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EDUSEED'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EduSeed Board of Directors 2006 Retreat

Timothy Boller

Timothy Boller is a principal with the Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1986) and went on to receive a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center (1994). After receiving his J.D., Mr. Boller was a judicial clerk to U.S. District Court Judge J. Thomas Marten and was a research attorney for the Kansas Court of Appeals. He also served as a legislative assistant for U.S. Representative Jim Slattery.

Mr. Boller is admitted to the bar in the state of Washington and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Claudia Cantarella

Claudia Cantarella is an attorney with the New York office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher in the Intellectual Property Department. She is responsible for all intellectual property aspects of foreign and domestic corporate transactions and serves as primary counsel for numerous technology, publishing and financial clients. Ms. Cantarella has spoken at numerous international and domestic conferences on all facets of intellectual property law.

Ms. Cantarella is also a Legal Consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ("FAO"). She has served as a short-term staff attorney at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, reviewing FAO development and technical programs and proposing written recommendations for an organization wide intellectual property policy. Ms. Cantarella's ongoing consultancy work includes conducting missions in FAO Member States, requesting technical assistance for the purpose of drafting national legislation regulating conservation, utilization and access to genetic resources. Most recently, she has completed missions in Syria and Seychelles, where she drafted national legislation for the utilization and exchange of plant genetic resources.

Ms. Cantarella was a Special Correspondent to CNN Interactive, where she wrote travel articles for the CNN Web site about her 1997 independent travel journey through 19 countries on four continents.

Ms. Cantarella received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and her Bachelor of Science (With Distinction) in Speech from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Montina M. Cole, Chair

Montina Cole has over a decade of experience in the legal, political, government and legislative sectors. She is Counsel at the law firm of Schiff Hardin LLP. She was previously Of Counsel at Sullivan & Worcester LLP and at the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, where she was a member of the law firm's Hiring Committee, and helped to recruit women and minorities.

Ms. Cole previously served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel, at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she advised senior departmental officials on legal and policy issues regarding U.S. investment abroad. She worked with U.S. and South African government officials and non-governmental organizations to help develop the 1995 U.S.-South Africa Seminar on Commercial Law, to help promote trade between the U.S. and South Africa.

Ms. Cole's legislative and political experience also includes her service on the congressional staff of former U.S. Representative Jim Slattery, and experience with campaign finance management.

Ms. Cole received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991, where she served on the Senior Editorial Board of the Journal of Law and Politics, and was a founding member of the Coalition for Diversity. She graduated from Washburn University in 1988, where she received her B.A. in political science, cum laude, with University and Departmental honors. She is a member of the bar in the District of Columbia and in Pennsylvania, and the American and Energy bar associations.

Ms. Cole is a certified yoga instructor. She received her teacher certification from Satchidananda Ashram --Yogaville, Buckingham, Virginia. She has a daily practice of meditation and yoga.

Shireen K. Lewis, Ph.D.

Dr. Shireen Lewis has devoted over 20 years to coaching and mentoring women and girls. In 1989, she received an award from the National Association of Women Lawyers for her work on behalf of women law students. She has mentored women in college, encouraging them to pursue graduate and professional school. Dr. Lewis was Dean and teacher of a high school for girls in Trinidad and Tobago. She has served on the board of several community organizations that promote education and equity for women and girls. She is past Co-President of the Washington Branch of the American Association of University Women.

Dr. Lewis earned her Ph.D. from Duke University and her J.D. from The University of Virginia School of Law. She has a B.A. from Douglass College, a women's college at Rutgers University, where she was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in her Junior year.

Dr. Lewis practices yoga and meditation every day and is a frequent visitor to Satchidananda Ashram ---Yogaville in Buckingham, Virginia. She is also vegan vegetarian....more

Selena Mendy Singleton

Selena Mendy Singleton most recently was affiliated with Independent Sector as its Director of Public Affairs. Prior to her public affairs role, she was the Chief of Programs at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education ("NAFEO"), where she worked with higher education faculty and administrators to design, implement, and manage programs to augment the capacity of minority-serving institutions to address and reduce racial and ethnic disparities. Before joining NAFEO, she was the Executive Vice President at TransAfrica Forum where she managed its daily operations and oversaw the One Standard! Campaign to secure rights for Haitian refugees.

A former Environmental Justice Attorney for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Ms. Singleton was part of the legal team which developed a precedent-setting, multifaceted strategy to assure the relocation of a low-income African American community from the perils associated with a Superfund site. She was a Legislative Assistant for U. S. Congressional Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, and a Senior Research Associate for former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley.

An advocate for human rights, Ms. Singleton was the first African American to clerk for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe. She also interned for the Legal Resources Foundation in Harare, Zimbabwe during law school. She has traveled extensively throughout Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe, and has planned and participated in delegations to Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti.

Ms. Singleton holds a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University School of Law, a Master of Arts in Career Counseling from the College of New Rochelle, and a Bachelor of Arts in Child Study from Tufts University. She currently serves on the Wilson International Studies Program Advisory Board.