Our Boards

Eva Haller is a social, educational, and environmental activist and philanthropist in the United States and across the globe.

She works actively along with her husband, Yoel, to promote peace and social policies that effectively deal with today’s global challenges. She is a trustee of the University of California at Santa Barbara Foundation, the Rubin Museum of Asian Art, and Creative Visions Foundation. Eva serves as board of Free the Children USA, an organization dedicated to education and empowering communities to break the cycle of poverty. Her extensive board work has also included Sing for Hope, the Jane Goodall Institute, Women for Women International, Children’s Radio Foundation, Video Volunteers, and A Blade of Grass.

Eva is a recipient of the Mandela Award for Humanitarian Achievement, the Inaugural Mentoring Award at Forbes Women’s Summit, and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the United Nations Population Fund. Recently, she became a Visiting Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University and was awarded the 2014 Magnusson Fellowship at Glasgow University.

Dr. Yoel Haller, Founder and President of the Obstetrics and Gynecologic Associates of San Francisco, served as the Medical Director of Planned Parenthood, San Francisco-Alameda Counties. He was also a clinical professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the University of California, San Francisco Medical School.

He has served on multiple boards, including Friends of Hospice in San Francisco, Hospice of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera Association, and UCSB Chancellor’s Council. He shares with his wife, Eva, her dedication for social innovation and activism. Together they have traveled throughout the world, with Free the Children and other non-profit groups, in an effort to empower others.

Recently, both Eva and Yoel received Honorary Doctorates at Glasgow University.

For three decades Peter Tunney has crisscrossed the globe—an artist with a message, affirming: GRATITUDE, DON’T PANIC, THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW. These words are the basis of Peter Tunney’s artistic practice. He is a dedicated explorer of our cultural lexicon, culling disparate media for images and words to assemble the collages that allow these messages to take shape from negative space. His lived experience is a conduit to his work, providing meaningful translation that renders GRATITUDE not as a reductive slogan, but as a concept vital and urgent and largely missing from the cultural conversation.

To that end, Peter founded The GRATTITUDE PROJECT, which places billboards, murals, and signage featuring his messages in public spaces around the world as a beacon amongst the avalanche of negativity being communicated non-stop through the media.

An active board member of Artists for Peace & Justice, Peter is an ardent believer that art can act as a force for good in the service of social change and is a supporter of numerous philanthropic causes.

Kim Brizzolara is a documentary and feature film producer, and private investor; and serves as advisor to several non-profit organizations, and film content producers.

She is Executive Vice Chair of the Hampton’s International Film Festival, where in 1999, she co-founded the juried signature program “Films of Conflict & Resolution”, which she continues to oversee, and established an award for a film in that area.  She also serves as on the boards of the Italian Academy Foundation, the We are Family Foundation,  A Blade of Grass, Creative Visions, and the Women’s Leadership Board at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

She started her career as a journalist with the Philadelphia Inquirer, and later worked with Kerry Kennedy at the Robert Kennedy Center for Human Rights, where she began to focus on the area of international conflict resolution. She then served as a grants maker for the Threshold Foundation, where she designated funds to nonprofit organizations that focused on prison reform, conflict resolution and national security issues; as acting director of the Coexistence Center at Baruch College School of Public Affairs, which focused on race relations, ethnic diversity, and equity in the academic environment and in the community.  She worked in fund-raising and wrote position papers for various political campaigns.

Ms. Brizzolara has an MA in Journalism from Boston University and a BA from American University.

She is a member of the Harvard Club, the New York Athletic Club, and the Explorer’s Club. 

For the past 25 years, Tucker Robbins’ passion has been bringing the spirit and craft from traditional artisans to contemporary life. 

By combining ancient techniques and iconic forms, he creates furniture that is both modern and timeless. He has created thriving artisan workshops in Guatemala, Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Cameroon, working with sustainably harvested or reclaimed materials. 

Through his support of indigenous cultures and traditional handcraft he has formed partnerships with tribal chiefs, Arabian sheikhs, and village artisans around the world. The result is a collection of furniture with a spirit and life of its own.

Amy Fly met Sunny and Peter at their university talk while Amy was studying abroad at Oxford University in 2013. The two inspired her to pursue a career in providing legal representation for those facing the death penalty and those convicted of crimes they did not commit.

Before joining the board, Amy spent the summer of 2016 in Ireland with Sunny and Peter as the Sunny Center’s first volunteer. Amy has also worked at various non-profits specializing in capital representation including the London-based charity Amicus – Assisting Lawyers for Justice on Death Row, Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, the Arizona Capital Representation Project, and the trial division of the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in New Orleans.

​Amy currently studies at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she is a fellow in the Law and Public Service Program, and actively participates in the Virginia Innocence Project and the Virginia Law Prison Project. She is also involved in two pro bono projects — a capital case in Nebraska, and a civil rights case in Virginia involving prison conditions.