2007 Distinguished Alumni Award John Harrington B.A. Political Science, 1970
Mr. Harrington’s public service includes board service for Global Exchange, CANICOR, an interfaith council on corporate responsibility, and the advisory boards of the Rose Foundation and Women for Women International. He is an honorary committee member of the National Center for Gay and Lesbian Rights, former chair of the Northern California Support Association for the Ecumenical Development Cooperative Society (renamed Oikocredit), former board member of the Filipino-American Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, Northern California Community Loan Fund, former co-chair of the KPFA Radio Capital Campaign, and former treasurer for the Land Trust of Napa County. Mr. Harrington was the chairman of the California Governor’s Public Investment Task Force and is a member of the Sacramento Board of Administration, Investment, and Fiscal Management and the State Senate Committee on Energy and Public Utilities in the California Legislature.
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Mr. Harrington has been a leader in the socially responsible investment movement for over thirty years, and was a key architect of the divestment movement against the apartheid government in South Africa. Author of “Investing with Your Conscience,” he is also one of the founders and former chairman of the board of Working Assets and Progressive Asset Management.