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  • Willa Seldon is Chief Executive Officer of the Glide Foundation. Located in the Tenderloin, Glide is an oasis that has served the poor and disenfranchised for over 45 years.
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  • Brett Andrews is the Executive Director at The Positive Resource Center.
  • For the past 7 years, Brett Andrews has served as the Executive Director of the Positive Resource Center (PRC), a non-profit organization that provides culturally appropriate professional benefits counseling and employment services to people affected by or at risk for HIV/AIDS, especially low-income residents of San Francisco since 1987.
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  • This native of Georgia-turned-Marinite for the past quarter of a century takes great pride in the day of her birth - December 1, 1955, the moment in history that Rosa Parks, a brave black women in Montgomery, Alabama, defied tradition and decades of segregation by refusing to let a white person take her seat on a bus. Felecia Gaston founded Performing Stars of Marin in 1990, which is a multi-faceted organization that has evolved naturally and efficiently over the years.
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  • Robert Jones was born to John and Odessa Jones in Warren, Arkansas along with six other sisters and three brothers. Robert attended Warren Elementary School, which was a all black elementary school.
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  • NTanya became Executive Director in January, 2005, following Mayor Gavin Newsom's appointment of her predecessor, Margaret Brodkin, to head up the city's Department of Children, Youth & Their Families.
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  • Ken McNeely, president-California, is responsible for all external affairs, public policy, and philanthropic activities for AT&T in California.
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  • Dr. Mark Smith is president and chief executive officer of the California HealthCare Foundation.
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  • Nicole Taylor is President and Chief Executive Officer of the East Bay Community Foundation.
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  • An Oakland native, Esperanza has lifelong roots in the progressive left and believes that increasing civic engagement among working families and people of color is one way of moving values of the social justice movement to the forefront of the national debate.
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