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CounterPULSE Board of Directors
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 California 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 CD¹s, 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 Way¹s 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 Women¹s 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, Women¹s 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 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.
Denzil J. Meyers has spent much of the past 20+ years as a researcher, strategist, and storyteller for many of the world's top advertising agencies. More recently, he has trained as a relationship systems coach, which is a fancy way to say he helps people make things together. Denzil is also an actor, dancer, improviser, director, and clown, and seems to have developed a specialty of playing dead characters, or dying on stage, especially multiple times as different characters in the same production. He also serves as Treasurer on the board of the Applied Improvisation Network, a business community-of-practice organized around performance skills, creative process, development & learning, and innovation. Denzil is a graduate of The George Washington University, Washington DC. More info at www.widgetwonder.com.
Martin A. David is an actor, director, modern dancer, and choreographer who has performed in major European and American venues and is seen regularly on Bay Area stages. 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 Scandinavian authors. As a writer he has published more than a thousand magazine and newspaper articles and continues writing article content for the Internet. 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. His plays have been produced locally, including at the San Francisco Theatre Festival. He is currently working toward production on his latest play, the holocaust-themed Leaden Skies. Martin is also an arts activist and 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 recently completed two terms as a Commissioner on the Santa Clara Cultural Advisory Commission. Edward Grant 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 (www.educationpioneers.org) and Woodfish Institute (www.woodfish.org). |
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