Director Megan Biesele, Ph.D

Megan Biesele, Director of KPF, helped to found the Fund in 1973 along with other members of the Harvard Kalahari Research Group (HKRG). For periods in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, she worked with Ju/'hoan San communities in Botswana and Namibia as an advocate and documentarian, and served as director of a non-governmental organization (NGO), the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia, during the years spanning Namibia's transition to Independence (1987-1992). She is a past member of the Committee for Human Rights (CfHR) of the American Anthropological Association. She currently holds adjunct professorships in anthropology at Michigan State University and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, as well as a Research Associateship at the Texas Archaeological Research Lab of the University of Texas at Austin.

Board of Directors Robert K. Hitchcock, Ph.D

Robert K. Hitchcock (hitchc16@msu.edu), Executive Board Member, KPF, is a Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. In addition to his administrative and teaching duties, he has worked for the past twenty-four years in applied research and development monitoring, evaluation, and implementation, primarily in southern and eastern Africa. His research interests include human rights, indigenous peoples, international social and economic development, hunter-gatherers, Africa, the Middle East, and native North America. From 1979 to 1997, he served as Co-President, with James I. Ebert, of the Kalahari Peoples Fund. He is a founding member of the Committee for Human Rights of the American Anthropological Association.

James I. Ebert, Ph.D

Dr. James I. Ebert is an anthropologist, archaeologist, remote sensing specialist, and certified photogrammetrist who has been a member of the board of the Kalahari Peoples Fund since 1979 and was co-president of KPF for a number of years in the 1980s. He has a B.A. from Michigan State University (1972) and a MA and Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico (1986). Dr. Ebert was a founding member of the Remote Sensing Division of the U.S. National Park Service in the early 1970s. He and Eileen Camilli founded Ebert and Associates, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1983. In addition to his anthropological and archaeological work, Dr. Ebert is a forensic scientist and provides expert witness testimony in legal cases for a variety of clients and organizations. Some of the work of Ebert and Associates focuses on land and water use rights of Native American tribes. Dr. Ebert was part of the University of New Mexico Kalahari Project, and worked in the eastern Kalahari Desert (the Nata River and western sandveld regions of Central District, Botswana) in 1975-76. Besides his work on San, Dr. Ebert has done land use planning and remote sensing training work in Swaziland (1986) and spatial analysis, mapping, and distributional archaeology at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania since 1989 as part of Rutgers University’s Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project (OLAPP). He is the author of Distributional Archaeology (University of New Mexico Press, 1992; University of Utah Press, 2001) and over 200 other articles, papers, book chapters, and volumes on subjects ranging from African archaeology to remote sensing and photogrammetric applications. Ebert, Hitchcock, and Biesele have written several articles about the San and the work of the Kalahari Peoples Fund.

List of International Advisors and Consultants Lesley Beake Magdalena Broermann James I. Ebert Mathias Guenther Jennifer Hays Melissa Heckler Ulla Kann Braam LeRoux Willemien LeRoux Barbara Macy Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen Alan G. Osborn Jiro Tanaka Axel Thoma Polly Wiessner

Kalahari Peoples Fund Founders (1973) Irven DeVore Nancy DeVore Patricia Draper Henry Harpending Nancy Howell Richard Katz Melvin Konner Richard Lee John Marshall Lorna Marshall Marjorie Shostak John Yellen