About

Co-Founder and President of the Board of Directors, Delores Ramona Cornell du Houx is the editor of Maine Insights Newsmagazine, which she founded in 2005. She is director of the Solon Center’s gallery Fukurou, and owns Insights, public relations. As a public relations specialist she’s put together campaigns, written grants, opeds, designed websites, logos and ads. Ramona is the communications director of Elected Officials to Protect America, a project of the Solon Center. In 2018, Ramona organized 80 military veterans who are lawmakers from every state to successfully help reauthorize the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund. Ramona is the Editorial Director of Protect Earth News a 501(c)4 magazine. PEN’s in-depth reporting focuses on critical issues by highlighting personal stories.  Maine Insights got the attention of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development and they hired her for communications. Ramona has worked as a reporter, speech writer, ghost writer, and a freelance writer with articles in the Smithsonian American Indian, and news outlets. She has also published fictional short stories.

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Paul Cornell du Houx was born in Los Angeles and grew up mainly in Switzerland, the UK, and Southern Ireland. He is a graduate Amherst College, ’73, with an honors degree in economics and French. In search of realities beyond the economics of academe, “I decided to launch myself from my ivory tower into the marketplace and see what most people were really doing so much of the time in their lives—at work … I would investigate demand and supply firsthand and write something as a result.” He wrote currency reports for Maxwell Stamp Associates, published in the London Square Mile, audited a wide range of companies for PwC, sold desk-size computers with tiny memories, as well as studying law at the London Inns of Court. Paul developed a new proof based on nature’s universal asymmetry. His bestselling books are Unicycle, the Book of Fictitious Symmetry and Nonrandom Truth, or the Panpsychist Asymmetry of Nature’s Democratic Pi; Yoganomics Sutras on the Transformation Proof: Nature’s Panpsychist Balance, the Moral Compass For the Economy; and What the Farmer Told the Bard: a Novel of Erotic Panpsychism.

Treasurer on the Board of Directors, Beau Alessi is an honors graduate of Amherst College in music, English and math. Since 2007, he quickly became a senior manager, Commercial Finance, at Foot Locker, bringing fresh analytical insights to the board of directors. In his free time, he volunteers tax advice for underprivileged residents. As a musician and composer, his bands play a variety of songs from their albums in the New York City music scene. Having lived in Maine, Beau returns to bring music to the creative economy.

Secretary on the Board of Directors, Christian Brock is the Senior Advisor of Elected Officials to Protect America. He served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force as a Logistics Readiness Officer before retiring in 2014. Christian joined the Solon Center in 2018 and led project EOPA’s national expansion, including EOPA’s state-based programs. Most notably, he led efforts in California promoting the state’s transition to a renewable-energy-based economy. And he led EOPA’s Protecting America’s Lands programs, which includes the protection of U.S. National Parks, monuments, memorials and over 40,000 public lands. Prior to joining EOPA, Christian mobilized a grassroots team to engage a population of over 950,000 eligible voters.

Member of the Board of Directors, Takafumi Suzuki was a department head, former professor and assistant to the dean at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. He retired from a 37-year career in 2017, but was then asked to become the assistant dean at the new University of International Fashion & Business, which has branches in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. He took the position at UIF to help worldwide understanding of Japanese culture and traditions. Takafumi also owns Gallery Storks of Tokyo and has held cross-cultural exhibits in conjunction with Gallery Fukurou – a project of the Solon Center. He is also the director of The Japan Society for Arts, as well as a member of Kokugakai (Society of Masters of Modern Japanese Art), and the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences.

Member of the Board of Directors, Alex Cornell du Houx was elected to the Maine House of Representatives, where he became one of its most active members, sponsoring and co-sponsoring 155 bills his first term, and 136 his second. In total, he sponsored 14 successful pieces of legislation and co-sponsored 98 successful bills. Cornell du Houx won the Reed Award for the best public affairs campaign in 2011 after he co-founded and ran Operation Free, a coalition of veterans working on energy and climate security. He participated and led State Department delegations to Southeast Asia. He serves and advises on the board of the Veterans Campaign. He’s partnered with the Truman National Security Project, and founded the Maine New Leaders Council. Cornell du Houx is an instructor at the Veterans Campaign and at the University of San Francisco for their Masters in Public Leadership program. He is a certified trainer with the New Leaders Council, the Truman Project, and a leadership coach with ChoiceCenter Leadership University. He served in the Marine Corps infantry and has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Cornell du Houx is currently a Public Affairs Officer with the Navy Reserve. Cornell du Houx earned his bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College. Alex is Co-Founder and President of Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPA).