Board of Directors
2009-2010
 
The Advocates is governed by a 27-member Board of Directors, consisting of community leaders in academia, the arts, business, law, and policy, and providing strategic oversight of financial and programmatic decisions. Following is the current Board Member listing for The Advocates:


Robert D. Aronson, Aronson & Associates, P.A.
 
Zarina Baber, Target Corporation
 
C. Christopher Bercaw, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
 
Jacques Boucal, Client Representative
 
Aviva Breen, Chair, Former Executive Director, Minnesota Legislative Commission on the Economic Status of Women
 
Eugenia S. Canaan, Center for Undergraduate & Graduate Clinical Education at Regions Hospital
 
James E. Dorsey, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
 
Meghan M. Elliott, Lindquist & Vennum, PLLP
 
Wood R. Foster, Jr., Siegel, Brill, Greupner, Duffy & Foster, P.A.
 
Sam Hanson, Briggs and Morgan
 
Susan Hols, SALO Project Search, Financial Management Consultants
 
Hon. Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Public Affairs Counsel, ACE Member
 
Rachel Johnson Hamlin, Attorney and Community Organizer

Marlene Kayser, Community Organizer
 
Mike Kabeya Kazadi, University of Minnesota
 
David Kistle, Padilla Speer Beardsley
 
John P. Mandler, Faegre & Benson LLP
 
Jim Martineau, Lindquist & Vennum PLLP (retired)
 
Jonathan Sage-Martinson, Central Corridor Funders Collaborative & Learning Network
 
Dipankar Mukherjee, Artistic Director at Pangea World Theatre
 
Howard S. (Sam) Myers, III, Myers Thompson P.A.
 
Dr. David L. Parker, Minnesota Department of Public Health
 
Jacqueline Regis, The St. Paul Companies
 
Ellen Sampson, Leonard, Street & Deinard
 
Irfan Khan Sandozi, MD, Minnesota Gastroenterology
 
Roberta B. Walburn, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.
 
David S. Weissbrodt, University of Minnesota Law School
 
Samuel Kofi Woods II, Foundation for International Dignity
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