2011 YSF Annual Report - Young Storytellers Foundation
2011 YSF Annual Report - Young Storytellers Foundation
2011 YSF Annual Report - Young Storytellers Foundation
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annual<br />
report<br />
of the young storytellers foundation<br />
September <strong>2011</strong> - August 2012
“I felt an achievement.<br />
It made me confident in<br />
writing and ever since then<br />
I’ve loved writing stories<br />
and essays. I’ve been in<br />
honors English classes, AP<br />
English classes. Going into<br />
college I have confidence<br />
in what I’m doing.”<br />
Jenny Gonzalez<br />
<strong>YSF</strong> Alum<br />
mission, vision, values<br />
The <strong>Young</strong> <strong>Storytellers</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> develops literacy<br />
through the art of storytelling. Using group exercises<br />
and one-on-one mentoring, we provide underserved<br />
children in the public school system an<br />
opportunity to write stories and see them brought to<br />
life through performance.<br />
Our mission is to inspire children to discover the<br />
power of their own voice.<br />
At <strong>YSF</strong>, we believe. . .<br />
»That every child has a story worth telling.<br />
»That arts education is a right, not a privilege.<br />
»That all students deserve equal access to this<br />
education, regardless of race, neighborhood,<br />
economic status, or any other factor.<br />
»That we can correct inequalities in public education<br />
by providing supplemental, rigorous, quality arts<br />
programming.<br />
Though the <strong>Young</strong> <strong>Storytellers</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong><br />
specifically mentors at-risk youth in dramatic writing<br />
and storytelling, we’re also:<br />
»Deterring delinquency.<br />
»Increasing Academic Performance.<br />
»Giving students a greater chance of going to, and<br />
graduating from, college.<br />
»Increasing literacy in students whose first language<br />
is not English.<br />
every<br />
CHILD<br />
has a<br />
WORTH<br />
Story<br />
telling.
programs<br />
Arts education is critical to providing a wellrounded<br />
education to students of all ages,<br />
one where all of their learning faculties are<br />
challenged and developed. The arts challenge<br />
imagination, give students the opportunity to<br />
explore ambiguity and emotion, and introduce<br />
critical thinking concepts such as interpretation,<br />
connection, engagement and reflection. Yet, in<br />
many of our public schools, a lack of funding<br />
leaves students without access to the arts.<br />
Our programs augment a growing void in public<br />
education by providing sequential, standardsbased<br />
arts programming to disadvantaged youth.<br />
<strong>YSF</strong> offers mentor-based programs in dramatic<br />
writing and storytelling to public school students<br />
in the greater Los Angeles area, with the majority<br />
of our current programs directed at 5th grade<br />
at-risk youth. Mentorship is at the core of most of<br />
our programs, giving students one-on-one time<br />
with an adult who values their ideas, praises their<br />
work, and guides them in a creative exploration.<br />
script-to-stage program<br />
A nine week, standards-based, public elementary<br />
school program where students write their own<br />
original short script, then see it performed by<br />
professional actors.<br />
The Script-to-Stage program runs weekly during<br />
unstructured school time. A volunteer Head Mentor,<br />
trained by <strong>YSF</strong>, runs each class. Each student is given<br />
an individual mentor from the entertainment industry<br />
to work with them one-on-one and guide and<br />
encourage them as they imagine and develop their<br />
own short script.<br />
At the culmination of sessions, Hollywood actors<br />
volunteer to perform the students’ scripts at an inschool<br />
assembly, called the “Big Show.”<br />
The program emphasizes learning through game<br />
play, dramatic structure, oral storytelling, and writing.<br />
Through interactive exercises of discovery, students<br />
learn and reinforce the basic concepts of storytelling.<br />
Our games and activities are designed to strengthen<br />
leadership skills and empower students. From the first<br />
moment, we let the students know that they have a<br />
voice in what happens. With their mentors, students<br />
complete writing exercises that help them discover<br />
elements of story, such as plot, character, setting,<br />
goals, conflict and lesson.<br />
As sessions progress, the Head Mentor incorporates<br />
more games and exercises with the goal of exploring<br />
and deepening students’ stories. Students then take<br />
their written outlines and turn them into full-fledged<br />
scripts with action, dialogue, fade-in’s and blackouts.<br />
Finally, in a culminating performance, their works<br />
are then presented in a “Big Show,” performed by<br />
professional actors, before the school community.<br />
Every student in the program presents a finished<br />
script, and all are given the chance to have their<br />
voices heard. For kids who normally receive little<br />
individualized attention and support, working oneon-one<br />
with an adult to create their own story, and<br />
seeing actors like Cory Monteith (Glee), Ben McKenzie<br />
(Southland), Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), and<br />
Raven Symone (That’s So Raven) bring their words to<br />
life as a piece of theater is transformative.
