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Who We Are

Board of Directors: 
Christopher Adams, President
Retired Campus Planner, University of California, Merced; Director of Long Range Planning, University of California Office of the President

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

Kelly Connarton, Secretary
Senior QA Engineer, Alibris

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

Abigail Franklin
Former investment banker promoting bonds for non-profit hospitals

Liz Hoadley
Provides finance & accounting for several non-profit organizations

Judith Justice
Faculty Member, UCSF

Billy Karp
Realtor, Red Oak Realty

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

Sherman Lim
Vice President/Area Manager, Oakland/Berkeley Area

Jerry Long
Realtor, Red Oak Realty

Estella Morris
Educator; doctoral degree in Education and Anthropology
               
Sharon Rudnick
Provides public relations, communications, and marketing to a wide range of organizations/corporations

Linda Schacht Gage
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

Irwin Shapiro
Retired from Psychiatry Department of UCSF medical center

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

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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