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 is 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-Board Chair of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at Umass-Amherst, and a 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, and served as its CEO and President. Colin is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business, published by Jossey-Bass in September 2002. He holds a Master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution and technology, a B.A. in Peace Studies from Haverford College, and he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Eritrea from 1995-1997.

John Stephan is a litigation associate with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Prior to joining Mintz Levin, John clerked for the Hon. Boyce F. Martin, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School where he was a finalist in the John J. FitzGerald Client Counseling Competition and a volunteer for the Public Interest Law Foundation. Prior to law school, John worked for AmeriCares, an international relief organization, and the Neighborhood Legal Services program in Washington, D.C. He is a 1993 graduate of Haverford College.