“<strong>Young</strong> <strong>Storytellers</strong> grows<br />
stronger every year.”<br />
Lori Orum, Principal<br />
Edison Language Academy<br />
new “cluster” initiative<br />
The goal of this pilot program in Culver City<br />
is to provide sequential, standards based arts<br />
programming to students from Elementary<br />
School, into Middle and High School, with a<br />
great deal of effort placed on continuity and<br />
consistency of programs.<br />
All students in the cluster begin in 5th Grade at<br />
one of four Culver City Elementary Schools in<br />
our Script-to-Stage program. In Middle School,<br />
students who have already participated in<br />
the program explore more advanced writing<br />
techniques as well as technical aspects of filmmaking,<br />
in our Tabletop Movie Making Program.<br />
By High School, students enter the Culver City<br />
Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, where<br />
the Front and Center Theater Collaborative<br />
provides Teaching Artists and Guest Speakers.<br />
High School students also act as mentors for the<br />
younger Middle and Elementary School students.<br />
Front and Center Theatre Collaborative partners<br />
include Center Theatre Group, The Actors Gang,<br />
24th Street Theatre, and We Tell Stories and<br />
is funded by Sony Pictures Entertainment,<br />
The Carol and James Collins <strong>Foundation</strong>, Playa<br />
Vista, The Drown <strong>Foundation</strong>, CCEF and the<br />
Elementary School PTA’s.<br />
pilot programs<br />
Tabletop Movie Making Program<br />
The <strong>Young</strong> <strong>Storytellers</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> TableTop<br />
Movie Making program is a theme-based<br />
writing program for Middle School students<br />
in collaboration with Tabletop Media. It is also<br />
mentor-based, and culminates in a screening of<br />
produced Table Top films.<br />
The program incorporates the curriculum of the<br />
<strong>YSF</strong> Script-to-Stage program, reinforcing grade 7<br />
and 8 language arts content standards, in a tenweek<br />
session focused on a theme determined<br />
by the class. For example, in a recent program,<br />
students chose to write on culture and identity,<br />
and their scripts and finished movies embodied<br />
these themes. Through the use of personal<br />
storytelling, students discover the value of their<br />
own lives and experiences as excellent sources to<br />
draw upon in their writing. The program includes<br />
council work (a group teaching method that<br />
encourages participation from every member),<br />
personal investigation, research, interviewing of<br />
subjects, writing, public performance, and school/<br />
community follow up.<br />
Once the students’ scripts are complete, the<br />
program shifts to production. Students make<br />
their own films using photographed backdrops,<br />
stick figures, an iPad and iMovie. Students voice<br />
the characters and direct their own films, calling<br />
action and cut and setting camera angles. A<br />
screening of the films is held for an invited<br />
audience of family, friends and peers.
