Swanee Hunt is the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. From 1993 to 1997, she served as ambassador to Austria, where she hosted negotiations and international symposia focused on stabilizing the neighboring Balkan states. Prior to that, she made her mark as a civic leader and philanthropist in Denver, where she led initiatives on public education, affordable housing, women's empowerment, and mental health services for two mayors and the governor. In 2007, Hunt was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She is a widely published columnist and has authored two books: the award-winning This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace and a memoir, Half-Life of a Zealot. A composer and photographer, her world includes her husband (symphony conductor Charles Ansbacher), their three children, three grandchildren, horse, cat, and parrot.



Adria D. Goodson, the director of domestic programs for Hunt Alternatives Fund, has spent the last three years building the Prime Movers: Cultivating Social Capital program. The Prime Movers program is a fellowship for emerging and established social movement leaders working on a national level in the United States to create a more just society. Currently the program supports 28 fellows, all of whom are sparking impressive civic participation across the country. Over the course of her career, she has worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s After School Project, The Hestia Fund, Resource Generation, and the Boston College Media Research and Action Project. Ms. Goodson published a chapter entitled “Building Bridges, Building Leaders: Theory, Action and Lived Experience” in the book Rhyming Hope and History: Activists, Academics, and Social Movement Scholarship. Ms. Goodson has her PhD in sociology, specializing in social movement theory, social policy, and philanthropy. Her interest in social movements was seeded by her parents who were active in the black civil rights movement and strengthened by her own involvement with the Catholic Church and the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago.

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