BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Cari Rudd, Chair of the Board

2014 – current

Cari Rudd is a strategic communications consultant for social good. Cari helps organizations optimize their institutional assets towards clear, effective, and productive results. Cari is a solution seeker, bringing experience from public, private, and non-profit sectors to her leadership roles. Cari’s background as a film and television professional led her to produce award-winning ads and designing winning campaigns for candidates, companies, and causes. A former leadership aide to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Vice President at Fenton Communications, Cari blends her diverse background in politics, advertising, and marketing to her clients, advocacy, and funding priorities.

Cari is a member of Rachel’s Network, a collection of women committed to environmental protection and conservation. She currently serves as a board member to the Catalogue for Philanthropy, Rachel's Action Network, and the EthicMark Award for socially responsible advertising.

Amanda Hanley, Vice President

2016 – current

Amanda Hanley has been promoting sustainable solutions for over 30 years. She is the Founder and Executive Director of a climate justice fund. This follows her role as a Co-Founding Director of the Hanley Foundation. In addition to As You Sow, she currently serves as a board member of the Global Catholic Climate Movement, working to promote Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ encyclical to care for our common home, and as a board member of the Academy for Global Citizenship, a green Chicago Public Charter School. Amanda helped found and advises the Hanley Sustainability Institute at the University of Dayton, one of the Sierra Club’s Top 20 Coolest Schools of 2018 and 2019. She is a member of the Natural Resources Defense Council‘s (NRDC) Green Leaders for Change, and an advocate and signatory of Divest-Invest Philanthropy. Amanda is a founding steering committee member of North Shore Green Women and a WIGhead organizer of Chicago Women In Green. She has served on the advisory board of Loyola University Chicago Institute for Environmental Sustainability, the advisory circle of the Archdiocese of Chicago Encyclical Working Group, and as a member of Fresh Taste, an initiative to advance the Midwest’s good food system. She has written about sustainability for local publications including Better and Crain’s Chicago Business. Amanda graduated from Northern Illinois University with a B.S. in Business Administration. She lives in the Chicago area with her kids.

Kaveri Marathe, Secretary

2018 – current

Kaveri Marathe is AYS’s Board Secretary and leads sustainability reporting at Quantis International, a global sustainability consultancy. She has dedicated her career to finding win-win-win solutions for business, the environment, and people, working with organizations large and small including the World Bank, Global Innovation Forum, IKEA, the United Nations, and others. From 2017-2019, she ran a clothing recycling startup called Texiles in the Washington, DC region. She is a frequent public speaker on sustainable fashion and circular economy and has presented at Sustainable Brands, Net Impact, on NPR, and for numerous student groups. She currently resides in Miami, Florida.

Annarie Lyles, Treasurer

2018 – current

Annarie Lyles, PhD, is on a mission to protect and restore the health of living systems, from individuals to habitats. Her work spans governance and activism with corporations (both for-profit and tax-exempt), supporting applied R&D initiatives, and managing impact investments. She also leads the family side of a closely-held private business, and advises several entrepreneurs and funds. She leads working groups on how businesses can better align with eco-health for a few impact business networks. At home, in New Jersey, with ecology professor Andy Dobson, she relishes rambles with hounds, getting her hands dirty doing local forest restoration, and other nature adventures.

Previously, she gained a decade of deal-making experience as a Business Development executive with publicly traded Genmab and Medarex (acquired by BMY). After earning a BS from Yale and a PhD in Biology from Princeton University, she worked in non-profit management as an animal curator at NYC's Central Park and Bronx Zoos. A frequent speaker, Dr. Lyles has authored over three dozen publications.

Thomas Van Dyck, Founder

1992 – current

Thomas has been a leader in the field of socially-responsible investing for more than 35 years. In 1992, he founded As You Sow, a shareholder advocacy organization, which engages corporations on environmental, human/labor rights and corporate social responsibility initiatives. In 2014, Thomas was a featured guest on Bill Moyers and Company and discussed the Divest/Invest movement which he helped initiate with his clients. In 2019, he was named for the second time as one of the Financial Times’ Top 400 Financial Advisors. He was also a featured speaker at the TedX Wall Street conference in 2012 and provided his expertise on SRI investing, which incorporates environmental, social and governance factors in institutional/individual client portfolio management to help lower risks and potentially improve returns. Thomas graduated from Duke University in 1980 with a B.A. in Political Science. He is a member of the advisory board at Center for Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua Business School. He is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and holds his Series 7 and Series 66.

Jason Katz-Brown

2023 – current

Jason Katz-Brown is an engineering leader committed to righteous fights. He started his career in 2008 as a software engineer in Google's Tokyo office, then led internationalization at Airbnb as one of its first engineers. In 2018 Jason moved into politics, first to Des Moines to help elect the first two women ever to represent Iowa in Congress, then to Boston to lead the organizing technology team on Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign, where the team worked under a "Small Tech" mural and strove to empower every volunteer and voter in the fight for big, structural change. In 2020 he joined Data for Progress, a think tank and pollster that empowers political leaders with data and polling to advocate for progressive and popular public policy. Jason graduated with a B.S. and M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska because it is wonderfully welcoming and there are dozens of outdoor natural-ice rinks all winter long — here's to it staying that way.

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