Advisory Board Members
Penelope Andrews
John Marshall Harlan II Professor
Director, Racial Justice Project
New York Law School
Biography
Penelope Andrews joined New York Law School in January 2019 and teaches constitutional law, torts, professional responsibility, and race and the law. She is also Director of NYLS’s Racial Justice Project. She has held visiting appointments at law schools across the U.S. and internationally and senior leadership posts, including serving as the first Black dean at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law (2016–2018) and the first female dean of Albany Law School (2012–2015). She is an editor of the International Journal of Law in Context, the Human Rights and the Global Economy E-Journal, and the African Law E-Journal. She’s authored several books and articles focusing on comparative constitutional law, gender and racial equality, human rights, the judiciary, and legal education. She is working on a manuscript, Law, Politics and the #MeToo Movement (forthcoming 2023). Professor Andrews’ focus on the judiciary in South Africa seeks to bridge the divide between theory and practice. Her writing explores the transformation of the judiciary, particularly the appointment of female judges. She was a trainer with Judicial Institute for Africa, specializing in judicial opinion writing and communications skills. She also served as an Acting Judge of the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria for the 2018 third term and as an arbitrator in racial discrimination hearings in South Africa. She has served on law school committees and the boards of public interest and human rights organizations, including the Africa Section of Human Rights Watch and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. She recently served a two-year term as the President of the Law and Society Association. Currently, she serves as Chair of the Board of the Institute for African Women in Law and is a member of the National University of Ireland Galway’s External Advisory Group on Gender Equality and the Advisory Committee of the South African Research Chair in Teaching and Learning at the University of Pretoria. Professor Andrews is a regular commentator in the media on South African legal issues and racial justice matters.
Diana Aviv
Founder and Principal
Partnership for American Democracy
Biography
Diana Aviv, formerly CEO of the Partnership for American Democracy, for which she continues as senior advisor, now is founder and principal of Our Covenant, an initiative of Issue One where she serves as a senior advisor on election protection. Her current focus is on the conservative and religious community with respect to protecting and strengthening our democracy. She previously served as CEO of Feeding America, the largest anti-hunger organization in the United States, from 2015-2018. For twelve years, Diana was President & CEO of Independent Sector, the leadership forum for foundations, nonprofits, and corporate giving programs. In 2010, President Obama appointed her to the White House Council for Community Solutions, which mobilizes citizens, nonprofits, businesses, and government to solve community needs. Previously, Diana served as vice president for public policy and director of the Washington Action Office for the Jewish Federations of North America. She was formerly associate executive vice chair at the Jewish Council of Public Affairs, director of programs for the National Council of Jewish Women, and director of a comprehensive program to serve battered women and their families. Diana serves on several nonprofit boards and was consecutively named as one of the NonProfit Times’ Power & Influence Top 50 for over a decade. A native of South Africa, Diana graduated with a B.S.W. from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and received a master’s degree in social work at Columbia University. She formed her early passion for democracy and justice as an activist in the Anti-Apartheid movement. Diana now lives in Washington, DC with her husband Sterling.
Harvey P. Dale
Professor of Philanthropy and the Law;
Director, National Center on
Philanthropy and the Law; Attorney
Biography
Harvey Dale, an expert in international tax law, established the Program on Philanthropy and the Law at the New York University School of Law. The Program is now known as The National Center on Philanthropy and the Law. It explores a broad range of legal issues affecting the nation's nonprofit sector and serves as an academic forum for an integrated examination of the legal doctrines related to the activities of charitable organizations. After teaching international and corporate and tax law for almost two decades, Dale is now a recognized expert and leader in the field of nonprofit law, both in this country and abroad. He has advised groups in Australia, China, Mexico, Russia, the United Kingdom, and South Africa regarding legal issues affecting nonprofit organizations and the formulation of laws governing these organizations. In addition to his work as the Director of the National Center for Philanthropy and the Law, Professor Dale has served as an advisor and consultant for the Internal Revenue Service, the Exempt Organizations Tax Review, Independent Sector, and several other nonprofit organizations and government agencies. He is Founding President of The Atlantic Philanthropies and was for approximately 20 years (until September 1, 2001) the President and CEO of the Atlantic Foundation. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and from 1996 to 2005 was a member of the Cornell University Trustees Investment Committee.
