The Team

Born and raised in Denmark, Hans Hallundbaek started his professional career in engineering, but soon became engaged in corporate sales and marketing, including three years in Tokyo, Japan. He and his wife Katherine developed a successful international marketing and trading organization with brand leading clients in the US, Europe and the Far East.

Following a mid-life correction in 1990 he earned his MA from Maryknoll School of Theology followed by a M-Div and D-Min from New York Theological Seminary. Since 1995 Hans Hallundbaek has focused his ministry on rehabilitation and education in the field of correction and imprisonment. He is on staff at the Hudson River Presbytery, as coordinator of prison ministry, is a founding board member of Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) and has taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City and Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He retired as Pastor at Croton Falls Presbyterian Church in northern Westchester, NY.

He currently serves as the UN NGO representative for the International Prison Chaplains Association (IPCA), a service Chaplain at Sing Sing (NY) Correctional Facility, the Coordinator of the Prison Partnership Program of the Hudson River Presbytery (NY), and the NGO representative for CURE International.

Dr. Kurt Johnson has worked in science and spirituality for over 40 years. In spirituality Kurt is co-author of the recently published book The Coming Interspiritual Age with David Robert Ord, the Editorial Director of Namaste Publishing. As a New Release, the book has been in Amazon's Top Ten in Spirituality and was named a "Best Spiritual Book of 2013" by Spirituality and Practice.com. In science Kurt is the co-author of the best-selling Nabokov's Blues, with Steve Coates of The New York Times, which was a Top Ten Book in science in 2000.

Kurt was originally a Christian monk and founded, with Br. Wayne Teasdale and others, the InterSpiritual Dialogue Association for discussion of contemplative experience across traditions. Ordained in three spiritual traditions, he works also with The Contemplative Alliance and Integral Communities.

In science Kurt's PhD is in evolution, ecology, systematics and comparative biology. Associated with the American Museum of Natural History (30 yrs.) he published 200+ articles on evolution and ecology, including the 2011 Harvard DNA sequence study vindicating Vladimir Nabokov's views of evolution. He is currently completing another book on Nabokov's science and art for Yale University Press. He is co-author of a new book Fine Lines on Nabokov's science and art from Yale University Press, 2014. Kurt's primary interest is the simplicity of nondual spiritual practice.

See Kurt's work at http://multiplex.isdna.org/newpage27.htm.

Dorothy J. Maver, Ph.D. is an educator and peacebuilder whose keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Dot is Project Director with Kosmos Associates, a Founding Trustee of the National Peace Academy USA, and is a founder and board member of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace, and the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. Her work in education, politics and grassroots community organizing is focused on applied peacebuilding utilizing a shared responsibility and shared leadership model.

From 2005 – 2007 Dot served as Executive Director of The Peace Alliance and Campaign for a US Department of Peace, and prior to that she was the National Campaign Manager for Kucinich for President 2004. In the world of fast-pitch softball Dr. Dot is known for her revolutionary fast-pitch hitting technique, The Maver Method: Secrets of Hitting Success; she is co-author of the book Conscious Education: The Bridge to Freedom; is a Fellow with the World Business Academy, and serves on the boards of the Nicholas Roerich Museum in NYC, and Kosmos Journal. Dot also serves on the United Nations International Day of Peace NGO Education Peace Team and the International Cities of Peace Advisory Council.

Rev. Deborah Moldow is an interfaith minister who is committed to assisting in the transformation of human consciousness that will lead to a culture of peace. She contributes to this global awakening through her ministry, international peace efforts, interfaith work, speaking, writing and singing.

Deborah is also Co-Director with Diane Williams of the Evolutionary Leaders circle, a project of the Source of Synergy Foundation that brings together visionaries committed to the acceleration of the conscious evolution of humanity in these critical times. She is also a Creative Consultant for Unity Earth.

