Board of Directors
Nancy S. Anthony, Chairman
Ms. Anthony is President of Fernwood Advisors, Inc., an investment advisory firm. Her business career has been in investment management and tax planning and preparation. She has been active in several Boston area medical, social service, and educational institutions including Children's Hospital, McLean Hospital, and Massachusetts Historical Society, and in local, state, and national politics. She received a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University, a Master of Science in Accountancy from DePaul University, and a CPA at the University of Illinois.
Sharon Barnes
Ms. Barnes is a businesswoman who owns and runs a company that restores and manages historic properties. For more than 20 years she was a vice president in charge of real estate investments for one of the nation's largest insurance companies. She is active in historic preservation and frequently testifies before landmark commissions. A founding member of FAIR, Ms. Barnes has also been active in population, environment, and women's issues. She received her MBA from Columbia University.
Edith Blodgett
Edith Blodgett is President of the Blodgett Foundation. A musician from the age of six years, Mrs. Blodgett studied at the School of Fine Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has been on the boards of numerous Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Long Island, New York, cultural, medical, civic, and environmental institutions, including Aquinas College, Community Health Visiting Nurses’ Association, Syosset Concert Association, and the Mayor’s Project Study Planning Board and Design Committee for the Grand Center in Grand Rapids. She was honored by the Jaycee Women’s Association in Grand Rapids as Woman of the Year.
Henry M. Buhl, Vice President
Mr. Buhl is the founder of the not-for-profit Association of Community Employment for the Homeless and its three operating companies: SoHo, SoMA, and TriBeCa Partnerships. These organizations offer the homeless community life skills, job training, and employment services. Mr. Buhl started his career on the New York Stock Exchange and later managed international mutual funds at I.O.S. Geneva. After a successful investment career, he turned his eyes to photography and community involvement. In addition to chairing the Photography Committee of the Guggenheim Museum, Mr. Buhl serves as a trustee of the Metropolitan College of New York and the African Museum of Art. He also founded and is president of the Buhl Foundation, which directs funds to support scholarship in the arts and human services.
Major General Douglas E. Caton, Ret., Treasurer
Mr. Caton is the CEO of Management Services Corporation of Charlottesville, Virginia, a regional commercial real estate management, construction, and development company. He is also Chairman of the Board of Guaranty Bank, a community bank in central Virginia, and a retired Major General in the United States Army Reserve. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the United States Army War College and received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University Of Virginia School Of Law.
Pat Choate
Mr. Choate, an economist, has held senior positions in the U.S. government, the state governments of Tennessee and Oklahoma, and at TRW, Inc. a multinational corporation with extensive global defense, space and industrial operations. He has served on three Presidential Commissions and in 1990 was vice-chairman of the Department of Defense’s Science Board panel that reviewed the security implications of foreign ownership of key U.S. defense technologies. Mr. Choate is the author of six books and more than 500 articles, reports, monographs, and professional papers, many of which he believes have been read. He has testified before Congress more than 50 times on a variety of subjects. In 1996, Ross Perot chose Choate to be his Vice Presidential running mate.
Donald A. Collins
Mr. Collins serves as a program and financial consultant to a number of non-profit and charitable institutions. He serves on several non-governmental organization boards, including The Population Institute, Family Health International, and International Projects Assistance Services, whose varied activities are primarily concerned with advocacy of international family planning, women's rights, and reproductive health.
Sarah G. Epstein, Secretary
Ms. Epstein is an art lecturer and volunteer. She serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including Pathfinder International, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, Center for Development and Population Activities, and The Population Institute. She has served as a volunteer for the Urban League and as an organizer for civil rights marches in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and Simmons School of Social Work.
Roy C. Porter
Mr. Porter is a senior manager for process management at a large engineering and technical services company. He is a Black Belt in the Six Sigma process improvement method and has experience in the CMMI process maturity framework, systems analysis and engineering, software development, and project management. He is a longtime supporter of numerous environmental and charitable organizations and joined FAIR in 1980. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of William and Mary and has an MS degree from Stanford University.
Stephen B. Swensrud
Mr. Swensrud is Chairman of Fernwood Advisors, Inc., an investment advisory firm in Boston, Massachusetts. He is Chairman of RPP Corporation in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Director or Trustee of various Merrill Lynch-Sponsored Mutual Funds. His business career has involved both private and institutional venture capital, ownership of companies in diverse fields, and representation on many investment company and trust boards. He has been active for many years with various educational and medical institutions in the Boston area, including the Museum of Science, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He is a graduate of Princeton University and has an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
John Tanton, M.D.
Dr. Tanton is the original founder of FAIR. He became interested in immigration to the United States through his long-standing concerns about the effects of unplanned and uncontrolled population growth and resource depletion. He was the national President of Zero Population Growth from 1975 to 1977 and was Chairman of its Immigration Study Committee from 1973 to 1975. He was organizer and President of the Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood chapter. From 1971 to 1975, Dr. Tanton served as Chairman of the Sierra Club National Population Committee. He is currently editor and publisher of The Social Contract, a quarterly public policy journal. He was a 1990 recipient of the Chevron Conservation Award. Dr. Tanton is a graduate of Michigan State University and the University of Michigan Medical School.
Alan Weeden
Mr. Weeden is President of the Weeden Foundation, a family foundation based in New York City, whose mission is to help save biodiversity on our planet. Mr. Weeden, a native of California, was educated at Stanford University and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. His business career was at Weeden & Company, a securities firm where he served as CEO and Chairman before his retirement in 1981. Mr. Weeden serves on numerous boards of both corporations and non-profit environmental organizations.
Sidney Swensrud (1900 - 1996)
Chairman, Reserve and Endowment FundNational Board of Advisors
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