Metta Center Board Members, January 2007

Michael Nagler, President

  • Professor Emeritus, Classics and Comparative Literature and Peace & Conflict Studies Program in the International and Area Studies Teaching Department at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Founding Member, Blue Mountain Center of Meditation
  • Director, Educators for Nonviolence
  • Chairman of the Board, Peaceworkers
  • Interim Steering Committee, Nonviolent Peaceforce
  • Member, Peace and Justice Studies Association
  • Editorial Board, International Journal of Nonviolence
  • Advisory Boards: AHIMSA; Tikkun; The Peace Alliance; FutureWAVE; The International Network for Peace; Justice and Democracy in the Middle East; Dalai Lama Foundation

James Phoenix, Treasurer and Secretary

  • Board Member, Fenwick Foundation
  • Advocates Team Member, Nonviolent Peaceforce
  • Volunteer, Blue Mountain Center of Meditation
  • Volunteer, Youth in Arts

Gilda Bettencourt

  • Program Associate, Nonviolent Peaceforce
  • Board Member, Luso-American Education Foundation

Richard Meyer

  • Real Estate Investor
  • Pilot and Experimental Aircraft Builder
  • Supporter and Advisor: Institute of Noetic Sciences, Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, David Dorfman Dance Troupe
  • Board Member of several addiction recovery and prisoner reintegration programs
  • Co-Founder, Democratic Foundation of Orange County and California Clean Money Campaign
  • Founder, Democratic Foundation in the Desert
  • President, Newport Beach Democratic Club
  • Democratic Nominee for 45th Congressional District, 2004

Michael Millican

  • Family Law Attorney

Vicki Millican

  • High School Psychologist

Susan Rockrise

  • Marketing Specialist