Board of Trustees
Steve Dunham, JD | Chair
Vice President and General Counsel, Pennsylvania State University | Baltimore, Maryland
Tariq Hasan, PhD | Vice Chair
Chief Executive Officer, SGI-USA | New York, New York
Andrea Bartoli, PhD
President, Sant'Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue | New York, New York
Matilda Buck
Benefactor | Los Angeles, California
Lawrence E. Carter, Sr, PhD, DD, DH, DRS
Dean, Professor of Religion, College Archivist and Curator, Morehouse College | Atlanta, Georgia
Jason Goulah, PhD
Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Education and Director, Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education, Director of Programs in Bilingual-Bicultural Education, World Language Education, and Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship, College of Education, DePaul University | Chicago, Illinois
Clothilde V. Hewlett, JD
Executive Director, Cal Alumni Association, UC Berkeley | San Francisco, California
Lawrence A. Hickman, PhD
Director Emeritus, The Center for Dewey Studies and Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale | Carbondale, Illinois
Kris Knudsen, JD
Attorney | Wilsonville, Oregon
Karen Lewis, PhD
Sondheimer Professor of International Finance and Co-Director, Weiss Center for International Financial Research, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Daniel Nagashima, MBA
Benefactor and Executive Director, SGI-USA | Los Angeles, California
Luis Nieves
Founder, Chairman Emeritus AUL Corp, Benefactor | Napa, California
Gene Marie O’Connell, RN, MS
Health Care Consultant, Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing | Corte Madera, California
Adin Strauss
General Director, Soka Gakkai International-USA | Santa Monica, California
Yoshiki Tanigawa
Benefactor, Soka Gakkai | Tokyo, Japan
Edward M. Feasel, PhD
President, Soka University of America (ex-officio member) | Aliso Viejo, California