Richard Goldstone
Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South
Africa; Board Director, Physicians for Human
Rights; Board Director, Fordham University
International Institute for Humanitarian Affairs
Biography
Richard J. Goldstone is a former South African judge, having served on the bench for 23 years. The last nine of those years, he was a Justice of the Constitutional Court. He is an honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple, London, and an honorary fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is also an honorary member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, an international member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary life member of the International Bar Association, and Honorary President of its Human Rights Institute. He studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he obtained a BA LLB degree with honors in 1962. From 1994 to 1996, Justice Goldstone was the chief prosecutor of the UN International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Since retiring from the bench, he has taught at a number of law schools in the United States, the Central European University in Budapest, and Oxford University. In 2021, Justice Goldstone chaired the independent Expert Review of the International Criminal Court. Together with Judge Mark Wolf and other colleagues, he created Integrity Initiatives International in 2016.
Karl Klare
George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews
Distinguished University Professor and
Professor of Law; Former Judge, High Court
of Cape Town,
South Africa
Biography
Professor Klare focuses on labor and employment law, human rights and legal theory, fields in which he has written and lectured extensively. He is considered a leading voice in the field of critical legal studies. In recent years, he has worked on numerous projects with lawyers in South Africa. He is a founder of the International Network on Transformative Employment and Labor Law (INTELL) and is currently active in the International Social and Economic Rights Project (iSERP). In 2015, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria in recognition of his leading work on critical legal theory and particularly for his scholarship on transformative constitutionalism, which, according to the University's citation, “has precipitated in South Africa no less than a paradigm shift in post-apartheid legal thinking.” In 1993, Professor Klare was named Matthews Distinguished University Professor, one of Northeastern’s highest honors. He has taught as a visitor at the universities of British Columbia, Michigan, Toronto and Cape Town, and held a senior Fulbright chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In 1983, he was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. During the 1960s, Professor Klare participated in the civil rights, antiwar and student movements. His activism now focuses on workplace issues.
Evan Lieberman
Total Professor of Political Science
and Contemporary Africa;
Director, MISTI
Biography
Evan Lieberman is the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa. He conducts research in the field of comparative politics, with a focus on development and ethnic conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. He directs the Global Diversity Lab (GDL) and MIT’s global experiential learning program, MISTI. Lieberman co-coordinates the Boston-Area Working Group on African Political-Economy (BWGAPE), and is a member of the E-GAP network. Lieberman received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of "Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS" (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid (Princeton University Press, May 2022) and has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Development. Professor Lieberman is recipient of the 2014 David Collier Mid-Career Award, the 2010 Giovanni Sartori Book prize, the 2004 Mattei Dogan book prize, the 2002 Gabriel A. Almond dissertation award; and the 2002 Mary Parker Follett article award. He was a Fulbright fellow in South Africa in 1997-98, and a Robert Wood Johnson health policy scholar at Yale University in 2000-02. Previously, he was Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Politics at Princeton University (2002-14).
Margaret H. Marshall
Former Chief Justice
Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court
Biography
Margaret H. Marshall, a lifelong advocate for equality, justice, and the rule of law, will receive the 2021 Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law. Marshall helped organize student protests against apartheid as a young woman in her native South Africa before emigrating to the United States and embarking on a career as a lawyer, later becoming the first woman chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Her opinion in the groundbreaking decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health in 2003, which held that the Massachusetts Constitution prohibits the state from denying same-sex couples access to civil marriage, made the state the first to legalize gay marriage and laid the groundwork for a sea change in attitudes and law across the United States. Born and raised in South Africa, Marshall obtained her baccalaureate from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. While an undergraduate, she was elected president of the National Union of South African Students, a leading anti-apartheid organization at the time. Marshall came to the United States in 1968 to pursue graduate studies at Harvard. She became a U.S. citizen in 1978 and obtained a master’s degree from Harvard and a law degree from Yale. Her 2003 opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health made global headlines, sparking both criticism and praise. While some states moved to bar same-sex marriage after Goodridge, public opinion began to shift in support of same-sex marriage and several other states moved to legalize it. In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court extended the right to same-sex marriage to all U.S. states and territories in Obergefell v. Hodges.Margaret H. Marshall, a lifelong advocate for equality, justice, and the rule of law, will receive the 2021 Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law. Marshall helped organize student protests against apartheid as a young woman in her native South Africa before emigrating to the United States and embarking on a career as a lawyer, later becoming the first woman chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Her opinion in the groundbreaking decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health in 2003, which held that the Massachusetts Constitution prohibits the state from denying same-sex couples access to civil marriage, made the state the first to legalize gay marriage and laid the groundwork for a sea change in attitudes and law across the United States. Born and raised in South Africa, Marshall obtained her baccalaureate from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. While an undergraduate, she was elected president of the National Union of South African Students, a leading anti-apartheid organization at the time. Marshall came to the United States in 1968 to pursue graduate studies at Harvard. She became a U.S. citizen in 1978 and obtained a master’s degree from Harvard and a law degree from Yale. Her 2003 opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health made global headlines, sparking both criticism and praise. While some states moved to bar same-sex marriage after Goodridge, public opinion began to shift in support of same-sex marriage and several other states moved to legalize it. In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court extended the right to same-sex marriage to all U.S. states and territories in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Anthony Marx
President
The New York Public Library
Biography
Anthony W. Marx is President of The New York Public Library, the nation's largest library system, with 88 neighborhood libraries and four scholarly research centers that receive about 17 million physical visits each year. Since joining NYPL in 2011, Marx has strengthened the Library’s role as an essential provider of educational resources and opportunities for all ages. Under his leadership, the Library has created new early literacy and after-school programs for children and teens, increased free English language classes by 500% and added citizenship support for immigrants, improved services for scholars and students who rely on the Library’s world-renowned research collections, and led several innovative digital initiatives to expand the Library’s reach. Marx has helped facilitate a series of historic milestones: the largest program of physical renovations, totaling $1 billion, the largest increase in City funding, and the best year of fundraising in the Library’s history. Under Marx, the Library has also become a national leader on bridging the digital divide through its efforts to increase access to e-books, expand computer classes and coding training, and a groundbreaking program that provides home internet access to families of low-income students. Before joining the Library, Marx served as president of Amherst College from 2003 to 2011, during which time the college nearly tripled enrollment for low-income students. Before Amherst, Marx was a political science professor and director of undergraduate studies at Columbia University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Marx has a BA from Yale, an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a PhD, also from Princeton.
Marco V. Masotti
Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison LLP
Biography
Marco V. Masotti is recognized as one of the country’s leading lawyers in the alternative asset management industry. For over 25 years, Marco has led and built the firm’s private funds team into one of the elite practices in the marketplace. He serves as Global Co-Head of the Private Funds Group and has served as a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Ranked Band 1 in Chambers, Marco is widely regarded as “one of the most exceptional lawyers in the area” for his “unparalleled experience and extraordinary reach in the fund formation space.” He is hailed as a “superstar” attorney who is “fantastic, dedicated to his clients and extremely experienced.” Marco has been recognized as a Law360 MVP in three areas, including Fund Formation, Private Equity and Asset Management. Marco has a unique profile in the marketplace as an adviser to a wide variety of investment funds, including private equity funds, credit funds, growth capital funds, hedge funds and real estate funds. Over the course of his career, he has raised billions of dollars for his clients, including: Apollo, Atlas, Avenue, Brighton Park, Centerbridge, Clearlake, EagleTree, Gamut, General Atlantic, King Street, KKR, Liberty Strategic Capital, Oak Hill, OceanSound, Roark, Sageview, Searchlight, SilverPoint, TowerBrook, Värde and Wellspring, among dozens of others. Marco is a sought-after thought leader in the alternative asset management industry. He frequently provides commentary on developments in the private funds marketplace and has been quoted extensively in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, as well as providing guest commentary on television news networks, including Bloomberg Television. He has presented at numerous industry conferences. Marco is a member of the Economic Club of New York, and has served as Co-Chair of the Private Investment Funds Forum, Chair of the Private Investment Funds Subcommittee of the International Bar Association and Chair of the Private Investment Funds Committee of the New York City Bar Association. Marco is the controlling partner of the Sharks professional rugby team located in Durban, South Africa. Marco was awarded a Fulbright Placement Award upon graduating from the University of Natal School of Law.
Sheila McLean
Former President and CEO
Boyden World Corp
Biography
"My most important direct contribution to the LRC was in its initial days: when it was the dream of its main founders (Sydney Kentridge, Arthur Chaskelson, Felicia Kentridge, etc.) I was a relatively young lawyer at the Ford Foundation, who had worked with the Ford Foundation’s program staff to legitimize the idea of “public interest law” in the US and, a few years later, in about 1978 persuaded the Ford Foundation’s then President, McGeoge Bundy, and its Board to be the first significant funder of the LRC. We then worked with other foundations to add to the support. I have stayed in touch with the LRC over the years and later joined the Board of the Friends of the LRC. A related endeavor: During the mid 1980’s, when I was Vice President of the Institute of International Education, during the height of apartheid, I developed a program that brought about 1,000 black South Africans to the US to study for undergraduate and graduate degrees at US universities and colleges. (Archbishop Tutu was the chair of our South Africa selection committee and the President of Harvard was the chair of the US advisory Committee.)"
