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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.
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.
Lina Hoshino
Lina Hoshino is a filmmaker and new media designer whose films, including the award-winning Caught in Between: What to Call Home in Times of War, In God’s House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church, and Story of Margo, have screened in film festivals, classrooms, community centers, and theaters around the world.
Lina Hoshino has developed a story-telling style of documentary filmmaking that engages audiences with complex or contentious issues through the personal experiences of her narrators and the aesthetics of her visual style.
Lina is a co-founder of two nonprofit organizations that link filmmakers and artists in a range of communication projects:
Tactile Pictures, founded in San Francisco in 1995, brings together artists and engineers who provide a wide range of graphic and interface design services and web and software development services to clients in technology startups, foundations, grassroots nonprofit organizations, and others. The emphasis is on effective communication through the innovative use of media and technology, and to develop new technology to improve individual lives and communities. Lina has led Tactile Pictures creative and design effort in a wide range of new media projects including web sites, presentations, games, animations, and CD-ROMS.
Many Threads, a nonprofit organization founded in 1998 whose mission is to help people from diverse communities bring their perspectives powerfully to bear on public dialogues about a broad range of social issues that affect their lives. Many Threads created and produced educational games, websites and videos to engage young audiences in issues of globalization, such as Global Arcade and Whirled Bank and the documentary Gold, Greed, and Genocide about the environmental and social holocaust of native peoples of during the 1849 gold rush in California. Other projects include first-person narrative movie workshops for specific groups.
Lina has led creative and design efforts for many community and arts organizations, including:
- Asian Improv
- Chinese Historical Society of America
- National Japanese American Historical Society
- Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action
- Women’s Active Museum for War and Peace
- Women for Genuine Security
Community Service
Lina has served on the boards of Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action, the Sonoma County Chapter of Japanese American Citizens League, and JustAct, a youth organization for global justice. Currently, she is a committee member for the Peace Crane Project of the Sonoma County Peace & Justice Center, committed to creating a world free of nuclear weapons, where people can learn to live together in harmony and peace.
She gives presentations on documentary filmmaking in community settings, schools, universities and conferences.
Lina, whose father is from Japan and mother from Taiwan, grew up living in the USA, Japan, and France. She studied painting and sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University (1990 BFA: Painting and Sculpture) and learned to make film by taking classes at San Francisco State University and San Francisco Film Arts Foundation. She lives and works in San Francisco Bay Area.
Francis Wong
Few musicians are as accomplished as Francis Wong, considered one of "the great saxophonists of his generation" by the late jazz critic Phil Elwood. A prolific recording artist, Wong is featured on more than forty titles as a leader and sideman. For over two decades he has performed his innovative brand of Asian American jazz/creative music for audiences in North America, Asia, and Europe with such with such luminaries as Jon Jang, Tatsu Aoki, Genny Lim,William Roper, Bobby Bradford, John Tchicai, James Newton, Joseph Jarman, Don Moye and the late Glenn Horiuchi.
But to simply call the Bay Area native a musician would be to ignore his pioneering leadership in communities throughout Northern California. Wong's imaginative career straddles roles as varied as performing artist, youth mentor, composer, artistic director, community activist, non-profit organization manager, consultant, music producer, and academic lecturer. Key vehicles for his work are Asian Improv aRts, the company he co-founded with Jon Jang and as a Senior Fellow at the Wildflowers Institute. In addition, Wong was a California Arts Council Artist in Residence from 1992 through 1998, and a Meet The Composer New Resident in 2000-2003. In 2000-2001 he was a Rockefeller Next Generational Leadership Fellow. He has also been a guest member of the faculty at San Francisco State University (1996-98) and at University of California at Santa Cruz (1996-2001).
”I choose for my work to build community and to seek out how I, as an artist can meet the challenges that our community faces. In the Asian American community, the biggest challenge is continuity of culture and the impact of assimilation. Through music, I envision a way to create continuity through the integration of tradition and innovation.