Advisory Board
Dean Baquet Dean Baquet leads the local investigative fellowship program at The New York Times. He previously served as executive editor for The New York Times from May 2014 until June 2022. During Baquet's tenure as executive editor, The Times had significant audience and subscriber growth and won 18 Pulitzer Prizes, including two for Public Service. Before being named executive editor, Mr. Baquet was managing editor of The Times. He previously served as Washington bureau chief for the paper from March 2007 to September 2011. Mr. Baquet rejoined The Times after several years at the Los Angeles Times, where he was editor of the newspaper since 2005, after serving as managing editor since 2000. Previously, Mr. Baquet had been National editor of The New York Times since July 1995, after having served as deputy Metro editor since May 1995. Mr. Baquet joined The Times in April 1990 as a Metro reporter. Before joining The Times, he reported for the Chicago Tribune from December 1984 to March 1990, and before that, for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans for nearly seven years. While at the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Baquet served as associate Metro editor for investigations and was chief investigative reporter, covering corruption in politics and the garbage-hauling industry. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in March 1988 when he led a team of three in documenting corruption in the Chicago City Council, and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 in the investigative reporting category. Mr. Baquet has also received numerous local and regional awards. Mr. Baquet majored in English at Columbia University from 1974 to 1978.
John Battelle John Battelle has founded or co-founded eight media and technology businesses, including Wired, The Industry Standard and Federated Media. He is currently co-founder of DOC, a health-related startup, chair of Sovrn Holdings, a publishing platform, and director of LiveRamp, a NYSE-listed data collaboration business. He has taught at Northeastern, Columbia, and UC Berkeley. Battelle’s first book, “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture,” was an international bestseller. He is working on a forthcoming book on the role of data in society. Battelle holds a BA and a Master’s from UC Berkeley.
Robert Bishop Bob Bishop is the former editor and publisher of Gold Mining Stock Report, a financial newsletter focused on early stage natural resource companies. Published from 1983 to 2007, Gold Mining Stock Report was best known for its early advocacy of what became the Canadian diamond industry, and for a boots-on-the-ground approach that took its editor to more than 50 countries. A longtime supporter of U.C. Berkeley’s Journalism School, for many years Bob funded Mark Felt Scholarships at the Investigative Reporting Program, in addition to supporting the J-School’s narrative writing and photography programs. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley.
Chris Boskin Chris Boskin is a highly respected veteran of magazine publishing, with a career that has included publishing and marketing positions with Worth Media, The New Yorker Magazine, Hearst Corporation, East West Network, and Knapp Communications. She is currently a consultant to several media and tech companies. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Boskin holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and English and also studied at the Academia in Florence, Italy.
David Corvo David Corvo has worked at NBC News for more than 20 years as a producer and executive. In his current role as senior executive producer for Primetime News, he produces the newsmagazine Dateline NBC and other series and news specials. Mr. Corvo previously was an executive at CBS News and was executive producer of several programs, including CBS This Morning, which he created. He began his career in local broadcast news in Oakland and Los Angeles, and also produced the newsmagazine Front Page for the Fox TV network in Los Angeles. He holds an undergraduate degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and was Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Californian.
Simone Coxe Simone Coxe is engaged with quality, fact-based reporting, journalism sustainability and innovation. She is the co-founder and director at CalMatters, director at Internews, and served on the KQED board for over a decade. Her business background is in high-technology public relations. She is an alumna of Sarah Lawrence College and UC Berkeley.
Angela Filo Angela Filo is the co-founder of Skyline Foundation, a family foundation that funds local, national and global organizations addressing problems at their roots and shifting systems toward a more equitable and just future. Skyline works in four program areas: climate solutions, just democracy, equity in education and birth justice. The foundation seeks to create lasting partnerships with grantees that align with the principles of trust-based philanthropy and the time horizon needed to create and sustain change. Filo is a member of the advisory board of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is a former board member of the Student Press Law Center. She is a trustee for Stanford University, where she also serves on the advisory boards of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the Haas Center for Public Service. She was co-chair of the American Civil Liberties Union’s national Centennial Campaign. Earlier in her career, Filo taught high school journalism and photography, exhibited her photography projects, created public artworks and worked for publishing and nonprofit organizations. She holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford and a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley.
