Our Staff

Sarah Clark, Board Chair, is an international expert on leadership and organizational development. She currently serves as a Senior Associate at the Institute for Conservation Leadership and has extensive experience heading national and global leadership development initiatives with Amnesty International and Habitat for Humanity International. She currently serves as the Treasurer of the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC) board. She has an MS in Organization Development from American University and a BA in Sociology from Miami University. 

Meg Riley, Board Vice Chair

Since 1983, Meg Riley has served Unitarian Universalist congregations, organizations, and enterprises in many capacities, including director of the Unitarian Universalist Association's (UUA’s) Youth Office, GLBT Office, Washington Office, and Advocacy and Witness Staff Group. She led efforts to counter Christian right activism in these positions, including the ground-breaking Standing on the Side of Love (since re-named Side with Love) campaign. Riley is currently the Co-Moderator of the UUA denomination, chairing the board and facilitating the national meetings (General Assemblies). Riley has also served on numerous boards, including the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Justice, the Interfaith Alliance, Equal Partners in Faith, and Faith in Public Life. Riley has worked to transform the UUA into a multiracial, justice-centered religious movement. Meg lives in Minneapolis, MN. She is married to Dr. Nancy Hammond, who recently retired after 37 years as a clinical psychologist, and is the proud parent of Jie Wronski-Riley, 27.  

Bama Athreya, Ph.D, most recently served as Deputy Assistant Administrator in USAID’s Bureau for Inclusive Growth, Partnerships and Innovation where she

managed global portfolios related to gender equality, child

protection, youth in development, and ensuring

development benefits reach marginalized and

underrepresented populations. She has been a senior

leader in the public and nonprofit sectors and has led

interagency and multilateral engagement and represented

the US government in delegations to the UN General

Assembly, Commission on the Status of Women, G20 and COP28. Under her leadership USAID advanced important new work to strengthen care infrastructure globally and to promote gender-equitable digital development, including work to mitigate technology-facilitated gender-based violence. She previously held an Economic Inequality Fellowship with Open Society Foundations focused on the

digital economy, and served as a senior advisor for gender, equity and inclusion to the Laudes Foundation. Past positions include a previous stint at USAID Senior Specialist for Labor, where she worked on new policy guidance, developed global programming to advance labor rights and women’s economic empowerment, and a several-year stint as the International Labor Rights Forum Executive Director. She has developed and led multi-stakeholder initiatives with global corporations and has served as a spokesperson with Congress and media outlets. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan.