Who We Are

Member Activists
Global Response letter-writing members are people in all age groups from 92 different countries. Current membership is approximately 5,500, but thousands more receive our Action Alerts through the distribution networks of our collaborating organizations and email listserves. Learn more about who our members are in our Member Profile section. Please visit our Join Page to receive our action alerts by mail or email.

Board of Directors
The all-volunteer Board of Directors meets quarterly in Boulder, Colorado.

Volunteers
We are able to accomplish a lot on a very low budget because of the dedication of a revolving group of enthusiastic volunteers and student interns. Volunteers include senior citizens, disabled adults, court-appointed offenders completing community service, high school students, and environmental activists. To learn more about volunteer opportunites, visit our volunteer page. Interns are drawn from universities locally and nationwide. To apply for an internship, visit our Intern Opportunities page.

An international network of well-informed, committed citizens can mount successful campaigns to preserve the health and safety of the planet.

Staff
Paula Palmer, Executive Director, has researched and written Global Response action alerts and directed Global Response campaigns since 1996. She is a sociologist and writer with 30 years' experience working with indigenous populations in Central America and the United States. In Costa Rica, she published five books of oral history in collaboration with Afro-Caribbean and indigenous peoples, through a community empowerment process known as Participatory Action Research.

Paula is co-founder of several nonprofit organizations on Costa Rica's Atlantic Coast, through which local communities pursue a style of development appropriate to their traditional cultures and natural environment.From 1995 to 2001 she served as editor for health and environment of Winds of Change magazine, a Native American quarterly. She holds an M.A. degree in sociology from Michigan State University and is adjunct faculty in the Environmental Studies Department of the Naropa University. She is profiled in American Environmental Leaders From Colonial Times to the Present (ABC−CLIO, 2000) and Biodiversity, A Reference Handbook (ABC−CLIO 1998).

In 2004, she was honored with two regional awards for her activism: The Elise Boulding Peacemaker of the Year Award was given by the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, and the Jack Gore Memorial Peace Award was given by the American Friends Service Committee.

Meghan Kostishack, Office Manager / Outreach Director, has too busy since joining Global Response to give us her bio, but we asure you it will be here very soon. (And any rumors you have heard regarding a checkered past are wildly exagerated.)

Rich Preuss, has been our Web Administrator / Webmaster (Pro Bono i.e. 'Volunteer') since 2004. After joining our 'new web site' effort in December 2002, he decided to stay on after the project was completed. He has now submitted to overall responsibility for the maintenance, upgrades, new features and special projects involving all aspects of the site, the backend database, as well as hosting, domain and security issues. Rich is also co-owner of Alpine Web Solutionz in Nederland, Colorado, and just to keep himself out of trouble he also volunteers for the Nederland Community Library and other 501(c) Non-profit organizations. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from DeVry University with a Baccalaureate degree in Computer Science/Computer Information Systems. His other accomplishments include stints as Systems Analyst (Arizona Federal Credit Union, AZFCU), Database Administrator (BfGoodrich Aerospace and Defense), Technical Support Specialist (Sybase, Inc) and Programmer (Oracle, EDS, AZFCU).

FAQ's
Read the answers to some of the questions that people frequently ask about us.