Board of Directors Who runs the Africa School Assistance Project

David Akerson
David Akerson lectures on genocide and war crimes as a visiting scholar at the University of Denver Korbel School of International Studies.  He is a former genocide and war crimes prosecutor with the United Nations Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunals. In the late eighties he served as staff attorney with South African Lawyers for Human Rights during the apartheid era.  He also worked on the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident.

Steve Bachar
Steve is President of Shan Investments LLC which invests in real estate projects and early stage companies in China.  Previously, he was executive vice president of a Denver private equity firm. An attorney by training, Steve is actively involved in the Denver cultural and non-profit community.  He is a past board member and chairman of the Children’s Museum of Denver and was a member of the executive committee of the board of Opera Colorado. He is a member of the International Sports Exploratory Committee and previously served on the Denver Metro Chamber’s Public Affairs Council, the board of Mile High Montessori Early Learning Centers and on the World Trade Center’s Trade Advocacy Policy Council.  Prior to moving to Denver Steve had extensive experience in Washington, DC; serving in the White House, the Treasury Department and the private sector.  Steve and his wife, Sue, are the parents of two young daughters and enjoy hiking skiing and other outdoor activities.

Gillian Bowser, PhD
Bio coming soon.

Beth Conover
Beth Conover is President of Econover LLC. She has worked for twenty-five years at the intersection of environmental protection and economic development. From 1989-1991 she worked as a teacher, writer and community forestry specialist in southern Africa. From 1994-1998 she helped develop and implement the award-winning Stapleton Development Plan, for the redevelopment of the 4700 acre former airport site. She is more recently the author/ editor of How the West was Warmed: Responses to Climate Change in the Rockies (Fulcrum Publishing 2009). As policy advisor to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper from 2003-2007, she was the architect and founding director of Greenprint Denver, one of the nation’s earliest and largest urban sustainability programs.  A graduate of Brown University, Conover holds a joint MBA/Masters of Environmental Studies from Yale University.  Beth is a native of Denver, Colorado, where she lives with her husband, Ken Snyder, and their two sons.

Mark Eddy
Mark Eddy is the owner of Mark Eddy Communications, a strategic communications/community education consulting firm in Denver specializing in issues surrounding public policy. He has worked extensively on homeless and environmental issues. He is a former editor and reporter for The Denver Post where he covered city government, education and the environment. Mark works on numerous non-profit projects and has served on the boards of CASA and Focus Points. Mark is an avid world traveler.

Denise Goldindubois
Bio coming soon.

Alice Madden
Alice Madden started her career in the high tech industry and then practiced law for ten years before running for office.  First elected in 2000, Alice served four terms as Representative for House District Ten, including four years as House Majority Leader.  Alice was the first Democratic woman to ever hold that position.  Today, Alice applies her experience, knowledge, and passion for energy and climate change issues as Governor Ritter’s Climate Change Advisor and is responsible for coordinating both public and private efforts to reach the green house gas reduction goals set forth in Colorado’s Climate Action Plan.  Alice also serves as a Senior Fellow on climate change issues at the Center for American Progress. A graduate of University of Colorado School of Law, Alice is a diehard Buffs fan. In 1985, Alice married Pete Madden and they are proud parents of two teenage boys. Her entire family has a great love of the outdoors and they regularly take advantage of their beautiful surroundings and proximity to the Rocky Mountains.  Her focus on climate change comes from her desire to preserve what makes the west so special.

Marilyn Miller
Marilyn Miller was the Director for the City of Denver’s Capital Budget before retiring in 2007.  Previous to that she had served on Denver’s Planning Board for 10 years and has been involved in a number of civic activities, including a Habitat project in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, after Hurrican Katrina.  She has an MBA from University of Denver, which she obtained in 1981 while working as an analyst and business manager for Wright Water Engineers.  Marilyn was a member of the ASAP group that worked at Miririni in the summer of 2009.  “Stepping out of our van in Miririni to the harmonic singing of the welcoming villagers, I at once felt like a child of the world.”

Dr. Charles Musiba
Bio coming soon.