Teaching Artists for High School & Guest Speaker<br />
Series<br />
<strong>YSF</strong> runs a variety of programs in public high<br />
schools using teaching artists in writing, film, acting,<br />
and directing. We also provide opportunities for<br />
students to meet with industry professionals at<br />
brown bag luncheon seminars, where past guests<br />
have included<br />
actor Tim<br />
Robbins, and<br />
producers<br />
Susan Arnold<br />
and Donna<br />
Roth.<br />
“People telling me that I<br />
have talent, and helping me<br />
to progress that talent...<br />
That’s mind-blowing.”<br />
Anthony<br />
<strong>YSF</strong> at NYFA student<br />
The Hillsides Education<br />
Center Script-to-Stage<br />
Program<br />
Students at the Hillsides<br />
Education Center for<br />
Fostered and Emotionally<br />
Disturbed Youth receive a specially tailored version<br />
of our Script-to-Stage program that accommodates<br />
a student population facing great educational and<br />
emotional challenges. Individual sessions rely<br />
on council work, a method of group sharing and<br />
listening that works especially well with this student<br />
population.<br />
summer programs<br />
<strong>YSF</strong> at New York Film Academy, Universal<br />
Studios<br />
<strong>YSF</strong> has<br />
partnered<br />
with NYFA<br />
to offer 12<br />
full scholarships<br />
(worth<br />
$18,000)<br />
to their<br />
weeklong<br />
film-making intensive for High School<br />
students. Students are selected from the <strong>Young</strong><br />
<strong>Storytellers</strong> alumni pool. Participants write, film,<br />
and edit their own short film on the Universal<br />
Studios backlot. All alumni from the one-week<br />
film-making intensive will be paired with a<br />
professional mentor from NYFA’s faculty and will<br />
return to participate in workshops administered<br />
by their professional mentors.<br />
Natural History Museum Camp<br />
In Paris, in the 1870’s, there is a T-Rex on the<br />
loose. He’s not looking for food. He’s looking<br />
for love. That’s the synopsis of the play created<br />
by the campers in the 2012 Dinosaur Summer<br />
Camp, written and performed alongside Hunter<br />
the T. rex, NHM’s popular life-size dinosaur<br />
puppet, on the stage in the North American Hall<br />
of Mammals.<br />
Make Your Very Own Movie Trailer! at the Iverbe<br />
Arts Camp<br />
This camp provides summer internships for<br />
Culver City High School students at the same<br />
time it raises money to support our Script-to-<br />
Stage Program during the year. Students at<br />
Iverbe wrote, directed, and shot their own movie<br />
trailers using iPads.
outcomes & demographics<br />
100% of our students complete a script and see it<br />
performed in front of an audience by professional actors<br />
Pre/Post testing on language arts concepts of narrative<br />
structure and storytelling showed an average improvement of 22%,<br />
with of students passing<br />
80%<br />
64% *<br />
of our students<br />
receive free or reduced price lunch<br />
(an important economic indicator)<br />
34% *<br />
of adults in neighborhoods where<br />
our schools are located hold a college degree<br />
$39,540 *<br />
The median household income<br />
for communities where our<br />
schools are located<br />
»62% Female / 38% Male<br />
»8.5% Asian<br />
»11% Black / African American<br />
»14% Caucasian<br />
»51.5% Latino / Hispanic<br />
»15% Other / Bi- or Multi- Racial<br />
»»»<br />
*<br />
Factors in determining if a student<br />
population is at-risk of less positive<br />
educational outcomes.
