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
President, Anderson's China Shop (retired)
Barbara Franklin
David Paxson
Jean Stuart
Population activist and environmentalist
Office Manager, World Population Balance and Mpls. Friends' Meeting
Staff
David 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 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 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.
