Humanity+ is governed by its membership, which elects a five-person Board Of Directors.
Natasha Vita-More, Chair
Natasha Vita-More, PhD researcher, University of Plymouth, is a frequent guest speaker on topics concerning the future and technology. She if founder of esDESIGN and best known for creating the first future human prototype “Primo Posthuman”. Her writings have been published in numerous books, she has appeared in more than twenty-four televised documentaries, and featured in magazines including The New York Times, Wired, Village Voice, Flaunt, Harper’s Bazaar, U.S. News & World Report, Net Business, and Teleopolis. Natasha is a Fellow at Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Fellow at Hybrid Reality Institute, Track Advisor to the Singularity University, Visiting Scholar at 21st Century Medicine, and on the Scientific Board of Lifeboat Foundation. She was formerly president of Extropy Institute from 2002-2005. As a bit of history, Natasha authored the “Transhuman Manifesto” (1983), Create/Recreate: the 3rd Millennial Culture (cybernetic culture and the future of humanism and the arts and sciences). In the early 1990s, she produced and hosted the transhumanist TV show “Transcentury UPdate”.
Ben Goertzel, Vice Chair
Ben Goertzel is CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence software project; Chief Technology Officer of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Director of Engineering of digital media firm Vzillion Inc.; Advisor to the Singularity University and Singularity Institute; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series. His research work encompasses artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds and gaming and other areas, He has published a dozen scientific books, over 100 technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles. Before entering the software industry he served as a university faculty in several departments of mathematics, computer science and cognitive science, in the US, Australia and New Zealand. He has three children and too many pets, and in his spare time enjoys creating avant-garde fiction and music, and the outdoors.
Amy Li, Treasurer
Amy Li is a multidisciplinary creative director and designer, specializing in branding, creative marketing strategy, and user interface design for global brands like Yahoo, AT&T, etc. She is passionate about combining design, technology, and human factors to create state of the art products that impact our daily lives. One example of this is the iPhone app Have2P. It is a fun and creative app that addresses a universal human need in a new high-tech fashion. It was showcased as “App of the Week” in the New York Times, and also featured in Gizmodo. Amy also has years of experience specializing in designing visually engaging web sites with intuitive interfaces, flash animations, emails and landing pages with a strong focus on branding and UX design. Her portfolio can be seen at www.meidesign.net and she is easy to connect with on LinkedIn and Twitter. One of Amy’s true passions in life is to use her skills to help members of the scientific community become better communicators, one typography at a time 
. Born and raised in China, Amy immigrated to the U.S. and received her BFA with honor at CSULB, one of the top eight graphic design programs in the country, and later continued her education in Advanced Web and Interactive Design at UCLA.
Michael Anissimov, Secretary
Michael Anissimov is Media Director for the Singularity Institute. In 2005, at age 21, he co-created the concept for the Singularity Summit, the world’s largest conference focused on transhumanist technologies. Under Anissimov’s tenure as Media Director at the Singularity Institute, the organization has been covered by GQ, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Playboy, The New York Times, Scientific American, NPR, Forbes, and a front-page article in TIME magazine. Anissimov’s personal blog, Accelerating Future, is among the most popular transhumanist blogs, with over 100,000 monthly uniques. Since 2005, he has accepted consulting contracts for over a dozen transhumanist organizations and companies, including stealth-mode startups. Recently, Anissimov’s writing was featured in a front-page article for IEEE Spectrum by former editor-in-chief of Scientific American John Rennie.
Louie Helm
Louie Helm (MS Computer Science, UT-Austin) is the founder of Seventeen or Bust, one of the most well-known and successful distributed computing projects in history. His work was recently featured in Cliff Pickover’s “The Math Book”, where it was noted as one of the 250 most important contributions to mathematics. His writing on transhumanism is often published at Singularity Hub and LessWrong where he writes about life extension, disease eradication, prison abolition, and other notable technologies that will one day empower humanity to exceed its current limitations. He’s based in Berkeley, California where he works full-time as an executive at Singularity Institute.