Our Mission
The Project for Nuclear Awareness (PNA) meets an important need. Founded in 2006, we educate the public about the need for nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation. We are using the strength of growing public opinion against nuclear and mass destruction weapons to educate our Washington representatives as well. We accomplish our work through various media -- books, lectures, discussions, conferences, Web site interaction, pod-casting, letter-writing, petitions, and visits to Capitol Hill and district offices of our Senators and Representatives. In the last three years, we have made broad national and international alliances, as well as great strides on Capitol Hill.
MEET PNA STAFF AND BOARD MEMBERS
PNA CO-CONVENERS
John C. Haas, of Rohm and Haas (ret.), and the Haas Charitable Trusts
Frederick Heldring, of the Global Interdependence Center
PNA STAFF
Chairman, Craig Eisendrath, PhD
Dr. Craig Eisendrath is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer and Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. An award winning playwright, Dr. Eisendrath is the author of a number of books on foreign affairs, including War in Heaven: Stopping The Arms Race in Outer Space (New Press, March, 2007); Bush League Diplomacy (Prometheus, 2004), The Phantom Defense: America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion (Praeger, 2001) ; and National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence after the Cold War (Temple University Press, 2000). Craig is also the author of The Khan Game, which was performed as part of the PNA Tour in the fall.
Executive Director, Edward A. Aguilar, Esquire
Edward A. Aguilar is PNA’s founding Executive Director. A graduate of Temple University Law School, he was a recipient of the Bancroft-Whitney Award. Ed served as an attorney and Court Master in Philadelphia for twenty-one years. Ed was executive director of the PA-DE Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, which worked on issues of the federal budget and emphasized nuclear disarmament, from 2000-2006. He was on the national board of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security from 1990 on. Ed has taught criminal and civil rights law. As a Board of Directors member of Physicians for Social Responsibility/ Philadelphia, Ed has chaired its global security committee. Ed participated with international lawyers and NGO’s in drafting the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention. This document was endorsed in October, 2008, as part of Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's recommendations of ways to speed work on nuclear disarmament and eventual elimination, with close verification by a multilateral body. In 2007, Ed was appointed to the President’s Council of Common Cause, a good-government and public-interest group which champions human rights, electoral and campaign reform, led by Rev. Bob Edgar. He has represented PNA at several UN-sponsored conferences in Geneva on nuclear policy issues, and has pioneered in developing PNA’s own International Video Dialogues with experts and youth in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and the Russian Federation, which will be extended to other key regions of the world, in the next phase of our International Dialogues.
Assistant Director for Programs, Kim-Thao Nguyen
Kim-Thao Nguyen graduated from The University of the Arts, where she studied Advertising and Professional Writing, while intensively pursuing independent studies in illustration, graphic design, and social marketing. Before joining the PNA team, she was the Creative Communications consultant for FAIR Fund (DC), where she worked on campaigns, branding, and copywriting anti-human trafficking and sexual exploitation issues. Her creative work has been published and performed for numerous national corporate businesses and nonprofit organizations. At PNA, Kim offers innovation, insight and style in the supervision of programs development and execution, event planning, and artistic and cultural outreach. Kim is also the co-founder of PNA's youth disarmament network, Ban All Nukes Generation- USA (www.bang-usa.org).
Assistant Director for Development, Funding, and Youth Outreach, Ian Ramsey-North
Ian Ramsey-North has been engaged in issues of social justice for many years. While a student at Haverford College, he studied political science with a particular focus on matters of peace and conflict resolution. Following a summer spent conducting research in Guatemala, he spent nine months living and working in a rural Guatemalan town helping in relief and reconstruction efforts following a devastating hurricane. Upon completing his coursework at Haverford, he spent the latter half of 2008 in Mexico, working with migrants’ families in community and educational development projects. Ian was awarded the Stephen Miller Prize for political science.
Ian’s responsibilities at PNA include youth outreach, project development, grant-writing, fundraising, and Congressional education.
Research Associate, Emily Gleason
Emily Gleason, undergraduate student at Temple University, serves as a research associate at PNA headquarters. She is a leader in our youth outreach, and assists with research, educational presentations, and office duties.
Emily is assisting PNA to coordinate the International Youth Dialogues on Nuclear Disarmament, on October 26-27, 2009.
New Media Specialist, Katherine Locke
Katherine Locke is a recent graduate of Allegheny College. Her travels in Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe have made her keenly aware of international security concerns, and the role of youth in seizing opportunities and creating change. She assists with writing, event organization and office duties.
Brent Thomas is our Web Consultant, and has been instrumental in the launching and maintenance of the PNA website.
PNA ADVISORY BOARD
Mary Boardman
University of Pennsylvania, 2009, International Relations
Edward S. Brinton
DuPont Company (Retired)
Helen Caldicott, M.D.
President, Nuclear Policy Research Institute
Susan Campbell
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Abolish Nuclear Weapons Working Group
Charles Day
American Society of Civil Engineers, Association Executive (Retired)
Reverend Dr. Bob Edgar
President, Common Cause
Stuart Feldman
Philadelphia Attorney
Gary Ferdman
Director of Major Gifts, Common Cause
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.
Executive Chairman of the Board, Lightbridge
Jonathan Granoff, Esquire
President, Global Security Institute
Patricia Harner
Executive Director, Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility
Mark Lichty, Esquire
PA businessman, activist, former Common Cause PA Director
Margaret Lippincott
Global Education Motivators
Roy MacLeod, Ph.D
Professor Emeritus of (Modern) History, University of Sydney
Michael McCally, M.D.
Former Executive Director, National Physicians for Social Responsibility
Christiaan Morssink, Ph.D
President, United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia
Matthew Schwartz, M.D.
Board President, Project for Nuclear Awareness
National Advisory Board, Union of Concerned Scientists
Contact Us At:
Project for Nuclear Awareness
704 North 23rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Telephone (US): 215.546.3030
Email: infopna@gmail.com
Contact: Online Form