CCC/UN BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2004; 2005 Update to Follow.

Bob K. Bogen,
Main UN representative of United States
Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. A city and regional planner,
having consulted with dozens of large and small US communities and regions as well
as directed the United Nations Development Program comprehensive development plan
for the Karachi, Pakistan metropolitan region. Bob proposed and directed our Middle
East public meeting project, did major drafting of our mission statement, our web-site,
our position statements on UN issues, and our application for ECOSOC consultative
status as well as Guidelines for: 1) work with other NGOs, 2) use of our letterhead,
and 3) funding of CCC/UN projects; as well as arranged several annual
CCC/UN retreats at the Lamont Estate. He would like to further develop our web-
site, continue our public meetings series (three so far), and carry out the plan for an
annual award to UN communicators, advance our proposals for a Global Study
Center at the World Trade Center and World Island, and promote coordination of the
various movements for empowerment of the UN, as well as seek further funding for
expanded CCC/UN functions.

Mary Carlin
is current co-chair of the CCC/UN and Treasurer and NGO
Representative for the CCC/UN. She has been actively involved with the United
Nations for 25 years. She is on the Board for the Earth Society Foundation (ESF),
which sponsors the annual worldwide Earth Day observance on the March Equinox,
with the ringing of the Children's Peace Bell at the United Nations. An avid
environmentalist and accomplished public speaker and photographer, she has served
as historian and archivist for ESF and the CCC/UN. For 3 years she produced the
CCC/UN journal "The Global Student Voice" -- an on-line newsletter for High
School students focusing on activities of the UN. Mary has a BA in Botany from the
University of Wisconsin and a full-time career in the corporate field of international
investment banking.

Dr. Elizabeth Carll
is a clinical psychologist and author in private practice in Long
Island, NY, specializing in trauma, stress and health, media/ICT, and consults to
organizations regarding workplace violence, crisis management, and health/stress.
Dr. Carll is a pioneer in working with the news media to help the public cope with the
psychological aftermath of crises and disaster. She recently edited a special issue of
the American Behavioral Scientist on “Psychology, News Media, and Public Policy:
Promoting Social Change.” She represents the International Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies at the UN and is the focal point to the World Summit on the
Information Society and also chairs the Media/ICT Working Group of the NGO
Committee on Mental Health. She is the past president of the Media Division of the
American Psychological Association and chairs the Division’s News Media, Public
Education, and Public Policy Committee. Dr. Carll welcomes the opportunity to
serve on the Board and help facilitate CCC/UN’s role in networking with and
enhancing the effectiveness of the NGO community in promoting peace and other
important initiatives.


Dr. Harold Channer
is a television producer who has conducted over 1700
interviews on his cable television series “Conversations with Harold Hudson
Channer”, initiated December 1973. His interviews of many thinkers and leaders of our times
have included leading figures from the business, governmental, academic
and intellectual communities including: Buckminster Fuller, Isaac Asimov, and
Lewis Thomas. “Conversations” airs on TV each weekday from 10:30am –
11:30am (EST) on Channel 34 and Channel 107 in Manhattan. The program is
“streamed to the Internet” at the time of cable casting on www.mnn.org. He is a
former University Professor of Geography and has long been on the Board of
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, NYC – Cable TV. A distinguished member of
the CCC/UN, he also graciously hosts the annual Christmas party for the organization.

Dr. Larry T. Gell
is the Director-General of IAED (International Agency for
Economic Development) since 1990, which assists developing countries to obtain
sustainable economic development. He also is the Presiding Officer of two
international business-consulting companies he founded in 1960. Dr. Gell has been a
member of the CCC/UN for many years and has produced a video library of
interviews and NGO activities at the UN. “Inside the United Nations: The Global
Issues” is the world’s first weekly UN TV Broadcast/Webcast that is shown every
Wednesday on TV from 11:00pm to 12:00am (EST). These exclusive one-hour
interviews of Ambassadors, Heads of Governments are now being used by
international universities to teach their graduate students.

Dr. William Gellermann
has served as a CCC/UN Vice President, a Board
Member, an ECOSOC representative to the UN, member of the Board’s Conflict
Resolution Committee, and developer of a CCC/UN project on “communication and
decision-making within the United Nations community.” He has a Ph.D. in “Applied
Behavioral Science” (UCLA’s Graduate School of Management) and an MBA
(Accounting) and a BA (Economics) (University of Washington). He has served on
faculties of several universities (including Cornell, SUNY, and CUNY) and authored
a book (“Values and Ethics in Organization and Human Systems Development”) and
numerous articles. For over 30 years, he has been an Organization Development
Consultant with business, government, labor unions, and community groups.

