Chuck Woolery 

Woolery was raised in Kennewick, Washington and attended North Idaho College and Colorado State University on wrestling scholarships graduating in 1975 with a degree in biology.  After 6 years teaching biology and learning of the horrific human impact from hunger, Chuck became a volunteer hunger activist and educator.  His first 'hunger' job was researching and publishing a comprehensive book on world hunger, "Ending Hunger: An idea whose time has come" for the Hunger Project.  During this effort he learned of the need for creating political will.  In 1988 he moved to Washington DC to become the first Media Director for RESULTS (a small but powerful grassroots anti-hunger lobby).   

After the 1990 World Summit for Children, Woolery became the first Director of the Alliance for Child Survival and for 5 years organized US health and medical professionals to support Congressional increases in aid funding to meet the year 2000 child health, education and nutrition goals established at 1990 summit.  Seeing the need to move beyond humanitarian motives he helped co-found "The Global Connections Foundation" to document specific benefits to Americans from successful international health and development efforts.  With repeated legislative successes in child survival campaigns chuck lead the "Communications for Health Campaign" helping to reverse the 1994 cuts to other international health programs.  

Woolery then led advocacy and grassroots efforts for the National Council for International Health (NCIH - now the Global Health Council) organizing health professionals by Congressional Districts and starting "Local-global Health Forums" in key cities and states to document the specific local economic and health benefits of improving global health conditions. Considered "too idealistic" for the new Global Health Council, he became the Issues Director for the World Federalist Association working to strengthen the United Nations efforts to protect human rights.   

With a good understanding of global issue interactions, Woolery was elected to influential roles on the Action Board of the American Public Health Association, Chair of the Executive Committee of the United Nations Association Council of Organizations and Advisor to the Global Plan Initiative.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of World Hunger Education Service and is working with a local church to build a rural vocational school in Haiti.  Chuck is also a regular guest speaker on foreign policy and national security issues for the Close Up Foundation and the Global Youth Leadership Conferences.  He  lives with his wife, two adult children and assorted pets in Rockville Maryland and  is working on a book promoting the need for the enforcement of a global bill of rights.