IPC Board of Directors

The IPC is staffed with a group of committed individuals who believe that new ideas and new solutions are needed to address our nations's and world's most pressing public policy problems.

• Frank L. Cocozzelli. Frank is a private practice attorney residing with his family in New York City. He has become involved in politics, first through advocacy for enlarged embryonic stem cell research and currently on issues of progressive faith. Frank is currently finishing up his first book. By the Better Angels of Our Nature which is plan of action for a reinvigorated centrist liberalism. He is a graduate of Queens College CUNY as well of the CUNY Law School at Queens College.
• Kety Esquivel. Kety has over ten years of experience in the domestic and international non-profit, private and political sectors. Kety is the Communications Director for Latinos for America. She is also the founder of CrossLeft. Having been active in her faith through prison ministry, homeless shelters and mentoring programs for underserved youth she believes that the best way she can be active in her faith at this point in her life is through CrossLeft and helping to mobilize the grassroots Progressive Christian voice. Her domestic experience includes serving as the National Director for Hispanic/Latino outreach for the Wesley Clark for President campaign and a three year stint with Eastman Kodak Company's United States, Canada and Latin American regional operations, where she coached executives on issues of human capital and diversity. Her international work experience includes three years in China working in higher education, management and consulting and prior to that a brief stint in Ethiopia working for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Kety received her BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University where she served on the Board of Trustees. She can be reached by writing to kety@crossleft.org
• Reverend Mark J.R. Farr. Mark Farr is Senior Director at the Points of Light Foundation, founded and chaired by former President George H.W. Bush. He oversees its Outreach, Regional Meetings structure and other external efforts. Mark also has responsibility for the faith work of the Foundation, the development of a long-term strategy for its faith relationships and the national engagement of faith organizations in service. Prior to that, he was Senior National Faith Director at America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth, a national crusade whose Founding Chairman is General Colin L. Powell. Through Mark’s leadership, faith groups including the Catholic Church and many other diverse denominations and interfaith organizations partnered with America’s Promise. Mark is also CEO of To Kindle Spirit, a non-profit which seeks to enhance the use of spirituality in non faith-based situations, and to develop mentor programming for children and families between faith and non faith-based organizations. Mark is an Episcopal Priest. Mark helped organize National Faith Section of The Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future in Philadelphia in April 1997, which all the living presidents attended and where the major non-profit America’s Promise was born. In addition, for two years, Mark had charge of the corporate work of America's Promise in Texas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Prior to that, he worked at Sojourners Magazine with Jim Wallis, its founder and Editor. During that time he coordinated the Philadelphia Christian Roundtable, a historic meeting in 1997 of diverse Christian leaders addressing the issue of poverty in the light of recent welfare legislation, as well as other national conferences and TV broadcasts on the subject of racism, welfare reform and poverty. Before coming to America in 1995, Mark was Senior Minister at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Wimbledon, the parish which includes the famous tennis courts. He has a keen interest in the arts, including holding three retrospectives of his own paintings, and was Chairman of the Board of the Wimbledon Arts Festival. Mark is a qualified psychotherapist and had his own business practice in therapy in London, England, and was a speaker and tutor on the spirituality of therapy at his alma mater, London’s Kensington Consultation Center. Mark was educated at Durham University, Oxford Brookes University, and Cranmer Episcopal Seminary in the UK. His published articles include “The Presidents’ Summit ? for Sojourners Magazine, a supplementary paper "Dialogues with Other Faiths" for the Oxford Conference in England; and "Expanding our Horizons," an Episcopal Church strategy for spiritual and political growth, as well as Selected Verse, a book of poetry. Mark is a Fellow of the Woodhull Institute in New York, on the Advisory Committee of the National Association of Partners in Education, and of BCC Connections, which teams non-profits with businesses. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Kaleidoscope Television, the nation’s largest health care cable channel, in the hope that this will make him more fit. Mark lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Laura, and their cats, Gigi and Zsa Zsa. He can be reached by writing to mark@crossleft.org.
• Stephen Rockwell. Stephen is currently Managing Director at Management Consulting Services, a nonprofit management assistance organization serving community based organization in New England. Before coming to Boston, he was in Philadelphia where he founded and managed the Teaming for Technology Initiative at the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania serving as Director of Technology Outreach. Teaming for Technology included a non-profit technology consulting practice and a digital inclusion program that provided wireless internet access, training to residents, and content through the a web portal serving low-income population. The city of Philadelphia has since picked up on the initiative and building out a municipal wifi network. Prior to joining United Way, he served as an Americorps member serving in a Philadelphia public school. Steve is a recent graduate with an MBA from MIT Sloan and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Steve received a BS in policy analysis and management from Cornell University where he served on the Board of Trustees and was President of the student government. Steve is co-founder of the Institute for Progressive Christianity and CrossLeft. He has been an Episcopalian for most of his life, but was baptized Catholic and has strong roots in the Evangelical tradition through his father. He can be reached by writing to srockwell@instituteforprogressivechristianity.org