BORDC Board of Directors 2007-2008
Board and staff (left to right): Allen J. Davis (Board Secretary), Kit Gage (Board), Ben Grosscup (East Region Organizer), Michael Berg, Nancy Talanian (Director), Chip Pitts (Board President), Hope Marston (West Region Organizer), Glenn C. Devitt (Board Treasurer), Barbara M. Haugen (Administrator), Flavia Alaya (Board), and Krishna Bhavsar (Board).
Joe W. (Chip) Pitts III, President, is founder and chair of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee of Greater Dallas. For more than 15 years he has attended the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and its Sub-Commission, assisting on international norms and treaties, such as on torture. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on Foreign Policy. From 2004 to 2005, he served as chairman of the board at Amnesty International USA.
Glenn C. Devitt, Treasurer, is a founder and the first volunteer chair of the New York City Bill of Rights Defense Campaign (NYCBORDC), through which thousands of grassroots activists and a local coalition of nearly one hundred organizations mobilized to pass New York City’s very strong Bill of Rights resolution.
Allen J. Davis, Secretary, is the executive director of the Greenfield Community College Foundation in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Dr. Flavia Alaya cofounded the New Jersey Civil Rights Defense Committee (NJCRDC), whose goal is to engage directly with prisoners and former prisoners. She is a writer and retired professor of literature and cultural history at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Krishna S. Bhavsar studies law at Rutgers Camden Law School. Until mid-2006, she was the Program Associate for the Asian American Justice Center and the Rights Working Group, where she concentrated on human rights, civil liberties, and civil rights.
Kit Gage is the former director of the Defending Dissent Foundation, which is an amalgam of the First Amendment Foundation and the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (formerly the National Committee to Abolish HUAC), which Kit directed previously. Kit edited and wrote the epilogue for First Amendment Felon, a biography of NCAHUAC founder Frank Wilkinson by Robert Sherrill.