Gay McDougall
Senior Fellow and Distinguished
Scholar-in-Residence, Leitner Center for
International Law and Justice/Center for Race,
Law and Justice
Biography
Gay McDougall has spent her career working on issues of race, gender, and economic justice in the U.S. and in the global context. She has been a leader on human rights within the UN for more than three decades, holding several important positions, including 6 years as the first UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues and 8 years of service on the UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. She was Special Rapporteur on the issue of systematic rape and sexual slavery practices in armed conflict from 1995 to 1999 and played a leadership role in the UN Third World Conference against Racism held in Durban in 2001. McDougall was a member of the South African governmental body created to administer its first democratic, non-racial elections in 1994, which resulted in the historic election of President Nelson Mandela. Prior to that appointment, she served for 15 years as Director of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, working closely with South African lawyers to secure the release of thousands of political prisoners from jail. The Government of South Africa bestowed on her their national medal of honor, the Order of O.R.Tambo Medal for her extraordinary contributions to ending apartheid. As Executive Director of Global Rights, she also worked with lawyers and activists in 10 countries around the world. McDougall is currently Adjunct Professor at Fordham School of Law. She received a J.D. from Yale Law School, an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has Honorary Degrees from nine institutions.
Thandi Orleyn
Chair, Impala Platinum Holdings Limited
Board Director; Attorney
Biography
Thandi Orleyn is a founder, director, and shareholder of Peotona Group Holdings, an investment company contributing to the development of women in business and of critical skills in the economy. The first ten years of her legal practice were spent as an attorney and regional director at the Legal Resources Centre, where she focused on litigation against the apartheid state and was responsible for the training and development of candidate attorneys, paralegals, and community advice centers. Ms. Orleyn served as the National Director of the Independent Mediation Service of South Africa, where she provided strategic leadership as an accredited mediator and arbitrator at a time when South Africa was moving from an apartheid state to a democratic country. She developed people skills, structure, and systems as National Director of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, and she was a senior partner at the commercial law firm Routledge Modise Inc (now Hogan Lovells). Ms. Orleyn has co-authored a book entitled, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. Her current board memberships include BP Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd (Chairperson), Tokiso Dispute Settlement (Pty) Ltd (Chairperson), Industrial Development Corporation of SA Ltd, Toyota SA (Pty) Ltd, and Toyota Financial Services (SA) Limited. She also served as a non-executive director of the South African Reserve Bank. She chairs the Legal Resources Trust, the Shanduka Trust, De Beers Fund, Ceramic Foundation, and the Fort Hare University Council. She received her secondary education at Inanda Seminary School before studying law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of South Africa.
Andrew (Andy) Sillen
Visiting Research Scholar
Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University
Biography
Andrew Sillen is a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University. He received his B.A from Brooklyn College in 1974, and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. Sillen lived in Cape Town from 1985-2001, during which time he was first Senior Lecturer, then Professor and Head of the Archaeology Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT). From 1997-2001 he served as UCT’s founding Director of Development, working for Vice Chancellor Mamphela Ramphele to raise funds to support the University’s transformation. From 2003-2005 he worked for Peggy Dulaney’s Synergos Institute, where he helped Global Philanthropy Circle member Maria Garçes bring Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other members of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Cali, Colombia, to discuss peace and restorative justice. From 2005-2017, Sillen served as Vice President of Institutional Advancement at his alma mater, Brooklyn College, where he designed and completed a starting capital campaign for the new Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Steiner Studios. Recently he has served as U.S. philanthropic advisor for UCT’s new Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance. He continues to write and pursue a variety of archaeological and other research interests from his home in Brooklyn, New York.
Scott Wallace
Co-Chair, Wallace Global Fund
Progressive Activist; Attorney;
Former Congressional Candidate
Biography
Scott Wallace, grandson of Henry A. Wallace, is Co-Chair of Wallace Global Fund. An attorney since 1978, Scott has specialized in criminal law, constitutional law, legislation, and public policy. He has served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Legislative Director for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and Director of Defender Legal Services at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. He has acted as an advisor on criminal law reform to several East African governments and is a founding partner of the Democracy Alliance. He was the 2018 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s first congressional district.