Richard Jordan
has been the International Liaison of CCC/UN for over 10 years and
has represented Global Futures Network, Global Education Associates, and Intl.
Council for Caring Communities at the UN. Numerous achievements of Richard
include having been one of the four original founding editors of Earth Negotiations
Bulletin. Richard has served on the DPI/NGO Executive Committee and as the
Scribe of the CONGO Chairpersons Meetings held monthly. Richard appears at the
UN daily and attends many meetings, all of which give him an extensive overview of
the entire UN system.
He recently was one of the few invited Northern NGOs who participated in the
Southern NGO Summit held in Algeria and traveled to Asia last year as part of a
CCC/UN team developing a project in China.

Dr. Harry H. Lerner
Psychologist and psychoanalyst. Co-Chairman with Ruth
S.Cohen, then President, CCC/UN since 1982. UN NGO representative for
MEDACT (UK section, International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War)
since 1987. Co-Founder and current President, CIRCLE (Council for International
Recreation, Culture and Life-long Education), since 1964; sponsor of CIRCLE
Repertory Theatre Co., and CIRCLE Film Forum. Co-Convenor, International
Network for a UN Second Assembly and Campaign for a More Democratic UN
(CAMDUN), 1983 to present, which co-founded the Global Peoples Assembly. Former
UN representative for World Citizens Assembly, 1978-87. Executive Director,
Congress of Scientists on Survival (SOS), 1961-63. Co-Editor, APA Journal of
Social Issues (1952) on group methods in psychotherapy, social work and continuing
education. Investigated “leadership and authority” for the World Federation for
Mental Health, published 1953. He was a member, Board of Examiners, American
Boards for Accreditation and Certification in Psychoanalysis, 1981-86.

Dr. Linda Misek-Falkoff (Ph.D. J.D.)
>is currently Recording Secretary for the
CCC/UN and is one of our UN Representatives under ECOSOC. She combines a
Law Degree with joint communications-based doctorates in computing and
humanities. She served on the Planning Committee for the 2004 DPI Fall Annual
Conference on the Millennium Development Goals. She serves on the current NGO
Steering Committee partnering with the States Parties toward a Comprehensive
International Convention on the Rights and Protections of Persons with Disabilities.
She is also President of the National Disability Party. A cyberspace (Information
Systems) designer and consumer from ARPAnet in the 1960’s through the Internet
today, she participated in 2003 in Geneva at the World Summit on the Information
Society, and currently is a World Bank/UN-based ICT online discussant.
Professional memberships include the American Bar Association, the Association for
Computing Machinery, and the Alliance for Rights in Medicine; she has authored
rights-based Briefs to the United States Supreme Court.

Jerry Spivack
is current co-chair of the CCC/UN and the main UN/DPI
*Jerry Spivack is the main UN/DPI representative for CCC/UN and is interested in
new approaches for education, entertainment, technology, and social development.
He is currently on the Board of the Values Caucus at the UN, where he represents the
CCC/UN. He was Coordinator of Outreach and Communication for MPAN
(Millennium Peoples Assembly Network), fostering a greater voice for people in
determining their future. He is also on the Board of Art and Science Collaborations,
Inc. He coordinated the strike at NYU in the 1970s, during the Kent State anti-war
protests and is past president of the New York Chapter of the World Future Society,
and served as MENSA-NY’s coordinator for Gifted Children’s Resources.

Rick Ulfik
is Founder and Director of We, the World (www.WeTheWorld.org), Co-
Chair of the Foundation for Ethics and Meaning, UN ECOSOC representative of
CCC/UN and Co-Producer of Visual Voices TV Show now featured on the Dish
Network which is currently in 15 million homes. Rick was a principal organizer of
“11 Days of Global Unity” an international series of events We, The World
coordinated which took place in over 100 cities around the world including Our
Voices, Our World on September 21, 2004 celebrating the International Day of Peace
featuring Jane Goodall, Marianne Williamson and many other speakers, performers
and exhibitors. Rick has been an organizer for many other events large and small.
Rick is also an accomplished composer and musician who has written, produced,
arranged and performed music for the 3 TV networks, feature films, commercials and
major recording artists.

Johnanne Winchester
is a communications consultant specializing in co-developing
communications applications and technical solutions for organizational development.
As a systems architect, she designs model projects for public relations, education,
training and interactive mass media in all formats. Collaborating with artists and
technical professionals, she has worked in the United Nations community for over 20
years to evolve Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Media
infrastructure to assist the UN in its mission and outreach to the global citizenry.
Johnanne has spent the last year and a half developing Asia/Pacific Rim projects.
She is the main UN ECOSOC Representative for the CCC/UN.

Anne Zanes
After a lengthy career in public opinion research in the US, Europe
and Latin America, Anne Zanes retired from the faculty of Columbia University.
Then she walked through part of the United States with the Global Walk for a Livable
World. She has been an NGO representative at the United Nations for l8 years,
presently representing Peace Links, and is the Vice President of the CCC/UN. Last
year she was elected to serve two years on the NGO/DPI Executive Committee. She
has attended UN Conferences in Rio, Copenhagen, Beijing and Istanbul and the
Inaugural Session of the Global People's Assembly in Samoa.