CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES BOARD MEMBERS
Community Impact Officer
San Diego
ALEX ESPINOZA, BOARD VICE CHAIR
Professor, Department of Creative Writing
Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing
UC Riverside
NANCY RIDDLE, TREASURER
Chief Financial Officer
WestEd
San Francisco
WENDA FONG, SECRETARY
Co-Founder & Chairperson Emeritus
Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE)
Los Angeles
BRIAN AGUILAR
Deputy Director
Center for California Studies
California State University, Sacramento
*ROBERT MAILER ANDERSON
CEO
UpCal Entertainment
San Francisco
BRENDA WONG AOKI
Co-Founder & Artistic Director
First Voice
San Francisco
THOMAS K. ARNOLD
Publisher and Editorial Director
Media Play News
Carlsbad
NEHA BALRAM
Program Analyst—Cultural Affairs
City of Oakland
Oakland
GENEVIEVE CARPIO
Assistant Professor
Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
DR. HONORA CHAPMAN
Associate Dean
College of Arts & Humanities
California State University, Fresno
*SHIVA FARIVAR
Principal
SKF Consulting Services
Language Instructor
Irvine
*FRITZ FRIEDMAN
President
The Fritz Friedman Co.
San Diego
RACHEL HATCH
Program Officer—Community Vitality
The McConnell Foundation
Redding
PATSY HICKS
Director of Education
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara
MINA PARA MATLON
Managing Director
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Davis
CHERYL ALETHIA PHELPS
Communications Director
ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties
OLIVER ROSALES
Professor of History
Bakersfield College
Bakersfield
DR. BIDHAN CHANDRA ROY
Professor of English
California State University, Los Angeles
Founder of WordsUncaged
Los Angeles
DANIEL B. SUMMERHILL
Assistant Professor of Poetry/Social Action and Composition
California State University, Monterey Bay
JOHN SZABO
City Librarian
Los Angeles Public Library
Los Angeles
JENNIFER MAYTORENA TAYLOR
Associate Professor
Department of Film and Digital Media and Social Documentation MFA Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
MARY VALENTINE
Former College Professor, Photographer
Los Angeles
JESSICA WEARE
Vice President of Corporate Responsibility
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Mountain View
PENELOPE WONG
President
Penelope Wong & Associates
San Francisco
*Gubernatorial Appointees
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