As I mentioned in 935 Lies, “this book would have not come to fruition without the genius and brilliant sensibilities of my friend and former colleague at the Center for Public Integrity, Alan Green – an incredibly talented reporter, writer, and editor, but more broadly, sage.”
And in “A Note from the Author” on p. 248, I also wrote: “I will always warmly remember and appreciate the long hours and magnificent dedication and “heart” of every Center for Public Integrity Board and Advisory Board member, staffer and intern with whom I had the honor of working. Thank you and May the Force Be With You!” I should have also added “contract writers and editors” – my apologies, for this alone is no small number.
How does an idea become an institution over time? Because a growing number of multi-talented people with eclectic interests and backgrounds begin to share the vision of “the possible” and the excitement of doing something significant and memorable, together. As one staff person becomes dozens of employees and then, over the years, hundreds of “alumni,” what stands out especially are those who shouldered the heaviest burdens, bore the most responsibility and became the pillars of strength within the organization. Unfortunately, through the difficult, three-manuscript editing process, what I wrote about the importance of these unsung individuals (and my personal gratitude to them) was almost entirely eliminated from the book’s final chapter.
Below is the best available list of the men and women who worked with me in any of these capacities (full or part-time staff, interns, contract writers and editors) between 1989 through 2004. If you worked at the Center in any of those ways and your name is not listed here (or it is misspelled), please know that the omission is entirely inadvertent and that I sincerely apologize – please contact me and I will happily add your name. Conversely, if you would prefer that your name not be listed, for any reason, please also let me know.
Special thanks to keepers of the alumni flame Diane Renzulli and Leah Rush, Center MVPs who at the Center orchestrated the first systematic journalism efforts in U.S. history to track conflicts of interest reporting about state legislators in ALL 50 states -- Diane one of the very first full-time employees hired. Thanks also to current Center staff members for kindly, carefully, patiently assembling this important information, below:
Marchel Abner
Chris Adasiewicz
Ahmad Ahmad
Yevgenia Albats
Michelle Algria
Kate Alexander
Arthur Allen
Bill Allison
Ted Amley
Tangeni Amuphadi
Anne Anderson
Carlos Anquizola
Rui Araujo
Justin Arenstein
Agustin Armendariz
Semira Asfaha
Iqbal Athas
Angela Baggetta
Elizabeth Baker
Ann Baldinger
Bill Baldwin
Josey Ballenger
Nicholas Banovetz
Michelle Barer
Kevin Baron
Apama Basnyat
Michael Baxter
Maud Beelman
Alejandro Benes
Jessica Berman
Sarah Bierenbaum
Michael Bilton
William Birnbauer
Cheryl Bishop
Grifty Boateng
Kevin Bogardus
Amy Bohm
Gregory Bologna
Rebecca Borders
Gina Bramucci
Pamela Brogan
Lloyd Brown
Elizabeth Brown
Aubrey Bruggeman
Justin Buchler
Steve Burkholder
Rachel Burstein
James Collard
Marianne Camerer
Duncan Campbell
Bob Carty
Esther Cassidy
Philip Caston
Kevin Chaffee
Carlos Ferrando Chamorro
Megan Chernly
Renee Christopher
Joseph Clamon
Margaret Clark
George Clifford
Ben Coates
Jean Cobb
Krystal Cobb
Alexander Cohen
Gayle Collins
Cindy Collins
Jeffery Cook
Karen Cooper
