Charles Burkam, J.D.

Charles Burkam has served in leadership positions in the Alliance for the past decade and remains the company Treasurer although no longer active with the Board. He has been connected with Waldorf education for over 40 years; has served in administration and as an advisor in both private and public schools; has taught Economics and Government in High School. 

Charles obtained his B.A. in Economics at Princeton University, his Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School, and spent a decade as an advocate for equal justice within Community Legal Services. However, all that he had learned previously paled in comparison with the wisdom he found, and continues to find, in Rudolf Steiner’s writings.

After attending his first conference on Three-folding in 1984, he abandoned his legal career, his position as Mayor, and moved his young family to England to attend Emerson College. Thereafter, he spent 13 years in the UK helping manage Anthroposophical organizations attempting to work out of Steiner’s Threefold principles, as further elaborated in World Economy, including serving as President of the Mercury Provident Ethical Pension Fund. He returned to the US in 2000.