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Robert Mailer Anderson is a writer, producer, activist, father of four, and 9th generation Californio. Anderson is the author of the forthcoming graphic novel “My Fairy Godfather,” co-writer/producer of the films “Windows on the World” (also made into a graphic novel), cult horror film “Pig Hunt”, the novel “Boonville,” play “The Death of Teddy Ballgame,” and has been a contributor to The Anderson Valley Advertiser for 40 years, among publishing work in other publications. He was appointed by Governor Newsom to the California Humanities Board in 2020, is a member of PEN Oakland, and on the advisory board of Los Cenzontles. As a music producer, he has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and won two NAACP Image Awards. He was the 2013 Colonial Standard Bearer for the Selkirk Common Ride and received the San Francisco Arts Medallion in 2016.
Anthony Bedard is a longtime denizen of the SF/Bay Area music scene. Over the past 34 years, he’s played drums and guitar in 25 bands including the loved & loathed early 90s act, Icky Boyfriends, and the brand new Replica Watch. He’s the talent buyer for Thee Stork Club in Oakland and a tour booker and show promoter through his agency, Talent Moat.
A native of East Oakland, Lisa Harris is a librarian and senior program specialist who manages library services to marginalized populations in Alameda County. including those detained at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and the Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro.
Michelle Yi Martin is a multi-disciplinary artist based in San Francisco. She has been a humanities educator for over two decades, weaving history, literature, and the arts with her students. Her practice of "weaving light" was featured as part of the Anni Albers exhibit at the New Britain Museum of American Art, at the Copenhagen Light Festival, and with an art collective for a video installation on the Manhattan Bridge.Yi Martin is represented by Municipal Bonds in San Francisco and has been awarded a commission for a permanent installation at San Francisco’s newly developed Pier 70.
Jan Richman is a writer and editor who lives in San Francisco. She is the author of two books, the collection of poems Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything (Louisiana State University Press) and the novel Thrill-Bent (Tupelo Press). The 2021 Grindstone Novel Award in the UK was given to her manuscript Free Ms. Greene, based on her (troubling/complex/ludicrous) experience as a writing instructor at the SF Academy of Art College in 2004, when a student wrote an explicitly violent story that ultimately led to his expulsion, her dismissal, a series of anti-censorship protests—and a hilariously profane letter to the school from Stephen King.
The freshly Grammy-nominated Eugene S. Robinson is a polymath in the best of all possible ways, jacking all trades and mastering a ton. His writing has appeared in GQ, The Wire, Vice Magazine and Art Forum, as well as on his popular Substack Look What You Made Me Do. He has appeared on stage and screen as an actor and journalist, interviewing Chris Rock and Samuel Jackson, and has fronted the acclaimed rock art brut quartet Oxbow since 1990.
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