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NATIONAL WHISTLEBLOWER CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Nina Bell: Executive Director of the Northwest Environmental Advocates. Ms. Bell has 20 years of experience advocating for environmental protection, and she has extensively assisted whistleblowers as part of her program.
Dr. Dennis Brutus: Dr. Brutus is a retired professor of African Literature and past Chairman of the Department of Black Community Education, Research & Development at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Brutus is an internationally acclaimed poet and human rights activist.
Michael D. Kohn, General Counsel: Mr. Kohn has successfully advocated on behalf of whistleblowers over the past twenty years. He is the co-author of Whistleblower Law: A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees (Praeger, 2004) and The Labor Lawyers Guide to the Rights and Responsibilities of Employee Whistleblowers (Quorum, 1988), has a J.D. from Antioch School of Law, and a B.S. from Rutgers University (Biology). Prior to joining the Center, he was a senior litigation attorney and Director of Legal Ethics for the Government Accountability Project
Annette Kronstadt: Ms. Kronstadt has a J.D. from Antioch School of Law. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Himmelfarb Foundation. Through her position with the Himmelfarb Foundation, Ms. Kronstadt was instrumental in providing support to social programs in the Washington, DC metro area. Dr. David Lewis: Dr. David Lewis, a former senior research microbiologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research & Development, is the only EPA scientist to publish first-authored research articles in Nature, Lancet and Nature Medicine. His research into transmission of the AIDS virus by dental equipment led to the current heat-sterilization standard for dentistry; and his research on effects of global climate change on biodegradation processes was recognized by the EPA administrator. Richard Renner: Mr. Renner has coordinated legal actions for environmental whistleblowers before the Department of Labor, was successful in a state Freedom of Information Act case before the Ohio Supreme Court and was an Adjunct Faculty member at Kent State University. He also founded Hispanic Ministries of Tuscarawas County, Inc. (1997) and is a member of New Philadelphia Housing Appeals Board. Mr. Renner also worked for the Southeastern Ohio Legal Services Program. Dr. Robert Smith, MD: In 2001, Dr. Robert Smith, along with several other physicians, put his career on the line by filing a lawsuit and whistleblower action under the False Claims Act against a former employer for government fraud. The lawsuit was successful. Dr. Smith was a member of the faculty at Yale University School of medicine for 8 years (1990-1997) where he was the Chief of the MRI Section, Associate Professor of Radiology, Director of the Abdominal Imaging Fellowship Program and an attending Staff Physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Smith was an attending Staff Physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Professor of Radiology at Cornell University Medical College from 1999-2003.
Reverend L. William Yolton: Rev. Yolton is a former faculty member of Harvard Divinity School and a former Director of the National Interreligious Service Board for Conscience Objectors. Howard Zinn: Professor Emeritus Boston University, Howard Zinn is the author of A People’s History of the United States and, over the past 40 years, has extensive experience in nearly every major social change movement which improved social justice in the United States.
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Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo: Dr. Adebayo was a senior policy analyst for the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”). She is the founder and leader of the No FEAR Coalition. Through her leadership, the No Fear Coalition organized a successful grass-roots campaign and secured passage of the “Notification of Federal Employees Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act,” the first Civil Rights Law of the 21st Century. 
Stephen M. Kohn, Chairperson: Mr. Kohn is one of the nation's foremost experts on whistleblower law and the author of Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law (Quorum, 2000). Mr. Kohn has successfully litigated many of the nation's landmark whistleblower cases, including the first successful case obtaining legal protections for FBI special agents. He has a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law; an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University; and a B.S. in Social Education from Boston University. Mr. Kohn is the author of numerous books and law review articles on whistleblowing and the rights of political dissidents, including: Whistleblower Law: A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees (Praeger, 2004), The Whistleblower Litigation Handbook, (Wiley Legal Publishing, 1990); The Labor Lawyers Guide to the Rights and Responsibility of Employee Whistleblowers; (Quorum, 1988); Protecting Environmental and Nuclear Whistleblowers: A Litigation Manual (NIRS, 1985).
Dr. Frederic Whitehurst: Dr. Whitehurst is the Executive Director of the Forensic Justice Project. Dr. Whitehurst received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke University and a J.D. from Georgetown University. He joined the FBI in 1982 and served as a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI crime lab from 1986-98. He retired after winning the first-ever whistleblower case against the FBI. 
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