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
News Editor, Associated Press,
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