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Shaady Salehi
Executive Director
shaady@activevoice.net
With a decade of experience working at the intersection of media and social change, Shaady oversees Active Voice’s diverse portfolio of film campaigns and provides consultation to filmmakers and funders about using stories for social impact. She has spoken extensively at conferences and film festivals around the country, and has sat on review panels for San Francisco Film Society and the BAVC Producer’s Institute for New Media Technologies. She holds an M.S. in strategic communications from Columbia University and an M.A. in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Davis. |
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Ellen Schneider
Founder of Active Voice and Director of AVLab
ellen@activevoice.net
Ellen created Active Voice in 2001 and was its first executive director. As of July 2012 she is heading up the Active Voice Lab for Story & Strategy (AVLab), the organization's incubator for new models for "engaged storytelling." Prior to founding Active Voice – and its predecessor, the Television Race Initiative (1997-2000) – Ellen was the executive producer of P.O.V., PBS's longest running independent documentary series. She lectures widely about the role of story in public life, and has served on juries ranging from the Sundance Film Festival to the RioCine Festival in Brazil. |
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Suzanne Romaine
Director of Operations
suzanne@activevoice.net
Suzanne oversees Active Voice’s operations, grants oversight, budget development and project management. She has more than a decade of experience working in film production/distribution and non-profit management, most recently as a department leader and project manager at KQED-TV. She has worked on a diverse range of series and documentaries including FRONTLINE/World, QUEST, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, Keeping Score and American Experience. She holds a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley. |
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Jillian Garcia
Administrative & Technology Coordinator
jillian@activevoice.net
Jillian coordinates administrative and organizational functions for Active Voice across all projects, while also serving as the organization’s point person for technology-related matters. Dedicated to socially responsible media technologies, Jillian has worked for Bay Area nonprofits, publishing houses and, most recently, the IT Department of the San Francisco Unified School District where she assisted the CTO and coordinated district-wide technology improvement projects. Jillian holds a B.A. in Media Studies from Vassar College in New York. |
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Sahar Driver
Program Manager
sahar@activevoice.net
Sahar is responsible for the management of multiple film- and media-based social issue campaigns for Active Voice, from inception through implementation. She also manages partnership development, both on a project level and for the organization as a whole. She draws on her experience working in the film and television production industry in Los Angeles, as well as her education in participatory research, feminist ethnography and cross-cultural alliance building. Sahar holds a B.A. in International Affairs and Environmental Studies, an M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology with a focus in Gender, Ecology and Society, and is currently working towards a PhD in Anthropology and Social Change. |
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Barrie McClune
Program Coordinator
barrie@activevoice.net
Barrie specializes in developing partnerships with community-based organizations and helping them use story as a tool for empowerment and coalition-building. Her background is in film distribution, including six years at California Newsreel, most recently as Digital Distribution and Social Media Manager. She holds an M.A. in Critical Media and Cultural Studies from the University of London and a B.A. in English Literature and Humanistic Studies from McGill University. |
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Nicole Wong
Program & Communications Coordinator
nicole@activevoice.net
Nicole coordinates select Active Voice programs as well as all organizational communications. She participates in campaign strategy development, partner recruitment and management, resource material development, and online community building and outreach. She comes to Active Voice with experience in journalism, film and the nonprofit sector. Nicole holds a B.A. in English with a minor in American Studies from Boston College. She is currently a senior editor for Hyphen magazine. |
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Dina de Veer
Research & Evaluation Manager
dina@activevoice.net
Dina conducts research and evaluation for many Active Voice campaigns, and contributes to strategy development for AVLab. Her background in social policy research and analysis includes several years at Berkeley Policy Associates on various evaluation projects for the U.S. Department of Education, among other clients. She holds an M.P.P. from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Sociology and Peace and Conflict Studies. |
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Maikiko James
Program Consultant
maikiko@activevoice.net
Maikiko manages and consults on a range of Active Voice programs and projects. She has held development positions at Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, TADA! Youth Theater in New York City and the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights. A performer and facilitator in multiple youth and social justice programs, Maikiko holds a B.F.A. in Screenwriting from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, with a minor in Asian Pacific American Studies. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
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Ali Hart
Project Consultant
ali@activevoice.net
Ali consults on campaigns rooted in environmental and social sustainability. In her work, Ali leverages her experience in scripted program development for Court TV as well as her expertise in sustainability to develop strategies for using film and media to support movement building. She is particularly focused on maximizing opportunities for engagement, co-creation, behavior change and shared value. Ali holds a B.A. in English and Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.B.A. in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco. |
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Ariel H. Bierbaum, Department of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
John Esterle, Executive Director, The Whitman Institute
Jon Funabiki, Executive Director, Renaissance Journalism Center
Barbara Ludlum, Controller, Grants & Projects, Northern California Public Broadcasting (KQED)
Robert Moore, Managing Partner, Lipman Hearne
Gordon Quinn, Artistic Director and Founding Member, Kartemquin Films
Renee Tajima-Peña, Professor & Graduate Director, Masters Program in Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz |
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