Appendix B
Profiles of Generation Peace Forum participants
 Brittany Bergquist
Co-founder, Cell Phones for Soldiers
Teenager Brittany Bergquist and her brother Robbie founded Cell Phones for Soldiers from their home in Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since then, the registered 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization has raised approximately $1 million in donations and distributed more than 400,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers serving overseas. The program is now at 18 sponsors and growing.
April Dinwoodie
Founder, AdoptMent
While searching for her birth family, April Dinwoodie was inspired to create a unique mentoring program to help others on a similar quest. AdoptMent connects adopted adults, or those who spent time in foster care, with young people who are adopted or waiting in foster care. By partnering with Mentoring USA, in just three years AdoptMent has helped countless such mentees and mentors alike.
 Kent Koth
Director, Center for Service and Community Engagement
Seattle University
Kent Koth helps to bring alive the mission of Seattle University, which is “dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.” Focusing on the leadership aspect of the mission, Koth sets the Center’s strategy for the year and works with faculty on identifying ways they can connect their classes with the larger community.
 Carol Orsborn, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and Co-Chair, FH-Boom
Fleishman-Hillard
Dr. Carol Orsborn is known for her work addressing the issues, desires and concerns of the baby boom generation. The author of 15 books, she is most recently the co-author of BOOM: Marketing to the Ultimate Power Consumer — the Baby-Boomer Woman. Recently she helped lead a Webinar on “The Great Generational Power Play: Understanding, Reaching and Connecting with the Four-Generation Workplace.”
 Angela Perez Baraquio Grey
Founder, Angela Perez Baraquio Education Foundation
Miss America 2001
Angela Perez Baraquio Grey is the first Asian American, and the first teacher, to be crowned Miss America. She used her role to create a “classroom” of a different kind, traveling across the country to help make character education an integral part of schools’ curriculum. She was appointed by President Bush in June 2006 to be a member of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. Her foundation provides scholarships and grants in the area of character education for students and teachers.
 Alan Rambam
Founder, SHiNE: Seeking Harmony in Neighborhoods Everyday
SHiNE reaches out to school-aged children throughout the United States to encourage them to participate in workshops on three critical subjects: tolerance, nonviolence and self-esteem. Upon completing these courses, children sign the SHiNE Unity Pledge that confirms their understanding of what they have learned and commits them to act positively and responsibly concerning issues on diversity, racial unity, nonviolence and tolerance. Alan Rambam is the founder of SHiNE. In just three years, he has secured $6 million in youth cause-marketing partnerships/sponsorships and $30 million in media support from such major players in the youth market as Procter & Gamble, Kodak, Levi’s, AOL Time Warner, MTV and Nintendo. He has also garnered support from a number of noted celebrities. Rambam is a recipient of the Theodor Herzl Award from the State of Israel for his outstanding humanitarian efforts.
 Len and Libby Traubman
Co-founders, Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemaker’s Camp
On Labor Day week 2006, the husband-and-wife team of Len and Libby Traubman gathered together 255 Jews and Palestinians for the largest-ever Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemaker’s Camp in the country. It is the only cross-generational residential camp of its kind in North America, and perhaps anywhere. The Traubmans partnered with Camp Tawonga, an 85-year-old Jewish community camp, to bring together these men and women, including 50 from 29 towns in the Holy Land. The Traubmans also co-founded the 14-year-old Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group on the San Francisco Peninsula. The group consists of Holocaust refugees and twentieth-generation Palestinians. Similar groups are in place across North America and beyond.
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