengdu (6 months), Beijing (15 visits), Shanghai (5 visits), Xi'an (5 visits), Qingdao (several visits). Guangzhou, Wuhan, Wuxi, Chungqing; Czech Republic (1 week); Philippines (several visits); Vietnam (1 week); Cambodia (1 week); Japan (1 week); France (several visits); Hong Kong (6 months' residence, numerous visits); Italy (1 week); Laos (1 week), Germany (1 week)