Wisdom Council

Vicki Cammack, (Canada) Executive Director PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship. She focuses on the development, dissemination and application of ideas, concepts and processes that promote a more engaged and caring citizenship. Her innovative approaches to leadership development, social network facilitation and social accounting are key ingredients in her work of taking social inventions to scale.

Al Etmanski, (Canada) President PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship. He is recognized as a visionary thinker in areas of social policy, community development and individualizing services for people with disabilities. He is known for expertise in fostering social enterprise within the civic sector, converting social capital to economic capital, developing innovative partnerships among private, public and citizen sectors and creating alternatives to legal guardianship.

Henry Saint Bris, (France) Senior Vice President, Suez Company North America. He is an expert in corporate operations and restructuring, mergers and divestments, international development, environmental consulting, strategy and sales, and marketing and sales. His global view of economics and finance is underlined by a commitment to sustainability and triple bottom line strategy and performance.

Jonathan C. Lewis, (USA) Chief Executive Officer/Founder, MicroCredit Enterprises. His concept design for MicroCredit is a program that mobilizes private collateral assets to provide microcredit loans for poor families overseas. He also offers expertise in information knowledge in the global healthcare economy, policy and political development and participation in organizations dedicated to eliminating hunger and socially responsible investing.

Laine Shakerdge, (USA) Ms. Shakerdge is a director of Rock Creek Property Group, and entity that acquires, manages and leases commercial real estate in Washington, D.C. For the ten years prior to joining Rock Creek, she served as a principal and Vice President of Hastings Development Corporation. In that role, she focused on acquisitions, redevelopments, and marketing of shopping centers and multi-family housing. Ms. Shakerdge began her commercial real estate career in tenant representation at Rubloff, a Washington D.C.-based national commercial real estate firm. In 1989, she was a founding partner of JM Zell Partners, a locally based commercial real estate consulting firm. Ms. Shakerdge has strong ties to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and owns interests in many local projects. In the non-profit arena, she served as a Grants Administrator for the Monsanto Fund, the philanthropic arm of the Monsanto Company. In Washington, D.C. she served on the Board of Directors of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. She has received two Masters degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dr. Martha M. Urioste, (USA) Dr. Urioste spent her career in the Denver Public Schools, serving in myriad roles including teacher, counselor, Assistant Principal, Principal, Bilingual Education coordinator, Hispanic Lay Advisory Community Specialist, and supervisor to the program of the Board of Education Holding Power to reduce the high school drop out rate in ten of the area schools. Additionally, Dr. Urioste established and served as President of Family Star, a Montessori Infant Parent Center, and taught multi-cultural and community as a resource courses at the University of Colorado at Denver. Her educational background includes a B.A. in Education/Spanish from Loretto Heights College, an M. Ed. From Texas Technical College, an M.A. in Spanish Literature from Middlebury College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Urioste has received many outstanding awards including “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities;? N.D.E.A. Spanish Language Institute of the Univesity of North Carolina; N.D.E.A. Spanish Language Institute at Tucuman, Argentina; E.P.D.A. grants for the M.Ed. and Ph.D.; Hispanic Womens’ Award, Chicana of the Year Award, Big Sisters of the Year Award; DAEOP Administrators’ Award, Women in Action Award; Bahai Education Award; and University Womens’ Trailblazer Award. Dr. Urioste was one of seven women to receive the Colorado Womens’ Hall of Fame Award in 2000. Dr. Urioste is currently a Pioneer Charter School Chairperson for Denver Public Schools, a board member and coach with The YESS Institute, and a member of the Congress of Hispanic Educators.