Deborah served as the Representative to the United Nations of the World Peace Prayer Society for more than 20 years, promoting the universal prayer “May Peace Prevail on Earth,” and she led Peace Pole dedications and World Peace Flag Ceremonies at the United Nations and around the world. She was a Co-Chair of the International Day of Peace NGO Committee at the UN and Facilitator of the United Religions Initiative at the UN cooperation circle. In 2009, Deborah was a recipient of the Spirit of the United Nations Award, presented by the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns.

Rev. Deborah’s ministry includes leading unique monthly Interfaith Sundays at the Chapel at Croton Falls and a monthly local Spirit Salon, as well as performing weddings and other ceremonies. See www.revdeborah.com.

Jeff Vander Clute is an awakener of systems committed to the evolution of human society in alignment with social, environmental, and psychospiritual well-being.

His work through Sourcing The Way empowers clients – individuals, businesses, and organizational ecosystems – on their journeys of development and transformation, helping them to gain clarity, discover extraordinary capacities, and then operate at higher levels of performance and consciousness.

Key focus areas include:

• Strategies and visions that are maximally aligned with positive global trends
• The Consciousness of Money intensives and courses
• Consciousness development for visionary entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, corporate boards, and senior leadership
• ​Navigating major transitions (e.g. buying, selling, or starting a business)
• Helping individuals and teams to access and embody inspired genius​

Jeff advises dozens of high-purpose, high-potential enterprises and is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and the Global Compassion Council of Charter for Compassion International. He has over 20 years of entrepreneurial and leadership experience in the technology, nonprofit, and social-enterprise domains.

Monica Willard is the Representative to the United Nations for the United Religions Initiative, a worldwide grassroots organization comprised of 600 multi-faith Cooperation Circles around the world bridging religious and cultural differences to work together for the good of their communities and the world. Monica has been at the UN since 1991, representing The Ribbon International and Pathways To Peace before representing the URI in 2002. She chaired the annual DPI NGO Conference in 1996 and continues to work with the Department of Public Information on the annual International Day of Peace Youth Observance as a Co-Chair of the International Day of Peace NGO Committee at the UN.

In 2005, Monica was a founding member of the Tripartite Forum, a working group of UN Member States, UN system agencies and the Committee of Religious NGOs organized to promote interfaith cooperation for peace and development. She served as President of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and helped organize 2012 and 2013 World Interfaith Harmony Week events in the UN General Assembly. She received the Spirit of the United Nations Award presented by the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns, and is also on the Board of PeaceJam, representing Nobel Laureate Betty Williams.

Diane Williams is the Founder and President of The Source of Synergy Foundation, an organization committed to creating opportunities for Synergy that activates the power of the collective spirit to awaken to and embody higher levels of consciousness. The result has been many ripples of deeper connectivity, cooperative partnerships and an expanded field of engagement. She serves as the Co-Director with Deborah Moldow of one of its main projects, The Evolutionary Leaders: In Service to Conscious Evolution. She is the Founder and Chairperson Emeritus of the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns (CSVGC) at the United Nations in New York and served as the Co-Chair and one of the Co-Founders of this committee at the United Nations in Geneva, where it originated. She is also a founding member of the Council of the Spiritual Caucus at the United Nations in New York.

She was the Co-Creator of the Sacred Place at the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development as well as one of the Co-Founders of the Coalition for One Voice. She is a United Nations Representative for the Tribal Link Foundation. Diane was formerly the Director of International and United Nations Affairs at the Interfaith Center of New York; UN Representative at the Temple of Understanding, Program Director of the Learning Alliance, a program consultant for the New York Open Center among other roles. She has won a number of awards including the Spirit of the United Nations Award in 2011 bestowed by the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns (NY) and the Golden Rule award in 2010 also at the United Nations. In 1999 she was in receipt of the PEMAC Peace Award. Most recently in January of 2013 she was acknowledged by the Emily Fund for a Better World as one of the Heroes for a Better World.