Board of Directors
Michael Brucker an attorney specializing in all phases of patent, copyright and trademark law for more than 40 years. Admitted to practice before all courts in California, state and federal, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Particular interest and experience in counseling individual inventors and emerging high tech companies.
Rick Butler Director of Photography, is a five-time Emmy award winning cameraman with over twenty years experience in film and television. His work has included many intimate verité documentaries, as well as more conventional documentary and narrative forms. His favorite projects are those which help increase understanding between people and raise consciousness about our communities and environment.
Veronica Conway is a certified coach, consultant and facilitator in the areas of finance, leadership impact, new manager skills, performance management and team cohesiveness. Dedicated to maximizing performance and creating sustainable results, she has provided coaching to entrepreneurs, executives and business startups. Ms. Conway is also the president of the Black Professional Coaches Alliance (BPCA). The vision of BPCA is that all people of African Ancestry claim their power, manifest their potential and take action towards prosperous fulfilling lives.
A dynamic and provocative speaker, Veronica has spoken to many groups and professional organizations including the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, The National Black Data Processors, The Black Women's Professional Networking Brunch, the National Association of African American Human Resource Professionals, the National Black MBA's, The Women's Empowerment Summit, as well as the San Francisco Learning Annex.
Veronica is the publisher, creator and a co-author of the first Black Coaches Anthology, The African American Guide to Business and Personal Success. In addition she has been a featured columnist in City Flight Magazine, Choice Online Magazine, and Black Women Inc. Magazine. The BPCA has been mentioned in Essence magazine and will be featured in Urban Influence, the new magazine of the Urban League. She is the subject of a documentary film, being made for public television. Daughter of a Panther: Revolution to Evolution , will air in 2005
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Dr. Yolanda Ronquillo is an expert in adult transformative learning and change. Dr Ronquillo is nationally known for fostering and developing learning communities and Arts in Education models. She has created a pedagogical practice and instructional framework that facilitates community building, learning and action known as Cultural Paths to Knowledge (CPK). This epistemological framework has been especially effective in helping English Language Learners (ELL) practitioners bridge differences of culture, language groups and role status through different art forms such as drawing, painting, music, theatre, storytelling and movie making. The CPK unique methodology embraces and engages four constituencies: students, their parents, teachers, and administrators in authentic partnership for increased student achievement.
Dr. Ronquillo integrates technology in the sharing - exchange of each person's cultural wisdom in digital stories, or other products of this project, with students, teachers and family members. All participant s bring learning alive through experiences of creative interpretation through the arts by identifying patterns from their own lives and culture thereby discovering meanings scarcely suspected before. These imaginative encounters are the stuff of stored images, memories, feelings, perceptions, and understandings that many times lead to developing a sense of enablement and voice therefore supporting increased student achievement and academic success.
Dr. Ronquillo is currently the Director for the Center of Excellence Through Equity at Wexford Inc., at Rancho Palos Verdes , a non-profit educational agency. As Co-director of Wexford-Waialoha, a ten year-long project of support and professional development with the Hawaiian Department of Education, for the English for Second Language Learning Program with the framework of Cultural Paths to Knowledge, Dr. Ronquillo has documented the outcomes of using the CPK pedagogical framework, laying out how it provides the context for parent/teacher/community inclusion to further student achievement.
Dr. Ronquillo is also the author of the Excellence through Equity Principles and training of trainer model for professional development in equity and technology integration.
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Peter Schwartz began working in education programs in 1972, at the Upward Bound Program at Southeastern Mass. University. He has designed and taught in-school and after-school reading programs for students of all ages. At Addison-Wesley he wrote and edited elementary school science curricula. During ten years at the Developmental Studies Center (DSC), a non-profit research and development center, he produced over fifty documentary-based videos that have been used in pre-service and in-service teacher professional development, conferences, and fund raising. Mr. Shwartz began Dellaruth Video in the spring of 2000 to better serve a growing number of clients. These include the Japanese Research Lesson Project (NSF/Mills College), the Open Circle Project (Wellesley College), the Strategic Literacy Initiative and the Teacher Professional Development Program (both at WestEd).
Melanie Tervalon, M.D., M.P.H. is a pediatrician, consultant, and teacher, with faculty affiliations at UCSF School of Medicine and UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She is currently Director of Education in the Center for Excellence co-located at Childrens' Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) and UC Davis. The Center for Excellence, one of 90 across the country, is focused on the relationships between nutrition, new gene research and health disparities.
Dr. Tervalon's approach to past and present work is a product of a vision that incorporates principles of fairness and equity in program practice. Dr. Tervalon has built constructive, participatory relationships inside and outside of institutions, models respect for divergent points of view; and sets a tone of urgency in the work of inclusion in medical education and health care.
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testimonials
Dr. Butler’s leadership in conceptualizing the issues of racism at the institutional and individual level is revealed not only in the film, but also in her personal work as a well-recognized and well-respected facilitator and public speaker on these topics. Shakti Butler led a group of 70 pediatricians-in-training through several clips of the video and an inspirational public discussion of racism and issues of difference with applicability in the health care setting. The audience participants raved about both the content and the conditions that Ms. Butler created for the exploration and analysis of these often-taboo topics.
Dr. Melanie Tervalon, Consultant,
Children's Hospital, Oakland; University of California, Berkeley
