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William “Blinky” Rodriguez is the Executive Director of Champions In Service (formerly Communities in Schools in North Hills), which has provided wraparound services for 30 over 30 years to those in the San Fernando Valley and Greater Los Angeles who have been marginalized by poverty, drug addiction, and trauma. The organization uplifts its community and [...]
Joanne Feldmeth served as the Executive Director of Child SHARE (now FosterAll) for 14 years. FosterAll partners with over 350 churches and synagogues across Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange Counties to recruit, train, and support families who foster, adopt, and provide respite care for abused and neglected children. Joanne spearheaded the organization’s efforts to place [...]
Jonathan Parfrey is the former Executive Director of the Los Angeles affiliate of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR-LA), a national organization dedicated to the eradication of nuclear weapons, global environmental pollution, and gun violence. PSR-LA is one of the lead agencies developing an environmental health and justice network in Los Angeles and has collaborated with [...]
Saundra Bryant served as Executive Director of All Peoples Community Center beginning in 1983. Founded in 1942, the Center is located two miles south of Downtown Los Angeles in a neighborhood that has seen dramatic demographic and social change. Saundra became intimately involved with the Center as a child when she was enrolled in its [...]
Ruth Slaughter worked in the nonprofit sector for over 25 years as a manager, trainer, community organizer, and advocate for women’s programs. Starting in 1990, she served as Director of the AIDS Prevention Division at Prototypes (now a program of HealthRIGHT 360), a Culver City-based organization providing outreach services, education, and intervention services to women, [...]
Laurie Schell began her career as a dancer and teacher before serving for ten years as the Executive Director of the California Alliance for Arts Education (now merged with Create CA). Under her leadership, the Alliance played a pivotal role in the successful 2005 campaign that secured the largest state-funded expenditure for arts education in [...]
Lark Galloway-Gilliam was the founding Executive Director of Community Health Councils (now Rising Communities), a consumer-oriented health advocacy organization dedicated to improving healthcare quality for uninsured and underinsured communities. Lark played an active role in shaping the policies and debates on Medi-Cal and Healthy Families implementation, nonprofit hospital conversions, health disparities among ethnic communities, and [...]
May To founded the Asian Youth Center in 1989 and served as its Executive Director, guiding its growth from three to 35 staff members. Operating in a multilingual and multicultural environment, Asian Youth Center offers programs in delinquency and substance abuse prevention, tobacco control, HIV/AIDS education, testing, and counseling. The organization also offers an after-school [...]
Abby Leibman is the Founder and former Executive Director of the California Women’s Law Center (CWLC), a statewide policy and support organization focused on women’s rights. The Center specializes in issues of sex discrimination, violence against women, family law, childcare, and reproductive rights. In addition to protecting and advancing the law as it relates to [...]
Debra Suh is the former Executive Director of the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF), which opened the nation’s first multilingual and multicultural domestic violence emergency shelter for Asian Pacific Islander (API) women and their children. CPAF also operates the only rape crisis center in the US dedicated to serving API survivors, along with [...]
