Sobre nosotros

Simone Coxe is a native Californian committed to journalism as a means to create a better world. She is a director at the National Trust for Local News and Human Rights Watch and serves on the advisory board of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. Previously, she spent seventeen years as a Director at Internews, and eleven years on the KQED board. Professionally, Simone co-founded Blanc & Otus, a public relations firm serving the technology industry, and served as its CEO from 1985-2000.

Chris Boskin is a highly respected veteran of magazine publishing, with a career that includes senior positions with Worth Media, The New Yorker Magazine, Hearst Corporation, East West Network, and Knapp Communications. She was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2008 to chair the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and currently serves as an advisor to Tech4GS. She has served on the boards of NPR, Internews, College Track, the Gladstone Institutes and Higher Ground.

John Boland is president emeritus of KQED public media, where was the organization’s president & chief executive officer for nine years before retiring in 2019. Boland now serves as a director for CalMatters and on the Green Music Center board of advisors at Sonoma State University after having chaired both boards. He’s also the former vice chair of the Commonwealth Club World Affairs board of governors. A media executive and journalist, Boland led the reinvention of public media to serve the rapidly changing needs of the American public in the digital age. He served for four years as the first chief content officer of the national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) between two stints at KQED. Prior to his tenure at PBS, Boland held several executive positions at KQED for more than a decade, including executive vice president and chief operating officer, and vice president of marketing, development and communications. He also created the role of chief content officer at KQED in 2002 — the first such position in public media. Boland began his multi-faceted media career as an award-winning daily newspaper reporter and editor in his native New Jersey. He has been a newspaper publisher and owner, a senior executive with two major international marketing and communications firms, and publisher of San Francisco Focus (now San Francisco magazine). Boland and his partner, James Carroll, divide their time between San Francisco and Dos Reis Ranch in Sebastopol, California.

Hema Sareen Mohan aporta más de 20 años de experiencia en los sectores público y sin fines de lucro. Sus áreas de especialización y enfoque incluyen política educativa, justicia juvenil y reforma policial. Durante una década, trabajó en el Senado del Estado de California y en el Condado de Santa Clara. Mientras estuvo en el Senado estatal, trabajó en la legislación histórica para cambiar la edad de ingreso al jardín de infantes y crear un nuevo grado conocido como jardín de infantes de transición en las escuelas públicas de California. La experiencia de Hema en organizaciones sin fines de lucro incluye siete años en el Vera Institute of Justice, una organización de investigación y políticas sin fines de lucro con sede en Nueva York, donde diseñó y dirigió un programa de capacitación para agentes de policía escolares para que utilicen técnicas de apoyo al comportamiento positivo con los estudiantes, y trabajó en un programa alternativo a la detención para inmigrantes en proceso de deportación. Hema también es un poeta publicado y recientemente fue finalista del Premio Poeta Laureado del Condado de San Mateo.

She serves on the boards of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula, Stanford University’s Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, and the Child & Family Institute. Hema holds a BA in political science from Hunter College and an MPA from Columbia University.

Gregory Favre is a long-­distinguished figure in the world of journalism. His decades of newspaper experience include serving as assistant sports editor of the Atlanta Journal, managing editor of the Dayton Daily News, editor of the Palm Beach Post, news director of WPLG-TV in Miami, editor of the Corpus Christi Caller­-Times, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun­Times, executive editor of The Sacramento Bee, and vice president of news for McClatchy Newspapers. He is a former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the California Society of Newspaper Editors, and was a fellow for journalism values at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. He has served on numerous industry boards and advisory committees, as well as on the advisory board for the UC Davis Health Systems and as chair of the Foundation for American Communications.

Dean Baquet dirige la Beca de Investigaciones Locales del New York Times, donde anteriormente fue editor ejecutivo. También se desempeñó como editor de Los Angeles Times y fue reportero del Chicago Tribune y del periódico de su ciudad natal, el Times-Picayune de Nueva Orleans. Recibió un premio Pulitzer por reportajes de investigación en 1988 junto con dos colegas por la cobertura de la corrupción en el ayuntamiento de Chicago.

Christy Chin, an advocate of social entrepreneurship and high-impact philanthropy, was a partner at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation for more than a decade. There, she was instrumental in growing the Foundation’s pipeline, supporting the portfolio and stewarding donor partners, while serving on the boards of many of the organizations it supports. She previously worked at the Skoll Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Bedrock Capital Partners and Norwest Venture Capital and at a venture-backed company, The Frontier Group. Chin is currently on the boards of Santa Cruz Local, Food Forward and the Save the Waves Coalition. She received her MBA from the Harvard Business School and holds a BA in history from Colgate University.

