Board of Directors
Laura P. Appell-Warren, Ed.D. (President; Retired Director of Global Citizenship, St. Mark’s School)
Charity Reynolds Appell, B.F.A., M.A. (Treasurer; Executive Director, Bhutan Oral Literature Project)
Steven Hoch, B.A. (Secretary; Retired Partner, Brown Advisory)
In Memoriam
George N. Appell, A.M., M.B.A., Ph.D. (President, Co-Director, Sabah Oral Literature Project; President, Borneo Research Council)
Laura W.R. Appell, B.S. (Co-Director, Sabah Oral Literature Project)
Advisory Board
Stuart Kirsch, Roy A. Rappaport Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at University of Michigan
Morgan Willard, Consultant to Organizations and Leaders
David Shankland, Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Karin Tilberg, Retired Executive Director Forest Society of Maine
John C. Warren, Retired Head of School, St. Mark’s School
Ethan Warren, Writer/Editor
Amanda Warren, Elementary Educator /Artist
Hawxhurst D. A. McNabb, Artist/Educator
The Firebird Foundation Team, Based in Phillips, Maine
Patti Gordon, Research Grants Manager
Cherie Giampietro, Administrative Assistant
Anne Olivares, Collections Manager and Archivist
Polly Deely, Assistant Collections Manager
Allegra Mathew, Assistant Archivist
Amanda Adams, Financial Officer
Review Committee for Firebird Foundation Research Grants for Oral Literature
Laura P. Appell-Warren, Ed.D., President, Firebird Foundation
Charity Reynolds Appell, M.A.T., Executive Director Bhutan Oral Literature Project
Megan Biesele, Ph.D., Director Emerita, Kalahari People’s Fund, USA.
Yankee Modi, Ph.D., University of Sydney and and Co-Director of the Centre for Cultural-Linguistic Diversity
Mark Post, Ph.D., University of Sydney and Himalayan Diversity Institute
Gerald Roche, Ph.D, La Trobe University, Australia
Field Representatives for Firebird Foundation of Anthropological Research
Ratu Drukpa, Project Manager, Bhutan Oral Literature Project
Hamzah Malajan, Project Manager, Sabah Oral Literature Project