Ms. Bellotti joined the Board of Directors in March 2005.

DON ROMESBURG, Co-Chair

Mr. Romesburg is adjunct professor of U.S. history and women and gender studies at Sonoma State University.  He is currently revising his UC Berkeley Ph.D. dissertation, “Arrested Development: Homosexuality, Gender, and American Adolescence, 1890-1930,” for book publication.  His M.A. thesis, "Ray Bourbon: A Queer Biography," utilized the GLBT Historical Society archive collection to illuminate the life of a long-time mid-20th century female impersonator and queer comic.

Mr. Romesburg is a co-founder of And Castro For All, an organization combating discrimination against people of color and others within the LGBT community.  He has also managed the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's San Francisco office and worked in public relations with Aplomb Consulting.  His published writings have appeared in academic media as well as The Advocate and Bitch.  He edited or assistant edited Routledge’s Transgender Studies Reader, Young, Gay, and Proud! (4th ed.), and Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement, 1967-1992.

Mr. Romesburg joined the Board in December 2003.  He had previously volunteered, worked and conducted research at the organization since 1998.

CHRIS LEWIS, Treasurer

Mr. Lewis is Executive Vice President and Chief Public Policy Office at Providian Financial Corporation, a leading provider of credit cards and deposit products in the U.S. Mr. Lewis has a BA degree from Boston University’s University Scholars Program and pursued doctoral studies in social anthropology at the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan.

Mr. Lewis joined Providian Financial in 1999 and is responsible for overseeing the company’s government and regulatory relations programs, national community relations and reinvestment programs, and Providian’s privacy policies. Prior to joining Providian Financial, Mr. Lewis was Senior Advisor to the Comptroller at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OOC) in the US Treasury Department, where he was responsible for the agency’s public affairs planning and implementation, and consumer policy development. Mr. Lewis has also served as Director of Financial Services at the Consumer Federation of America, where he oversaw the federal consumer banking advocacy program of the national consumer organization.

Mr. Lewis joined the Board of Directors in December 2003.

PETER LUNDBERG, Secretary

Mr. Lundberg is a national spokesperson for the development of gay and lesbian retirement communities and leads the organization Our Town, developing retirement communities for gays and lesbians. Mr. Lundberg has an MBA in finance from Columbia University.

In addition to creating Our Town, he consults with various companies, developing financial planning models. From 1995 to 2000, he managed the budgeting and financial planning for the Advertising and Brand Management division of Charles Schwab & Co. For a privately held, diversified holding company, based in Mill Valley, CA and involved in real estate development, management and restaurant businesses, Mr. Lundberg served as financial analyst, responsible for accounting and financial planning functions. Mr. Lundberg was an acquisition associate with the New York City based real estate investment firm, American Continental Properties, managing the acquisition process of commercial real estate in New York City and the Midwestern U.S. Prior to receiving an MBA, Mr. Lundberg worked in management and financial positions in the resort hotel/condominium industry for eight years, including properties in Vail, Colorado and General Manager of a 300-acre resort property in the panhandle of Florida.

Mr. Lundberg has served on the Board of Directors since 2001, assuming the position of Co-Chair in January 2004 until November 2006.

NAN ALAMILLA BOYD

Nan Alamilla Boyd has a Ph.D. from Brown University and is currently Assistant Professor at Sonoma State University. 

Ms. Boyd’s recent book, Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco, was named one of the best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle, and has received wide public acclaim.  In 1995, she received a Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities from CLAGS, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in New York. From 2000 through 2002, she was a scholar at Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender.  She has published widely in academic journals, and speaks often on queer history and culture.

Ms. Boyd served on the Board from 1997 to 1999 and rejoined the board in January 2004.

RAYMOND BRIZENDINE

Mr. Brizendine has more than ten years of experience in the executive search industry. From 1993 to 2003, he was with The Alexander Group, a national retained executive search firm, in the San Francisco and Houston offices. As Director, he managed the firm’s West Coast offices and served clients in the biotechnology, healthcare, professional service, technology and non-profit sectors. Mr. Brizendine led the firm’s non-profit search practice and focused on recruiting development professionals. He is an alumnus of Rice University and active in fundraising as a volunteer and development officer for Northern California. Mr. Brizendine holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Rice and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is currently in the full-time MBA program at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Mr. Brizendine has been a member of the GLBT Historical Society for the last 5 years and joined the board in May 2004.