Richard Gingras Richard Gingras is vice president of news at Google, where he guides Google's strategies relating to the media ecosystem and oversees many of its news- and media-related products. Mr. Gingras is a key instigator of the recently-announced Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project, an effort to make Web content instantaneous and in doing so, preserve the vitality, utility, and openness of the Worldwide Web. He also is co-founder of the Trust Project, a global effort within the journalism community to ensure that high-quality journalism is recognized for the credibility it deserves. Mr. Gingras has been involved in digital media since 1980--or as he once put it, "since the days of steam-powered modems." He helped found Salon.com, where he once worked with Pulitzer-winner Glenn Greenwald, and has worked at Apple, the @Home Network, and the Excite portal, among other digital ventures. He serves on the boards of the First Amendment Coalition, the International Center for Journalists, and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard. He is a graduate of Boston College.
Kathy Im Kathy oversees the Foundation’s Journalism and Media program, which supports the foremost institutions of public service journalism, documentary storytelling, and participatory civic media. During her tenure, MacArthur has contributed to numerous impactful and award-winning investigative reports and documentary films. She also led the Journalism and Media program work to center racial equity and dramatically increase the number of grants awarded to organizations led by and serving communities of color. In the Fall of 2014, Kathy took a sabbatical from the Foundation to be a Visiting Fellow at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, where she explored the intersection of interactive documentaries and digital journalism and laid the groundwork for new collaborations between interactive media makers and major news organizations. Prior to joining the Foundation, Kathy worked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Bank of America Foundation. Kathy is a member of the Peabody Award Board of Jurors, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Harris Council at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and the Advisory Board of UC Berkeley School of Journalism. In 2021, President Biden nominated Kathy to serve on the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Previously, she was a Board member of Media Impact Funders and the Center for Asian American Media, and Board Chair of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy. In 2007, Kathy was named a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow, which recognizes Chicago’s civic leaders. Kathy earned her bachelor's degree in government from Smith College and her master's in public policy degree from the Harris School at the University of Chicago.
Tamara Keith Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. In that time, she has chronicled the final years of the Obama administration, covered Hillary Clinton's failed bid for president from start to finish and threw herself into documenting the Trump administration, from policy made by tweet to the president's COVID diagnosis and January 6th. In the final year of the Trump administration and the first year of the Biden administration, she focused her reporting on the White House response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her reporting often highlights small observations that tell a larger story about the president and the changing presidency. Previously Keith covered congress for NPR with an emphasis on House Republicans, the budget, taxes and the fiscal fights that dominated at the time. Keith earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She serves on advisory boards for the University of California Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement and the UC Berkeley J-School.
Zainab Khan Zainab Khan is Managing Editor, Global Audience at POLITICO. Zainab was formerly VP of Strategy & Growth at Luminary, where she worked with Marketing, Growth and Operations to grow show listenership and the overall audio show library, bring a digital-first expertise to the network and introduce new business models to drive revenue. Before that, Zainab was at the New York Times where she led video audience strategy on and off platform. This included growing the YouTube, Instagram and X channels and producing the initial work to launch on TikTok. Prior to The Times, Zainab worked as an Audience Strategist at AJ+, Al Jazeera's digital-first publication, working on Apple News & Youtube. As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, Zainab launched her own digital media publication called Mozzified Muslim Pop Culture and a production company called Mozzified Studios. Mozzified attracted a substantial online audience within its first year.
Deborah Kirshman Deborah Kirshman is retired Assistant Director and Director of Development at the University of California Press where she worked for 25 years. Deborah also served as art history editor, acquiring over 200 titles from authors in the U.S. and abroad. Upon retirement, Deborah formed a consulting firm specializing in fundraising, publications, and nonprofit program development and evaluation. She currently serves as Chair of the Helzel Family Foundation. Deborah holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in art history from the University of Michigan.
Gary E. Knell Gary Knell has four decades of experience in leading some of the world’s most iconic organizations at the intersection of media, education and social impact. He has served as President and CEO of National Geographic, NPR and Sesame Workshop where he led transformational changes for the purpose of achieving their important missions, inspiring global audiences through the power of storytelling. Today, Gary serves as a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in its Media and Social Impact practice. He is a sought after board member and counselor to several nonprofit and for profit organizations including the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where he chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee, the US Global Leadership Coalition, the Economic Club of Washington and WAMU (public radio in DC). Knell has a B.A. in political science from UCLA, where he was editorial director of the UCLA Daily Bruin and a stringer for the Associated Press. He has a J.D. from Loyola University of Los Angeles.
