International Advisory Board

Worked for many years organizing social development projects throughout Asia and South America. He earned a doctorate in Social Welfare, with a specialization in community economic development. He has taught community practice and social policy at the University of Pennsylvania and George Mason University. His research has focused on the application of comprehensive community initiatives to address critical social and economic problems. For over 30 years, he has studied and lectured on Prout theory. He is particularly interested in local economic planning, economic democracy, and the development of cooperatives based on Proutist principles.

Also lived in Austria, Canada and Lebanon. B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University; M.A. from West Georgia College, Psychology; Advanced Training at Canadian Institute of Psychosynthesis, California Institute of Integral Studies and Henry George School of Social Science. Co-Founder and Co-Director of Earth Rights Institute, projects include ecovillage development, humanitarian aid to Africa and work to establish transparent resource rent funds in Niger Delta region of Nigeria. UN NGO Representative working with UN Habitat’s newly launched Global Land Tool Network developing education, training and implementation programs for land value taxation policy. Part-time private practice in psycho-spiritual psychotherapy. Since first hearing about Prout in a lecture in1973, its principles have informed her work and worldview. www.earthrights.net

MA in geography at the University of Washington in Seattle, studying globalization, international development, and alternative futures. Her thesis is a critique of neoliberalism and counter hegemonic movements. She has been a Proutist for 35 years, raised four children, gardens organically, has worked in alternative schools, and tutored English and writing. For the past ten years she have been a student of human rights and postcolonial history. An activist for social justice, she has attended four World Social Forums in Brazil and India. She stands in solidarity with the people of Latin America and the world working for a common future of economic democracy, dignity, and peace. 

BSc in Economics, University of Sao Paulo, employed at ABN AMRO Bank, New York. A former student activist, he has studied Prout for more than 15 years. Areas of interest are macroeconomics and economic development.

Executive Director of Proutist Universal, Inc., Washington, DC since 1988. Has over twenty years of mid and top-level management experience with not-for-profit community organizations and small businesses. Works in commercial radio, alternative media, and has been the communications coordinator of the global Peoples News Agency. Organized and led hundreds of seminars and training events in North America, Europe, Brazil, India and elsewhere. Had a student relationship with Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, from 1979 to 1990. Member of the PU team contracted by PDVSA to lecture on Prout and cooperatives in Venezuela in 2005.

Prout activist for 30 years, co-author of Progressive Socialism. He personally studied under P.R. Sarkar and worked for Proutist Universal in Kolkata, India from 1983 to 1995, coordinating the editing and translation of Sarkar’s Prout in a Nutshell compiled works. Founding director of the Prout Institute of Australia www.pia.info

BA (edited) laude: U.C. Santa Barbara, social anthropology, MA in Applied Anthropology (best thesis award), California State University Long Beach. PhD in progress in Transformative Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies. Professional focus is indigenous education, community development, community/school collaboration, family literacy, and sustainable economics. PRI studies include: parenting programs for refugees; an analysis of Aboriginal education in Australia, a program supporting the success of minority students, and regional PROUT studies in Australia, the Ozarks of Missouri and Southern California. Currently a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach, has taught at Pomona College, National University, and California State University Channel Islands. A global citizen guided by his spiritual master, P.R. Sarkar, his work has carried him to India, Mexico, Canada, Guatemala, New Zealand, and Australia.

 8. Nada Khader (Palestina/USA)

BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, MA in Great Books of the East from St. John’s College. Executive Director of WESPAC Foundation, a peace and justice action and educational network of Westchester, Long Island, New York, since May 2001. Served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program in the Gaza Strip and for two years as a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia, North Africa. Served with AmeriCorps in North Carolina and Washington, DC from 1993-1995. She has been a guest speaker at the Socialist Scholars Conference, the “Orange Alert” Conference at Sarah Lawrence College, the “Color of War” Conference at Manhattanville College, the Lower Hudson Valley People’s Assembly, the Mount Vernon Islamic Center, the Interfaith Council and she gave the Commencement Address at the German School of New York. She has been recognized for her peace and justice work by the American Muslim Women’s Association. Serving on the Women Proutists NY Sector Board since 1999. www.wespac.org

