Our People
Team + Board
PEERS is a small educational nonprofit supported by a large network of volunteers and other contributors
Amber Yang
Executive Director · Board President
Salaried
Amber Yang serves as executive director of PEERS and president of the Board. Her work includes email communications and networking with individuals and groups around the world who support the tax-exempt purposes of PEERS.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a certificate in Holistic Health Studies from San Francisco State University, as well as a master’s degree in Organizational Change from Sonoma State University.
Amber has a background in restorative justice, organizational development, conflict resolution, nonviolent activism, holistic health, and media studies. She has contributed to Project Censored and has worked in public education as a wellness-center leader, yoga and mindfulness teacher, mentor to at-risk youth, and Restorative Justice Coordinator supporting incarcerated youth and work to heal the school-to-prison pipeline.
Outside of work, Amber loves the outdoors, dancing, and cooking creative and organic foods.
Mark Bailey
Chief Financial Officer · News Editor · Data Scientist
Contractor
Mark Bailey edits the news for WantToKnow, serves as CFO/Treasurer on the PEERS Board of Directors, and works as a full-stack developer to keep our web infrastructure up and running. Mark is also a senior data scientist with Seeds of Truth AI, an open source PEERS AI initiative.
Mark has summarized over 8,000 news reports for WantToKnow.info since 2014. He has also published 10 science-fiction novels, including the web book Small Gods of Time Travel, which combines computer generated art with material from the WantToKnow.info news archive to tell a compelling story.
Mark has also written for the cryptocurrency industry and has been involved in community organizing.
Joe Martino
Member of the Board
Volunteer
Joe Martino serves on the PEERS board and runs Collective Evolution.
Founding Collective Evolution in 2009, Joe's work has played an instrumental role in transforming culture by popularizing major insights around consciousness, personal transformation, cultural change, emerging solutions and more. CE content has been viewed over 1.5 billion times globally.
What do our current events say about how we operate as people? What do our societal structures and common issues say about our level of thinking (consciousness) and what type of ideas we’re bringing to the table? What if the solution to the many challenges we feel we face today is actually in changing how we think, relate to one another, and even relate to our world?
These are the types of questions that have emerged from CE's core principles.
John Lumiere-Wins
Member of the Board
Volunteer
John Lumiere-Wins serves on the PEERS board and researches information for PEERS websites.
He holds a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy and is trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and a Transpersonal Hypnotherapist.
A long-time spiritual practitioner with an eclectic background, John has researched spiritual and political awakening for many years. With Lynn Marie Lumiere, he is the author of The Awakening West – Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment.
In addition to therapeutic work, John works with people on brain balance and harmony as a way of helping them pursue goals and reduce symptoms that impair functioning. He is an enthusiastic member of the Transformation Team.
Josh Mitteldorf
Member of the Board
Volunteer
Josh Mitteldorf, PhD, serves on the PEERS Board of Directors. He describes his contributions as listening and questioning, grounded in curiosity, a willingness to abandon ideas that do not fit reality, and a history of heretical thought.
Josh has a background in theoretical physics and is best known for his contributions to the biology of aging, including many articles and two books. His scientific work has included DataBETA, a survey study using methylation technology to evaluate anti-aging practices in common use.
He also writes poetry, political commentary, and fiction. His “anti-blog,” Daily Inspiration, has been posted continually since 2005. He lives in Philadelphia and has two grown daughters.
Marc Baber
Member of the Board
Volunteer
Marc Baber serves on the PEERS Board of Directors.
Marc has worked for major tech companies including Intel and JPL. In addition to serving as a board member, Marc is the project manager for Seeds of Truth AI, a PEERS initiative. He is currently running for Congress in Oregon.