Tom Mahon

Tom Mahon has written about technology as publicist, journalist, novelist, dramatist and activist.

Since the early 1990s, he has spoken and written widely on the need to reconnect technical capability with social responsibility.  Speaking venues have included MIT, the International Solid State Circuits Conference, the United Religions Initiative, the San Francisco Fringe Festival, assemblies sponsored by the U.S. State Department, as well as to local congregations, senior centers, and middle school students.  His writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Electronic Engineering Times, National Catholic Reporter and Business 2.0.  

In addition, the work has been covered in The New York Times, The International Herald-Tribune, CNN, CNET, Business Week and The San Jose Mercury, among others.

Mahon is the author of The Fandango Involvement (1980), the first novel set in Silicon Valley; and Charged Bodies: People, Power and Paradox in Silicon Valley (1985).   He has also written and performed two one-man plays about humankind’s mixed history with our tools: “At Home in the Universe” and “Are We Having Fun Yet!”  

Mahon holds an MBA in International Business and has had his own public relations consultancy since 1984 representing firms in electronic and genetic engineering.  He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He and his wife have three grown children.

Sally Mahé

Sally Mahé is the director of Organizational Development at United Religions Initiative, where she has been on the core staff since 1996. Her work is leading URI from vision to practice. She supports the international staff and regional development, and designs cross-cultural interfaith gatherings. Sally is co-author of Birth of a Global Community: Appreciative Inquiry in Action (2003) and A Greater Democracy Day by Day (2004). Sally holds an M.Ed. from Harvard and a MA in Theology from General Episcopal Seminary. Prior to URI, Sally developed a nationally recognized curriculum and trained teachers in the basic principles of democracy. 

Dawn MacKeen

Dawn Anahid MacKeen is an award winning investigative journalist who spent nearly a decade on her grandfather's story. Previously she was a staff writer at Salon, Newsday, and Smart Money. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. She lives in Southern California.

John R. Mabry

John R. Mabry, PhD teaches comparative theology, scripture, and pastoral ministry at the Chaplaincy Institute. Rev. Mabry is also the director of the Interfaith Spiritual Direction Certificate program. He is a United Church of Christ pastor and the author of many textbooks on interfaith spiritual guidance, among many other subjects. Check out his website and get a FREE BOOK at www.johnrmabry.com/free

Dr. Charles Ian McNeill

For 30 years, Dr. Charles Ian McNeill has been a leader in the United Nations building innovative multi-sector partnerships to solve global environmental challenges. He played a key role in transforming UNDP from a development organization into a leading global environmental actor.  He is currently the Senior Advisor on Forests & Climate for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and is overseeing the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, an international alliance bringing faith-based leadership to local and global efforts to end tropical deforestation. Previously, Dr. McNeill managed UNDP’s work on forests, biodiversity, climate change, sustainable energy, stakeholder engagement and public-private partnerships. In that capacity he founded and led catalytic global initiatives, including the UN-REDD Programme, the Equator Initiative, the global coalition that delivered the New York Declaration on Forests at the 2014 UN Climate Summit, and the Indigenous Peoples Initiative for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. He also served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Forests. Dr. McNeill received his Ph.D. in Genetics with a focus on conservation biology, from the University of California at Davis.