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Gara LaMarche, Open Society Institute /C LLN184 w/Marsha Rosenbaum

“Gara LaMarche is the president of the Democracy Alliance, a network of liberal donors who coordinate their political giving. LaMarche previously served as president & CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies. Prior to joining the Atlantic Philanthropies, he served as vice president and director of U.S. programs for The Open Society Institute. In his tenure at the Atlantic Philanthropies, LaMarche led the foundation's shift to a social justice approach to grant-making. From 1979-1984, LaMarche was the associate director of the ACLU's New York branch & was the executive director of the ACLU of Texas from 1984 to 1988. From 1988 to 1990, LaMarche was director of the Freedom-to-Write Program of the PEN American Center, when PEN played a leading role in campaigns to lift Iran's fatwa against Salman Rushdie & controversy over arts funding in the United States. From 1990 to 1996, he was director of the Free Expression Project at the Open Society Institute, until he was named the director of U.S. programs. While at the Atlantic Philanthropies, LaMarche was credited with improving communications and transparency at the foundation. The Atlantic Philanthropies have made grants totaling more than $4 billion since 1982, including a $25 million pledge to advocacy groups supporting U.S. health care reform between 2008-2010. LaMarche is a columnist for The Huffington Post & The Nation, as well as a blogger in his own right. He has written a number of articles on human rights & is the editor of the 1996 anthology, Speech & Equality: Do We Really Have to Choose? LaMarche has taught at The New York University's Wagner School of Public Service, at the New School University & John Jay College. LaMarche serves on the boards of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, StoryCorps & The White House Project. He is on the Leadership Council of Hispanics in Philanthropy. He is the winner of the 2010 Hubert H. Humphrey Civil & Human Rights Award from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights & the Community Change Champion Award from the Center for Community Change.” -Wikipedia ________________________________________________________________________________________________ "Marsha Rosenbaum is director emerita of the San Francisco office of the Drug Policy Alliance, where she spearheaded DPA's work on youth and drugs and created the Safety First booklet. She received her doctorate in medical sociology from the University of California at San Francisco in 1979. From 1977 to 1995, Rosenbaum was the principal investigator on National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded studies of heroin addiction, methadone maintenance treatment, MDMA (Ecstasy), cocaine, and drug use during pregnancy. Rosenbaum has written opinion pieces for the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Chicago Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, The Detroit News, Newsday, The San Diego Union-Tribune, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, The Orange County Register, La Opinión, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, AlterNet, The Daytona Beach News-Journal, The Times (Trenton, New Jersey), and Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. She co-chaired the international conferences: "Just Say Know: New Directions in Drug Education" in 1999 "The State of Ecstasy: The Medicine, Science and Culture of MDMA" in 2001 And organized the California Statewide Task Force on Effective Drug Education in 2003 Rosenbaum regularly speaks to PTAs, other parent groups, schools, drug treatment and prevention professionals and the media about teenagers and drugs, Ecstasy, and drug policy issues. She currently serves on the California Blue Ribbon Commission to study marijuana legalization in California." - DPA