schools<br />
“I love the fact that <strong>Young</strong><br />
<strong>Storytellers</strong> cares about what<br />
they are teaching the students.<br />
<strong>YSF</strong> gives them another avenue<br />
to be inspired and provides a<br />
never-ending memory of someone<br />
that cares about them. For some<br />
of our kids, thats all they<br />
have.”<br />
<strong>YSF</strong> School Liaison<br />
Beethoven Elementary<br />
Betty Plasencia Elementary<br />
Canfield Elementary<br />
Carthay Center Elementary<br />
Castle Heights Elementary<br />
Cheremoya Elementary<br />
Coldwater Canyon Elementary<br />
Crescent Heights Elementary<br />
Daniel Freeman Elementary<br />
Dayton Heights Elementary<br />
Disney Elementary<br />
Edison Elementary<br />
El Rincon Elementary<br />
La Ballona Elementary<br />
Laurel Elementary<br />
Marvin Elementary<br />
McKinley Elementary<br />
Melrose Elementary<br />
Micheltorena Elementary<br />
New Roads Elementary<br />
Overland Elementary<br />
Palms Elementary<br />
Saturn Elementary<br />
Selma Elementary<br />
SMBCC Elementary<br />
St. Anne Elementary<br />
Vermont Elementary<br />
Westminster Elementary<br />
Wilshire Crest Elementary<br />
Hillsides Education Center<br />
Culver City Middle School<br />
Animo Jackie Robinson High<br />
Culver City High School
events<br />
The Biggest Show <strong>2011</strong><br />
featuring the stars of<br />
glee<br />
Our annual benefit brought a packed house to<br />
watch stars from Glee and other special guests<br />
perform scripts written by four of our <strong>Young</strong><br />
<strong>Storytellers</strong> at The Crossroads School in Santa<br />
Monica.<br />
<strong>YSF</strong> After Dark<br />
The inaugural event hosted and organized by our<br />
Entertainment Advisory Board. For the first half of<br />
the evening, improv pro’s performed scripts written<br />
by students in our Script-to-Stage program. Then, we<br />
sent the youngsters home and watched our genius cast<br />
perform stand-up and improv inspired by the students’<br />
stories. With titles like Elmo’s Face is Mars, Jungle Prom, and<br />
Stop Being Famous, what could have possibly gone wrong?<br />
Hosted by Jason and Randy Sklar and featuring improv<br />
superstars Matt Walsh, Casey Wilson and others.
impact<br />
The first <strong>Young</strong> <strong>Storytellers</strong> session was held at Playa del<br />
Rey Elementary School in 1997. In 2003, <strong>YSF</strong> became a<br />
501c3 Non Profit Organization. <strong>YSF</strong> is now active in more<br />
than 35 schools across Los Angeles every year, providing a<br />
mentor for nearly 750 students a year as they write their<br />
own original script.<br />
last<br />
year<br />
since<br />
2003<br />
64<br />
schools/<br />
sessions<br />
475<br />
640<br />
student<br />
writers<br />
4,750<br />
“We work with many<br />
different nonprofits...<br />
<strong>Young</strong><br />
<strong>Storytellers</strong> has<br />
been by far the most<br />
effective academicbased,<br />
fully inclusive,<br />
and engaging<br />
program I have ever<br />
collaborated with<br />
on behalf of my<br />
students.”<br />
Rebekah Ruswick,<br />
Hillsides Education<br />
Center<br />
640<br />
volunteer<br />
performers<br />
4,800+<br />
704<br />
volunteer<br />
mentors<br />
4,900+<br />
financial report<br />
6,400<br />
audience<br />
members<br />
46,000+<br />
»» Fiscal Year January - December <strong>2011</strong><br />
Income<br />
640<br />
scripts<br />
written<br />
4,750<br />
Contributions $ 52,666<br />
Corporate, <strong>Foundation</strong> & Government Grants $ 121,325<br />
Special Events & Auctions $ 135,048<br />
Program & Other Revenue $ 8,731<br />
Expenses<br />
$ 317,770<br />
Program $ 190,160<br />
Management $ 14,560<br />
Special Events $ 26,106<br />
Fundraising $ 28,034<br />
Auction Fees $ 13,111<br />
$ 271,971<br />
Operating Surplus $ 45,799<br />
In-kind value of volunteer instruction $ 362,893*<br />
*Because <strong>YSF</strong> delivers programming using trained volunteers from<br />
the entertainment industry, every $1 we raise provides $2 worth of<br />
programming, free of charge, to under-served youth in Los Angeles.
