Chuck Searcy, is co-founder of a Project Renew that works to deactivate unexploded bombs in Vietnam, a legacy of the war. In Project Renew’s two decades of operation, 815,000 bombs of all types have been detonated or taken out of action, Searcy said: aerial-dropped bombs, cluster bombs, artillery shells, booby traps, grenades and mortar rounds. “Imagine that — 815,000,” he said. “My god!”
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Len Chandler was born and grew up in Akron, Ohio. Pivotal early influences included his step mother and his grandmother, both of whom introduced him early on to the joys of music. His father was a jazz musician, and music curriculum in the schools he attended quickly became Len’s primary educational interest.
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Founder/Executive Director Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Carol A. Wells is an activist, art historian, curator, lecturer, and writer. She has been collecting posters and producing political poster art exhibitions on a variety of human rights themes since 1981. Trained as a medievalist at UCLA, she taught the history of art and architecture for thirteen years at CSU Fullerton until a poster changed her life. In 1988, Carol founded the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. She believes that the power of graphics can combat public apathy.
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Board Member at Center for the Study of Political Graphics
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Paula and Barry met in high school. They attended UC Berkeley and were there during the Free Speech movement. Paula volunteered at Peter Maurin House (Catholic Worker) in West Oakland where she had her first real involvement in poor African American neighborhood.
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Daniel Ellsberg is an American economist, political activist, and former United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S.
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Maurice Zeitlin is a well-known sociologist and teacher whose early work about Cuba concerned the revolution and worker’s consciousness. He travelled to Cuba twice in the early 1960’s, meeting with and interviewing Che Guevara on both occasions. Che help Maurice set up interviews with ordinary workers about their hopes for the revolution.
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Sally is an educator and longtime justice and peace activist with non-profit management experience. Her global perspective is informed by extensive travel and life in Asia. She holds masters degrees in Education and Theological Studies majoring in social and political ethics.
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Steve Nichols is a native of Palm Springs, California, whose grandparents, Prescott and Frances Stevens, came to the area in the early 1900's. After graduating from Palm Springs High School and then earning a degree in history at Stanford University (1967), Steve spent 10 months in Vietnam as a teacher with a volunteer-based development organization similar to Peace Corps, International Voluntary Services.
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Stephen Lesser grew up in Los Angeles. His grandfather and father both worked in the movie business. After attending private schools in LA, he attended UCLA, and then Stanford where he met Al Lowenstein, Dean of Students, and went to the South as a part of the Lowenstein’s and Bob Moses’ voter registration efforts called the Mississippi Summer Project.
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I am a native of Los Angeles.
I attended LAUSD public schools and UCLA and married at 19.
During my twenties my husband Richard Gunther and I had three sons. I stayed home and cared for them.
We took our first trip to Israel, Russia and Europe in 1959. We have traveled extensively since then, both as a family and just the two of us.
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Richard Gunther is an activist and philanthropist who has used his wealth in creative ways to benefit his community and to expand and enhance his view of the world.
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Sister Jo'Ann De Quattro was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and moved to Pasadena with her family when she was in grade school. Her father was of Italian descent and her mother’s family was from Ireland. In High School she started to consider becoming a nun. She had the dream of teaching in Southern Africa as a missionary and was inspired by the Sisters of Holy Name who taught her in school.
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Victor Narro is a nationally known expert on the workplace rights of immigrant workers. He has been involved with immigrant rights and labor issues for many years, and is currently Project Director for the UCLA Downtown Labor Center. At the Labor Center, Narro’s focus is to provide leadership training and workshops for Los Angeles’s immigrant workers, and internship opportunities for UCLA students.
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Nancy Greenstein grew up in Mineola, New York. Graduating from Boston University with a degree in elementary education, her first classroom was in a two room day school on the Navajo Reservation in Beclabito, New Mexico. After moving to Southern California, Nancy returned to graduate school receiving a Masters of Social Work with a specialty in community organizing from UCLA. Twenty five years later she returned to school at UCLA receiving a Doctorate in Education.
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Fran Jemmott is one of L.A.’s outstanding change agents, focusing on health disparities and social determinants of health. Throughout her career, Fran has worn many hats— as grantmaker, board member, executive director, policy advisor, donor and volunteer— while always improving communities through programs reflecting their needs.
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Frederick M. Nicholas, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of California since 1952, is a specialist in Real Estate Development and Leases. He is President of The Hapsmith Company, a Real Estate Development Firm with interests in Northern and Southern California, Washington state and Washington, D.C.
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Samuel Paz is a native of Los Angeles. In 1971, Paz graduated with honors from UCLA. He received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California Law School in 1974. Since then, he has practiced law specializing in litigation of civil rights claims, earning numerous victories in cases involving injuries or death caused by police misconduct.
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During the Bill Clinton administration, Bob Scheer carried on a crusade in the Los Angeles Times to defend Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos Nuclear Scientist accused of giving secrets of miniturized warheads to the Chinese.
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