Edward Grant

Eddie Grant is a photographer, producer, and co-owner of spaceB gallery in Oakland, California. He is on the advisory board of sorvillo/blindsight, a dance company, and has previously served on the board of ZZYZYVA magazine and on the Joffery Ballet San Francisco support board.

Jez Kuono’ono Lee

Jez Kuono`ono Lee moved to the Bay Area in 1999 from Hawai`i became deeply involved in the local arts scene, specifically working within the Asian Pacific Islander and Queer communities.

Both performing with dance and theater companies and working behind the scenes to promote the arts, Lee has served as Director of Asian American Dance Performances, as a Board Member of Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, as a member of the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee, and as an Advisory Member of Circo Zero and Fresh Meat Productions. Lee’s own artwork has recently included participation with the 24 Hour Show and twincest, and through engagement with the sex-positive community through companies such as Pink & White Productions, Center for Sex & Culture, Transmarch, and Femina Potens.

Through a myriad of projects, Lee cultivates queer/gender and multi-cultural artistic growth and looks to further artists’ ability to self-promote their work through technological accessibility.

Jessica Robinson Love

Jessica Robinson Love has served CounterPULSE for ten years. During that time, she has ushered CounterPULSE through a merger and relocation, expanding the organization’s budget ten-fold during her tenure as director. She designed and implemented CounterPULSE’s successful Artist in Residence program, and has curated dozens of performances and workshops. She has also served as guest curator for organizations such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco International Arts Festival. Jessica is a writer, performer and political activist and her dance writing has been published in In Dance and on CriticalDance.com. She has worked in administration, production, and publicity for artists and arts organizations including Jess Curtis, Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero, Dance Through Time, and the Erika Shuch Performance (ESP) Project. Jessica served as adjunct faculty member at the New College of California where she has designed and implemented courses including “Activist Arts Synthesis”, “Arts Administration and Cultural Organizing” and “20th Century US History through the Arts.” During her tenure on the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee she was responsible for curating and co-producing the annual Bay Area Dance Awards. She has served on the steering committee for San Francisco Arts Forum, the Theatre Bay Area Theatre Services Committee, the Dance/USA Emerging Leader Task Force, and the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Alternate ROOTS, a service and granting organization for community-based artists in the Southeastern United States. She has been the recipient of awards and scholarships from Dance/USA and the Bill T. Shannon Leadership Institute, and was the inaugural recipient of the Bay Area Dancers’ Choice Award for her service to the dance community.

Alan Millar

Alan is currently designing next-generation user interfaces for Autodesk, one the world’s leading developers of architectural, engineering, media and entertainment design software. Alan earned his B.A. degree in Entertainment Management Production and Promotion at San Francisco State University while working in marketing, ambiance and stage production for Bill Graham Presents. He founded the.art.re.grup, a non-profit arts organization focused on presenting new performance works in traditional and site-specific settings. The following year Alan co-founded The LAB with a group of interdisciplinary artists from SFSU’s Center for Interdisciplinary Arts. Alan was the The LAB’s founding Executive Director. He was the Executive Director of Capp Street Project and the founding Events Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He was a board member of the National Association of Artists Organizations (NAAO), a site visitor and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts; and as a panelist for the California Arts Council and the Isadora Duncan awards.

Kate Patterson

Kate Patterson received her BA in Art History from Smith College in 2000. Prior to joining the Arts Commission where she oversees public relations and community outreach, Kate was Manager of Public Relations & Marketing at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2005, she was the Marketing & Sales Manager at Acoustiguide Inc., a leading interpretive audio and multimedia tour company. She has also worked at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, South Street Seaport Museum, the Vorpal Gallery and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

Patrick Simms

Patrick Simms is owner of Patrick Simms Music Studios. He has worked as an audio engineer in over a dozen San Francisco nightclubs, including his own (the ICAN Gallery), which formerly occupied the current Counter Pulse location. Simms has been involved in the singer/songwriter community as performer, booker, recordist and producer. The ICAN Gallery was his attempt to create a space for musicians, visual artists and filmmakers. As part of the Counter Pulse board, Simms hope to keep those ties open and help foster a growing community among performance artists from all over the Bay Area.

Vidya Sundaram

Vidya Sundaram is an actress, bharatnatyam dancer, writer, producer and non-profit professional. She has performed with many Bay Area theater groups including Eastenders, Theater Rhino and PianoFight Productions. Vidya is currently developing a one-woman show about Indian temple dancers. Vidya is a member of Kala Vandana Dance Company and Kalanjali Dances of India. She has organized successful fundraising efforts for education and arts nonprofit organizations. Currently, Vidya is a media consultant, producing educational videos for underserved communities. Once upon a time, she was a software engineer after graduating from Stanford with a degree in Electrical Engineering. After completing her MBA and masters in public policy, she worked in both nonprofit development and venture capital. She is proud to serve as an advisor for Bay Area non-profits …Ad Still…, Education Pioneers and Woodfish Institute.