President

Renee Harbers is the Founding Director and President of the Harbers Family Foundation, an organization that creates visual media to promote humanitarian advocacy and land preservation around the world. Renee’s passion for photography and philanthropy has led her to form partnerships with some of the world’s best photographers to produce visual narratives for a better world. Her projects have taken her to locations as diverse as Rwanda, Suriname and Madagascar. An award-winning amateur photographer, Renee now serves on the Chairman’s Council of Conservation International. She is also a Director of Extra Strength Media, a non-profit visual media developer. Renee retired from Microsoft in 1994. Her generous financial support helps make Ripple Effect Images a reality.

Vice President

Lucinda is President and Founder of a marketing communications firm proudly counting Save the Children, World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and New Course among its clients. Under her direction, the 27-year-old company is now carbon-neutral. She has served on the Board of Directors for Washington’s Discovery Creek Children’s Museum and is actively involved in promoting children’s health, education, and scientific literacy. She is the co-chair of the Steering Committee for the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Business Council and is a national judge for the FIRST robotics competition. She was honored by the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington with its Lifetime Achievement Award, given in recognition of her firm’s success and her personal commitment to volunteering for community projects.

Treasurer

Nadia Allaudin is a Resident Director, Senior Vice President - Investments, and Wealth Management Advisor with Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management. She also manages 85 advisors and staff and drives Merrill Lynch’s diversity initiatives in the greater Los Angeles area. Nadia launched and organizes the annual Women, Wealth and Wisdom Conference for Merrill Lynch and was recently awarded the prestigious Bank of America Diversity & Inclusion Recognition Award. Nadia also teaches a Women, Wealth and Wisdom course at UCLA. She serves on various economic planning boards within the business community, focusing on the financial needs of families.

Director

Ms. Huck has worked side-by-side as an expert in Persuasive Communications with the nation’s top corporate leaders and litigators over the past eighteen years. She has been involved in the nation’s top high profile and high-dollar exposure litigation in the country, as well as some of the corporate world’s largest projects to date.

Ms. Huck developed and trademarked Visually Persuasive Storytelling, an uncharted territory in design and communications after observing that it is an important missing link in communications today. Over her career she has helped others win hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts as well as moving billion dollar projects forward.

Director

Betty Hudson joined the National Geographic Society as Senior Vice President, Communications, in September 2000 and was named Executive Vice President in the fall of 2006. She is responsible for all communications and public affairs initiatives undertaken by the National Geographic Society and its subsidiaries, including media and public relations, brand development, employee communications and related marketing-communications activities.

Formerly Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications at iVillage Inc., Hudson has a wealth of multimedia experience, including more than 25 years in television. She joined NBC in 1979 as Vice President of Corporate Projects. She became Vice President of Corporate Relations and Advertising in 1984, of Corporate and Media Relations in 1986 and of Corporate Communications in 1988. She was appointed Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications in 1989 and Executive Producer of NBC Productions in 1993.

Director

As the wife of the U.S. Ambassador to India, Sally has focused her attention on the plight of poor women and children. In her travels throughout India and at home in Delhi, Sally has worked to support non-governmental organizations and private businesses that assist the most vulnerable in Indian society by teaching self-empowering vocational skills, reducing household pollution, promoting the importance of education, and raising awareness to reduce water-related diarrheal diseases in children. Sally has worked with her husband to create opportunities for such groups to share best practices, to combine resources for pulling women and children out of poverty, and to provide the least privileged in Indian society with dignity.

Executive Director, Non-Voting Member

Annie Griffiths was one of the first women photographers to work for National Geographic. She has covered women’s issues on six continents and her work has been featured in the Geographic, LIFE, Geo, Smithsonian, Time, Stern, and many other publications. Her books include A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel and Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands, done in partnership with acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver. Proceeds from the book have raised more than a quarter million dollars for grassroots land conservation. Annie is deeply committed to photographing need around the world. For more than a decade she has dedicated a portion of each year to documenting the important work of aid organizations. She has received awards from the National Press Photographers Association, the Associated Press, the National Organization of Women, and the White House News Photographers Association.