Gene Seltzer has been a partner at the firm of Duane & Seltzer, LLP, Berkeley, California for nearly 30 years. He has been a life-long supporter of the arts and entertainment, helping with the founding of the Jazzschool in Berkeley, where he also participates on bass in a variety of jazz combos, and as a former general partner of the Reno Silver Sox and Riverside Pilots minor league baseball teams. Mr. Seltzer was a founding board member of the International Alliance of Collaborative Professionals, which is dedicated to respectful resolution of legal conflicts without litigation in court, and is a prominent member of several collaborative process practice groups in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Eric Ward is currently the national field director with the Center for New Community. The Center for New Community is a national, faith-based organization dedicated to building community, justice and equality. The Center defends civil and human rights from emerging threats through strategic research and community organizing. Mr. Ward is one of the very few prominent leaders of color working to counter organized bigotry in the nation. During a period when the national white supremacist movement was shifting its focus from the South to the Pacific Northwest, Mr. Ward, a former staff member with Clergy and Laity Concerned, founded and directed a community project designed to expose and counter hate groups and respond to bigoted violence. Eric has served on the boards of the Western States Center, McKenzie River Gathering Foundation and A Territory Resource Foundation. He is the editor of three published works: Conspiracies: Real Grievances, Paranoia and Mass Movements; Second Civil War: States Rights, Sovereignty and the Power of the County and American Armageddon: Religion, Revolution and the Right. His most recent writings have appeared in the Southern Poverty Law Center journal, “The Intelligence Report”, and the European monthly, “Searchlight Magazine”
Eugene Corr wrote and directed Desert Bloom (Jon Voight, Ellen Barkin, Columbia Pictures),which was selected for the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. He wrote and directed the documentary Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey for which he received an Academy Award Nomination. Mr. Corr has written and directed for film and television, including The Joe Louis Story for Hallmark Entertainment and The 26th Man for Mark Campbell Productions. Corr has taught screenwriting at Stanford University and San Quentin Prison, from which the San Quentin Writers’ Group was subsequently formed, and he is a member of the screenwriting staff at the Squaw Valley Writers’ Community of Writers. He is currently developing From Richmond to Regla, a documentary comparing the lives of young baseball players growing up in poor neighborhoods in Havana, Cuba and in Richmond, California.
Paul Clark was a 2005 finalist for Massachusetts Teacher of the Year and is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Graduate Programs for Lesley University, Endicott College, Salem State College and Fitchburg State College. A recipient of several grants totaling $200,000 over his career, Paul is a frequent provider of teacher professional development opportunities and is currently the Technology Coordinator in a Massachusetts elementary school. He has enjoyed 34 years of teaching success and lives with his family in a small seaside community on the North Shore of Massachusetts.
Mr. Chandler is an award-winning filmmaker, working in non-fiction and fiction film. His film Forgotten Fires aired on 250 PBS stations and won a Golden Spire at the San Francisco Film Festival. Bill Moyers said about it: “If we wanted a real dialog about race in America, we’d start with this film.” Mr. Chandler has produced investigative documentaries for Frontline, among them Blackout, The Future of War, and Secrets of the SAT. He wrote and edited the Academy Award-winning Freedom on My Mind, the Academy Award-nominated Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey, and the Emmy Award-winning Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven . He has edited feature films, including Never Cry Wolf, Mishima, and Amadeus, which earned him an Academy Award nomination.