Sheila Coronel
Angela Corridan
Cari Costanza
Ross Coulthart
Kathleen Crocker
Paul Cuadros
Bernadette Cullen
David Dagan
Sarah Dalglish
Sunday Dare
Jerry Dasti
Zoe Davidson
Bill Dawson
Walter de Bock
Dain DeMarco
David DePerro
Joseph Dietrich
Julia DiLaura
Josh Dine
C.C. Dockery
Kristen Dorsey
Matthew Draper
John Dunbar
Benjamin Duncan
Margaret Ebrahim
Russell Eckenrod
Samiya Edwards
Peter Eisner
David Engel
Ben Ephson
Stephanie Epstein
Bob Fagan
Dan Fagin
Shannon Feaster
Josh Zivo Feit
Deirdre Fernandes
Camille Fitzpatrick
Catherine Flynn
Juan Luis
Janice Forry
Brianne Frazier
Spencer Freedman
Suzanne Fry
Teo Furtado
Jackie Gallagher
Erin Gallavan Bartels
Helen Gao
Caleb Gauen
Mimi Ghez
Catherine Gicheru
Nicole Gill
Ben Glenn
Julio Godoy
Claire Goldstein
Jennifer Goldstein
Ignacio Gomez
Joelle Goode
Allison Gooding
Neil Gordon
Gustavo Goritti
Josie Goytisolo
Natasha Grant
Alan Green
Eric Greenberg
Matthew Greller
Thomas Greving
Jennifer Gross
Tamy Guberek
Ted Gup
Dan Guttman
Nicky Hager
Vanessa Haigh
Elizabeth Hannan
Adrianne Hari
Mary Harrill
Rachel Harris
Andreas Harsono
Beth Hawkins
Jamie Heisler
Nathaniel Heller
Sheryl Henderson
Donine Henshaw
Janet Higbie
Erika Hobbs
Matt Hoenck
Bill Hogan
Nicholas Hoge
Lidsey Holden
Marianne Holt Viray
Kristian Horvei
Carlos Huertas
Sara Hunt
Daniel Ikenson
David Isenberg
L’Kenya Jackson
Hima Jain
Patricia Jamison
Dana Jensen
Morgan Jindrich
Regina Joseph
Rakesh Kalshian
Sheila Kaplan
Melissa Kaplan
Reyaz Alim Kassamali
Javed Khan
Leslie Knee
Alex Knott
Eva Koehler
Julia Kohen
John Kruger
Alain Lallemand
Roel Landingin
Kenny Langone
Betsy LaRoche
J.D. LaRock
Matthew Lash
Daniel Lathrop
Marianne Lavelle
Julie Leimbach
Elizabeth Lewis (no relation)
Katy Lewis (no relation)
Hans Leyendecker
Irene Lin
Gwen Lister
Karen Litsinger
Kathleen Liu
Vicki Lorenz
Abigail Lounsbury Morrow
Sam Loewenberg
Daniel Maffei
Arfa Mahmoud
Larry Makinson
Julie Manes Bostian
Miglena Mantcheva
Myra Marcaurelle
Lauren Marks
William Marsden
Ned Martel
Eric Marx
Julie Mathers
Adam Mayle
Brenda Mayrack
Erin McCarthy
Michelle McGrorty
Colin McLaren
Gwen McLin
Ellen McPeake
Janel McTaggart
Yossi Melman
Anne Miller
Stephanie Miller
Julia Miller-Lemon
Katie Mills
Meredith Milton
Joe Minadeo
Tim Mitsuhiro Yoshida
Tracy Mobley-Martinez
Goenawan Mohamad
Curtis Moore
Shawna Moos
Christine Morente
D’Arcy Morgan
Robert Morilno
Carolyn Mueller
Sue Millin
Richard Mullins
Metin Munir
Patrick Murck
Muneeza Naqvi
Michelle Neyland
Han Nguyen
Terri Nunn
Goeffrey Nyarota
Meredith O’Brien
Jennifer O’Brien
Meghan O’Donnell
Bill O’Sullivan
Tayo Odunlami
Chris Olson
Alicia Oman
Avril Orloff
Paez Paez
Tony Pals
Laksmi Pamuntjak
Chahandras Pandya
Sugesh Panicker
Ann Parker
Sapna Patel
Monte Paulsen
Jacques Pauw
Sean Peoples
Jim Perez
Laura Peterson
Johnson Philip
Julia Picard
Aron Pihofer
Charles Piller
Ann Pincus
Daniel Politi
Andrew Porterfield
Richard Prince
Olena Prytula
Jennifer Puckett
Encarnacio Pyle
Lisa Rab
Paul Radu
Mark Reading-Smith
Shannon Rebholz
Laura Reed
Meredith Reid
Diane Renzulli
Leonarda Reyes
Jennifer Rezeli
Dana Reznick
Anya Richards
Orion Riggs
Kera Ritter
Fernando Rodrigues
Peter Roff
Maria Teresa Ronderos
Christopher Rosche
Knut Royce
Patel Rupa
Leah Rush
Regina Russell
Helen Sanderson
Genna Sankin
Daniela SantaMaria
Daniel Santoro
Jennifer Sarnelli
Susan Schaab Sullivan
Barbara Schecter
Erik Schelzig
Robert Schlesinger
Eric Schultenover
K.J. Scotta
Paramita Sen
John Sents
