Staff

David Paxson, Founder and President

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 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 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.