Ben Zuckerman, Ph.D., Vice-President, is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. Dr. Zuckerman is a longtime environmentalist who has been very involved with the Sierra Club's population/immigration/environment debate and was an elected member of the Sierra Club's national board of directors. He has developed and co-taught a UCLA Honors course entitled "The 21st Century: Society, Environment, Ethics" and has co-edited six books, including Human Population and the Environmental Crisis (Jones & Bartlett, 1995). He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.


Stuart H. Hurlbert, Ph.D., Secretary, is an Emeritus Professor of Biology at San Diego State University. His scientific research is in the areas of lake ecology and biostatistics. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of many scientific societies, winner of the National Academy of Sciences 2003 Award for Scientific Reviewing, and works to stimulate environmental scientists and their professional societies to show greater courage in addressing U.S. population growth and its consequences. Dr. Hurlbert graduated from Amherst College and earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University.



Randy A. Alcorn, Treasurer, is a career financial and business operations executive who began writing opinion columns in April 2000 for the then New York Times owned Santa Barbara News-Press where he had served as CFO for 23 years. His biweekly column, entitled Right On Target, garnered a broad audience among News-Press readers and is currently published in several newspapers along California’s central coast. His writings have been variously described as unusual, iconoclastic, clinically logical, and blatantly forthright. While often labeled a Libertarian by those who require the convenience of categorization, he is not affiliated with any political party, religion, or ideology, and prefers to apply independent objectivity to the examination of issues and topics ranging from politics and economics to religion and human social behavior.Alcorn is a Michigan native, a cum laude graduate of Eastern Michigan University, who relocated to Santa Barbara, California in 1972 where, along with his wife and two daughters, he continues to reside.


Dick Schneider, M.S., Executive at Large, is an environmental writer, policy analyst and activist who lectures on the role of population growth in degrading natural ecosystems and eroding the quality of life. With expertise in the effects of acid rain and metals pollution on high altitude lakes, he helped establish the first acid rain monitoring station on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, he led passage of an Alameda County open space protection initiative in 2000 and currently advises citizens groups on local growth management policies. He is a trustee of the Head-Royce School in Oakland, a director of the Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition, and co-author of Toxics A to Z: A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards . He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.


Otis L. Graham, Jr., Ph.D., Board Member, is an historian of modern America, a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author or editor of 19 books and numerous articles on the history of the United States, especially on American reform movements, political economy, environment and immigration. He has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Study and Behavioral Sciences, and received the Robert Kelley Memorial Award from the National Council on Public History. He is a graduate of Yale University and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University.


Eddie Tabash, J.D., Board Member, graduated Magna Cum Laude from UCLA and received his J.D. from the Loyola University School of Law. He is a practicing attorney. Mr. Tabash has been the on the most publicly active persona in the family planning movement in California for over 20 years, making over 1,000 public presentations on behalf this issue. In 2001, he was second out of four in the Democratic Primary for the California State Assembly in the 55th Assembly District.






CAPS Advisory Board  

 

• Tim Aaronson, M.A., Educator, Retired 
• Denice Spangler Adams, M.S., Community Volunteer
• Carolyn Pesnell Amory , Community Volunteer
• Joe Armendariz, Nonprofit Executive Director
• Leon Bouvier, Ph.D., Demographer
• Allan F. Brown, Business Owner & Community Volunteer
• Benny Chien, M.D., Physician
• Robert W. Gillespie, Director of Population Communication
• Helen Graham, Former Executive Director of CAPS
• Victor Davis Hanson, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute
• Edward C. Hartman, MBA, Author, Personal Financial Advisor
• Leon Kolankiewicz, M.S., Environmental Scientist, Reston, VA
• Richard D. Lamm, L.L.D., Former Governor of Colorado
• Martin C. Litton, Former Member of the Sierra Club's Board
• Kenneth Pasternack, Political Activist 
• Nancy Pearlman, Producer and Distributor of EcoNews
• William N. Ryerson, President, Population Media Center
• George Sessions, Professor, Sierra College
• Michael Tobias, Ph.D., Global Ecologist, President, Dancing Star Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
• Louis F. Villaneuva, Geologist, Petroleum Engineer, Retired

Emeriti

• David Brower (1912-2000), First Executive Director of the Sierra Club
• Garrett Hardin, Ph.D. (1915-2003), Professor, Ecologist and Microbiologist
• Jane Hardin (1922-2003), Political Activist