World Population Balance Boards and Staff

Board Of Advisors

George Archibald
        Co-Founder, International Crane Foundation
Albert A. Bartlett
        Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Colorado
David Bengston
        Ecological Economist and Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota
Thomas Breckenridge
        Financial Advisor and Concerned Grandfather
Ulf S. H. Christiansen
        Norwegian Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates
Dr. Vijoya Dasgupta, MD
        Physician, State of Wisconsin
Lowell Erdahl
        Bishop, St. Paul Area Synod,
        Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (retired)
Richard Flint
        Attorney and conservationist
Richard Grossman, M.D.
        Practicing obstetrician and gynecologist
Thomas Hale, M.D.
        Author and medical missionary in Nepal
Hugh Iltis
        Renowned botanist, conservationist and early proponent of
        population reduction, University of Wisconsin (retired)
Sister Marlys Jax
        Assisi Heights Catholic Community
Jim Klobuchar
        Writer, author and adventurer
Ed McGaa, Eagle Man
        Oglala Sioux Lawyer, writer, and lecturer
William G. Milliken
        Former Governor, State of Michigan
Camilo Mora
        Professor of Geography, University of Hawaii Manoa
Alexandra Paul
        Actress and Overpopulation Activist
Father Tim Power
        Pastor, Pax Christie Catholic Community (retired)
Gretchen Quie
        Former First Lady, State of Minnesota
Karen Shragg
        Environmentalist, naturalist, and author
Charles A. Weinstein
        Director of the Hill Center for Ethical Business Leadership
Sister Mary Zirbes
        Field of Social Justice

 


 

Former Advisory Board Members

Roger Bengston
        Businessman and historian
Norman Borlaug
        Nobel Peace Prize laureate and "father" of Green Revolution         
Nina Leopold Bradley
        Director, Aldo Leopold Foundation
Walter Breckenridge
        Professor and Director of the Bell Museum of Natural History,
        University of Minnesota
Tessa Bridal
        Businesswoman and author
John B. Davis
        Former College President and School Superintendent
Gwen Frostic
        Poet, naturalist, printmaker and publisher
George Pillsbury
        Retired businessman and former Minnesota State Senator
Arthur Rouner
        Senior Minister Emeritus, Colonial Church of Edina
        United Church of Christ

 

 


 

Board of Directors

Alan Anderson
        President, Anderson's China Shop (retired)
Patricia Baker
       Pediatrician (retired)
Jane Duden
       Environmental Education writer
Grace Dyrud
       Professor of Psychology, LP, environmentalist
Barbara Franklin
        Librarian and environmentalist
Greg Krueger
        Assistant Professor of Education, Augsburg College
David Paxson
        President, World Population Balance
Florde Ward
        Banker (retired), humanitarian and environmental activist

 

 

 

Staff

David PaxsonDavid Paxson, Founder and President

 

 
David Paxson is a national leader on the sustainable population issue. He has participated at international meetings - including the United Nations Population Conference in Egyppt - and has spoken to groups across the United States.

 

He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Economics and a concentration in Environmental Education and Policy. He worked at the Center for Population Studies at the University of Minnesota.

In 1991 David retired from the financial field and founded World Population Balance. Some members are strongly pro-life and others are pro-choice. They have respectfully agreed to disagree about the very difficult issue of abortion in order to focus time and energy on the critical issue of balancing  human numbers with finite and declining vital resources.

 

Past and present members of the World Population Balance Board of Advisors include: Dr. Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace laureate and "father" of The Green Revolution; Sister Mary Zirbes ("zur-bees"), retired from the Office of Social Justice of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul; Dr. Tom Hale, medical missionary in Nepal since 1970, and William Milliken, former Governor of Michigan.

David has spoken to over one hundred Rotary clubs and is a life member of the Rotarian Action Group on Population & Development where Rotarians promote population awareness and organize World Community Service projects that include family planning and sustainable population. He has made two trips with club members to South America to work on humanitarian service projects. He also participated in a joint Rotary and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) conference in New York.

David is hopeful. He believes that as people learn the realities about our overpopulation crisis relative to Earth's declining vital resources, they will move toward a truly sustainable global and national population.

 


 

Frank Babka
 
Frank Babka, Public Educator
 
Frank has lived in the upper Midwest his entire life and the Twin Cities of Minnesota since 1992. In commenting about why he dedicates so many hours to World Population Balance, he states: "I have long been interested in world issues, such as population, hunger, poverty, and the environment. I chose World Population Balance because I believe that population growth is the largest single cause of so many of the planet's problems - not just in the developing world, but in the developed world as well."

Frank supports many non-profits and actively works with relief agencies including CARE, Books For Africa and AmeriCares. He is also very involved with church and Rotary activities and reads avidly about world issues and problems. He is a lover of the outdoors and enjoys hiking, bicycling, and kayaking.

Frank is passionate about educating the general public, especially younger people, about the enormity of world population growth. He hopes that world population will eventually stabilize, and then perhaps decrease, through couples voluntarily having small families if they choose.

 


Carolyn Sherer VandenDolder, Office Administrator

Carolyn has been our Office Administrator since 2003. A peace and social-justice activist since young adulthood, she understands how unchecked population growth exacerbates virtually all other problems facing our modern society and is at the root of many of them. She is delighted to be supporting work on such a vital issue and to be associated with such dedicated, gifted people.

 


Alan Ware, Research Associate

Alan assists with website research, newsletter writing and other research. He has studied political science at the undergraduate level, and public policy and education at the graduate level. He understands the crucial role that population balance must play in creating a more sustainable future.  In addition to population issues, he follows the unfolding and intertwined financial, energy, and environmental crises and the broader predicament they point to: the impossiblity of infinite growth on a finite planet.