 Danielle Bluey is a development professional. She has worked as a major gift fundraiser at the University of California, Berkeley for nearly ten years—first at Boalt Hall, School of Law and currently at the College of Letters and Science. She has also served as a fundraiser in the arts and in social services. Danielle holds a degree in Classics from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. She lives with her husband and two young children in Oakland. |
 Leon Gast directed the Academy Award winning documentary, “When We Were Kings,” about the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman 'Rumble in the Jungle' heavyweight title bout in Zaire. He has directed numerous other documentary films, including "Our Latin Thing" (1972) and "Salsa" (1977), both of which anticipated the huge influence Latin American music now has on American culture. In 1977, Gast and Jerry Garcia co-directed "The Grateful Dead" concert and tour film. |
 Sam Green received his Master's Degree in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied documentary film with the acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs. Green's most recent film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004, aired nationally on PBS, and was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. His other award-winning documentaries include The Rainbow Man/John 3:16, N-Judah 5:30, and Pie Fight '69. Mr. Green currently lives in San Francisco and teaches film and video at the University of San Francisco. www.samgreen.to |
 Carrie Lozano began working in film in the mid-1990s doing hand-processed, experimental films, and she has worked in the San Francisco film community for the past six years as a print editor and writer. She is currently producing/directing a documentary film about journalist Randy Shilts, and produced The Weather Underground. Following her undergraduate studies at U.C. Berkeley, she was a health care policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She earned a master¹s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism in 2005, and bachelor degrees in Political Science and Film Studies in 1996. |
 Conchita Lozano-Batista is an attorney with the law firm of Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, representing workers, unions, and employee benefit plans. Ms. Lozano received her B.A. (1996) from UC Berkeley, and her J.D. (2003) from the University of San Francisco School of Law. Ms. Lozano is also a board member of Human Rights Advocates (HRA), a human rights organization dedicated to promoting and protecting international human rights. As part of her work for HRA, Ms. Lozano works on migrant worker issues, including violations of labor and workplace rights, at the United Nations Commission and Sub-Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. |
 Bill Siegel lives in Chicago and works as an educator and documentary filmmaker. He is Vice-President-Mission for the Great Books Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to literacy and lifelong learning. He co-directed the Academy Award-nominated documentary, The Weather Underground, was as a researcher on the documentary films, Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story and Hoop Dreams, and a writer on One Love, a documentary on the cultural history of basketball, by Leon Gast (When We Were Kings). Bill was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN, received a BA in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University in New York. Currently he is a fellow of the Chicago Community Trust's, Fellowship for Community Leaders program, which identifies and nurtures not-for-profit and public sector leaders. |
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