Niyati Shah
Jacqueline Sharkey
Jeff Shear
Deb Sherer
Mark Sherman
Annys Shin
Sadia Shirazi
Gil Shochat
Seth Shulman
Ken Silverstein
Scott Singleton
Leo Sisti
Susan Smith
Frank Smyth
Mungo Soggot
Janice Sperry
Kendra Stanton
Joshua Starr
Christine Stavem
Dan Steinberg
Melanie Strong
Carlos Subero
Daniel Suleiman
Mary-Catherine Cullivan
Ellen Sung
Julia Sweig
Mary Jo Sylwester
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
Steven Taylor
Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Joshua Templet
Matt Thompson
Own Thompson
Russ Tisinger
Claudio Julio Tognolli
Sara Towles
Tamara Traubmann
Amy Treadwell
Christopher Tritto
Robert Tsai
Orit Ture
Philip van Niekerk
Megan Vaughan
Vicki Velasquez
Andre Verlöy
Kenneth Vogel
Dominic Vote
Scott Wahlin
Paul Waldman
Kathryn Wallace
Mary Beth Warner
Nancy Watzman
Douglas Weber
Brian Weiler
Rebecca Wein
Steve Weinberg
Jonathan Werve
Derrick Wetherell
Brian White
Cherie Whitfield
Katharine Widland
Joseph Williams
Bob Williams
Brooke Williams
Derek Willis
Eric Wilson
Katherine Wilson-Milne
William Wing
Pam Woods Sarich
Shaun Young
Amy Zader
Maggy Zanger
Just as there could be no organization with its full-time, part-time and contracted staff, of course, there certainly would be no Center for Public Integrity itself without a formal Board of Directors overseeing the evolution, policies and vision of the nonprofit corporation.
The only Center Board of Directors names mentioned specifically in the book are the first three listed on the Articles of Incorporation papers filed in the District of Columbia on March 30, 1989. I will never forget the informality of my early conversations with Alex Benes and Charlie Piller – my two journalist friends who did not know each other previously, one from print journalism, one from TV news, one on the West Coast, one on the East Coast. We discussed and occasionally debated various issues – over the phone, over Alex’s pool table at his home in northern New Jersey, in the outfield of the Baltimore Orioles’ Memorial Stadium (since demolished), over great dinners in Baltimore’s Little Italy, and once in one particular vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco (which I am still laughing about), etc. Those exchanges are indelibly etched in my mind, including the magnificent wit, patience, perspective and sage wisdom of my co-conspirators.
But here, more fully, I want to acknowledge and formally thank all of the members of the Board of Directors (and the Advisory Board) with whom I served at any time between 1989 through 2004 (and if I missed a name, my apologies and please let me know). Thank you for the invaluable time and resources you expended on behalf of our “excellent adventure” and your belief in and your support for the Center for Public Integrity! The names below are listed alphabetically:
Alejandro "Alex" Benes
Hodding Carter III
Alan J. Dworsky
Bruce Finzen
Josie Goytisolo
Bill Hogan
Bill Kovach
Susan Loewenberg
Bevis Longstreth
Paula Madison
John E. “Chico” Newman
Geneva Overholser
Charles “Charlie” Piller
Allen Pusey
Ben Sherwood
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
Isabel Wilkerson
Finally, I am very grateful to Tarek Anandan, for his exceptional web design of my personal website in general, Investigating Power, and this book site in particular. I have had the privilege of working with him for a decade or so now, and it is a terrific and continuing collaboration!
