Board of Directors

Sama Adnan, PhD is the Executive Director of NewPolicy.org and is founder of both NewPolicy.org and New Policy PAC. He has obtained his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has worked with various organizations seeking a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the Council for the National Interest (CNI), the Arab-American Institute, and Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel.

Anna Baltzer is a Jewish American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, and the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. She is a three-time volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service, where she documented human rights abuses in the West Bank and supported the nonviolent movement against the Occupation. She has spent most of the past few years in Palestine or on tour with her book, Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.

Allison Weir is a journalist and the executive director of "If Americans Knew," a nonprofit organization focusing particularly on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and specializes in statistical analysis and media studies (www.ifamericansknew.org). Weir has been a journalist off and on for many years. She was associated with the Center for Investigative Reporting, served as an editor at Women Sports Magazine; a freelancer for the San Francisco Examiner, Rolling Stone and other publications; the education writer for the Pacific Sun; author of a children's book published by E.P. Dutton; and most recently was the editor of Marin Scope Newspaper in Sausalito, California.

Lama Abu-Odeh, S.J.D. is a Georgetown law professor. She worked at the World Bank as legal counsel in the Middle East/North Africa Division, Legal Department. As an elections observer for the United Nations in South Africa, Professor Abu-Odeh participated in voter education, party monitoring, and election supervision during the period leading to the first democratic elections in South Africa.

Alfred Greve is a pro-peace activist who has been promoting an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as being paramount for America's own national interest. In the 1970's and 1980's, he was active within the environmental movement and continues to do so in Brooklyn.  In recent years, he has been an important organizer in the Democratic Party in New York City. He is currently a member of the Israel/Palestine committee of Brooklyn For Peace.