MADISON L KILPATRICK III

Madison Kilpatrick is a CFP® and is currently a Financial Advisor for Morgan Stanley

Mr. Kilpatrick has been advising families on financial planning, wealth building and wealth preservation strategies for six years.  He has served the GLBT community in several capacities: a volunteer for the S.F.A.F; a director for the LGBT Chamber of Commerce (GGBA) for 5 years; and a frequent presenter and panelist on finance.  In addition Mr. Kilpatrick is currently on the Advisory Boards for EARN and U.C. Berkeley extension financial planning program.

Mr. Kilpatrick recently joined the board in March of 2007

TERENCE KISSACK

Terence is a development officer at U. C. Berkeley where he administers policies and procedures related to the solicitation of major donors. He holds a PhD in American History from the City University of New York. Prior to joining U. C. Berkeley, Terence served as Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society, consulted with various non-profits and taught at a number of Bay Area colleges. His forthcoming book entitled “Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895 – 1917” will be published by AK Press in the summer of 2007.

Terence began volunteering with the GLBT Historical Society in the early 1990s and joined the board in 2007.

KARL KNAPPER

Mr. Knapper is a writer, filmmaker, film curator, and educator. Mr. Knapper has a B.A. degree in Communication from Stanford University. 

Mr. Knapper is published in the Socialist Review, Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology, The Ultimate Guide To Lesbian & Gay Film And Video, A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, The San Francisco Weekly, The Bay Area Reporter, SF Frontiers, LA Frontiers, The Windy City Times, The Independent: Film & Video Monthly, and The Marin Independent Journal. He has curated programs for various film festivals and cinematheques, including the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, MIX/The New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, Outfest/Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque, and the University of California Pacific Film Archive.

Mr. Knapper is the co-curator (with Jenni Olson) of Afro Promo: Black Cinema Trailers 1946-1976, which was released on DVD by Other Cinema in Winter 2006. He is also the writer/co-producer (with Julia Segrove Jaurigui) of Activist Media in the 90s, a documentary on the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media/Funding Exchange—a politically progressive media arts grant making institution.

Mr. Knapper has taught film studies/criticism and political activism at the City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, Stanford University, the New College of San Francisco, De Anza Community College, the Harvey Milk Institute, and in the San Francisco public school system.

Mr. Knapper has served on the Board since 1999.

RUTH MAHANEY

Ruth Mahaney is a teacher, bookseller and activist. She began teaching Women Studies in 1972 and served as Women Studies Coordinator at Sonoma State University from 1972 to 1981. For 18 years, Ms. Mahaney has taught Women Studies and Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University and presently teaches GLBT History at City College.

Since 1981, Ruth has been a member of the collective which owns and operates Modern Times Bookstore, the progressive, independent bookstore in San Francisco Mission district.

For nearly four decades, Ruth has been a leader in lesbian, feminist, progressive and peace activist communities.

Ms. Mahaney has served on the Board of Directors of the GLBT Historical Society since 1992, and was Co-Chair for eight years. She currently heads the Women’s Committee.

BILL LIPSKY

Bill Lipsky received his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at Pepperdine University, Los Angeles; a Curriculum Specialist with the Graduate School of Education, UCLA; and a program developer and facilitator for Visa, Citicorp, MCI, Wells Fargo, and the City and County of San Francisco. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (2006). His articles have appeared in Review of Politics, Educational Leadership, Social Studies, Curriculum Review and other publications. He collects Edward Gorey first editions, Scrooge McDuckiana and American world’s fair memoribilia. He lives in San Francisco with his partner of 27 years and Miss Scarlett O’Hairball (who will never be hungry again) and Hillary Rodham Kitten.

Bill has been a volunteer at the GLBTHS since 2005 and a member of the Board since 2006.

MARTIN MEEKER

Mr. Meeker is currently a program director with the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.

In 2000, Martin received his doctorate in U.S. history from the University of Southern California. He has taught in the history department at San Francisco State University and in the departments of history, undergraduate interdisciplinary studies, and American Studies at UC Berkeley; he also has worked as an archivist at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. In 2003, he received a year-long postdoctoral fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, funded by the Ford Foundation. He has published numerous articles, reviews, and encyclopedia entries, including essays in the Journal of the History of Sexuality and the Journal of Women’s History. His book, Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s, was published by the University of Chicago Press in March 2006.