our supporters<br />
$10,000 – $24,999<br />
Apatow Family <strong>Foundation</strong><br />
Dwight Stuart Youth Fund<br />
Brad Falchuk<br />
Fox<br />
HBO<br />
Thelma Pearl Howard <strong>Foundation</strong> (CCF)<br />
Los Angeles County Arts Commission<br />
Rob & Danielle Mohn<br />
National Endowment for the Arts<br />
Sony Pictures Entertainment<br />
Variety<br />
$5,000 – $9,999<br />
Betty Polansky<br />
California Browncoats Inc<br />
Natalie Edmonds Fair<br />
Fox Gives<br />
Los Angeles Department of Cultural<br />
Affairs<br />
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein<br />
Greg, Heidi, Olivia, & Rachel Hodes<br />
Warner Bros.<br />
The Howard and Maryam Newman<br />
Family <strong>Foundation</strong><br />
$2,500 – $4,999<br />
Ameriprise Financial Services<br />
Lynn Marie Burca<br />
Edlow Family Fund<br />
FX Networks<br />
Heidi Golledge<br />
Kirby Family <strong>Foundation</strong><br />
Seth MacFarlane<br />
Guy Ruffin<br />
Brian Slipock<br />
Amanda Whaley<br />
$1,000 – $2,499<br />
Anonymous<br />
Edwin Alexander<br />
Marcy Shoemaker & Jonas Morganstein<br />
Richard Bernsley<br />
Diane Bertram<br />
Sam Brown<br />
Lulu Brud<br />
City National Bank<br />
Fiona Copeland<br />
Leanne Dunlap<br />
Joy Fehily<br />
Steve & Nancy Fischman<br />
Eric & Katya Friedman<br />
Jay & Deirdre Gibson<br />
Gotham Group<br />
Halon Entertainment<br />
Caroline Hazen<br />
Graham King<br />
Erika Klein<br />
Eric Kripke<br />
Robin Laroche<br />
Brian Miller<br />
Josh Radnor<br />
Robert McKee Story Seminar<br />
Bruce Ross<br />
Mark Feldstein & Brad Roth<br />
Peter & Donna Schlessel<br />
Colleen, Alex, & Megan Schwartz<br />
Louisa Shields<br />
Michael Stevens<br />
Lisa Stiglitz<br />
Target<br />
Jack Telle<br />
Time Warner<br />
Jessica Tuan<br />
Stephanie Vizvary<br />
Ilene Resnick & Daniel Weiss<br />
Susan Wildman<br />
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment<br />
$500 – $999<br />
Lawrence Ambramson<br />
Kary Antholis<br />
Mat Beck<br />
Darren Bernstein<br />
Daniel Casanova<br />
Wilson Chin<br />
Desiree Contreras<br />
S.B. DeMeo<br />
Breck & Georgia Eisner<br />
Mark Feldstein<br />
The Ferullo Family<br />
Dalila Fontana<br />
Charles & Jane Forman<br />
Angela Hebert<br />
Jennifer Jendro<br />
Margaret Jimenez<br />
Janice Linden-Reed<br />
Colleen Lindt<br />
Allan Loeb<br />
Barbara & Harvey Markowitz<br />
Patrick McCabe<br />
Marla & Brett Messing<br />
Ryan Murphy<br />
Robert Mycroft<br />
Laura Presburger<br />
Nancy Ritter<br />
Marie Florence Rose<br />
Fran & Lew Rumford<br />
Rachel Sparlin<br />
Jacqueline Klein-Stroyman and Matthew<br />
Stroyman<br />
Natalie Ward<br />
Tracy Weinberg<br />
Stan Wertlieb<br />
Writer’s Junction<br />
$250 – $499<br />
Susan Paley Abramson<br />
Answers to Nothing<br />
Paul Apel<br />
Lisa Bellucci<br />
Judy Chan<br />
David Eilenberg<br />
Stephen Fife<br />
