which is based in Portland, Oregon), and served as a board member of the Harvard University Committee for the Environment, which created the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Stetson was a founding board member of the Climate Speakers Network, which was subsequently absorbed into the Climate Reality Project. Political experience Stetson has served as an environmental policy advisor to numerous political campaigns, including the Presidential campaigns of Senator Gary Hart (D-CO), Representative Dick Gephardt (D-MO), Governor Howard Dean (D-VT), Senator John Kerry (D-MA), and Governor Bill Clinton (D-AR). In 2008, he served as a member of the Rapid Response Energy & Environment Team on the Obama for America Campaign for Senator Barack Obama (D-IL). Other specific advisor roles include Advisor to the Environment & Economic Subcommittee for Environmental Advisors to Governor Howard Dean, a member of the Council of Environmental Advisers for Governor James Douglas (R-VT), Governor Peter Shulman's Governor's Council on Energy and the Environment, Vermont State Co-chair of the Kerry for President Campaign, and Vermont Chair of Environmentalists for Clinton/Gore 1992 Campaign. Stetson also served as advisor to the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) in Denver, Colorado, developing pro-environmental convention practices as a National Advisory Board member of the DNC. Philanthropy/board service Bill Stetson served as a Trustee and Governor for the Smith Richardson Foundation (SRF). Created in 1935, the SRF's mission is to contribute to important public debates and to help address both domestic and international public policy challenges. With its endowment of over $800 million, the SRF remains one of the most prominent domestic and foreign policy funders, awarding grants to major think tanks and university research centers across the United States. Stetson also is a Trustee to the Grace Jones Richardson Trust, which make grants in the areas of arts, education, and health & human services, and the H. Smith Richardson Testamentary Trust, which controls significant assets including of protected land in the North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Stetson has served on the board of Vermont Public Radio, and currently is a board member of Vermont PBS. Stetson was the founding president of the Boatwright Foundation, which gives primarily in areas of pediatric medicine and the environment. In 2011, Bill Stetson was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts. He was appointed chairman of the committee by President Joe Biden in 2022. Film/television/radio production Stetson was the founding