Lisa Frazier

Prior to joining as CEO of The Bay Citizen, Lisa was a partner at McKinsey & Company where she led the West Coast Media and Entertainment practice. During her close to nine years at McKinsey & Company, Lisa served several of the leading online, broadcast and cable TV, newspaper, and information companies on a variety of issues, including growth strategy, operations, and marketing and sales.

Lisa has also had the opportunity to support a number of non-profit organizations including the New York Fire Department post 9/11, the Robin Hood Foundation and others. Currently, Lisa is on the Board of Governors of The Commonwealth Club, the nation’s oldest public forum. She is also an advisory board member to both The Texas Tribune, a Texas based non-profit public media organization, and Link TV, an organization focused on educating and activating the community about world events.

Before joining McKinsey & Company, Lisa spent nine years in the petroleum industry where she worked as a senior marketing representative for Akzo Nobel Chemicals and held operation and engineering positions with Mobil Oil Corporation.

Lisa holds an M.B.A. in strategy, marketing and finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Lisa resides in San Francisco with her husband and two and a half year old son.

Steve Fainaru

Steve Fainaru is the Editor-in-Chief of The Bay Citizen. He came to the organization from the Washington Post, where he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series of stories on abuses committed by Blackwater and other private security contractors in Iraq. Fainaru previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Hartford Courant and the Boston Globe. He is the author of two books: "The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba and the Search for the American Dream" and "Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq." He grew up in Marin County and currently lives in El Cerrito.

Brian Kelley

Prior to joining The Bay Citizen as Chief Technology Officer, Brian Kelley co-founded ReputationDefender, the world’s first comprehensive online reputation management and privacy company. As Chief Technology Officer, he played a key role in assembling a quality technology team that is capable of maximizing company resources related to technology strategy, software development, and system infrastructure.

Before ReputationDefender, Brian Kelley was CTO of The Ticket Reserve, an online futures market for sporting event tickets. Following The Ticket Reserve, Brian became CTO of The Academic Approach, leading the development of online interactive educational software.

Brian is an active musician and supports a number of non-profit organizations including Rock-For-Kids and Save the Music Foundation, as well as the AIDS Project Los Angeles. He has also worked with the San Francisco veterans organization, Swords to Plowshares.

He has had over 10 years experience building enterprise-class software applications in a wide variety of industries including music, sports, finance and education. Brian holds a B.A. in Music and B.S. Computer Science from Skidmore College.

Katharine Anderson

Katharine Anderson received her B.A. from UC Berkeley. Post-graduation, she spent two and a half years of working on various political campaigns, in a variety of capacities. During this time she garnered a diversity of skills, which, along with her naturally detail-oriented mind, landed her the gig as the Operations Analyst here at The Bay Citizen.

Katherine Bella

Kathy brings more than 30 years experience in the nonprofit sector to her work at The Bay Citizen, having served as a nonprofit board member, executive director, chief advancement officer and consultant. Most recently she served as Principal of The Bella Group, a firm providing philanthropic counsel to more than 80 Bay Area nonprofit organizations with budget sizes and fundraising programs ranging in size from $5 million to more than $100 million. Prior to her consulting work, her experience includes serving as Executive Director of DES Action USA; Vice President for Development at Planned Parenthood Golden Gate; Chief Development Officer for the Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library; and Associate Director of Annual Giving at the University of California San Francisco. At The Bay Citizen, Kathy oversees the fundraising program for the organization including charitable support from individuals, foundations and corporations, and corporate advertising. As an active volunteer, Kathy has served on the boards of the Craigslist Foundation, Association of Philanthropic Counsel, Association of Fundraising Professionals - Golden Gate Chapter; UCSF AIDS Health Project; ODC (Oberlin Dance Company), and Connecticut NARAL; and as a member of the Endowment Campaign Committee of Synergy School. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.

Joshua Bonnett

Joshua Bonnett got the programming bug early, going so far as to draw screens and buttons on blocks of wood while other kids were playing with toy cars. Eventually able to buy a computer with money earned from painting apartments over a summer, he started teaching himself Linux. While in high school he was able to attend some classes taught at MIT by the students, where he got his first taste of actual programming. After graduating high school, he then went on to the University of Massachusetts Lowell to study computer science and history. At the end of sophomore year he started working at a non-profit called The Community Software lab. After quickly realizing that working suited him far more than college, he dropped out and went to work. After relocating to San Francisco, Joshua then began working in the tech industry first as a Systems Administrator and then in Software Development, where he has remained for the last 4 years.

Trey Bundy

Trey Bundy writes about youth for The Bay Citizen. He worked for 10 years as a residential treatment counselor with children from backgrounds of abuse and neglect. In 2009, he won the national William Randolph Hearst Award for Article of the Year. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, Planet magazine, and Razorcake magazine.

Jeanne Carstensen

Jeanne Carstensen is executive managing editor of The Bay Citizen in San Francisco. She has been an editor and writer at Salon, SFGate.com and the Whole Earth Review and a producer at Radio for Peace International, a shortwave station in Costa Rica, where she lived for six years. She was a National Arts Journalism fellow at Columbia University in 2001-2. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, Religion Dispatches and other publications.

Zoe Corneli

Before joining The Bay Citizen as online editor, I was a founding staff member of the daily local news magazine Crosscurrents from KALW, where I reported, edited and produced radio stories in addition to managing the development of the show's companion website, KALWNews.org. I have reported nationally for NPR News, PRI’s "The World" and "The Takeaway." In 2009, I was named Outstanding Emerging Journalist by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. I moved to San Francisco from New York in 2005.

Kristin Crawford

Kristin Crawford, Manager of Operations, comes to the Bay Citizen with three years of experience working for McKinsey & Company, a global consulting firm. She studied Art and Design as an undergraduate at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, followed by a stint living in Spain. She returned to San Francisco to be surrounded by the creative energy for which it is so well known. In her position at The Bay Citizen she will be in charge of daily operations, event planning, and assisting the CEO.

Zusha Elinson

Reporter covering bikes, buses, BART, buildings, and buds at the Bay Citizen. I was a legal reporter at the Recorder, an editor at the Marinscope and I started my career at the Oakland Post.

Romena Ghebrial-Ibrahim

Romena is our Marketing Intern at the Bay Citizen. She discovered her love for non- profit media after a chance meeting. Upon arrival in San Francisco she misplaced her purse, and a friend of the Bay Citizen's CEO found it. Once she got her purse back and after expressing her interest in media, Romena now finds herself supporting the business department at The Bay Citizen and enjoys every minute of it. Originally from Australia, she is currently completing her studies in Business and Broadcasting at San Francisco State University.

Aaron Glantz

Aaron Glantz covers housing, the economy, and military issues for The Bay Citizen. Before joining TBC, Glantz spent seven years covering the war in Iraq and the treatment veterans receive when they come home. He is author of three books, most recently "The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans" (UC Press). He is a third generation San Franciscan. aglantz@baycitizen.org, 415-821-8523

Jennifer Gollan

Jennifer Gollan covers education and some politics for The Bay Citizen. She joined the organization from the South Florida Sun Sentinel, where she produced watchdog stories involving 35 local governments and the Broward County Schools. She previously wrote for the Marin Independent Journal, the Santa Barbara News-Press and the Los Angeles Times. Raised by Australian transplants, Jennifer grew up in San Francisco and Boston.

Reyhan Harmanci

Culture Editor/Writer at the Bay Citizen.

Queena Kim

Queena comes to the Bay Citizen from 89.3-KPCC, Southern California’s leading NPR-affiliate, where she helped start-up its highly-successful arts and culture show Off-Ramp. As a reporter and co-producer of the show, Queena has done hundreds of stories on subjects ranging form a historic 10 Theremin concert at Disney Hall to animal sacrifices at a local Botanica. Queena also co-produces a pop + tech program called CyberFrequencies, which continues to air on KPCC and Sirius/XM. A graduate of NYU and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Queena spent four years at the Wall Street Journal. Queena has written for various publications including the Los Angeles Times, Modesto Bee and the LA Weekly. Her radio stories have aired on the BBC Global Perspective Documentary Series, WNYC's Studio 360, KQED’s California Report and NPR's Day To Day.

Sydney Lupkin

Sydney Lupkin is a recent graduate from the Boston University College of Communication. Before arriving at The Bay Citizen, Sydney worked as a computer-assisted reporting intern at ProPublica for six months, where she worked on the Recovery Tracker and wrote about a lapse in OSHA’s death records. She spent summer 2010 as an intern for The Boston Globe, where she worked on the metro desk. At BU, Sydney was editor-in-chief of BU's independent student newspaper, The Daily Free Press. She has been a city desk editorial assistant at the Boston Herald, a reporting intern at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, a reporter and web intern at television station WCVB in Boston, and a reporter for BU's State House program, where she led a team project -- published in several newspapers -- on the expected impact of joblessness on state legislative races.

