Ramsés Téon Nichols: Organizing Committee Chair of Local SEIU 1021 and member of SF Green Party. Endorsed by San Francisco Green Party and SEIU Local 1021. I am running for Local Station Board (LSB) because KPFA is part of my community. I began listening when I moved to the Bay Area as a San [...]
Laurence Shoup: Author of Rulers and Rebels: A People’s History of Early California, 1769-1901, & other books, Green Party stalwart, longtime community and people’s movement activist. Endorsed by Gayle McLaughlin, Gray Brechin, ry cooder, James Vann and Michael Parenti. Laurence Shoup requests your vote for the United for Community Radio slate. This election comes at [...]
Karen Pickett: Environmental and civil rights activist; Earth First!, Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Global Justice Ecology Project KPFA has been a big part of my life since the 1970s, when I relocated to California from the east coast. I have been an environmental and social justice activist since the mid-70s, long affiliated with [...]
Andrea Prichett: Incumbent board member, community activist, teacher, Copwatch founder. We may love it or hate it, but still, KPFA is ours and we must do our best to be good and faithful stewards of this precious resource. We need the station to unite people and support an inclusive educational process that distributes [...]
Samsarah Morgan: Oakland Green Party, Occupy Oakland Activist, writer on birth, health and family In brief: I come by the decision on to run because many people in my community asked me to. As I researched the issues and concerns of KPFA I began to understand why. One of my most valuable skills [...]
David Welsh: Labor organizer, delegate SF Labor Council, Haiti Action Committee, Occupy Oakland occupier. Endorsed by Michael Parenti, James Vann, Gray Brechin, Barbara Lubin, Pierre Labossiere. KPFA and Pacifica can be a tremendous force for change – amplifying the voices of the millions whose needs, desires, opinions and culture are overlooked or silenced. As [...]
Oriana Saportas: Community activist, former KPFA Local Election Supervisor, former board member Berkeley Community Media, current board member Media Alliance, member Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) I served as the KPFA local election supervisor in 2010. I’m originally from Colombia, and moved to the United States in 1996. I graduated college from Florida [...]
Beth Seligman: Law degree, Vegetarian occupier, Permaculturist and Writer. I started listening to KPFA six years ago when I moved to the Bay Area from New York, after being a long-time WBAI listener. The Pacifica network changed my life. I remember the first time I heard a show on WBAI. Michael Levine captivated [...]
Kate Tanaka: Incumbent, KPFA Local station board member, community activist, Green Party stalwart. Endorsed by James Vann. Briefly: My name is Kate Tanaka. I run for this position as a long time consumer of KPFA. I know how powerful it is and want to contribute to its continuation as a healthy ground for information [...]
Virginia Browning: Long time KPFA activist: KPFA election committees; miscellaneous community activism, former radio programmer. I stand for: – a realistic/responsible financial plan – improved web presence – expanded listener input – improved dialog and governance – a reactivated Program Council to improve programming KPFA- Pacifica is on its last legs without decisive action. [...]