Leadership

Alan Hyman is is a Vietnam-era military veteran and Stanford University graduate. In addition to his work at Fremont Bank, he was a long-time director of the San Francisco Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is a current member of the Holy Names University Board of Trustees, a Board Member of the Fremont Bank Foundation, and a founding board member of Americans for Philanthropy, a non-profit dedicated to the eradication of extreme poverty.

David Batuski is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maine, working in cosmology, exoplanets, active galaxies, and supernova research and teaching astronomy and physics courses. He has long practiced minimizing his individual climate impact by commuting to work on foot, recycling, discarding little as waste, etc., and recently F4CR has inspired him with the real possibility of climate restoration through organizational action.

In a previous chapter of life, David graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy with an Astronautical Engineering major and then obtained a masters degree in Aero/Astro Engineering from Purdue University. His active duty tours as an Air Force officer involved launch support for Air Force and NASA satellites at Cape Canaveral and later development of high-energy laser beam control systems.

Julia Dederer is a transformational coach in Silicon Valley with over 30 years experience supporting leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives to take the reach and scope of their impact to the next level.

Daniel is a builder of futures — for Africa and for humanity.

He envisions an Africa that knows who she is, stands tall, and offers her unique gifts to the world. His life’s work is driven by a singular ambition: to help raise one million transformational leaders across 10 African nations by 2050 through the Africa Leadership Transformation (ALT) Foundation, which he founded.

Daniel brings more than 30 years of cross-sector leadership, spanning media, financial services, telecommunications, microfinance, and agriculture. From helping establish the
African Stock Exchanges Association (ASEA), to working with Liberty Life and Econet Wireless in South Africa, to co-founding the US-Africa non-profit Africa Harvest and securing major funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Daniel has built a career at the
intersection of innovation, leadership, and continental progress.

Through the ALT Foundation, Daniel is pioneering leadership development rooted not merely in skills, but in the deeper domains of being and consciousness — using ontology and
phenomenology to unlock authentic, sustainable leadership.

Daniel’s commitment to leadership and human flourishing for millennia to come, makes him an
invaluable force on the Foundation for Climate Restoration Board, where restoring the
climate is inseparable from restoring leadership, hope, and future generations’ rightful inheritance.

Joan Bordow has led programs for over 20,000 people at one of the world’s top training and development organizations. 

She was also Executive Director of The Holiday Project, a national organization whose volunteers made thousands of visits to hospitals, retirement homes, homeless shelters and juvenile detention centers. 

She co-created and managed The Moscow Marathon Project, which brought hundreds of American runners to the Soviet Union in the ‘80’s, to raise money for and foster awareness about ending world hunger.

In 1970, Joan’s first book, was published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston. She went on to write seven other books, including The Ultimate Loss, Integral Yoga Hatha, and Bread: Making It the Natural Way. 

Joan lives in Petaluma, CA, with her spouse Robin.  She is the mother of three daughters and has three grandchildren.

Carole Douglis co-authored Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race with Peter Fiekowsky, founder of the climate restoration movement.  She’s an award-winning journalist specializing in environment, climate, and international development.  Carole’s work has been published by the Atlantic, Psychology Today, and National Geographic Books, as well as the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UNICEF, USAID, NGOs, and research institutes.

She enjoys sharing her skills through training others in clear writing and presentations. Carole holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy—and is proud to be Peter Fiekowsky’s writing partner since 2019.

Ashley Meeky is a junior at Vanderbilt University. She is pursuing a B.S. degree in Human and Organizational Development, a B.A. degree in Economics, and a minor degree in Communication Studies. Ashley created the Youth Leaders 4 Climate Restoration certification program, which is now a full program at F4CR. She is also a Content Creator Ambassador for Beauty and Brains Organization, Assistant Director of Marketing and Finance for the Vanderbilt Black Student Leadership Conference, and Head of Onboarding for the Vanderbilt Impact Investing Group. She is an advocate for climate restoration, inclusivity, women’s empowerment, and domestic violence awareness. For fun, she enjoys playing tennis and serving as Practice Coordinator for Vanderbilt’s Club Tennis team. In her spare time, she operates her personal hair care business called Hair Chronicles by Ashley.

Myra is the Operations Manager at F4CR, where she brings a deep commitment to climate justice and a strong background in both environmental and humanitarian work. Prior to joining the foundation, she worked with a range of grassroots and international organizations focused on conservation, refugee support, and community resilience.

Her experiences in environmental fieldwork in places like Costa Rica, Malta, and Indonesia, along with her work supporting displaced communities, have shaped her understanding of what just transition means. They’ve shown her how climate action is so often also an act of protecting human rights. She brings this perspective to her role at F4CR, supporting the foundation’s mission with care, strategy, and a global perspective.

Peter Fiekowsky is an MIT-educated physicist and engineer, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a social innovator. He has worked at NASA and the Fairchild/ Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence Lab in Palo Alto, Calif; taught at MIT; and developed his own machine vision company, Automated Visual Inspection LLC (AVI).

He holds 27 patents and is on the board of Climate Capex, a fintech company to help complete the global transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2040 by tripling the rate of investment in solar projects.

A decade ago, when it became clear that global warming would endanger all our futures, Fiekowsky turned his energies to restoring a climate that will promote the flourishing of humanity and the Earth’s current ecosystems. He launched the Foundation for Climate Restoration in 2017 to work with top scientists, innovators, policymakers, and others, to create the understanding and policy needed to further climate restoration, and served as its Board Chairman until 2020.

Fiekowsky has worked closely with academic and entrepreneurial leaders who are developing viable, scalable, and permanent solutions that constitute the climate-restoration path.

He has been an investor in and advisor to many companies working in the climate restoration field, in particular synthetic limestone, clean energy financing, cold fusion, ocean restoration, kelp, and methane oxidation.

Fiekowsky lives with his wife Sharon in Los Altos, near his grown son and daughter in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Sharon Fiekowsky is a Nurse Practitioner with 17 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as extensive clinical experience in intensive care, hospice/palliative care, and pain management. 

In the 1970s a pioneer of socially responsible investing, in 1982 a founding board member of the Calvert Funds—first family of such funds now with $17 billion under management, orchestrated sale of Ben & Jerry’s to Unilever that assured it remain a socially responsible company forever with Dr. Mollner on the board the last 18 years to facilitate the transition, since 1972 Founder and Chair of Trusteeship Institute best known for introducing the Mondragon Cooperatives to the US and for in the 1980s stimulating the creation in the US of Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) legislation, and author of Common Good Capitalism Is Inevitable and Our Mutual Blind Spot Since Our Invention of Words: HOW We Answer 7 Questions Will Mature Humanity.