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
