ABOUT US
BOARD
In order to provide the high-level networking and programming that ADI has become known for, we are guided by an experienced and talented Board of Directors that oversees the organization. These individuals are all accomplished leaders in their fields, and provide the American Democracy Institute with unparalleled insight and guidance
Our Board of Directors includes:
Amy Curtis-McIntyre
Marc Nathanson
Gene Nichol
Joe Ferraro
Judith Zarin
Betsy Myers
Geronimo Rodriguez
Amy Curtis-McIntyre
Amy Curtis-McIntyre is the senior vice president, brand
communication for Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. She is responsible for developing a
global brand communication strategy to differentiate and drive preference for Hyatt's
full-service brands worldwide. She will develop and launch Hyatt's first global
advertising campaign. Before joining Hyatt, Amy was the the founding Chief
Marketing Officer for JetBlue Airways, where she joined in 1998 when it was
simply a concept known as NEW AIR Corporation. In her role as head of sales
& marketing, she had responsibility for developing the brand platform,
advertising, promotion, public relations, web strategy, sales team efforts and
other traditional marketing elements. Additionally, and truly in start up form,
Curtis-McIntyre took charge of product development and internal communications
including the uniform design (and served as the flight attendant prototype),
aircraft interior and exterior, implementation of the first-ever DIRECTV system
on a plane, recruiting and training communication and even gave JetBlue its
name. Prior to JetBlue, Amy was the Vice President of Marketing for Virgin
Atlantic Airways, and the Director of Marketing for Celebrity Cruises. She
began her marketing career in the consumer and travel division of Hill &
Knowlton Public Relations.
Since leaving JetBlue in 2005, Curtis-McIntyre has spoken and lectured widely for corporations and universities on the subjects of brand and culture building, brand management and effective communication. As an independent consultant, she has offered marketing and branding counsel to a wide variety of clients, including: Yahoo; Google; The Gap; Dunkin Brands; BRGuest Restaurants; and several university schools of business administration, such as Yale, Kellogg, Harvard, Cornell and Wake-Forest.
She is a native New Yorker and a graduate of the University of Massachusetts. She currently lives in suburban with her husband and children.
Marc Nathanson
Marc Nathanson is Chairman of Mapleton Investments, LLC., and Mapleton Communications. He served as Chairman and CEO of Falcon Communications, the nation's tenth largest cable television operator, from its formation in May, 1975 until it was sold in November, 1999 to Paul Allen's publicly traded Charter Communications, where Mr. Nathanson presently serves as Vice-Chairman.
In 1998, President Clinton appointed Mr. Nathanson to chair the Board for US International Broadcasting, which oversees Voice of America, Radio/TV Marti, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Mr. Nathanson is a trustee of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California, and a member of the Board of Visitors of the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is Chairman of Homeland Security Advisory Council for Los Angeles County Region One and a member of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Committee on Homeland Security. He also serves on the Board of the UCLA Foundation, the Rand Graduate School, the American Democracy Institute, chairs the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg School for Communication, and is vice chair of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
In addition, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Affairs Council, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Mr. Nathanson holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Denver and a Masters degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (USCB) where he was a National Science Foundation fellow.
Gene Nichol
Gene Nichol is
professor of law and Director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at
the University of
North Carolina. He
teaches courses in constitutional law, federal courts, civil rights and
election law.
From 2005-2008, Nichol was the 26th president of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia -- the second oldest university in the United States. Nichol was Burton Craige professor and dean of the law school at the University of North Carolina from 1999-2005. He served as law dean at the University of Colorado from 1988-1995; and as James Gould Cutler Professor and Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary from 1985-1988. Nichol has also been a faculty member at the University of Florida and West Virginia University. He founded the Byron White Center of Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado (1990) and the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina (2001).
Nichol is co-author of FEDERAL COURTS: Cases and Comments (West, 2000)(with Redish) and a contributing author of WHERE WE STAND: Voices of Southern Dissent (NewSouth Books, 2004). He has published articles and essays in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review and an array of leading legal journals. From 1998-1999, he was a political columnist for the Denver-Rocky Mountain News and the Colorado Daily. From 1999-2005, he was a regular op-ed writer for the Raleigh News & Observer. He has also written for the Washington Post, The Nation, the Chronicle of Higher Education and various periodicals. From 1994-1995, he was host of a public affairs television show, Culture Wars, for KBDI, Channel 12 in Denver, Colorado.
Nichol has been significantly involved in public affairs. He has testified before an array of committees of the United States Congress and various state legislatures. In 1991, he was appointed special master by a three-judge federal court in Colorado to mediate a redistricting dispute between the governor and the legislature. The accord was ratified by statute. A year later he helped head the Colorado Reapportionment Commission. In 2004, Nichol chaired the North Carolina Bi-Partisan Commission on Lobbying Reform. Legislation was passed enacting commission recommendations. He ran unsuccessfully for national political office while in Colorado. He has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation Fellows.
In 2003, Nichol won the American Bar Association's Edward R. Finch Award for delivering the nation's best Law Day Address. Two years later, Governor Easley inducted Nichol into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine - North Carolina's highest civilian honor; and Equal Justice Works named him pro bono law school dean of the year. In 2007, he received Oklahoma State University's Distinguished Alumnus Award. This year he received the "Courage To Do Justice Award" from the National Employment Lawyers Association (New England, 2008) and the Thomas Jefferson Award -- for courage in the defense of religious liberty -- from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (Albuquerque, 2008).
Nichol attended Oklahoma State University, where he received a degree in philosophy (1973) and played varsity football. He obtained his J.D. from the University of Texas, graduating Order of the Coif, in 1976. He is married to Glenn George. They have three daughters: Jesse (21), Jennifer (19), and Soren (15).
Judith Zarin
Judith Zarin is a champion of women’s rights, serving as a board member of the National Naral Pro-Choice America Foundation and a member and supporter of the Democratic National Committee Women’s Leadership Forum and Emily’s List, a political network for pro-choice Democratic women. A supporter of the Eleanor Roosevelt Girls’ Leadership Workshop, Zarin helped create a New York mentorship program which exposes girls to strong female role models working in New York City. From 1988 through 1995, Zarin was a member of the Board of Trustees of The Calhoun School in Manhattan. From 1998 through 2005, she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York, having served on the Finance committee as well as the Education committee.
Along with her husband, Gerald Rosenfeld, CEO of Rothschild North America, Zarin has established the first two undergraduate scholarships at The Stern School of Business at New York University specifically dedicated to New York minority women. In addition, they have also established the first scholarship dedicated to female rabbinical students at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Zarin holds a PhD in Psychology from the Graduate Center of the New School for Social Research and a J.D. from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.