Board of Directors

Meet Our 2025 Board of Directors

Message from the FAC Board

Standing by Our Mission and Values

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  • Katherine Rowlands

    President

    Publisher, Bay City News Service; Oakland, California

  • Juliet Williams

    Vice President

    Politics Editor, CalMatters; San Francisco, California

  • Jay Harris

    Treasurer

    Media Consultant, former Publisher Mother Jones and The American Prospect; San Francisco, California

  • Ricardo Sandoval-Palos

    Secretary

    Public Editor, PBS; Washington, D.C.

  • Peter Scheer

    Past President

    Attorney and journalist, FAC Exec. Director, 2004-2016; San Rafael, California

  • Abenicio Cisneros

    Executive Committee at Large

    Law Office of Abenicio Cisneros; Oakland, California

  • Carol Melamed

    Executive Committee at Large

    Vice-President Government Affairs, Washington Post (retired); Los Angeles, California and Bethesda, Maryland

  • Ashley Alvarado

    Director

    President and CEO, Texas Public Radio; San Antonio, Texas

  • Cheryl Brown

    Director

    Co-Founder, California Black Media; San Bernardino, California

  • Thomas Burke

    Director

    Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine; San Francisco, California

  • Erwin Chemerinsky

    Director

    Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law; Berkeley, California

  • Carl Douglas

    Director

    Douglas/Hicks Law; Los Angeles, California

  • Janice S. Gin

    Director

    Journalism Lecturer, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, Hawaii

  • Richard Gingras

    Director

    Director of News Products, Google; Mountain View, California

  • Antonia Hernández

    Director

    President and CEO of the California Community Foundation (retired); Pasadena, California

  • Jean-Paul Jassy​​

    Director

    Attorney, Jassy Vick Carolan, LLP; Los Angeles, California

  • Linda Jue

    Director

    Editor-at-Large, 100Reporters; San Francisco, California

  • Quentin Kopp

    Director

    San Mateo County Superior Court Judge (retired); San Francisco, California

  • Irene Lee

    Director

    Associate Attorney, Cannata, O’Toole, & Olson; San Francisco, California

  • Karl Olson

    Director

    Attorney, Cannata, O’Toole & Olson (retired); San Francisco, California

  • Edward Wasserman

    Director

    Professor and Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley; Berkeley, California