Staff & Board

San Francisco Office

Ralph Lewin

President & CEO

Karen Rodriguez

Chief Financial Officer

Vanessa Whang

Director of Programs

Angelica Dongallo

Program Assistant

Regan Douglass

Communications Officer

John Lightfoot

Program Officer

Lucy Le Nguyen

Grants and Contracts Manager

Julia Maryanska

Media Consultant

Jody Sahota

External Affairs Coordinator

Jessica Sanchez

Executive Assistant

Carlos Torres

Operations Coordinator

Ann Yoshinaga

Development Officer

 

 

 

Los Angeles Office

Tonya Jones

Program Associate

Felicia Kelley

Senior Program Officer

 

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Cal Humanities Board Members

Board Chair, Luis Herrera

City Librarian
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco

Board Vice Chair, Robert Feyer

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

Board Chair Emeritus, Curtis F. Shepard

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

Chris Abani

Novelist and Professor of Creative Writing
UC Riverside, Riverside

Aida Alvarez

Former Administrator
U.S. Small Business Administration

Santhosh Daniel

Director of Programs and Acting Executive Director
Global Film Initiative, San Francisco

Kenya Davis-Hayes

Assistant Professor of American History
California Baptist University, Riverside

Bill Deverell

Professor of History
University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Mark L. Friedman

Founder and President
Fulcrum Property, Sacramento

Marsha Hirano-Nakanishi

Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Research and Resources Office of the Chancellor
California State University, Long Beach

Alice Y. Hom

Queer Justice Fund Director
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Los Angeles

Damon Horowitz

In-House Philosopher / Director of Engineering
Google, Mountain View

Benjamin T. Jealous

President and CEO
NAACP, Baltimore, MD

Brooke Kanter

Public Art Advocate
Beverly Hills

Bernard Kinsey

Philanthropist and Entrepreneur
Los Angeles

John Krasznekewicz

Principal
Rustic Partners, Inc., Carmel

John Lescroart

Author
Davis

Natalia Molina

Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies UC San Diego, San Diego

Cornelius Moore

Co-Director
California Newsreel, San Francisco

Judy Salter

President and CEO Emerita of Turtle Bay Exploration Park
Redding, California

Sandra Serrano

Chancellor
Kern Community College District, Bakersfield

Margaret Shelleda

Executive Director Emerita
California Federation of Teachers, Oakland

Rodney Williams

Senior Vice President
Hennessy for Moët Hennessy USA, New York City, NY

Cynthia J. Wornham

Vice President, Marketing and Communications
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles

Brenda Wright

SVP Community Relations Manager West Region
Wells Fargo, San Francisco

 

 

 

 

 

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