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Board of Directors
Earl Babbie, Ph.D.
Hot Springs Village, Arkansas
Emeritus professor of Behavioral Sciences at Chapman University and author of The Practice of Social Research and The Basics of Social Research, among other textbooks and scholarly works. He serves as a pro-bono research advisor to PMC. He received an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley
Virginia Carter
Redondo Beach, California
Former Senior Vice-President and Head of Drama for the largest independent television production company in Hollywood (Embassy Television, a Norman Lear Production). She serves as a pro-bono training consultant to PMC in development of social-content serial dramas. In her capacity with Embassy TV, she was awarded an Emmy and two Peabody Awards for her work on the immensely popular American situation comedies All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, The Facts of Life, and Diff’rent Strokes. She also worked on two “strips” for television: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and All That Glitters. She assisted in the production of the top five most highly rated television shows in the United States during the 1980s. Among the many movies for television she produced was Eleanor: First Lady of the World, which was voted one of the top ten movies of the year. She holds an M.S. in Physics from the University of Southern California and an honorary doctorate of science degree from McGill University.
Click below to read an article on Virgina Carter
The Surprising Career of Virginia Carter
Brenda Feigen
Los Angeles, California
Attorney who specializes in entertainment, literary and art law, as well as anti-discrimination work. Early in her career, she co-founded Ms. Magazine with Gloria Steinem and the Women’s Rights Project of the ACLU with (now Justice) Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she has written extensively, and her book, Not One of the Boys: Living Life as a Feminist, was published by Knopf in 2000.
Bram Kleppner
Burlington, Vermont
Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Danforth Pewter. He has also helped launch several companies, including an online media company. As the former head of International Marketing at Ben & Jerry’s, he has managed businesses in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. He has also served on the Adjunct Marketing Faculty at Champlain College. He serves as PMC’s Treasurer.
William N. Ryerson
Shelburne, Vermont
PMC’s founder and President, William Ryerson has a 37-year history of working in the field of reproductive health, including two decades of experience adapting the Sabido methodology for behavior change communications to various cultural settings worldwide.
He has also been involved in the design of research to measure the effects of such projects in a number of countries, one of which has led to a series of publications regarding a serialized radio drama in Tanzania and its effects on HIV/AIDS avoidance and family planning use.
He received a B.A. in Biology (Magna Cum Laude) from Amherst College and an M.Phil. in Biology from Yale University (with specialization in Ecology and Evolution). He served as Director of the Population Institute’s Youth and Student Division, Development Director of Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania, Associate Director of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and Executive Vice President of Population Communications International before founding Population Media Center. As a graduate student, he was Founder and first Chairperson of the Yale Chapter of Zero Population Growth (ZPG). He also served on the Executive Committee of ZPG, as Eastern Vice President and Secretary of the national organization.
Mr. Ryerson is listed in several editions of Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the East. In 2006, he was awarded the Nafis Sadik Prize for Courage from the Rotarian Action Group on Population and Development.
