ADVISORY CIRCLE

The Advisory Circle plays a vital role in offering support, insight, mentorship, and guidance for leadership development, strategic direction, and program design for our core staff.

Maureen Walsh is an international visionary artist, energy guide, and meditation teacher whose work spans public art, mixed media installations, and textiles crafted with natural dyes. With a background in fibers from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Maureen’s artistic journey has been shaped by her travels around the world and deep personal healing experiences. Her creations are inspired by diverse cultures, yogic practices, and the magic of life’s transformative moments. Through her art, she connects to the vibrational energy of the world, offering both visual and healing experiences that inspire connection, growth, and reflection.

Elizabeth Schutchfield is a conscious explorer, global citizen, and vision activator who is here to support people in building conscious, inspired, generative lives, businesses, and organizations. I enjoy connecting the dots between industries/sectors, cultures, and ideas, and as a result has sought work in a variety of fields including higher education, corporate healthcare, professional service agencies, EdTech, and International Development. During my career, I have assumed the role of coach, recruiter, program manager, community builder, partnership manager, & product developer.

Ben Roberts have been convening and hosting both virtual and face-to-face conversations on a regular basis since March 2009, when he began a weekly “Discussion Salon” at a local coffee house. His focus has been on adapting large group conversational processes such as World Cafe, Open Space Technology and Appreciative Inquiry to the virtual realm, as well as integrating in-person and virtual formats within a single conversation, gathering or engagement. His interest is in using these processes to build communities of practice and purpose and to host large scale conversations in service to the work being done across multiple dimensions of global systemic transformation. He also supports the development of funding ecosystems to resource this work. Humanity is on a suicidal trajectory in many respects. Ben’s work is to support those who are awake to this reality, as we seek collectively to shift humanity's course towards social justice, environmental sustainability and a world where all life can thrive.

SPIRITUAL ADVISOR

Jake Singer serves as the Alliance for a Viable Future’s Spiritual Advisor. He is a Dine Navajo Medicine Man, Sun Dance Chief, Ceremonial Leader and decorated Vietnam Veteran; and he has been supporting, guiding, mentoring, and teaching AVF’s founder, Lev Natan, since they met in 2012.

He conducts many traditional ceremonies for his community and has been working for twenty-plus years on bringing awareness to support Native American Veterans, as the Commander of Walk with the Warriors, an advocacy and education organization for Native American Veterans. In that role, he walked across the entire continental United States and has held traditional ceremonies in Washington DC to bring awareness to this issue. He helped to introduce a Bill into the House of Representatives, proposed by the first Native American Secretary of the Interior, Deb Holland, to officially establish November 7th as a Federally-recognized Native American Veteran’s Day holiday.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

As a fiscally sponsored project of the Good Work Institute (GWI), the fiduciary governance responsibility for Alliance for a Viable Future (AVF)’s charitable activities funded by tax deductible contributions resides with the GWI Board of Directors. This includes financial oversight, regular reporting, compliance with charitable giving regulations, and ensuring adherence to nonprofit accountability standards. If you’d like to see a list of GWI’s Board of Directors, click here.