Jonathan Logan Jonathan Logan is a member of the advisory board of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley. He is the Founder and CEO of the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, which supports investigative journalism, documentary film, arts & culture and democracy. The Foundation’s impactful investigative journalism grantees include the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ProPublica, FRONTLINE, the Marshall Project and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. The Foundation proudly supports and has helped catalyze the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting at Temple University, the Black Press Archives digitization project at Howard University and the Logan Nonfiction Program, which empowers multimedia creators of long-form nonfiction. The Foundation has also launched innovative media centers at both the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. A long-time resident of Berkeley, California, Jon is also on the boards of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Richard Logan Richard Logan is dedicated to making a difference through innovative approaches in both the nonprofit and commercial worlds. In addition to his 25 years as a founding executive with a UK-based Mac software company, Mr. Logan has been a hands-on funder/participant in projects across a wide range of disciplines worldwide. His efforts range from language and archival preservation to bettering outcomes for the underserved, to advancing independent media of all kinds--radio, film, print and more. Mr. Logan brings healthy skepticism and sharp business acumen to his philanthropic efforts. As president of The Reva and David Logan Foundation he works to increase the efficacy of the Foundation's many grant recipients, evaluating grantee enterprises to discover new synergies, and leveraging the pursuits of seemingly disparate partners. Based in Chicago, The Reva and David Logan Foundation is a substantial program contributor to the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, as well as investing heavily in investigative journalism in the US and Europe--sponsoring training, scholarship, community, production, and promotion of original investigative work. The Foundation also supports major projects in social justice and the arts and outstanding scholarship in multiple fields, both in urban Chicago and around the world.
Carrie Lozano Carrie Lozano is President & CEO of ITVS. Lozano joined ITVS from the Sundance Institute where she served as director of Documentary Film and Artist Programs, supporting boundary-breaking filmmakers across the globe. Prior to Sundance, she designed and directed the International Documentary Association’s Enterprise Documentary Fund, where she supported filmmakers with funding and journalistic resources on projects. At IDA, she also led the Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, which focuses on films about environmental justice and other social issues. Earlier in her career, Lozano was an executive at Al Jazeera America and a senior producer of the investigative series Fault Lines, which won her team an Emmy, a Peabody, and multiple Headliner Awards. She also has led the Bay Area Video Coalition’s BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship and was a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she is an alum. Lozano produced the ITVS-funded and Academy Award-nominated documentary The Weather Underground; a live cinema piece called Utopia In Four Movements; and produced, directed, and edited the Teddy Award nominee Reporter Zero. Lozano serves on the advisory boards of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and PBS’ Frontline, is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is on the board of jurors of the Peabody Awards. She is on the board of directors of ProPublica.
Mark Luckie Mark S. Luckie is a digital strategist, former journalist, and author of “The Digital Journalist's Handbook,” “DO U.” and the novel “Valley Girls.” He is the Director of Audience and Innovation at Capital B News—a local-national nonprofit news organization dedicated to uncovering important stories about how Black people experience America today. Mark was previously the director of digital strategy of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He has led media partnerships for some of the influential social platforms in the world, including Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Mark has also led digital initiatives for the Washington Post, the Center for Investigative Reporting, The Los Angeles Times, and Entertainment Weekly. Mark is a GLAAD Media Award nominee, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a part of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist team for Local Reporting. He was named by The Root as one of the most influential African-Americans of 2013 and 2014. Mark is a graduate of Bethune-Cookman University and the University of California, Berkeley where he received his master's degree in journalism.
Minette Nelson Minette Nelson is the founder of the Filmmaker Fund. For 15 years Ms. Nelson honed her production skills creating commercials for national and multinational clients. The results of that work were profiled in Advertising Age and New York Magazine. She then turned her expertise to the nonprofit sector both as a marketing consultant and producer, and has served on the boards of several organizations. In 2012, shortly after forming a documentary film fund with philanthropist David Eckles, she approached director Marc Silver with the story that eventually became "3 ½ Minutes." It was chosen to premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Ron Nixon Ron Nixon leads global investigations at The Associated Press. Nixon, in his role at the AP, has overseen investigations that have won major journalism awards: News and Documentary Emmy, IRE, Worth Bingham, Selden Ring and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. He also led an investigation that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. In 2021, Nixon received the News Leader of the Year award from the News Leaders Association. Nixon is also co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a news trade organization increasing the ranks, retention and profile of reporters and editors of color. Nixon is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who saw combat in the 1990 Persian Gulf War and was part of the Marine Corps security forces battalion, the security and counterterrorism unit. He attended Alabama State University, majoring in music.