Mr. Meeker has volunteered with the GLBT Historical Society since 1993 and served on the archives and oral history committees before joining the Board of Directors in 2005.

MICHAEL NAVA

Michael Nava ia a lawyer and a writer.  He is the author of a seven novels featuring gay criminal defense lawyer, Henry Rios, and co-author with Robert Dawidoff of Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to America.  He is the recipient of six Lambda Literary Awards and the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Gay and Lesbian Literature among other awards.  He received his B.A. from the Colorado College, which also awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Arts, and his J.D. from Stanford.  He is an appellate lawyer who has spent most of his career working in the California appellate courts as a judicial staff attorney.  Currently he works in that position for the Honorable Carlos Moreno, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.

Mr. Nava joined the Board in February 2007.

JOY SILVER

Joy Silver is President/CEO of RainbowVision Properties, developed the first GLBT retirement community in Santa Fe, NM. Ms. Silver has an M.A. in Woman’s Studies from Goddard-Cambridge University and a B.A. in English from Rutgers.

Ms. Silver brings 22 years of experience marketing to the gay community, served as a facilitator of the SAGE housing survey (Senior Action Gay Environment) in New York City, and was a member of the SAGE Sub-Committee for Senior Housing. Ms. Silver’s experience includes service as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Choices Women’s Medical and Mental Health Centers in New York City and Resort Sales Manager for Sunrise Springs Inn & Retreat in Santa Fe New Mexico. Ms. Silver is well known in the lesbian community, having performed with the 1970’s women’s rock group, Lilith.

Ms. Silver joined the Board of Directors in April 2004.

AMY SUEYOSHI

Amy Sueyoshi is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University jointly appointed in Ethnic Studies and Human Sexuality Studies.  She teaches on race, gender, and sexuality and has published more specifically on Asian American queer issues in Frontiers: A Women Studies Journal and Amerasia.

She holds a B.A. from Barnard College and a Ph.D. from UCLA.  Amy has also worked as a community organizer in New York City and remains involved in the queer Asian community both in Japan and San Francisco.  She has served as a newsletter editor and a fundraising coordinator for organizations such as O-musubi, APIQWTC, and API Family Pride.  She first came to the GLBT Historical Society in 1997 while doing research on gay Asians for a seminar paper in graduate school.

Ms. Sueyoshi joined the board in August 2007.

ARDEL THOMAS

Ardel Thomas is chair of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies at City College of San Francisco. Ms. Thomas received her PhD in Modern Thought and Literature with a minor in History from Stanford University. She taught in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford from 1994-2004. As Director of the Community Writing Program for seven years, Ardel worked with the Haas Center for Public Service, first and second year Stanford writing students and their professors, and over 150 Bay Area non-profits to bring "real world" writing to students in the classroom as well as delivering much needed writing projects to various agencies. These writing projects included brochures, newsletters, grant proposals, and press packets. In 2004, Ms. Thomas taught the first Queer Rhetoric class at Stanford, which was also a service-learning course with students working with numerous LGBT/Queer agencies in San Francisco and the Peninsula.

In 2003, Ms. Thomas’ book (co-authored with Carolyn Ross) “Writing For Real” remains the only textbook of its kind for writers in service learning. Other publications include various articles on queer sexuality and a soon to be published book, “Queer Monstrosities: Sexuality, Race, and Class in Victorian Gothic Horror”.

Ms. Thomas has participated and medaled in three Gay Games and swims with both Tsunami and the Stanford Master's swim teams.

Ms. Thomas joined the Board of Directors in July 2007.

NICOLE WEINSTEIN

Nicole (Nic) Weinstein is currently working on an undergraduate degree at Mills College, majoring in both History and Queer Studies. She recently taught Gay Lesbian American Art and Culture at city college. Ms. Weinstein has been a volunteer at the Society, transcribing oral histories and organizing collections in the archives. She recently organized an exhibit and panel discussion called "Every Night is Ladies Night", a retrospective on Lesbian Bar culture from 1960 to the present.

Ms. Weinstein is also a fine art photographer. Her work has been in several shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She is also the staff photographer for the alternative queer website www.NoFauxxx.com.

Ms. Weinstein joined the Board in August 2007.