Friends of Bad Robot<br />
Isaac Greenberg<br />
Jen Grisanti<br />
Taylor Jones<br />
Lesly Kahn<br />
Kevin Kelly<br />
Deborah & John Kernochan<br />
Stu Krieger<br />
Jessica & Peter Nelson<br />
Jennifer Nordstrom<br />
Elizabeth O’Brick<br />
Sophie Pokorny<br />
Jillian Roberts<br />
Ron Safran<br />
Samuel Slater<br />
Michael & Diane Ziering<br />
$100 – $249<br />
Linda Carlson & Angus Wall<br />
Blair Hickey & Laura Battaglia<br />
Liz Abbe & Lew Schneider<br />
Randolph Adams<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Angier M. Ames<br />
Macy Raymond & Scott Glosserman<br />
Ronnie Anderson<br />
Carey Graeber & Andrew Kozinn<br />
Alon Aranya<br />
Susan Arnold<br />
Elizabeth Backup<br />
Andrew Barrett<br />
Jennifer Bassik<br />
Thanda & Harald Belker<br />
Scott Bernstein<br />
Anjali Bhimani<br />
Andrew Boyle<br />
Hannah & Madeline Boyle<br />
Gloria Brenes<br />
Ian Brennan<br />
Anthony Briones<br />
Jeff Bynum<br />
Marika Cahn<br />
Anne-Marie Cappellano<br />
Chris Kelly & Jennifer Carrico<br />
Pat, Judy, Mary, Katie, & Tim Carrico<br />
Wendy Chang<br />
Susan Cho
Colette Compton<br />
Amy Cooper<br />
Mia D’Argenzio<br />
John Dahl<br />
Laura Dave<br />
Jennifer Delgado<br />
Gerald Di Rienzo<br />
Abraham Donner<br />
Stephanie Dorcy<br />
Carla duManoir<br />
Alan Finkel<br />
Sean Furst<br />
Ann Garber<br />
Eric Garfinkle<br />
Shannon Gaulding<br />
Maria Mancuso Gersh<br />
Eliot Gerstel<br />
Amy & Dick Glover<br />
L Grant<br />
Michael & Abby Grossman<br />
Evelina Hansson<br />
Michael Hitchcock<br />
Stanley Kazanjian<br />
Claudine Kushner<br />
Vincent Landay<br />
Molly Lavik<br />
Matthew Leutwyler<br />
Josh Levine<br />
Bob and Alicia Levitt<br />
Maryam & Josh Lieberman<br />
Susan Littenberg<br />
Lynne Lueders<br />
Marilyn Abraham & Sandy MacGregor<br />
Sarah Maguire<br />
Chris Martin<br />
Tarra-Lyn Matthews<br />
Dereck Messana<br />
Dayton Miller<br />
Annik Minasaganian<br />
Jonathan Mogharrabi<br />
Hallie Myers Shyer<br />
Dave Neustadter<br />
Fariba Nia<br />
Pat O’Keefe<br />
Paul & Erin Paglia<br />
Ben Parrillo<br />
Wendy Paulin<br />
Carly Pope<br />
Kelly Ramlow<br />
Marissa Rehhaut<br />
Derek Richardson<br />
John Rickard<br />
Maria Rodriguez<br />
Brian Sacks<br />
Nancy Sams<br />
Ellen Scott<br />
Yvette Sears<br />
Matt Selman<br />
S.G.Lewis <strong>Foundation</strong><br />
Mien Shih<br />
Tiffany Shih<br />
Gregory Silverman<br />
Jeff Smith<br />
J.C Spink<br />
Dorothy Spirer<br />
Julia Spiro<br />
Gina Steward<br />
Russell Stiverson II<br />
Julia Suarez<br />
Kirk Suduski<br />
Lexine & Cuyler Tremayne<br />
Dennis & Elisa Visca<br />
Maiara Walsh<br />
Karin Wholey<br />
Randy Wiech<br />
Lynn Williams<br />
Meg Wilson<br />
Jayne Wolfson<br />
Nora Zuckerman<br />
$50 – $99<br />
Marielle Abaunza<br />
JJ Abrams<br />
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa<br />
Rojean Azimi<br />
Marlo Boyle<br />
