Pratap Chatterjee |
Pratap Chatterjee is an environmental writer & producer of South Asian descent (Sri Lankan Tamil and Indian Bengali) He has written over 1,000 news and feature stories based on his investigations and travels in 45 countries. The articles have been published in major international newspapers like the Guardian and the Financial Times of London to magazines like the Multinational Monitor and the Progressive as well as in newspapers in over 40 different countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe and translated into dozens of languages from Estonian to Japanese. A number of his investigative articles have been published on the front pages of national newspapers in India, Guyana, Nepal, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Currently he is producer & host of Terra Verde, a weekly environmental radio program on KPFA, 94.1 FM, Berkeley, California, a community advisor to KQED radio and television in San Francisco, Environmental Commissioner for District Seven of Berkeley, California and a board member of the Asaian Pacific Environmental Network in Oakland, California. Previously he was Global Environment Editor for Inter Press Service in Washington DC (a Third World newswire service) and one of the founders of Project Underground in Berkeley, California. He just completed a Masters of Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State University. |
Derek Chung |
Derek Chung is a co-founder of Tactile Pictures (www.tactilepix.com), a six-year old new media and web development studio in San Francisco. With Tactile Pictures, he has designed and built web sites, software, product prototypes and interactive games for clients including Apple Computer, Macromedia, MTV, IDEO, and numerous non-profit organizations, internet startups, record companies, and design firms. In addition, he created the Tactile12000 (www.tactile12000.com) (an award-winning MP3 DJ application) and released it as open source software. He co-created Global Arcade (www.globalarcade.org), an educational and entertainment center which analyzes the effects of globalization, while at an artist residency program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He is also a co-founder of Urbanpixel (www.urbanpixel.com), where he helped create a breakthrough technology for organizing and navigating information on the web, and he publishes the Late Train web site (www.latetrain.com) for late night life in San Francisco. |
Anne-Marie Harvey |
Anne-Marie Harvey is writer and editor consultant for the Haas, Jr. Fund in San Francisco. Anne-Marie received her PhD from the U.C. Berkeley English Department in May 1999, after completing a dissertation on American literature, gender, and consumer culture. She taught classes in literature and writing at U.C. Berkeley for nine years. She continues to participate in a research group, affiliated with the Bay Area Writing Project and composed of outstanding local teachers from high school through university levels, on innovative ways to teach writing. She is currently co-editing and contributing to a book resulting from that research. |
Lina Hoshino |
As a co-founder of IEEHA and Tactile Pictures, Lina Hoshino has led the creative and design effort in wide range of new media projects including web sites(such as www.whirledbank.org, www.chillinwoman.com, and www.globalarcade.org), presentations, games, animations, and CD-ROMS. She has directed, shot and produced a number of video and animation shorts. Her latest project is "Caught in Between: What to Call Home in Times of War." She has also directed and produced "Kagero" and "The Story of Margo" which were screened in a number of film/video festivals including the Chicago's Woman in Director's Chair, Mill Valley Film Festival, UmeÔ International Film Festival(Sweden), San Francisco Film Arts Festival. "Story of Margo" received a Bronze award at 1997 Tokyo Video Festival. She is an organizing member of Nosei. Currently, she serves as a board member for JustAct: A San Francisco-based organization that promotes youth leadership in global justice activism. She studied painting and sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University. |
Rachel Timoner |
Rachel Timoner The Organizing Project, an independent effort to plant seeds for multi-issue, multi-constituency, justice-based social healing and transformation. Previously, she served as the Community Campaign Director of the San Francisco Women’s Building, where she worked as part of a capital campaign team to retrofit and renovate The Women’s Building. From 1993 to 1994, Rachel founded the LYRIC Youth Talkline, a peer hotline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. From 1995-1996, Ms. Timoner founded two leadership programs, the NGLTF Youth Leadership Institute and The Leadership Project. Both programs encourage young people to believe in their own power and in the power of working together---across race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. Both continue today, working with 25 to 50 young people each year. Ms. Timoner received a B.A. in 1991 from Yale University. In 1994, she was honored by the San Francisco Examiner and KQED as an "Unsung Hero" for working to break the isolation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and empowering young people to feel proud of who they are. In 1997 she was honored by Do Something with the BRICK Award for Community Leadership. She is also a Next Generation Leadership Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. |