Christapher has a BA in Sociology and Anthropology, and an MA in Cultural Anthropology. He brought his interest in human cultures into the field of nutrition and health in 1996 when he co-founded the Radiant Life Company, which researches and distributes cutting edge products for optimal health, inspired by the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples. After selling the Radiant LIfe Company in 2008, he went on to help launch Blume Distillation, which is dedicated to creating appropriate scale bioethanol production equipment, capable of utilizing a wide variety of feedstocks. Most recently he is serving as Executive Director of the Brighton Foundation, dedicated to helping parents prepare before conception and birth to have healthy, extraordinary children. Christapher is author of the forthcoming book Love Blooming: Unleashing the Magnificent Potential of Our Children. Christapher was at the founding of the Public Banking Institute, and is on the honorary board of the public health advocacy group the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Christapher lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Our Team
Ellen Hodgson Brown
Chairman and President
Ellen Brown, J.D., developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. She is the author of 11 books, and will be releasing another in 2011 focused on public banking. In Web of Debt, her most recent book, she traces the history and evolution of the current private banking system. She shows how it has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Ellen has written nearly 100 articles on this subject since Web of Debt was first published, and is the inspiration and thought leader behind the Public Banking Institute, where she serves as Chairman and President. She has degrees from UC Berkeley and UCLA School of Law.
Ann Tulintseff
Ann Tulintseff is an electrical engineer with 20 years experience in the aerospace industry. She became interested in the topic of monetary reform and public banking after reading Ellen Brown's book, "Web of Debt." Ann is the author of a book review of "Web of Debt," entitled "The government is in debt to private banks thatpretend to have money," published in March, 2009, on
OnlineJournal.com. Ann has Ph.D., E.E., S.M., and S.B. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Marc Armstrong
Executive Director
Marc Armstrong is a business development and communications consultant. Having worked for IBM Finance with both BofA and Wells Fargo Wholesale Banking Divisions as primary customers, Marc is very familiar with the operational requirements for wholesale banks, Marc became interested in the topic of monetary reform and public banking after reading Ellen Brown's book, "Web of Debt." and after designing peer-to-peer mutual credit software designed for a mobile platform. Marc has an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA.
Mike Krauss
Mike Krauss is a former officer of county and state government, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee and an advisor to regional and national political and public policy organizations. His public service has focused on energy and water conservation, rural housing rehabilitation and historic preservation. Mike has broad experience in North American and international commerce. He is the author of the forthcoming fiction "Pursuits of Happiness," and his by line has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer and regularly the Bucks County Courier Times. He is currently researching a social study of post World War II suburban United States.
Christapher Cogswell
Staff includes:
Pam Hartwell-Herrero, Development Director
Frank Nuessle, Research Director
Susan Harman, National Volunteer Manager
Walt McRee, Senior Consultant
Eleanor LeCain, Senior Consultant
Ed Sather (former BND SVP),
Senior Consultant
Matt Stannard, Media Director
Daniel Hicks, Communications Director
Steve Seuser, Project Manager
Volunteer Team
Pam Hartwell-Herrero, Development Director
Frank Nuessle, Research Director
Susan Harman, National Volunteer Manager
Walt McRee, Senior Consultant
Eleanor LeCain, Senior Consultant
Ed Sather (former BND SVP),
Senior Consultant
Matt Stannard, Media Director
Daniel Hicks, Communications Director
Steve Seuser, Project Manager
Volunteer Team