Featured Members

Michael is the founder of the transpartisan Liberty Coalition and a public policy consultant who works on health, education, privacy, foreign policy, national security and food-related issues. His clients include but are not limited to: The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Swankin & Turner law firm, Arlington Institute and Eagle Forum. He is the founder and national coordinator for the Medical Privacy Coalition. He is also the co-founder and National Director of the Liberty Coalition, a transpartisan coalition of groups working to protect civil liberties, privacy and property rights.

William Ury is co-founder of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where he directs the Global Negotiation Project. He is co-author of Getting to YES and author of Getting Past No, The Third Side: Why We Fight and How We Can Stop, and The Power of a Positive No. Trained as an anthropologist, with a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard, he has carried out his research not only at the bargaining table and in the boardroom, but also among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the clan warriors of New Guinea. Bill works with community, government, and business leaders around the world on transforming adversarial relationships into mutually beneficial partnerships.

Joseph McCormick is the co-founder and chairman of Reuniting America, an unincorporated, open source network of individuals, associations and organizations engaged in dialogue across divides since 2004. Joseph was a Republican nominee for the U.S. Congress in Georgia in 1998 in one of the most conservative districts in the country. As a veteran of our political civil war he recognizes the most destructive force in our country today is Americans taking sides against other Americans. As a result of his experience he has become a pioneer of the transpartisan movement, teaching people how to increase their political empowerment by constructively engaging across political divides. He is a former officer in the U.S.

Mark Gerzon specializes in bringing together conflicting groups, troubled communities and fragmented organizations. For the past 15 years, Mark has served as president of Mediators Foundation, a non-profit incubator of innovative projects dealing with resolving conflict and promoting cross-cultural and cross-ideological understanding. In 1997 and again in 1999, Mark was selected by the U.S. House of Representatives to design and facilitate their Bipartisan Congressional Retreats. He has also worked repeatedly with House and Senate Chiefs of Staff to foster inter-party dialogue, and facilitated the first cross-spectrum dialogue in 2004.

Debilyn is the founder of Quantum Evolution Coaching (formerly Evo), which began with her second career as a Professional and Personal Coach in 2001.  She focuses on working with women and women’s organizations to create effective strategies for goal attainment and the emotional sense of fulfillment. 

Pat Spino has made community-building a core focus of her life. Becoming a mother of three led her to look deeply into fundamental questions of life, family, health and education. She has found that healthy community - and by extension, healthy society - is made of individuals who take responsibility for themselves and have learned to trust and respect the interdependent nature of life. She spent 25 years as a midwife, is the co-founder of Reuniting America, and has worked in numerous small, family and community centered businesses.

Chellie Pingree is currently a candidate for the United States Congress in Maine. She prior to declaring for congress she was the president and CEO of Common Cause since March 2003. As leader of Common Cause, she oversaw a 35-year-old public interest organization with 300,000 members and supporters whose goal is to engage people in their democracy, and to make government at all levels more open, honest and accountable. Pingree was instrumental in expanding Common Cause’s agenda to include media reform, arguing that access to information and news is crucial to citizens’ participation in their government.