Center for Balanced Development

Other Team Members:
- Wu Qian Ying, Translator, Associate (Shanghai, China)
- Bridgette Schnider, Artist, Associate (Chicago)
- Sharareh Z., Researcher, Translator, Associate (Mashhad, Iran)
- Richard E. Andre', Ed.D., Educator, Consultant (Los Angeles)
- Thierry Simone, Entrepreneur, Consultant (Irvine, California)
- Mary Grimes, Mentor, Associate (Seal Beach, California)
- Lee Au, Mentor, Associate (Westminster, California)

Wei Wu, Treasurer, Board of Directors (Corona, California)

Wei Wu is a Certified Public Accountant with over 13 years of experience in financial accounting, consulting and international business field. She was born and raised in China and has been living in the U.S. since 1992 where she received her master degree in Accountancy. She has worked many projects throughout her career such as IPO service, financial audit, and financial reorganization for both U.S. fortune 500 companies and Chinese companies. Previously, she worked for one of the big 5 public accounting firm-Arthur Andersen, LLP. She was also the controller and senior management member for US public trade company as well as private owned company. Wei is also an educator. She received her bachelor's in education in China.

Randolph Dobbs, Chairman, Board of Directors (Los Angeles)

Randolph Dobbs has been Secretary of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Los Angeles since 1996. He was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Salinas near Monterey, where he attended Hartnell College. He studied political science at King's College in London and is an amateur historian. Mr. Dobbs served as the editor of the Los Angeles Bahá’í Journal for over ten years and his articles have been posted to Beliefnet.com, Iranian.com, Muslim Network for Bahá’í Rights and many other websites.
Since 2005, Mr. Dobbs has served concurrently on the Regional Bahá’í Council of the Southwestern States, an administrative position responsible for Bahá’í governance in Arizona, California, Nevada, and New Mexico. He is very active in the interfaith community, serving on the Advisory Board of the Valley Interfaith Council, the Executive Board of the Inter-Religious Council of Southern California and as Religious Director in the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California. He and his wife, Chris, have two grown children who also live in Southern California.

Ramses Rashidi, Director, Secretary, Board of Directors (Irvine, California)

Ramses is an educator, writer, filmmaker and musician. He was born in Iran and immigrated to the U.S. to pursue his education and career. He lived in China for 15 years where he studied the language, culture and development trends as well as contributing as an educator, journalist and songwriter.
His numerous articles on social-economic development concepts have been published in Chinese, English and Persian in various newspapers and websites. He is the founder of the Center for Balanced Development.