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CounterPULSE Board of Directors
Chris Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project Shaping San Francisco, is a writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer. For the last twenty-five years his activities have focused on the underlying themes of horizontal communications, organic communities and public space. He was one of the founders, editors and frequent contributors to the ground-breaking San Francisco magazine Processed World. He also helped launch the monthly bike-ins known as Critical Mass that have spread to five continents and over 300 cities. He has edited four books, “Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology“ (Verso: 1990), “Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture“ (City Lights: 1998, co-edited with James Brook and Nancy J. Peters), “Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration“ (AK Press: 2002), “The Political Edge” (City Lights Foundation: 2004). He published his first novel, “After The Deluge,” in 2004, a story of post-economic San Francisco in the year 2157. Carlsson makes his living as a book designer, editor, and typesetter. He is a member of Media Workers Union Local 100 in San Francisco. Quintin Mecke was one of the original founders of SOMAD (South of Market Anti-Displacement Coalition) and he has worked extensively in the South of Market neighborhood on land use and community development. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer and Coro Fellow and also served on the Elections Task Force on Redistricting for the City & County of San Francisco. Quintin is currently the Director of Research and Communications for the San Francisco Human Services Network. Judea Eden is a singer and songwriter for her band "The Judea Eden Band" and has been a band leader in the Bay Area for over 2 decades. Her first major successful band was an all-female band she cofounded with Carrie Baum called Soul Divine. She has traveled all over alifornia playing and singing and stays very busy singing and supporting her friends bands, The Amy Meyers Band, and Vicious Fish occasionally, as well as her own solo acoustic shows in more intimate settings such as cafés and private parties. Judea has completed 2 CDıs, one of which is available on CDBaby.com and another on the way which will feature 16 or 17 original songs, many of which she collaborated with other local artists and producers. Judea has worked for Microsoft for almost 20 years in a variety of roles from Computer Technician to Finance and Administration, Purchasing Manager, and most notably as Program Manager for Employee Giving Programs from 2000 to 2003, where she led 3 very successful Giving Campaigns and helped to raise over 3 million dollars for charities across the Bay Area. She also was the major liaison for the Boys & Girls Clubs for Microsoft in the Bay Area. Judea has been on a number of non-profit board committees including United Wayıs Agency Review Board, the United Way Giving Campaign Coordinator Committee, and The Coalition for the Creative Arts. Judea was the President of a non-profit, along with her dear friend Randi Joy Caplow of Associated City Musicians Etc. (A.C.M.E.) in 1992 which put out a monthly newsletter and helped musicians get their start in booking, open mics, press & exposure. From 2001-2003 Judea was heavily involved in organizing the San Francisco Womenıs Flag Football League and eventually became the commissioner for a year. During this time, Judea helped ³automate² the league by adding a Website with photos and bios of all the teams, rewriting the rules and getting them online for the first time, collecting an email list for better communication and holding bi-annual ³Boot Camps² to build the league and train new members how to play flag football as well as putting together a steering committee & holding regular meetings to discuss rules and regulations. Judea has been a fundraiser for over 20 years and has been involved in putting together hundreds of fundraisers in this time to raise money and awareness of issues like Aids, Cancer, Womenıs Health Issues, Youth Issues, Homelessness, Environmental Causes, Animal Causes, Political Causes, in addition to helping raise money for local artists, musicians, filmmakers and their endeavors. Judea has 2 websites for her music: JudeaEden.com or My Space Jessica Robinson has served CounterPULSE for seven years, initially as Managing Director, and now as Executive Director. She has ushered CounterPULSE through a merger and relocation, tripling the organization’s budget 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. She 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. More recently, she served as Assistant Director of “Orbit” by the ESP Project at Intersection for the Arts. Jessica is an 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 has been responsible for curating and co-producing the annual Bay Area Dance Awards. She serves on the Arts Advisory Board of the Oakland Noodle Factory, the steering committee for San Francisco Arts Forum, 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. 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. Ben Au is an attorney at Keker & Van Nest, a litigation firm in San Jez Kuono`ono Lee is a multifaceted web designer, administrator, and genderqueer performance artist who came to the United States via the sovereign nation of Hawai`i. Since moving to the Bay Area in 1999, Jez has been involved in the local arts scene, specifically the Asian Pacific Islander and the queer and gender variant communites. Jez was the Executive Director of Asian American Dance Performances (2003-2007) and performed with numerous local modern dance and butoh companies, choreographers, and theaters. Besides being a board member at CounterPULSE, Jez also sits on the Board of Directors at the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, and is a committee member of the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. Jez's work with partner Shawn Tamaribuchi was named by SF Bay Guardian "Top Ten in Dance" in 2005 and the two received a 2006 grant from the SF Foundation for their work in explicit new media performance duo Twincest. Jez is an active participant in San Francisco 's sex-positive community as a prominent cast member of Pink & White Productions [ www.pinkwhite.biz], an award-winning queer erotic film company. In 2005 and 2006, Jez was a steering committee member and stage manager of the Transmarch (SF's Transgender March during Pride Weekend). A newbie to the CounterPULSE Board, Jez cultivates queer/gender and multi-cultural artistic growth. Blaine Bookey is a dancer and social activist. She transplanted from the Midwest to the Bay Area in July 2003. Blaine hopes to make counterPULSE more accessible to the Spanish speaking community by assisting in the translation of written materials and verbal communications. Since moving to San Francisco, Blaine has co-created two dance collectives–ayu.lation project and the Bluestockings–performing in such venues as the West Wave Festival, Temescal Salon, Dance Mission Showcase, Interruptions benefit at CounterPULSE, and otherDance Festival. Blaine studied Social Policy and Gender Studies and is returning to school in fall 2006 to study public interest and international law at UC Hastings. For the last three years, Blaine has been working in immigration at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe focusing on asylum and deportation defense. In addition, she has been active with local and national politics. While living in Chicago, Blaine interned for Amnesty International, working on projects that focused on death penalty abolition and police brutality. As an undergraduate, Blaine participated in several grassroots organizations focusing on sweatshop, labor and anti-war campaigns. She also lived and worked in Chile where she worked on litigation efforts to protect land rights of the Aymaran people. Martin A. David
is a modern dancer, choreographer, actor, and director who has performed
in major European and American venues. He is the Artistic Director of
… And Still Dancing, a professional company for
modern dancers and choreographers over the threshold age of 40. He won
a 2004 CA$H grant from Theatre Bay Area, in partnership with Dancers'
Group, in support of ...And Still Dancing. Martin served as dance critic
and feature writer for Hollywood Dramalogue and contributed
features to The Los Angeles Times. He is also a past Editor-in-Chief
of Dance Teacher magazine. He is the author of 10 books, including
The Dancer's Audition Book, a novel, Karpstein Was Hiding,
the recently published book of stories, Shtetl In My Mind,
and 7 book-length translations of classical Scandi-navian authors. As
a writer he has published more than a thousand magazine and newspaper
articles and continues writing article content for the Internet. Martin
A. David served on the Dance and Multimedia Arts panels of California
Arts Council, as a panelist and audition judge for Bay
Area Dance Alliance, and was an audition judge for the San
Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. He is currently entering his
sixth year as a Commissioner on the Santa Clara Cultural Advisory
Commission, and is currently serving as Chairman of that body.
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