Consumer Products Fund

For many years, Kathryn served as the California Policy Director for the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and as the Campaign Director for Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy (CHANGE). Kathryn has over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of environment, health, and social justice in the private, government, and non-profit sectors. She joined CEH after two years of consulting for the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors while completing her joint Master’s in Public Health and Public Administration in Environmental Health Science and Policy at Columbia University. Kathryn completed a two-year fellowship at the San Francisco Foundation where she managed the Environmental Health and Justice Initiative and supported their $2 million annual environmental grant-making portfolio. As part of her work with Latino Issues Forum, the Greenlining Institute, and WE ACT for Environmental Justice, she has experience in policy and advocacy at the local, regional, state, and federal levels. The central goal of Kathryn’s work is to build power in low-income communities of color to engage in policy development that transforms their health, environment and economic opportunities. She was also a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program and has a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from U.C. Berkeley. 

Jim is one of the founders of NWK Group, Inc and led the development and delivery of NWK Group services to institutional clients. Prior to co-founding NWK Group in 2002, he worked for boutique firm in San Francisco advising institutional retirement plans. 

After 25+ years of serving retirement plan sponsors and participants, he has retired and shifted his focus to philanthropic endeavors. Jim remains a part of NWK Group as a strategic advisor and is available to discuss historical client related matters. 

Jim has a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif. In 2009 Jim earned the Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®) designation. 

In addition to serving on the Rose Foundation Board, Jim volunteers for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and is a coach for its Team in Training program. He has competed in two Ironman distance triathlons and uses his experience to help other athletes train for Ironman distance triathlons and raising money for cancer research. 

Stacy Malkan is co-founder and managing editor of U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit investigative research group focused on promoting transparency for public health. She reports on pesticide industry disinformation campaigns, environmental health science and market developments for safer products. Stacy is author of the award-winning book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (New Society, 2007), and co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition of health groups that exposed hazardous chemicals in nail polish, baby products, make-up and hair products and pressured companies to reformulate to safer products. Her work has been published in Time magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Nature Biotechnology, and many other outlets. Stacy is the former communications director for Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition of health groups working to transform health care so it is no longer a source of environmental harm.

Charlie has enjoyed countless career-defining benefits of a thirty-plus year career in social justice non-profits.  Early on, h supported community development and immigration projects in a low-income Latino neighborhood in San Francisco.  He also spent more than twenty years gathering and sharing stories to help legal teams defend people from the death penalty.  Later, he worked for thirteen fulfilling years as the number two at the Center for Environmental Health — a non-profit that protects people and the environment from the reckless greed of the petrochemical industry. Today, he works as a consultant, drawing on his experiences as a listener, a storyteller, and non-profit lifer to support activists, nonprofits, artists, survivors of the criminal justice system, immigrants, public servants, students, small businesses, and other heroes who fortify their communities and change the world. 

Olivia Wein has been an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) for over 20 years. Olivia focuses on policies and programs that protect low-income consumers’ access to essential utility services, including energy, water, and broadband service.  Olivia works on the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Weatherization and Lifeline programs, and intervenes in federal and state utility commission proceedings in matters affecting low-income utility consumer programs and protections. She is co-author of NCLC’s Access to Utility Service and co-author of The Rights of Utility Consumers. Olivia serves on the boards of the Universal Service Administrative Company and the National Energy and Utility Affordability Coalition and she serves on the Federal Communication Commission’s Consumer Advisory Committee.