Board members are listed in alphabetical order by last name.
UC Santa Barbara Entering junior year
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Entering freshman year
UC Davis Entering freshman year
Redondo Union High School Entering senior year
is founder of Parents, Educators/Teachers and Students in Action.(PESA) He has practiced as a defense attorney since 1982. PESA is Inspired! Project’s fiscal sponsor.
is a happiness expert. Through The Academy of Thriving, her coaching business, she supports female abuse survivors’ mental wellbeing. Samia wrote Make Change Fun and Easy: How To Create Inner Peace to World Peace in 3 Simple Steps.
is a political activist, author and producer. He co-authored and co-produced the book and documentary series Stand And Be Counted with musician David Crosby. He formerly hosted the show Politically Direct on Air America Radio.
a retired attorney, chairs UCLA’s Bollens-Reis-Hoffenberg Lecture. He sits on the California Supreme Court Historical Society board, and writes about California history for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals.
is an award-winning public journalist and author of The Fina Mendoza Mysteries series of books and podcasts. She also hosts the Book Club for Kids podcast and a new podcast, Honeymoon Road: Pete & Me & our Model T.
is founder of Women’s Leadership Project (WLP.) She has written numerous books, among them Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical. She is a playwrigh and singer/songwriter.
has served as president of West Los Angeles College since 2016. Prior to that he served as chancellor of Montana State University-Northern, and in several executive leadership positions at Angelo State University and Oxnard College.
served as Los Angeles City Controller (1985-2001); member and president, Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees; UCLA associate dean of student activities, and UCLA instructor in public policy.
has taught English with an emphasis on intercultural studies for 25 years and also serves as Director of Student Activities at Culver City High School. He sits on the Culver City Equity and Human Relations Advisory Committee.
won two Pulitzer Prizes as an LA Times reporter. He collaborated with the Ford Foundation on its Media, Arts and Culture Unit, and on its Unity Media Access Project. He now edits books for Reedsy, a manuscript services company