Governance
The Cumulus Community serves as the shared leadership community for a growing ecosystem of affiliated organizations and projects. Cumulus provides a common forum in which leaders coordinate strategy, stewardship, and long-term direction while each participating organization retains its own legal identity, governing documents, and mission.
This shared governance task force’s mission is to found the organizational infrastructure to ensure affiliated organizations achieve decades of sustainable business based on transparency, continuity, and compliance.
As the ecosystem evolves, its governance will evolve with it. The structures described here are intentionally lightweight and are expected to adapt as new leaders, organizations, and communities join the Cumulus Community.
We publish our governance documents, meeting minutes, and major decisions as part of our commitment to openness, institutional learning, and responsible stewardship. A listing of our governing documents follows the presentation of our board of directors.
Executive Leadership/Board of Directors
Our directors serve identical roles at both GPD and STS. This is temporary scaffolding as we continue to identify and fill key roles.
The current board act as Community executive leadership for the foreseeable future. Specific roles within organizations will be adjusted as necessary for success.
President Matthew A. Turner, PhD
Dr. Matt Turner is the Founder and President of the Generation of Participation in Democracy and SubtleTea Solutions. His mission is to make science work for scientists, in pursuit of a sustainable economic system based on enough instead of our current system based on never enough.
In practice this means he focuses on developing organizations and principles to help innovative basic research live up to its full potential for positive real world impact.
In a typical day, Dr. Turner might work on new coursework and writing, publish new content to be included in a forthcoming book, Quantitative Social Science for Sustainable Futures, creating new computer hardware and software, or lead a board meeting.
Secretary Izabela Mauricio de Rezende, PhD
Dr. Izabela Rezende is the Founder and Director of Instituto Dourados, the inaugural Flagship Institute of the GPD.
Dr. Rezende will ensure that all members of the Cumulus Community deliver on our promise to serve the Indigenous peoples of Dourados, and improve public health and sustainability policy outcomes in general.
She will ensure the for-profit affiliate, SubtleTea Solutions, contributes to the greater good while maintaining its focus making excellent products for our customers and making sustainability lucrative for investors.
Treasurer Joshua Rueckheim, MBA
Joshua Rueckheim oversees book keeping, develops controls and ensures enforcement, and assists with structuring and executing forecasts and other business processes. Mr. Rueckheim applies his decades of expertise in business management to ensure the financial integrity of the Cumulus Community’s organizations.
Mr. Rueckheim is currently Finance Director for the Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levy and for Alta Management Services. Before joining Alta, Mr. Rueckheim worked for Mariott International for 10 years in various finance and accounting roles.
Governance Document Archive
Please select a document of interest from the listing below.
| Date | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2026 | Joshua Rueckheim Invited to Join Leadership Team | |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Cumulus Community Shared Governance Establishment |