Our Board Members
Andre Carothers
Board President
Board Chair Emeritus
Audit Committee Chair
Racial Justice & Belonging Committee Chair
Board Recruitment Chair
Governance Committee Member
Board Member since 1991
Andre Carothers has more than 30 years of experience in nonprofit management, philanthropy, program development, and organizational and leadership development. He is currently a partner at an early-stage business incubator and an independent consultant and executive coach for leaders in business, nonprofits, and philanthropy.
He serves on the boards of directors of the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Furthur Foundation, the Weinmann Charitable Trust, the New Place Fund, the Rainforest Action Network, and the Story of Stuff Project.
In 1999, he co-founded the Rockwood Leadership Institute, an international leadership training organization, where he served as executive director until 2008. From 1984 to 1997, he worked at Greenpeace USA as an editor of their national newsmagazine, a campaign manager, and a member of the board of directors.
He received an MA in environmental science from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.
Avi Mahaningtyas
Board Chair
Governance Committee Chair
Audit Committee Member
Board Member Since 2019
Avi Mahaningtyas has been working in the non-government sector in Indonesia for the last 25 years. Her main focuses have been environmental policy and practice, community business development, women’s empowerment, indigenous peoples’ rights, and governance reform.
Avi is an environmental consultant and knowledge facilitator. She served as an advisor to the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA) from 2013 to 2018. She served as advisor for stakeholders’ engagement and strategic communication for the Task Force for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (Satgas REDD+) and the Head of the Presidential Delivery Unit from 2011-2014. She was a fellow with The Samdhana Institute focusing on community-based natural resource management, social transformation, and cultural revival. Prior to that, Avi worked as the National Coordinator of the Governor’s Climate and Forest Task Force (2009-2011); Chief of Cluster, Environmental and Economic Governance with the Kemitraan-Partnership for Governance Reform Indonesia (2010-2012); and the National Coordinator for the GEF Small Grants Program in Indonesia (2002-2009).
Anna Lappé
Board Vice Chair
Development Committee Chair
Board Recruitment Committee Member
Board Member since 2008
Anna Lappé is the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations collaborating to transform food systems and their impacts on climate change and food security. She is also a national bestselling author and an internationally recognized expert on sustainability and justice along the food chain. Before joining the Alliance, she launched the Food Sovereignty Fund of the Panta Rhea Foundation. She was the founder and strategic advisor to Real Food Media, developing a powerful media and communications strategy for the food movement.
Along with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé, Anna also co-founded the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund, supporting grassroots changemakers around the world. The former co-host of the PBS show, The Endless Feast, Anna has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. She has been featured in or contributed to 16 books and co-authored or authored 3. Her most recent book explores the connections between the climate crisis and food: Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. Called one of the nation’s Eco-Who’s Who by TIME magazine, Anna is a recipient of the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award. Anna holds an M.A. in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and graduated with honors from Brown University. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Scott Price
Board Treasurer
Finance Committee Chair
Governance Committee Member
Board Member since 1994
Scott B. Price obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He earned the honor of being a Henry Rutgers Scholar and graduated in May of 1979. He obtained his Masters in Business Administration from San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, in December of 1981. Scott has been a certified CPA since March 12, 1982. Scott B. Price and Company was founded in June of 1985.
Scott serves on the Board of Directors for several 501(c)(3) organizations. He is the treasurer of the Rainforest Action Network, Inc. and is an active member of the Cedars and Ronald McDonald House SF advisory boards. Scott is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Asad Rehman
Racial Justice and Belonging Committee Member
Board Member since April 2022
Asad Rehman is the Executive Director of the radical anti-poverty and social justice organization War on Want. Asad is a leading climate justice activist whose work over the last 20 years has helped to reframe the climate crisis as a crisis of neoliberal capitalism, inequality, and racism. Asad helps to co-coordinate the Global Green New Deal Project and was one of the founders of the COP26 Coalition. Over the last 35 years, he has worked with many social movements both globally and nationally, including the anti-racist movement, the alter-globalization movement, and the anti-war movement.
Alberto Saldamando
Racial Justice and Belonging Committee Member
Audit Committee Member
Board Member since 2018
Alberto Saldamando (Xicano/Zapoteca) is an internationally acknowledged expert on human rights and Indigenous rights and has represented Indigenous Peoples, organizations, and communities from various countries from most regions of the world before United Nations human rights mechanisms, as well as the International Labor Organization, the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development specific instance procedure.
