Frances Dinkelspiel, author of Tangled Vines and Towers of Gold, and cofounder of Berkeleyside/Cityside, which she and her partners steered through a $1 million public offering.
Ilan Greenberg, the publisher of Coda Story, an international crisis news site and winner of a Columbia/DuPont Award.
Linda Jue, editor at large for investigative site 100Reporters; reporting and writing coach for grantees of the Fund for Investigative Journalism; and a trainer for the Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Program.
David Katznelson, executive director of Reboot, a Bay Area arts and culture nonprofit that reimagines and reinforces Jewish thought and traditions.
Gary Rivlin, Pulitzer and Loeb Award-winning journalist and author of several books, including Broke USA, Katrina: After the Flood, and The Plot to Get Bill Gates.
Kristina Rizga, author of Mission High, which covers a year in the life of a San Francisco high school, and founder of Re:Baltica, an investigative reporting group in the Baltics.