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Lina Hoshino
Lina Hoshino is a filmmaker and new media designer whose films, including the award winning Story of Margo, In God's House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church and Caught in Between: What to Call Home in Times of War have screened in Finland, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, and beyond. As a co-founder of Many Threads and Tactile Pictures, Lina has led creative and design efforts for many community organizations, including: the Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action, the National Japanese American Historical Society, Asian Improv, and the Japanese Women's Active Museum for War and Peace. Currently, she serves on the board of Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action. She also teaches workshops at Center for Digital Storytelling. A self-described JABC (Japanese American Born Chinese from Taiwan), Lina grew up living in the U.S., Japan, and France. She studied painting and sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University. After thirteen years of living in San Francisco, she now lives in Sonoma County.
Derek Chung
Derek Chung is a co-founder of Tactile Pictures (www.tactilepix.com), a six-year old new media and web development studio in San Francisco. With Tactile Pictures, he has designed and built web sites, software, product prototypes and interactive games for clients including Apple Computer, Macromedia, MTV, IDEO, and numerous non-profit organizations, internet startups, record companies, and design firms. In addition, he created the Tactile12000 (www.tactile12000.com) (an award-winning MP3 DJ application) and released it as open source software. He co-created Global Arcade (www.globalarcade.org), an educational and entertainment center which analyzes the effects of globalization, while at an artist residency program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He is also a co-founder of Urbanpixel (www.urbanpixel.com), where he helped create a breakthrough technology for organizing and navigating information on the web, and he publishes the Late Train web site (www.latetrain.com) for late night life in San Francisco.
Anne-Marie Harvey
Anne-Marie Harvey is a writer, editor and strategist for the Principal Gifts group within University Relations at UC Berkeley. She has recently served as a consultant for the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund in San Francisco, and her work has included freelance writing on literacy education and a year as general editor for Napster. Anne-Marie received her Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley English Department in 1999, after completing a dissertation on American literature, gender, and consumer culture. She taught classes in literature and writing at UC Berkeley for nine years. She has collaborated with and consulted for Lina Hoshino on a range of Internet and film projects.
Pratap Chatterjee
Executive Director, CorpWatch
Pratap is an investigative journalist and producer. He is the author of "Iraq Inc.: A Profitable Occupation" (Seven Stories Press, 2004) and "The Earth Brokers" (Routledge Press, 1994). He has many years of experience working in radio, print and digital media, including hosting a weekly radio show on Berkeley station KPFA, working as global environment editor for InterPress Service and as a freelance writer for the Financial Times, the Guardian and the Independent of London. He has won five Project Censored awards as well as a Silver Reel from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for his work in Afghanistan, and the best business story award from the National Newspaper Association (US), among others. He has also appeared as a commentator on numerous radio and television shows ranging from BBC World Service, CNN International, Democracy Now!, Fox and MSNBC. He has served as a board and staff member with many activist groups such as the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and Project Underground.