Just wanted to point out that my boss is pretty much a badass (and no, he doesn’t know about this blog so I’m not being a suck-up):
Peter V. Berns, Appointee for Member, President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Peter V. Berns is the Chief Executive Officer of The Arc, a charity federation with 710 chapters nationwide dedicated to promoting the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A nationally recognized nonprofit sector leader and public interest lawyer, Mr. Berns served as the Executive Director of the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations from 1992 to 2008. In addition, he served as Chief Executive Officer of the Standards for Excellence Institute from 2004 to 2008 where he developed Standards for Excellence: An Ethics and Accountability Code for the Nonprofit Sector. A frequent lecturer, facilitator, consultant, and trainer, he has served as an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University. He was named to the Nonprofit Times Power and Influence Top 50 list five times in the past decade. Mr. Berns has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.
