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Who We Are

Board of Directors:

Linda Schacht Gage, President
Instructor, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley;  former reporter at KQED and KPIX Television; Board Member, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and UC Berkeley Board of Trustees

Christopher Adams, Vice-President
Retired Campus Planner, University of California, Merced; Director of Long Range Planning, University of California Office of the President

Kelly Connarton, Secretary
QA Engineer, Alibris

Reed V. Schmidt, Treasurer
Principal and Owner, Bartle Wells Associates; Certified Public Finance Advisor

Billy Karp
Realtor, Red Oak Realty

Mozetta Jackson
Manager of Volunteer Services, The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library

Judith Justice
Faculty Member, UCSF

Toby Lawson
Author and Former Instructor in the genre of the novel

Kim Marienthal
Realtor, Coldwell Banker; Board Member, A Traveling Jewish Theater and Step One School; former Board Member, Berkeley Association of Realtors and the National Institute for Art and Disabilities

Estella Morris
Educator; doctoral degree in Education and Anthropology
               
Michele Rabkin
Associate Director, Consortium for the Arts & Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley; member, Berkeley Arts in Education Steering Committee

Irwin Shapiro
Retired from Psychiatry Department of UCSF medical center

Sophia Skoda
East Bay Municipal Utility District, Board Member, Bay Area Water Works Association; Chairperson, Water for People

Ranko Yamada
Former BPLF President, Berkeley Public Library Board of Trustees; founding member, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach

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Past Board Members:
Malcolm Burnstein, Rauly Butler, Jennie Chuang, Merle Fajans, Charlotte Gray, Pamela Grossman, Richard Holton, Sue Hone, Kevin James, Jesus H. Leon, Adelia Lines, Judith Lubman, Linda Lustig, David Madson, Darryl Moore, Regina Minudri, Chandra Nageswaran, Miriam Ng, Trina Ostrander, Maria Lucero Padilla, Terry Powell, Anna Rabkin, Ursula Sherman, Stephen Silberstein, Carolyn Weinberger, Henry Wellington.

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Honorary Board, “We Love the Library” Campaign:
Bill Andronico, Dion Aroner, Ben Bagdikian, Schuyler Bailey, Tom Bates, Manjul Batra, Albert Bendich, Robert Berdahl, Judith Bloom, Jerry & Joy Carolin, Keith Carson, boona cheema, Barbara Christian, Arlyce Currie, Shirley Dean, Russell Ellis, Pete Escovedo, Doris Fine, David Freeman, Loni Hancock, Robert Hass, Ted Johnston, Gerald Kline, Jeffrey Shattuck Leiter, Country Joe McDonald, Jack McLaughlin, Jesús Mena, Pedro Noguera, Marin Paley, Henry Ramsey, Joshua Redman, Andy Ross, Marin Snapp, Dorothy Walker, Mal Warwick, Alba Witkin, Saul Zaentz