Our Board

about us

Our Board

meet the 2023

Board of Directors

BOARD OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

president

Katherine Rowlands

Publisher, Bay City News Service,
Oakland, CA

VICE PRESIDENT

Juliet Williams

Opinion Editor, SF Standard,
San Francisco, CA

Treasurer

Ed Chapuis

Vice President & General Manager, KSBY,
San Luis Obispo, CA

SECRETARY

Scott Lindlaw

Partner, FGS Global
McLean, VA

past president

Peter Scheer

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

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT LARGE

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos

Public Editor, PBS,
Washington, D.C.

Executive Committee At Large

Duffy Carolan

Attorney, Jassy Vick Carolan, LLP,
San Francisco, CA

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT LARGE

Dick Rogers

Reader Representative, San Francisco Chronicle (retired),
San Leandro, CA

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT LARGE

Carol Melamed

Vice-President Government Affairs, Washington Post (retired),
Palo Alto, CA

Board Members

Director

Marcos Breton

Columnist, Sacramento Bee,
Sacramento, CA

Director

Cheryl Brown​

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

Director

Bruce B. Brugmann​

Editor and Publisher, San Francisco Bay Guardian (retired)

Director

Thomas Burke​

Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine,
San Francisco

Director

Erwin Chemerinsky​

Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law

Director

Abenicio Cisneros​

Law Office of Abenicio Cisneros,
Oakland, CA

Director

Alica Del Valle​

Associate General Counsel, Airbnb,
San Francisco, CA

DIRECTOR

Carl Douglas​​

Douglas / Hicks Law,
Los Angeles

DIRECTOR

Hal Fuson

Attorney, Executive Vice President,
The Copley Press, Inc. (retired),
San Diego, CA

DIRECTOR

Richard Gingras​

Director of News Products, Google,
Mt. View, CA

Director

Jay Harris​

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

DIRECTOR

Jean-Paul Jassy​

Attorney, Jassy Vick Carolan, LLP,
Los Angeles

director

Linda Jue​

Editor-at-Large, 100Reporters,
San Francisco, CA

Director

Quentin Kopp​

San Mateo County Superior Court Judge (retired), San Francisco, CA 

Director

Jim Newton​

Lecturer, UCLA, Luskin School of Public Affairs; journalist, 
Los Angeles

Director

Karl Olson​

Attorney, Cannata, O’Toole, Fickes & Olson, San Francisco

Director

Mel Opotowsky​

Newspaper Consultant and former managing editor, Press-Enterprise, Riverside, CA

director

Rowland Rebele​

Newspaper Publisher (retired) and Newspaper Consultant,
Santa Cruz, CA

Director

Edward Wasserman​

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