Janet Clayton was most recently the senior vice president of corporate communications for Southern California Edison and its parent company Edison International. Prior to joining Edison, Clayton was president of ThinkCure, a community-based nonprofit that raises funds for cancer research and is the official charity of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Prior to ThinkCure, Clayton had a distinguished career at the Los Angeles Times as a key member of the newspaper’s leadership team. She held numerous positions, including editor of the editorial pages, where she determined the Times’ official opinions, and California section editor, where she managed the largest news staff at the newspaper. Clayton has received many accolades for excellence in her profession, including recognition as the editor of two Pulitzer Prize-winning series. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California.

Efraín Escobedo es el presidente y director ejecutivo del Centro para la Gestión de Organizaciones sin Fines de Lucro, que capacita, apoya y fortalece a las personas que lideran organizaciones sin fines de lucro en todo el sur de California. Anteriormente fue vicepresidente de Políticas Públicas y Participación Cívica en The California Community Foundation. Su trabajo se basa en años de experiencia en el gobierno y el sector sin fines de lucro, incluidos los esfuerzos de educación de los votantes y la modernización de los sistemas de votación en el condado de Los Ángeles. Escobedo preside la junta de Hispanos en Filantropía y forma parte de la junta del Fondo Educativo Mi Familia Vota y del comité asesor de políticas para los donantes del sur de California. Obtuvo su licenciatura en Estudios Americanos y Etnicidad de la Universidad del Sur de California y su Maestría en Administración de Empresas de la Universidad de La Verne y se graduó del Programa de Liderazgo Ejecutivo del Condado de Los Ángeles, una asociación con la Escuela de Ciencias Públicas Sol Price de la USC. Política.

Robert Hernandez es profesor de periodismo en la escuela Annenberg de la USC y explora la intersección de la tecnología y el periodismo. Él y sus alumnos crean un periodismo innovador y galardonado con tecnologías como la realidad aumentada, la realidad virtual y los dispositivos portátiles. Anteriormente fue productor de noticias y director de desarrollo en The Seattle Times.

Brian Jaffe es el fundador y director ejecutivo de California Cottage Company, una empresa de viviendas asequibles. Anteriormente fue director ejecutivo de VOCA, una plataforma tecnológica de participación cívica, y ex miembro de la junta directiva de la Fundación William y Flora Hewlett y de la Fundación Flora Family.

Jeffrey S. Klein has had a 40 year career in the media world as a business executive, lawyer and writer. He co-founded 101communications, a multimedia business publisher and event producer that later became 1105 Media, where he now serves as Executive Chairman. He spent 15 years with the Los Angeles Times as a senior executive and started his career there as the newsroom lawyer. He also was CEO of California Community Newspapers. He wrote a regular consumer law column for the LA Times and a business column for Folio Magazine, which named him one of the forty most influential people in the industry. He has taught graduate level media courses at USC and Columbia University and served as Executive in Residence at the Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. He was Chairman of MEND, an anti-poverty nonprofit, and now sits on the Board of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College, his alma mater.

Jack Mosbacher es socio de Watchfire Ventures y también realizó giras con Train como músico profesional, publicó en Foreign Affairs y The Washington Quarterly como periodista y jugó béisbol en la Universidad de Stanford. Es miembro del consejo asesor del Instituto Freeman Spogli de Estudios Internacionales de Stanford y de la Junta NextGen de la Hoover Institution.

Leo Wolinsky has a long and illustrious career spanning more than 30 years at the Los Angeles Times, where he served as a correspondent, City Editor, California Political Editor and Deputy Chief of the State Capitol Bureau. He also served as Executive, Managing and Associate Editor at the paper. Wolinsky directed the Times’ coverage of the Los Angeles Riots and Northridge Earthquake, reporting that earned the newspaper two Pulitzer Prizes. He has since served as Editor of Daily Variety and now consults with media companies on a wide range of issues.

Nicole Wong specializes in assisting high-growth technology companies to develop international privacy, content, and regulatory strategies. She previously served as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration, focused on internet, privacy, and innovation policy. Prior to her time in government, Nicole was Google’s Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, and Twitter’s Legal Director for Products. She frequently speaks on issues related to law and technology, including five appearances before the U.S. Congress.

Nicole serves on the boards of the Mozilla Foundation, which promotes the open internet; the Filecoin Foundation, an independent organization that stewards the growth of Filecoin and related technologies for a decentralized web; the Open Technology Fund, an independent non-profit working to advance global internet freedom; and CalMatters, a non-partisan, non-profit news organization. She also currently serves as an advisor to Insight Partners, Tech Talent Project, Trust & Safety Professional Association, Albright Stonebridge Group, Future of Privacy Forum, y WITNESS.