Masters in Public Administration and at Northwestern University, Manila. Working as a public policy researcher and policy consultant of the Legislative Council of the Provincial Government of Ilocos Norte. Member of the Board of Directors of the Teachers Advocacy for Change and Educational Reforms (Teachers). Last year, was the Associate Dean and Department Chair of the Political and Social Sciences of the College of Arts and Sciences and Masters of Arts in Public Administration Graduate Program Coordinator of the Vedasto J. Samonte School of Graduate Studies of Northwestern University. Prout activist, see www.angkasama.net/tpmi, www.angkasama.net/mawf and www.educ-net.org

Bachelor of Science Degree at Southern Illinois University, in Natural Resource Management. Expert in retail co-op management, new co-op start-ups, public relations, sales, marketing, financial management and fundraising. Professional experience includes establishing Longmont Co-op Market, Harmony Co-op and Boulder Co-op Market in Colorado, and 17 years as Marketing Manager and Public Relations Manager in Frontier Natural Products Co-op in Iowa. Since 1990 has intensively studied about Prout’s cooperative structure and teaches cooperative classes. Gave Prout cooperative training and presentations in Venezuela during September 2005. Currently organizing a local cooperative economy in Boulder, Colorado. His research and connection with cooperative leaders in Venezuela has created a strong interest in the Prout Research Institute of Venezuela.

A political scientist, has been a pioneer in the area of futures studies for over 20 years. He is the author/editor of eighteen books and CDROMs and over 300 articles at his website: www.metafuture.org. Dr. Inayatullah is the author/editor of several books on P.R. Sarkar and the Prout movement, including Understanding P. R. Sarkar: The Indian Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge; Situating Sarkar; with the late Jennifer Fitzgerald Transcending Boundaries; and in 2006, with Marcus Bussey and Ivana Milojevic, Neo-humanistic Educational Futures: Liberating the Pedagogical Intellect. He has presented to hundreds of organizations and institutions around the world at local, state, federal and international levels. He is associated with a variety of universities including Tamkang University (Taiwan), University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland University of Technology and the Transcend Peace University. Inayatullah teaches regular policy foresight courses for various government departments in Australia and at the Melbourne Business School. He is co-editor of the Journal of Futures Studies ( http://www2.tku.edu.tw/~tddx/jfs/ ) and associate editor of New Renaissance ( www.ru.org ). He is also theme editor (Globalization and World Systems) of the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems and has contributed articles to the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Futures Studies and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy.

Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, currently Research Fellow in bioinformatics at the Centre for IT Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. A student of the philosophical works of P.R. Sarkar for the past 30 years, he has published a number of works in the field of philosophy and economics, including Taxation for Sustainable Communities, Self-reliant Regional Development, A Sociology for the New Age, and Eternal Dance of Macrocosm. He has worked at universities and private IT companies in the United Arab Emirates, Germany and elsewhere and presented papers and on the philosophy of P.R. Sarkar to many international conferences. In 2003, he was engaged by the national oil company of Venezuela, PDVSA, to conduct a training seminar on Prout’s cooperative economic system and the role it can play in the development of Venezuela.

Is a board member and treasurer of United for a Fair Economy. Former CEO of Motherwear International, a catalog and web company dedicated to the support of breastfeeding and nurturing parenting. His interests include how businesses can incorporate socially responsible practices into every area of their activity. For 30 years he has been a student of meditation, yoga and Prout, and has been on the board of directors of Proutist Universal of North America for nearly 20 years. He is also a dancer, with a Masters degree in Dance-Movement therapy from Antioch New England. His passion is the expression of spirituality for service, economic justice and activism through dance and the arts.

BA English, Illinois Benedictine College. Served as Management Consultant on international economic development projects and education projects in the USA. Currently serves as the General Manager of Dayempur Farm: Comprehensive Center for Sustainable Living whose purpose is to develop a post-fossil fuel, post-capitalist rural economic model.