CCH Board Members

Chris Abani
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
UC Riverside

Joaquin Alvarado 
Documentary Filmmaker and
Founding Director
Institute for Next Generation Internet
San Francisco State University

Cindi Alvitre
Culturist and Ph.D. Candidate
Department of World Arts and Cultures
UCLA
Los Angeles

Julie Bornstein
Executive Director
Campaign for Affordable Housing
Los Angeles

Pedro Castillo
Board Vice Chairman
Associate Professor of History and Provost of Oakes College
UC Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz

Kenya Davis-Hayes
Assistant Professor of History
California Baptist University
Riverside

Benjamin T. Duran
Superintendent and President
Merced College
Merced

Roy Eisenhardt
Secular Humanist
San Francisco

Robert Feyer
Partner, Public Finance
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
San Francisco

Douglas Greenberg
President and Chief Executive Officer
Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
University of Southern California
Los Angeles

Nancy Hatamiya
Board Chairwoman
Governmental Relations Consultant
Sacramento

Luis Herrera
City Librarian of San Francisco 

Ruth Holton-Hodson
Property Owner Advocate
California State Controller’s Office
Sacramento

Benjamin Todd Jealous
President
Rosenberg Foundation
San Francisco

David Johnson
Producer and Investor
Santa Monica

Shelley Kessler
San Mateo County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Foster City

Hillary Mendelsohn
Executive Director
SAFE-T: A California Partnership for Safety and Preparedness
Beverly Hills

Cornelius Moore
Codirector, California Newsreel
Director, Library of African Cinema

Alejandro Morales
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Film and Media Studies,
UC Irvine 

Leonard Olds
Founder, Log Cabin Republicans
Laguna Beach

Max Parra
Associate Professor of Latin American Literature
UC San Diego
San Diego

Jane Pisano
President and Director
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Curtis F. Shepard
Director of Children, Youth, and Family Services
L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center
Los Angeles

Daphna Edwards Ziman
Founder and Chairperson
Children Uniting Nations
Los Angeles

© 2007 The California Council for the Humanities