Many of the most difficult questions we face as individuals and as a society spring from dramatic advances in science and medicine. They require us to make vexing and often urgent choices. Well-informed and deliberate judgement is a vital prerequisite.
The goal of the Campaign for Bioethics and The Hastings Center is to insure that we think clearly about life and our human future so that we can act responsibly, fairly, and humanely.
About the Campaign
A Need for Visionary Support
The Hastings Center has launched Facing Life, an ambitious campaign to raise $20 million with one clear purpose: to insure our ability to be an independent source of clear thinking and new ideas. Hastings works often far in advance of unfolding events, but looking ahead is the most difficult kind of work to fund.
The visionary work of The Hastings Center needs your support.
Contact:
Lyn D. Traverse
Director of Development
The Hastings Center
21 Malcolm Gordon Road
Garrison, NY 10524
traversl@thehastingscenter.org
845-424-4040, ext. 230
Campaign Leadership
These are the prominent leaders who reflect the rich past and powerful future of the Center. We gratefully acknowledge their dedication to this ambitious effort. The visionary work of The Hastings Center would not be possible without them.
Campaign Steering Committee
Joshua S. Boger PhD, Campaign Chair
Founder, Former President and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
David L. Roscoe MBA, Board Chair
Retired Executive, RiskMetrics Group and J.P. Morgan
Thomas H. Murray PhD, President and CEO
The Hastings Center
Lyn D. Traverse, Director of Development
The Hastings Center
Campaign Committee
Andrew S. Adelson MBA
Former Chief Investment Officer, Equities, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
Susan V. Berresford
Philanthropy Consultant
Former President, Ford Foundation
Dominique Browning
Author
Former Editor-in-Chief,House & Garden
John P. (Pat) Dugan MBA
Founder and Chairman, Charity Navigator
Founder and Former Chairman, PDI
Harold S. H. Edgar JD
Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science, and Technology, Columbia University
Joseph J. Fins MD
Chief, Division of Medical Ethics and E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medical College
Francis H. Geer MDiv
Rector, St. Philip's Church in the Highlands, Garrison, NY
Member, NY State Task Force on Life and the Law
Christopher Getman MA
President, Soundview Capital Management Corporation, New Haven, CT
Geoffrey R. Hoguet
Managing Member, GRH Holdings
Bruce Jennings MA
Director of Bioethics, Center for Humans and Nature
Andrew D. Klingenstein JD
President, The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, NYC
Patricia D. Klingenstein
Philanthropist, NYC and Greenwich, CT
Ilene Sackler Lefcourt
Director, Sackler Lefcourt Center for Child Development
Amiée Mullins
Author, Athlete, Actor, and Advocate
Blair L. Sadler JD
Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, MA
Past President, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego
Frank H. Trainer Jr. MBA
Former Chief Investment Officer, Fixed INcome, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
Campaign Council
Sissela Bok PhD
Senior Visiting Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Daniel Callahan PhD
Research Scholar, President Emeritus, and Co-Founder, The Hastings Center
Irene W. Crowe PhD
President, Pettus Crowe Foundation
Willard Gaylin MD
Co-Founder, The Hastings Center
Former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Nancy Gibbs MA
Essayist
Executive Editor, Time
Carol Widney Greider PhD
Molecular Biologist, Johns Hopkins University
Discovered enzyme telomerase
2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Steven H. Holtzman BPhil
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Biogen Idec
Chair and Founder, Infinity Pharmaceuticals
Eric R. Kandel MD
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on physiological basis of memory storage in neurons
Donald Kennedy PhD
Scientist
Former President, Stanford University
Former Editor-in-Chief, Science
Richard D. (Dick) Lamm JD, CPA
Author, Co-Director, Institute for Public Policy, University of Denver
Former Governor of Colorado
Edwin C. Moses MBA
American Track and Field Olympic Gold Medalist
Chairman, Laureus World Sports Academy
Landon H. Rowland JD
Director and Chairman Emeritus, Janus Capital Group
Thomas C. Schelling PhD
Economist, Professor of Foreign Affairs, National Security, Nuclear Strategy, and Arms Control, Emeritus, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park
2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Benno C. Schmidt JD
Chair of the Board of the City University of New York
Former President, Yale University
Harold T. Shapiro PhD
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and President Emeritus, Princeton University
Michael I. Sovern JD
Chancellor Kent Professor of Law, Columbia University
Former President, Columbia University
James D. Watson PhD
Chancellor Emeritus, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine