Shine a Light Board of Directors

Barry Malin graduated from Williams College with highest honors and has done graduate work at Yale University, Bryn Mawr College, and Harvard University. He recently graduated from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was selected to be a John F. Kennedy Fellow, and he was also an Albert Schweitzer Fellow from 1998-1999. He has worked as a policy researcher at the U.S. Department of State, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Bio-medical Studies, and the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. He wrote a monograph entitled An Introduction to Research on the Developmental Needs of Young Black Males, which was published in 1994 by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies with funding support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the AT&T Foundation. His writings (some co-authored) have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, Stroke (a journal of the American Heart Association) and several regional newspapers. Currently he is a medical student at the University of California- San Francisco.

Colin Rule Colin Rule is CEO of Modria.com, an ODR provider based in Silicon Valley.  From 2003 to 2011 he was Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and PayPal. He has worked in the dispute resolution field for more than a decade as a mediator, trainer, and consultant. He is currently Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass-Amherst and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
Colin co-founded Online Resolution, one of the first online dispute resolution (ODR) providers, in 1999 and served as its CEO (2000) and President. In 2002 Colin co-founded the Online Public Disputes Project (now eDeliberation.com) which applies ODR to multiparty, public disputes. Previously, Colin was General Manager of Mediate.com, the largest online resource for the dispute resolution field. Colin also worked for several years with the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (now ACR) in Washington, D.C. and the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, MA.
Colin has presented and trained throughout Europe and North America for organizations including the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Department of State, the International Chamber of Commerce, and the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. He has also lectured and taught at UMass-Amherst, Stanford, MIT, Creighton University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Ottawa, and Brandeis University.
Colin is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business, published by Jossey-Bass in September 2002. He has contributed more than 50 articles to prestigious ADR publications such as Consensus, The Fourth R, ACResolution Magazine, and Peace Review. He currently blogs at Novojustice.com, and serves on the boards of RESOLVE and the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center. He holds a Master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution and technology, a graduate certificate in dispute resolution from UMass-Boston, a B.A. in Peace Studies from Haverford College, and he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Eritrea from 1995-1997.

John Stephan: John has been involved in Shine A Light since it's formation, and presently serves as it Treasurer.  A licensed Massachusetts attorney, John has worked in both government and private practice since 1999.  He is a graduate of Haverford College and Boston College Law School.  

Mike Feigelson first joined Shine a Light as a fellow in 2003, and went on to create our first Digital Workshop, Stalel Stuk, and then to work with Melel Xojobal, an organization serving urban indigenous street children in San Cristobal de las Casas, México. After completing his masters degree in public policy at Princeton University, Mike became a program administrator at the Bernard Leer Foundation in the Netherlands.

Mala Shah was a two-time fellow with Shine a Light, first collaborating with Projeto Axé (Bahia, Brazil) and then developing a new program for homeless children with Caritas in Veracruz, México. After returning to the US for graduate school at Yale, Mala first worked in urban reclamation in New York, and now in public health at the McGee School in Pittsburg, where she coorindated HIV Prevention Research at the Microbicide Trials Network.