Shana Penn Shana is Executive Director of Taube Philanthropies and a scholar-in-residence at the Graduate Theological Union’s Center for Jewish Studies, in Berkeley. Her award-winning book, Solidarity’s Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland (University of Michigan Press, 2005) was published in Polish in 2014 as Sekret Solidarnosci (W.A.B. Publishers). She has a Master’s degree in European Studies from Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Other books include Gender Politics and Everyday Life in Central and Eastern Europe, co-edited with Jill Massino (Palgrave USA 2009) and chapters in Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women Writers edited by Wendy Martin (Beacon Press 1996), and the Routledge Handbook of Women in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2020).
Stephen Silberstein Stephen M. Silberstein served as the first president of Innovative Interfaces Inc., the world's leading supplier of computer software for the automation of college and city libraries. Innovative's software is used by libraries in almost every state of the U.S. and in 40 other countries. Mr. Silberstein sold his interest in the company in 2001 and now devotes his time to philanthropic and civic matters. Before founding Innovative, Mr. Silberstein worked in the administration of the University of California, Berkeley, where he also taught in the Computer Science Department. He is a life member of the American Library Association and serves on the boards of Belvedere-Tiburon Library Foundation, The University of California Berkeley Foundation, and the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. Mr. Silberstein is a graduate of UC Berkeley with a B.A. in economics and a master's degree in library science. He also earned a master's degree in econometrics from the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Jo Anne Wallace Jo Anne Wallace is a journalist and public media consultant who currently works with NPR, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and several local public radio stations. In 2018, she retired from KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, having served as vice president and general manager for almost 30 years. At KQED, Wallace spearheaded development of one of the most-listened-to public radio news and information stations in the nation. While there, she was elected to three terms as a member of the NPR Board of Directors, for which she served as vice chair during two of these terms. In the 1980s at NPR in Washington, D.C., Wallace was director of planning in the network’s News Division. At the network, she worked on the development of Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, and she acquired Car Talk and Fresh Air for national distribution. Prior to NPR, she was station program manager of WGBH-FM in Boston, general manager of KPFA-FM in Berkeley, and station manager of WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She is a Stanford graduate.
Bill Whitaker Bill Whitaker has covered major news stories domestically and across the globe for CBS News over four decades. He is the 2018 winner of the RTDNA’s highest honor, and the Paul White Award for career achievement. He was named a 60 MINUTES correspondent in March 2014; the 2020-’21 season will be his seventh on the broadcast. Whitaker’s investigation with the Washington Post into the origins of the opioid crisis has won more awards than any other 60 MINUTES work. The first report in the two-part series revealed how the DEA’s efforts to curb the epidemic were hampered by a law pushed by drug industry lobbyists. Whitaker graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a B.A. degree in American history and from Boston University with a master's degree in African-American studies. Whitaker also holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1997.
Ernest Wilson Ernest James Wilson III, Ph.D., is the Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication and dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He is also a professor of political science, a faculty fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School, a board member for the Pacific Council on International Policy and the National Academies' Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served on the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 2000 to 2010, the last year as chairman. Dean Wilson's experience at the intersection of communication and public policy spans the private and public sectors. He founded the CPB's New Digital Media Committee and Public Awareness Initiative Committee. He is also a member of the Carnegie-Knight Commission on the Future of Journalism Education and The National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, and was deputy director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission from 1994 to 1995. Originally from Washington, D.C., Dean Wilson received his A.B. from Harvard and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley.
Andrea Wishom Young Wishom Young serves as president at Skywalker Holdings. Prior to Skywalker, she spent more than 20 years at Harpo Productions, where she held various production, programming, development and executive roles for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. As executive producer of “Super Soul Sunday,” she won a GLAAD award for an interview with Janet Mock. Andrea serves on the boards of Pinterest, Nextdoor and Tory Burch, LLC along with several nonprofits. She grew up in San Francisco and lives in Chicago. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from UC Berkeley.
Esther Wojcicki Esther Wojcicki is an internationally known journalism educator and founder of the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Program, which has grown to be one of the nation's most distinguished scholastic media programs, with 600-plus students, six teachers, nine publications, and a new 25,000-sq. ft. Media Arts Center. Among her honors, Ms. Wojcicki was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at MediaX at Stanford, a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Research Fellow, a California Teacher of the Year, and recipient of the 2011 Charles O'Malley Award from Columbia Scholastic Press. She has been a speaker at multiple conferences including TED (2015), G20 Summit, and Singularity University Summit. She co-authored "Moonshots in Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom," (2015) a guide to revolutionizing education for the digital age by giving students agency to empower their innovation skills. She is the mother of Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube; Janet Wojcicki, pediatrics professor at UCSF Medical School, and Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe. She is married to Stanford Physics Professor Stanley Wojcicki. She received her master of journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
