meet the 2022
Board of Directors
BOARD OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
president
Peter Scheer
Attorney and journalist, FAC Exec. Director, 2004-2016,
San Rafael, CA
VICE PRESIDENT
Katherine Rowlands
Publisher, Bay City News Service,
Oakland, CA
Treasurer
Hal Fuson
Attorney, Executive Vice President, The Copley Press, Inc. (retired),
San Diego, CA
SECRETARY
Scott Lindlaw
Principal, Sard Verbinnen & Co.,
McLean, VA
past president
Duffy Carolan
Attorney, Jassy Vick Carolan, LLP,
San Francisco, CA
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT LARGE
Carol Melamed
Vice-President Government Affairs, Washington Post (retired),
Palo Alto, CA
Executive Committee At Large
Juliet Williams
News Editor, Associated Press,
San Francisco, CA
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT LARGE
Dick Rogers
Reader Representative, San Francisco Chronicle (retired),
San Leandro, CA
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT LARGE
Ricardo Sandoval-Palos
Public Editor, PBS,
Washington, DC
Board Members
Director
Lara Bergthold
Principal Partner, RALLY, an issue-driven communications firm.
Los Angeles, CA
Director
Marcos Breton
Columnist, Sacramento Bee,
Sacramento, CA
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
Ed Chapuis
Vice President & General Manager, KSBY,
San Luis Obispo, CA
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
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 Franciso, 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