Bryan Burk<br />
Alana Chin<br />
Clancy Collins<br />
Leslie Conliffe<br />
Charley Dane<br />
Carol David<br />
Jenny David<br />
Kirstie Palmer & David Hirschmann<br />
Krista Doyle<br />
Eric Eglin<br />
Shawn Fagan<br />
Rong Fan<br />
Gabe Feinberg<br />
Allen Fischer<br />
Brad Fischer<br />
Rick Genow<br />
Jeremy Glazer<br />
Cari Goldhammer<br />
Lucie Goldman<br />
Daniel Gomez<br />
Francine Gordon<br />
Paul Grellong<br />
Debi Harris<br />
Ellen Himmel<br />
Nancy Himmel<br />
Barbara Ives<br />
Barbara Jones<br />
Laeta Kalogridis<br />
Josh Katz<br />
Susan Keeton<br />
Michael & Francesca Kelly<br />
Zaina Kholaki<br />
Matt King<br />
Ray Landes<br />
Christine Law<br />
Grace Ledding<br />
Eric Lehrman<br />
Julie Leung<br />
Erin Levy<br />
Laura Lewis<br />
Kathy Ling<br />
Dave Lowe<br />
Stacy Lumbrezer<br />
Tracey Maye<br />
Kevin McCormick<br />
Paul & Jennifer McKinney<br />
Melrose M/S/T Magnet Kinder<br />
Geoff Morley<br />
Heather Olofson<br />
Robin Page<br />
Poppy Paulos<br />
Nick Penske<br />
Chandler Poling<br />
Marshall Porter<br />
Magaluna Ramos<br />
Sarah Reeves<br />
Shanee Regev<br />
Lucas Reiner<br />
Dana Rensselaer<br />
Blair Rich<br />
Lisa Roos<br />
Susan Rovner<br />
Tamara Sekhoff<br />
Vicki Shaghoian<br />
Matthew Sheelen<br />
Barbara Smith<br />
Kyle Soehngen<br />
Jason Spitz<br />
Benj Thall<br />
Liz Thurmond<br />
Trinitas Cellars<br />
Jamie Vanderbilt<br />
Dahvi Waller<br />
Jennifer Wang<br />
Jodi Weingarten<br />
Brian Weinstein<br />
Rebecca Welch<br />
Athena Wickham<br />
Sheldon Yeager<br />
Paul <strong>Young</strong><br />
Rachel Zack Ishikawa<br />
Kellen Zale<br />
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Staff<br />
Bill Thompson, Executive Director<br />
Jason Pugatch, Associate Director<br />
Arrowyn Ambrose Husom, Program Director<br />
Netta Most, Program Coordinator<br />
board of directors<br />
Andrew Barrett, Chairman<br />
Teacher<br />
Kary Antholis, Vice-Chairman<br />
President, HBO Miniseries<br />
Sam Brown, Vice-Chairman<br />
SVP Production, New Line<br />
Ness Hamaoui, Treasurer<br />
Executive Managing Director, Studley<br />
Marika Cahn, Secretary<br />
Writer<br />
Susan Arnold<br />
Producer, Roth/Arnold<br />
Darren Bernstein<br />
Lawyer<br />
Natalie Fair<br />
Educator and Philanthropist<br />
Joy Fehily<br />
Prime Public Relations<br />
Jay Gibson<br />
Writer<br />
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein<br />
CEO & Founder, The Gotham Group<br />
Greg Hodes<br />
Partner, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment<br />
Cherise Pounders<br />
Principal, Crescent Heights Elementary<br />
Donna Roth<br />
Producer, Roth/Arnold<br />
E. Jeffrey Smith<br />
Writer/Producer<br />
Tracy Weinberg<br />
Head of Development, Rock Paper Scissors<br />
Troy Williams<br />
Senior Publicist, Warner Bros.<br />
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