WHO WE ARE
The Better Angels Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating Americans about their history through documentary film.
Our goal is to educate, engage and provoke thoughtful discussion among people of every political persuasion and ideology. We work to ensure historically significant films are completed, broadcast, promoted, and shared in ways that reach and inform as many people as possible through robust educational and civic outreach. The Society is currently raising funds for Ken Burns’s films in production and planned over the next ten years.
Executive Offices
5185 MacArthur Boulevard, Suite 570
Washington, DC 20016
Phone: 202-809-9976
We are happy to work with those wishing to create a personalized recognition package. Please email our Senior Director of Stewardship & Operations, Becca Daniels, at [email protected].
THE BETTER ANGELS TEAM
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Bobby Stein, Chair
President, The Regency Group
Phil Kent, Vice Chair
Retired CEO, Turner Broadcasting System
Meredith DeWitt, Secretary
Founder & Principal, MJD Associates, LLC
Gregory Lau, Treasurer
General Partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
Hal Brierley
Chairman & CEO, The Brierley Group, LLC
Patrick Butler
President & CEO, America's Public Television Stations
Nancy J. Cable
Executive Director, The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust
Brian Conway
Senior Advisor, TA Associates
Joe Evangelisti
Head of Corporate Communications & Media Relations JPMorgan Chase
Tracy Frist
Owner and Operator, The Farm at Sinking Creek
Greg Golkin
Managing Partner, Kitchen Fund
Cappy McGarr
President, MCM Interests, LLC
Admiral Mike Mullen
President, MGM Consulting LLC
Eric Obeng
Sales Leader, LinkedIn
Laura Roosevelt
Principal, LR Art House
Jason Schlesinger
Managing Director, UBS
Peter L. Thoren
Executive Vice President, Access Industries
FOUNDERS BOARD
Ken Adelman, Chair
Vice President, Movers and Shakespeares
David Blistein
Writer
Talmage Boston
Attorney at Law, Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton
John Debs
Affiliated Scholar, Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University
John Fullerton
President, JBF Capital Inc.
Jeannie Lavine
Co-Founder, Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation
Ronald S. Moultrie
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security
Rebecca Nordstrom
Professor Emerita of Dance, Hampshire College
David Pfeil
President, Pfeil Holdings Corporation; President, The Pfeil Foundation
Kenneth Rosenthal
President (Retired), The Seeing Eye, Inc.
Ron Sullivan
Owner, Prospect Hill Antiques
NEXT GENERATION ADVISORY COUNCIL
Greg Golkin, Chair
Managing Partner, Kitchen Fund
Charlie Hellman
Vice President of Product, Spotify
Alexa von Tobel
Founder and CEO, Learnvest.com
PARTNERS
The Better Angels Society is proud to partner with:
Header Photo Credits:
Pictures are from the films that The Better Angels Society supports.
Top row, left to right: Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting; The War; Country Music; Philly on Fire
Second row, left to right: Benjamin Franklin, painting by David Martin, courtesy of White House Historical Association, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg; Virgil Thomson: Creating the American Sound; The American Buffalo; Bella! This Woman’s Place is in the House
Third row, left to right: Baseball, photo credit: Florida State Archives, All American Girls Professional Baseball Team training in Opa-Locka; The U.S. and the Holocaust; Vietnam; Prohibition
Bottom row, left to right: The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, Mesa Verde; Jackie Robinson; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, Mount Rainier; The Dust Bowl
