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
Nina Leopold Bradley
        Director, Aldo Leopold Foundation
Ulf S. H. Christiansen
        Norwegian Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates
Dr. Vijoya Dasgupta, MD
        Physician, State of Wisconsin
John B. Davis
        Former College President and School Superintendent
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
Sister Marlys Jax
        Assisi Heights Catholic Community
Ed McGaa, Eagle Man
        Oglala Sioux Lawyer, writer, and lecturer
William G. Milliken
        Former Governor, State of Michigan
George Pillsbury
        Retired businessman and former Minnesota State Senator
Father Tim Power
        Pastor, Pax Christie Catholic Community (retired)
Gretchen Quie
        Former First Lady, State of Minnesota
Arthur Rouner
        Senior Minister Emeritus, Colonial Church of Edina
        United Church of Christ
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
Walter Breckenridge
        Professor and Director of the Bell Museum of Natural History,
        University of Minnesota
Tessa Bridal
        Businesswoman and author
Gwen Frostic
        Poet, naturalist, printmaker and publisher

 

 

Board of Directors

Alan Anderson
        President, Anderson's China Shop (retired)
Tom Breckenridge
        Financial Advisor and environmentalist
Ralph Colby
        Minister and business consultant (retired)
Barbara Franklin
        Librarian and environmentalist
David Paxson
        President, World Population Balance
Jean Stuart
        Population activist and environmentalist
Carolyn Sherer VandenDolder
        Office Manager, World Population Balance and Mpls. Friends' Meeting  

 

Staff

David PaxsonDavid Paxson, Founder and President

David Paxson is a national leader on the issue of population growth and stabilization. He has spoken to groups across the country, and he participated in the UN Population Conference in Egypt in 1994 and at international meetings since then.

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

In 1991 he 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 upon raising awareness about the critical importance of balancing human numbers with global resources.

David is hopeful. He believes that as people learn the realities about the current impact of rapid population growth upon declining global resources, they will take fair and humane action to help stop world and national population growth in order to maintain a viable planet for our children of the future.

 

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 and writing and other research. He has studied politicial 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.