CCH Staff

San Francisco Office

Ralph Lewin
President & CEO

Jon Carroll
Director of External Affairs

Karen Rodriguez
Chief Financial Officer

Vanessa Whang
Director of Programs

Regan Douglass
Communications Officer

John Lightfoot
Program Officer

Lucy Le Nguyen
Grants and Contracts Manager

Bekki Lee-Wendt
Program Assistant

Jody Sahota
External Affairs Coordinator

Jessica Sanchez
Executive Assistant

Carlos Torres
Operations Coordinator

Ann Yoshinaga
Development Officer

Los Angeles Office

Tonya Jones
Program Associate

Felicia Kelley
Senior Program Officer

CCH Board Members

Board Chair
Curtis F. Shepard
Director of Children, Youth & Family Services
L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, Los Angeles

Board Vice Chair
Luis Herrera
City Librarian
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco

Chris Abani
Novelist and Professor of Creative Writing
UC Riverside, Riverside

Pedro Castillo
Associate Professor of History and Provost of Oakes College
UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz

Kenya Davis-Hayes
Assistant Professor of American History
California Baptist University, Riverside

Bill Deverell
Professor of History
University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Robert Feyer
Partner, Public Finance
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco

Mark L. Friedman
Founder and President
Fulcrum Property, Sacramento

Marsha Hirano-Nakanishi
Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Research and Resources
Office of the Chancellor
California State University, Long Beach

Benjamin T. Jealous
President and CEO
NAACP, Baltimore, MD

Brooke Kanter
Public Art Advocate
Beverly Hills

Bernard Kinsey
Philanthropist and Entrepreneur
Los Angeles

John Krasznekewicz
Principal
Rustic Partners, Inc., Carmel

John Lescroart
Author
Davis

Natalia Molina
Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies
UC San Diego, San Diego

Cornelius Moore
Co-Director
California Newsreel, San Francisco

Sandra Serrano
Chancellor
Kern Community College District,
Bakersfield

Margaret Shelleda
Executive Director Emerita
California Federation of Teachers
Oakland

Rodney Williams
Senior Vice President
Hennessy for Moët Hennessy USA, New York City, NY

Cynthia J. Wornham
Vice President, Marketing and Communications
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles