Mike Bernstein grew up in the Richmond District and Hillsborough. He attended UCLA and Hastings Law School. For twenty-five years he has run a women’s active apparel company, Urban Athlete. Currently, Mike is a certified contract advisor with the National Football League Players Association, representing professional football players. After having lived in Chicago for twelve years, he moved back to San Francisco ten years ago. Mike has been involved in mainstream Jewish organizations for years, most notably the New Israel Fund in Chicago and American Jewish Committee in San Francisco. This is Mike’s sixth year on the board.

Ron Blatman is executive producer and creator of the upcoming Saving the Bay public television series. He is also planning to produce a television series about why cities are important and how to help make downtowns and surrounding neighborhoods better places. Ron previously worked in real estate development and finance in his native San Francisco and on Wall Street in New York, as well as serving as Director of Business Development in the San Francisco mayor’s office in the early 1990s. He earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School and a concurrent Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley.

Pamela Burdman is a Program Officer in the Education Program of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where she is primarily responsible for grants related to California’s community colleges. She has a long-standing interest in issues of access, equity, and quality in higher education. Prior to joining the Foundation, she worked as a journalist, initially as a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer and subsequently as a freelance journalist contributing to publications including the New York Times, Lingua Franca, Salon, the Far Eastern Economic Review, California Journal, National Crosstalk, and Black Issues in Higher Education. She has received numerous awards for her reporting, including the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, for “Bitter Voyage,�? a 1994 series of articles on immigrant smuggling. She also served as associate producer for the public television show Media Matters.

Gail Dolgin, a Berkeley-based independent documentary filmmaker, has been a member of the JFF Board since 2005. She is the Producer/Director of "Daughter from Danang". The film, by Gail and her long-time film partner Vicente Franco, was the winner of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary and nominated for an Academy Award. After a theatrical release and international festival run, the film had a national broadcast on the PBS American Experience Series. Gail and Vicente’s latest film about the 1967 San Francisco "Summer of Love�? was commissioned by the American Experience and broadcast nationally in April, 2007. Originally from New York, she's been in the Bay Area for more than 30 years and is dedicated to documentary film as a way to have an impact on the world as both an artist and activist.

Dana Doron has been a happy East Coast transplant for 13 years. She lives in San Francisco’s Mission district where she loves everything from the gritty streets to the chichi restaurants. Dana heads up marketing and new product development at Nature’s Cure, a small health & beauty products company in Oakland. Dana has 17 years of marketing, advertising and PR experience and an MBA from Stanford. Dana’s previous involvement in no-profits includes serving as a steering committee member for Junior Achievement, a team member on five Stanford Alumni Consulting projects to Bay Area non-profits, a one-on-one tutor for a student in the Mission, and, most recently, a volunteer at an orphanage in Salvador, Brazil for two weeks. Dana enjoys volleyball, singing, swing dancing, plays, film festivals (of course!) and sampling San Francisco’s fine cuisine and nightlife with friends.

Nancy Goldberg is an activist, and believes that the festival brings us films that are an important and creative way to highlight and capture the social and cultural gaps that exist not only in the Jewish Community, but in the world in which we live. Nancy is Vice President of the Jewish Family and Children’s Services, serves on the National Board of the Association of Jewish Family and Children’s Agencies, and is the National Legislative Chair. Nancy is also the California Chair of the Jewish Public Affairs Committee and serves on the Board of the New Israel Fund. Nancy previously served on the board of the Marin Theatre Company. She lives in Marin with her husband, Larry and her dog, Monty. Her daughter, Lori Barker, lives in Los Angeles, and her son, Jonathan Barker, daughter in law, Angela and grandson Adam live in Marin.

Frederick Hertz is an attorney and mediator, specializing in the formation and dissolution of non-marital and extended family partnerships, especially involving real estate. He also helps non-profits and small business property owners. He was a co-founder of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, and has been on the SFJFF board for two years.

Cary Kletter is an attorney practicing with the San Francisco firm of Kletter & Peretz in the areas of employee and civil rights. Cary lives in San Mateo with his wife and two children. Originally from New York, Cary moved to the Bay Area in 2000. He previously served on the board of his HOA, and currently is a member of the Board of Trustees of Peninsula Temple Beth El. Cary attended Habonim Dror summer camps and Brandeis University, where he took classes in Middle East politics and Judaic studies. Cary is a Jewish film fan and Judaica aficionado.

Pam Rorke Levy has been producing, writing, and directing documentaries and other television programming since 1979, in addition to creative directing large scale corporate events for leading technology companies such as Intel, HP, Sun, and Seagate. Much of her work as a producer has focused on the intersection between art, culture, and history, including KQED's weekly art series Spark and the nationally distributed PBS series on independent film, Independent View. Pam has also produced or executive produced other documentaries and series for The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, A&E, The History Channel, TLC, HGTV, national PBS, and the local network affiliates. For 10 years she worked in commercial broadcasting at KRON-TV, where she became executive producer of local programming and program development, followed by a brief stint in the educational software industry and the formation of her own production company, Ant Hill Productions. She serves on the board of the Bay Area Video Coalition and Z Space Studio, a theatrical development company, and lives in San Francisco's Mission District with her two daughters. Pam is a graduate of Swarthmore College and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where she received the Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement. Her work has received eight regional Emmy awards and prizes from many other organizations including the New York, San Francisco International, and Chicago Film Festivals.

Lenny Lieberman was born in St. Louis, lived in Los Angeles, and went to college at Stanford. He’s lived in San Francisco for the past 20 years, with brief stints in New York, Memphis, and Tours, France. He is the owner of the television production business, Philo Television. He’s an avid tennis player and watches a lot of movies.

Iris Metz and husband Henry moved back to Marin after 25 years in Rochester, New York. Although their three children and five grandchildren are scattered about in Atlanta and Chicago, their plan is to live here forever more. Iris was the founder and director of an educational corporation. In addition, she was involved in the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project at Monroe Community College. She is very pleased to be associated with SFJFF; it combines her sense of community and interest in exploring different ideas.

Gale Mondry is the Chief Program Officer of the San Francisco-based Koret Foundation, where she has served since March 2005. Trained as an attorney (with a BA from Brown and JD from Harvard Law School), she has worked in non-profit development (fundraising, major gifts) and administration for Stanford University, California Pacific Medical Center, Huckleberry Youth Programs and the Gateway School, where she also served as Board President. As a volunteer she was President of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, and co-chaired the capital campaign for their new facility which opened in 2004. Gale was honored by the Bay Area Jewish community as Volunteer of the Year in 1998.