Institute Faculty

Nane Alejandrez, founder of Barrios Unidos and the Cesar Chavez Institute for Social Change, Santa Cruz, CA providing skills, jobs and opportunities to Latino youth in 27 cities. A Vietnam Vet and former heroin addict, Nane lost 13 family members to drug-related activities. His silkscreening business creates Stone Soup for the World products.

Nathan Gray, co-founder, Oxfam-America and The Fast for World Harvest and Chairman of Earth Train where youth teach youth the skills of community organization, leadership, new media production, journalism and advocacy.

Hulas King, Director, Strategic Partnership Programs, EDS Unagraphics Solutions, serves as a loaned executive to The Cornerstone Partnership in St. Louis, MO and Focus: HOPE in Detroit. An African American engineer, he mentors kids moving out of poverty.

Judith Kurland is the architect of Healthy Boston, a national model for multi-sectoral partnerships integrating health care programs with education, economic development, housing, recreation, public safety and human services at the community level, where she developed campaign to reduce African American infant mortality rates in Boston.

Joe Jones is the Director of the Center for Fathers, Family and Workforce Development in Baltimore where he works with fathers of babies born to unwed mothers. He traveled to Jamaica to study community policing programs to help reduce youth-related crime.

Marianne Larned, author of the Stone Soup for the World , is Director of the Stone Soup Leadership Institute. For over 20 years she assisted corporate, government, civic and community leaders develop public-private partnerships to build healthier communities.

Will Morales transformed his life from a 17 year-old gang leader to a 28-year-old law student, home owner, father, founder of Boston's Youth Police Partnership and Egleston Square YMCA Director, Roxbury, MA across the street from where his brother was killed.

Dr. Rita Shuford, Clinical Director of the Hawaii Education and Counseling Center and lead trainer for the HUD Modello Housing Project in Miami, Florida, an inside-out model of prevention and resiliency in action through Health Realization.

Annette Williams, VP, Community Outreach for the New York Restoration Project, was on welfare for 10 years when Bette Midler hired her to help clean up the City's parks. She now supervises AmeriCorps staff and Welfare to Work people to restore the parks while rebuilding their own lives and working their way to financial independence.