In 2009 Alberto began his climate change work with the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) at the Copenhagen Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and in 2012 he accepted the position as counsel to the IEN on Climate Change and Indigenous and Human Rights. In this role he serves as IEN’s head of delegation to UNFCCC Conferences of Parties and related fora. Alberto previously spent 18 years serving as General Counsel of the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), and is very proud of his very active participation in the negotiations leading to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the establishment of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the initial mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. In addition to representing indigenous individuals, tribes, and nations in the human rights arena, his work with the IITC included advising on organizational matters and the development and implementation of a Human and Indigenous Rights program, training, and activities.
Alberto was accredited as an Expert by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (2014) and elected by UN-accredited Non-governmental Organizations as their representative to the International Steering Committee of the World Conference Against Racism (1998-2001). Previously, he served as Executive Director of California Rural Legal Assistance, was one of the founders and board members of San Francisco’s Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), and was a Board Member for the Northern California American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is bilingual in Spanish and English.
Leila Salazar-López
Development Committee Member
Racial Justice and Belonging Committee Member
Board Member since 2023
Leila Salazar-López, Executive Director of Amazon Watch since 2015, leads the organization in its work to protect and defend the bio-cultural and climate integrity of the Amazon rainforest in solidarity with Indigenous and forest peoples. For 25+ years, Leila has worked to defend the world’s rainforests, human rights, and climate through grassroots organizing and international advocacy campaigns at Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network, and Global Exchange. She is also a Global Fund for Women Advisor for Latin America, a Greenpeace Voting Member, and serves on the Advisory Circle of Daughters of the Earth. (amazonwatch.org).
Dan Scales
Development Committee Member
Board Member since January 2024
Dan joins the RAN Board as a senior software architect, bringing a unique experience that blends technological expertise and strong environmental commitment. A long-time supporter of RAN, Dan provided invaluable support for the early tracing of the sources of palm oil in Sumatra, Indonesia. Since earning his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, Dan has done computer science research at DEC/Compaq Research Labs, was a key early engineer at VMware, and subsequently worked as a principal engineer at Google. Dan is currently a senior engineer at the World Resource Institute working on the Global Forest Watch project. Global Forest Watch provides comprehensive deforestation analysis and alerts for use by stakeholders worldwide, including national park rangers and corporations monitoring their supply chains.
Hana Heineken
Governance Committee Member
Board Member since July 2024
Hana specialises in securities law, employee benefits law and financial regulation, with a focus on climate risk, the energy sector, and the role of financial institutions. Through her work at ClientEarth, Hana also supports climate and energy initiatives in Asia, with a focus on the financial sector in Japan.
Hana has also served as a Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, leading efforts on pension funds and the regulation of climate-related financial risk. Hana’s diverse experience also includes roles as a Senior Finance Campaigner at Rainforest Action Network and a Senior Policy Advisor at Global Witness.
Fluent in English and Japanese, Hana holds a Juris Doctor from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University (Haub Law), specializing in Environmental Law and International Law; a research certificate from the University of Tokyo Graduate School for Law and Politics; and a LLM from Georgetown Law Center, specializing in Securities Law. Hana is a member of the state bars of New York and Washington DC. Hana concurrently serves as a Board Member of Rainforest Action Network and Advisory Board Member of the Sustainable Business Law Hub at Haub Law. Hana is deeply committed to empowering the next generation and has previously served as Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University School of Law, on the subject of Environmental Justice.
Eos de Feminis
Finance Committee Member
Board Member since December 2025
Eos is a long term RAN fan, having worked for the org for many years over the decades, and generally staying in touch with the fabulous people and work. She’s taken her learnings and experience at RAN to other non-profits professionally, providing finance, HR and operations related consulting services over the last few years. Because the technological infrastructure allows for remote work, Eos arranges her private life to take advantage of travel opportunities. One can often find her in various parts of the world, be that via home exchanges or pet sitting or visiting with friends/colleagues, enjoying some ‘business and pleasure’. Eos is based in New Orleans nowadays after decades in San Francisco, a place dear to her heart and she visits often.
Emeritus Board
- Randy Hayes, Co-founder of RAN
- Mike Roselle, Co-founder of RAN
- Allan Badiner
- Deepa Isac
- Michael Northrop
- Ibrahim AlHusseini
- James D. Gollin
- Anna Hawken
- Jodie Evans
Honorary Members
- Ali MacGraw
- Bonnie Raitt
- John Densmore
- Woody Harrelson
- Daryl Hannah