Board of Directors

Katherine Rowlands

President

Publisher, Bay City News Service; Oakland, California

Juliet Williams

Vice President

Senior Editorial Leader; San Francisco, California

Jay Harris

Treasurer

Media Consultant, former Publisher Mother Jones and The American Prospect; San Francisco, California

Peter Scheer

Past President

Attorney and journalist, FAC Exec. Director, 2004-2016; San Rafael, California

Abenicio Cisneros

Executive Committee at Large

Law Office of Abenicio Cisneros; Oakland, California

Carol Melamed

Executive Committee at Large

Vice-President Government Affairs, Washington Post (retired); Los Angeles, California and Bethesda, Maryland

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos

Executive Committee at Large

Public Editor, PBS; Washington, D.C.

Ashley Alvarado

Director

President and CEO, Texas Public Radio; San Antonio, Texas

Cheryl Brown

Director

Co-Founder, California Black Media; San Bernardino, California

Thomas Burke

Director

Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine; San Francisco, California

Erwin Chemerinsky

Director

Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law; Berkeley, California

Carl Douglas

Director

Douglas/Hicks Law; Los Angeles, California

Janice S. Gin

Director

Journalism Lecturer, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, Hawaii

Richard Gingras

Director

Director of News Products, Google; Mountain View, California

Jean-Paul Jassy​​

Director

Attorney, Jassy Vick Carolan, LLP; Los Angeles, California

Linda Jue

Director

Editor-at-Large, 100Reporters; San Francisco, California

Quentin Kopp

Director

San Mateo County Superior Court Judge (retired); San Francisco, California

Irene Lee

Director

Associate Attorney, Cannata, O’Toole, & Olson; San Francisco, California

Scott Lindlaw

Director

Partner, FGS Global; Washington, D.C.

Karl Olson

Director

Attorney, Cannata, O’Toole & Olson (retired); San Francisco, California

Edward Wasserman

Director

Professor and Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley; Berkeley, California