Julie Winokur: President and Executive Director

Julie Winokur, Executive Director of Talking Eyes Media, is a writer and documentary film producer whose work uses the power of visual media to catalyze positive social change. Her work has appeared on PBS, National Geographic Magazine and Discovery online, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and MSNBC.com, among others. Her latest film, Firestorm, had its national premiere on the Documentary Channel in July 2011 and was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Her passion for social advocacy has produced multi-year projects including the one-hour film Aging in America: The Years Ahead, and its companion book and traveling exhibition, as well as Denied: The Crisis of America’s Uninsured, which won the Jury Prize at the 2010 Media That Matters Film Festival and was featured on MNSBC.com. Winokur’s dynamic approach to documentary filmmaking drove her to turn the camera on herself in the short film The Sandwich Generation, in which Winokur and her husband, photojournalist Ed Kashi, chronicled their personal challenges caring for their two children and Winokur’s aging father. Winokur’s other short films include: India's Fast Lane to the Future, documenting the new national highway and its impact on the population; Curse of the Black Gold, exposing the enormous costs and devastating impact of oil exploitation in the Niger Delta, and The Leaves Keep Falling, capturing the day-to-day struggle of two Vietnamese families affected by Agent Orange.

Caroline Herter: Vice President and Treasurer

Caroline Herter's career in publishing spans 25 years, including her roles as publishing director of Chronicle Books, vice-president & director of illustrated book publishing at Simon & Schuster, vice-president & director of national accounts for Scribners/Atheneum, and trade sales representative for Harper Collins. She is currently president of Herter Studio, an independent publishing studio that conceptualizes, develops, and represents individual projects and whole programs. As such, Herter consults, agents, and packages book projects, and does product development and brand extension for select clients. Her clients include 4-H, National Geographic, Chronicle Books, Stanford University, MGM, Abrams, Pottery Barn/Weldon Owen, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Turner Movie Classics, Jeff Bridges, Simple Abundance, Inc., Simon & Schuster, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, and TenSpeed Press.

Ed Kashi: Board Member

Ed Kashi is a photojournalist dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his work. As a member of the prestigious photo agency VII, Kashi has been recognized for his complex imagery and its compelling rendering of the human condition. In addition to editorial assignments, filmmaking and personal projects, Kashi is an educator who instructs and mentors students of photography, participates in forums and lectures on photojournalism, documentary photography and multimedia storytelling. Along with numerous awards, including Second Prize Contemporary Issues Singles in the 2011 World Press Photo Contest, UNICEF’s Photo of the Year 2010, a Prix Pictet 2010 Commission and honors from Pictures of the Year International, Communication Arts and American Photography, Kashi’s images have been published and exhibited worldwide, and his editorial assignments and personal projects have generated six books.

Lynn Luckow: Board Member

Lynn Luckow is the chief executive of Craigslist Foundation. After a long and fruitful career in the private sector, most recently as President & CEO of Jossey-Bass Publishers, Lynn now focuses on discovering successful means for addressing the pervasive social, cultural, and economic challenges our world faces. Prior to Craigslist Foundation, he served as transition President and CEO of Northern California Grantmakers, and has served on or consulted to over 40 nonprofit boards, including chairing the board of San Francisco's Project Open Hand, and the national boards of Chanticleer and the National 4-H Council, for which he was honored as the nation's top nonprofit board chairman by the National Assembly of Health and Human Service Organizations in 2000. His clients have included education, social justice, publishing, arts, documentary photography, youth, scientific and medical research, philanthropic, and community organizations engaged in strategic positioning and execution, team and leadership development, vision and brand reinvention, and strengthening impact.In addition to the Craigslist Foundation, Lynn currently serves as Senior Advisor to The Kinsey Institute and Dean of the Noyce Leadership Institute; is on the boards of Fifty Crows Foundation, Talking Eyes Media, and the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence; and is on the advisory boards of Project Open Hand, YouthGive, and City of Dreams.

Andrew S. Ross: Board Member

Andrew S. Ross's distinguished career in publishing includes his role as co-founder, managing editor, and subsequently Executive Vice President in charge of business development, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions of Salon.com the online journal that has been recognized as one of the major voices in contemporary journalism. Ross is currently a business writer at the Hearst Corporation-owned San Francisco Chronicle, where his 5-days-a-week column, The Bottom Line has been called a “must read” for the San Francisco Bay Area’s diverse business community. Previously, he was the Chronicle’s Interactive Editor, blending web content with the paper, and was also the Chronicle’s Executive Foreign & National Editor, supervising all foreign and national news that appeared in the paper. Ross has held a number of senior editorial positions at the San Francisco Examiner, when it was owned by the Hearst Corporation, and won several Society of Newspaper Design Awards. Prior to that, he was News Director at KQED-TV where he was awarded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting prize for producing the best public television news show of the year. Ross was Assignment Editor at KPIX-TV, has reported and produced for National Public Radio, and has written stories that appeared in The Guardian, The Times, and The Observer of London, as well as magazines including Good Housekeeping and Redbook.

Stuart Schear: Board Member

Stuart Schear, president of Stuart Schear Communications, has worked for 25 years at the intersection of health care, health policy, philanthropy, politics, and advocacy. Schear played a major role in several major national communications campaigns, served in the Clinton White House, reported for two national news organizations, and managed communications and made grants for three of the most highly respected foundations.

Most recently, Schear served as the vice president for communications of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), where he was responsible for PPFA’s national communications operation. Before joining PPFA, Schear worked for the Atlantic Philanthropies, where he developed the foundation’s grant-making strategy to support health care reform in the United States, most notably to Health Care for America Now (HCAN) and the Center for American Progress (CAP). At the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Schear created and managed Cover the Uninsured Week and the Covering Kids & Families Back-to-School Campaign, major national campaigns to expand health care coverage and connect low-income families with government health programs for children. At the Markle Foundation, Schear led communications for Katrina Health, an emergency response effort to ensure that people who were made homeless by Hurricane Katrina would have access to their electronic prescription records.

Before working in philanthropy, Schear served in the Clinton White House as the assistant White House press secretary for television news. Before joining the White House, Schear spent more than a decade as a journalist, covering major health stories as a health reporter for the PBS NewsHour and other news organizations. Schear is the recipient of many awards and honors, including being named Non-Profit PR Professional of the Year by PR News and serving as a health policy media fellow of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.