Marie McIntosh

Marie McIntosh is the editorial assistant at The Bay Citizen. After graduating from Emmanuel College in Boston with dual degrees in Writing and History, she began working in textbook publishing. After realizing sitting in silence, squinting at algebra books was not for her, she moved to the Bay Area and is now the guard dog of the newsroom. She is also the main Twitter-er (Tweeter? What is the preferred nomenclature for that?) of the @thebaycitizen account.

Keith Meyer

Keith Meyer is a marketing veteran with nearly 20 years experience in various disciplines including online and offline marketing, brand strategy, and marketing communications. He has gone from various marketing roles at name brand companies like Sunkist, Visa, Wells Fargo, AAA, and Charles Schwab to more recently launching marketing efforts at several small to medium-sized start-ups. Keith holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Miami University of Ohio, and a Global MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Katharine Mieszkowski

I'm the environmental health editor for the Bay Citizen. I welcome your tips and comments, especially ideas for our Quality of Life blog: http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/quality-of-life/ I've been a journalist in the Bay Area for more than 15 years, where I've been on staff at Salon and Fast Company. My writing has also appeared The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones and MS. Follow me on Twitter @kmieszkowski. Email me at Katharine_Mieszkowski@baycitizen.org. Or, give me a call at: 415-821-8531.

MariNaomi

MariNaomi is the author and illustrator of the graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial). She self-published seven issues of Estrus Comics (1998-2009), and her work has appeared in such publications as I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections, Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women and Action Girl Comics. Mari has been exhibiting her artwork since 2002 and has done live painting performances in such venues as the De Young Museum and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has performed many visual readings of her comics, including an international tour with Sister Spit in 2011, and has appeared on HGTV's That's Clever. She is 1/4 of the collaborative team Five True Fans, and works and lives in San Francisco, California.

Rose Roll

Rose was part of the founding team that conceptualized and launched The Bay Citizen in the fall of 2009. In her role at The Bay Citizen, Rose leads the organization’s membership efforts. Thank you to all of our members who support quality public journalism - without you, we wouldn't be able to do what we do.

Adithya Sambamurthy

Adithya Sambamurthy is a San Francisco-based photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. Prior to joining The Bay Citizen, he worked on documentaries for National Geographic Television, PBS Frontline/World, and as a photo/video journalist for the San Jose Mercury News. Adithya started his photojournalism career in Florida, where he worked for the Fort Myers News-Press and the St. Petersburg Times. At The Bay Citizen, Adithya wants to continue using photography and video to tell local stories.

Shane Shifflett

Shane Shifflett is a software developer and reporter who learned how to interrogate data while finding a human angle to the story at Northwestern's Medill School. There, he wrote about a drug-addled prostitute's 300th arrest and the unforgiving criminal justice system that fails its inmates. He also reported on the Chicago Police Department's wasteful deployment of cameras across its city. Before reporting, Shane studied computer science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, worked construction, moved packages for UPS, and wrote software for a mutual fund company.

David Suriano

David Suriano's passion for user interface design began before the popularity of today's internet. In 1987 he discovered the world of 2400 bps modems and local Michigan BBSes. By 1989 he was customizing the ANSI art interface of his own multi-node BBS. David later obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communications from Collins College in Tempe, Arizona. He has successfully been self-employed as a designer for over seven years, working with a diverse range of clientele from start-ups to billion dollar corporations.

Aurelio D. Tinio

Aurelio Tinio has over ten years of experience as a web developer. Aurelio got his Computer Science degree at UCLA while working at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in order to support himself. After continuing his interest in the space industry at the X PRIZE Foundation he decided to move to San Francisco and explore opportunities that the vibrant Bay Area community had to offer. Prior to joining The Bay Citizen, Aurelio worked at Tippit as Senior Software Engineer, designing, implementing and managing the Focus.com property. Aurelio's love for code is matched only by his preoccupation with NBA basketball.

John Upton

John Upton writes about science, energy, water and the environment. jupton@baycitizen.org or 415 821 8552 - confidentiality assured.

Shoshana Walter

Shoshana is the crime reporter for The Bay Citizen. Send/call tips to swalter@baycitizen.org or 415-821-8524. Before moving to the Mission, she wrote about runaway monkeys, murders and all sorts of mayhem as a cops reporter for The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., where she also won a 2009 Sigma Delta Chi award for non-deadline reporting from the national Society of Professional Journalists and the Gold Medal for Public Service from the Florida Society of News Editors. She loves San Francisco weather, thrift-shopping, hearing your story, humongous earrings, coffee, drawing, reading and writing creative nonfiction. She has a B.A. in American Studies from Mount Holyoke College and completed the Poynter Institute's 2007 summer fellowship for young journalists.