BOARD OF DIRECTORS Helen Grieco, President, is Executive Director of California National Organization for Women and Publisher of www.canow.org. She is the National Taskforce Chair of the Feminist Communications Network, Board member, People for Better TV, media commentator and host, videographer, and campaign consultant. Helen is author and creator of Fabulous Feminist and WiseWoman brands and products, and is currently writing Where Have All The Warriors Gone: The Truth About Women Defending Ourselves. A lecturer, activist and advocate for progressive causes including civil rights, at-risk youth and democratic reform, she was appointed by Gov. Davis to serve on the Diversity and Outreach Taskforce. She founded the nationally renown self defense school, Defending Ourselves and the non-profit, B.R.A.V.E. People (Building Resources for Anti-Violence Education). Duane Elgin, Citizen Feedback Forum Director, was, in the 1980s, the co-founder and director of two non-profit organizations—one national and one local—concerned with media accountability. In 1987, they produced an historic Electronic Town Meeting with the ABC-TV station in San Francisco that demonstrated the workability of live feedback from a random sample of citizens. This hour-long Forum was seen by over 300,000 people in the Bay Area and provides a model for Citizen Feedback Forums. Duane is the author of three books: Promise Ahead (Morrow, 2000); Awakening Earth (Morrow, 1993); and Voluntary Simplicity (Morrow, 1981, revised 1993). Duane was formerly a senior social scientist at the think-tank SRI International where he co-authored numerous studies on the long-range future for government agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency. He also served as a senior staff member with a joint Presidential-Congressional Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. Duane has an M.B.A. from the Wharton Business School and an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Mark Lloyd Mark Lloyd is the Executive Director of the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy. The Forum works to bring civil rights and community groups into the debate over our media environment. One of the Forum's projects is facilitating a national coalition, called People for Better TV. Mark has worked as a communications attorney in Washington, D.C. and has nearly twenty years of experience as a broadcast journalist. He is the recipient of several awards for his writing and reporting, including an Emmy and a Cine Golden Eagle. Mark is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Independent Television Service (ITVS), and serves on several other national boards and advisory panels including the Ad Council's Advisory Committee on Public Issues, the George Washington University National Task Force for Democracy Online, and OMB Watch. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. Lateefah Simon Lateefah Simon has spent the last eight years of her life advocating for the health, safety, and economic justice for young women from the streets of San Francisco. Simon began working as a Community Health Outreach Worker at age 17, for the Center for Young Women's Development, a grass roots youth run organization that provides low income young women with opportunity to enhance their education and gain legal economic stability. Now 24 years old, Ms. Simon is now the Executive Director of the Center for Young Women's Development. Lateefah has been credited as being one of the nation's youngest executive directors of an independent non-profit organization. Lateefah has received awards from: The National Council for Research for Women, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, and Health Initiatives for Youth. Kimberly Weichel, Program & Outreach Director, is a radio and TV producer, author, global communications specialist and social pioneer. She has produced radio programs for National Public Radio, Voice of America, United Nations Radio, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She is the UN and Global Affairs Correspondent for the TV show Positive Spin, and is co-producer of Women With Vision. She is the co-author of two books on international themes, Inside Crossroads (South Africa: McGraw Hill, 1979) and The Future of the Pacific Rim (Praeger, 1994). She is also producing training films about nurturing soul in the workplace. Kim's background includes 20 years' experience in global communications, international projects, citizen diplomacy and cross-cultural training in many countries around the world. She is a team member of Equal Access, a bold new venture to bring information access to millions of under-served people around the world via satellite technology.