Board of Directors
LaMar Bunts – International Region Manager, Dell Managed Services
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LaMar Bunts was a musician for twenty years, formally trained in clarinet and percussion. LaMar now devotes most of his volunteer time towards ensuring that children have access to music and arts education. Over the last decade, he has served on the Board of Directors and as a voluntary CFO for the Community School of Music and Arts, the largest music and arts education organization in California's Silicon Valley serving 40,000 people per year. LaMar also serves as a special advisor to the president of Olodum, a popular Brazilian band that gained worldwide fame for its recordings with Michael Jackson and Paul Simon in the 1980s. Over the past decade, LaMar has helped the pioneering Creative School of Olodum (Escola Criativa Olodum) produce numerous professional musicians, artists, dancers and theater actors from poor, at-risk youth in the Northeast of Brazil. He is currently an international region manager for Dell Managed Services. LaMar earned an Honors BA in Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Joe Cerrell – Director of Global Health Policy & Advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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As the director of Global Health Policy & Advocacy, Joe Cerrell oversees global health communications, public policy and international finance for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this capacity, Joe manages a policy and advocacy grant-making portfolio and oversees relations with governments, NGOs, the private sector, multilateral organizations and other foundations. Prior to joining the foundation, Joe served as assistant press secretary to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. He was a senior member of the team responsible for advising the vice president on energy and environmental issues and was a White House liaison to elected officials, industry, environmental, religious, and labor leaders, and the media. Joe also acted as U.S. spokesperson for numerous vice-presidential international state visits. Joe provided communications support and served as an advisor for three U.S. presidential campaigns. He was vice president of the philanthropy practice at APCO Worldwide, overseeing the agency's nonprofit and foundation clients. Joe currently serves on the board of directors for the ONE Campaign, UNITAID, and the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute. He is on the advisory board of the Clinton Global Initiative. Joe earned a BA from the University of Southern California and is a lifelong drummer in rock and soul bands.
Kiff Gallagher – CEO and Founder, Music National Service
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Kiff Gallagher served in the White House, on the legislative team that created AmeriCorps. At the Corporation for National Service, Kiff ran a $15MM program portfolio in education, health, public safety and the environment. At night, he produced for and performed in a hip-hop, acid jazz project called Funnybone. Kiff then joined Odwalla, Inc., where he was lead spokesman and advisor for brand strategy and corporate responsibility. Later appointed President of Social Venture Network, a national organization for CEOs and investors, Kiff was an early leader and public voice in the movements for social entrepreneurship and sustainable business. He guest lectured at business schools and conferences on the relationship between corporate practices, values and society. In 2002, Kiff turned to his lifelong passion for music full-time. He wrote and produced two critically praised pop-rock albums, toured nationally, and received radio and TV placement for his songs. Through his record label and social enterprise, PeaceLabs Music, Kiff called for the creation of a “musical Peace Corps” which became the vision and platform for Music National Service. Kiff has consulted internationally for the State Department and global NGOs. He recently served on Barack Obama's National Arts Policy Committee and as an advisor to the Presidential Transition. Kiff is an active equity investor, a 2008 Aspen Institute “Ideas Fellow,” and an honors graduate of the College of Letters from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Deborah Jospin – Partner and Co-Founder, sagawa/jospin
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Deborah (Deb) Jospin is partner and co-founder of sagawa/jospin, a consulting group based in Washington, D.C. Along with her business partner Shirley Sagawa, Deb is the co-author of The Charismatic Organization: Eight Ways to Grow a Nonprofit that Builds Buzz, Delights Donors and Engages Employees, Jossey-Bass, 2008.
From 1993 – 2001, she worked at the Corporation for National and Community Service, as Associate General Counsel, Chief of Staff and Director of AmeriCorps. Deb serves on the board of ServeNext and the Washington, D.C. Local Advisory Council of Sports4Kids. Deb was also a Deputy Team Leader for the Obama Agency Review Transition Team that reviewed the Corporation for National Service. Deb is a graduate of Tufts University, the London School of Economics and the Georgetown University Law Center. She chairs the board of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts, and serves as a Trustee of Tufts, chairing the Board’s Council of Overseers and serving on its Executive Committee. In 2009, Deb received the Light on the Hill Award, the highest honor that the undergraduate student body bestows on Tufts alumni.
Clara Shin – Director and Vice Chairperson, Litigation Department, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin
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Clara Shin is an attorney based in San Francisco, where her practice includes a broad range of securities, complex technology, intellectual property, and general commercial disputes. Clara has tried cases and handled appeals in both state and federal courts. Earlier in her career, Clara served as a White House Fellow in the White House Office of the Chief of Staff, law clerk to Judge Dorothy Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and member of the start-up team that designed and launched AmeriCorps. Clara also has coordinated a Department of Defense program to assist communities negatively affected by military downsizing, and co-designed a Department of Housing and Urban Development program to revitalize severely distressed public housing developments. Clara's international experiences include working for the United States Agency for International Development in South Africa and participating in the creation of Tahoe-Baikal Institute, a binational environmental institute focusing on land and water use issues, in California and Siberia. In addition to MNS, Clara is a board member of the ACLU of Northern California, Asian Pacific Fund, and Rosenberg Foundation. She earned a BA in Government and Psychobiopolitics from Smith College and a JD from Stanford Law School. Clara grew up playing the clarinet, flute, and piano, and her greatest regret is that she is unable to carry a tune.
