Board of Directors:
Jan Barry served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam during the early 1960s. An author, poet and retired newspaper reporter, he teaches environmental writing at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he earned a bachelor's degree, and has also taught journalism at Rutgers University and New York University.
Doug Bolick lives and practices law in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In the early 1970s he served with the US Army in the central highlands of Vietnam and returned in 1996 with his wife Nancy to do community service work in the Mekong Delta with Global Volunteers, with which he has had a long association.
Jon Edelson graduated from Haverford College in 2004, earning his B.A. degree in history. He was selected as a Princeton-in-Asia fellow and taught English during the academic year 2004-05 at Can Tho University, in Vietnam. He has also taught in India, Indonesia, and Portland, Oregon, and worked on a public-health project in Kosovo. Currently he lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., while working on a pre-medical baccalaureate degree at Hunter College, with the intention of going on to a career in pediatrics and international public health.
James Lap is the director of the Evening and Summer Sessions Office at the New York City College of Technology. He also teaches computer science classes at this institution, as well as the Vietnamese language at both Columbia and NYU. He has earned computer science degrees from New York University and Columbia University. He serves on the boards of the Asian American Asian Research Institute and the Asian American Higher Education Council. A native of Vietnam, he came to the United States in 1975.
Mark J. Malone is an attorney specializing in internal corporate investigations. He holds a law degree from Rutgers University and a master’s in law from New York University. He lives in New York City.
Tom Mulhern received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Alabama and has served as a psychologist in a number of states and in various positions. He has taught at a number of colleges and worked as a clinician and administrator in a variety of settings. His international experiences include teaching at the college level in St. Vincent and Malawi. Currently he is employed at a close management correctional facility in the Florida Panhandle.
Nancy Russell has taught at all levels, from elementary school through college. She has also been active in her local schools, in Orangetown, NY, having served as president of the PTA council and president of the school board. She holds degrees from Smith College and McGill University.
Marianne Tully has been a teacher and administrator in private and public schools from preschool through graduate school for 39 years, up until her recent retirement. She earned her Ed.D. from Teachers’ College, Columbia University, in the area of philosophy and education. She currently lives in the Hudson Valley and is engaged in landscape painting.