Koshland Neighborhoods and Fellows

Our Five Current Koshland Neighborhoods

 Our Koshland Fellows are Bay Area grassroots risk-takers.

The Koshland Program currently works in five neighborhoods (San Pablo, North Fair Oaks, Ashland and Cherryland, West Berkeley and Bayview) throughout the five Bay Area counties served by The San Francisco Foundation.

We partner and build up the leadership of Bay Area grassroots risk-takers – social innovators who accept the most stubborn neighborhood problems as a personal challenge and who work collaboratively to overcome them.

 

2011 Koshland Fellow Award Winners – San Pablo

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Humberto Alvarez, Sergeant, San Pablo Police Department
Joseph Camacho, student, San Francisco State University
Gladys Garza, Patient Advocate, Brookside Community Health Center
LaZena Jones, Community School Director, Walter T. Helms Middle School
Khammany Mathavongsy, Non-Profit Consultant
Mayra Padilla, Director, METAS
Lisa Raffel, Immigration Integration Division Officer, Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Maria Resendiz, Healthy Start Coordinator, Ford Elementary School
Alexina Rojas, Director, First 5 Family Center West Contra Costa
Gonzalo Rucobo, Executive Director, Bay Area Peacekeepers Inc.
James Solis, Program Coordinator, Project FOCUS
Nancy Thome, Youth Services Program Manager, City of San Pablo
Robert Turner, Executive Director, 21st Century Mentors Foundation
Norma Valdez-Jimenez, Puente Counselor, Contra Costa College
Meuy Yong Saephan, Hand to Hand Program Coordinator, Lao Family Community Development Inc.

2009 Koshland Fellow Award Winners — North Fair Oaks

Vicky Avila Medrano, Community Program Specialist,Visión y Compromiso
Lydia Cardoza, Public Services Assistant, San Mateo County Sheriff's Office
Noel Chavez, Community Liaison, Migrant Program
Teri Chin, Human Services Manager, City of Redwood City/Fair Oaks Community Center
Lorena González, Human Services Manager, County of San Mateo
Sister Christina Heltsley, Executive Director, St. Francis Center
Mary Hofstedt, Youth Engagement Specialist, John W. Gardner Center
Priscila Jimenez-Pelaéz, Family Support Specialist, Fair Oaks School
Salvador Mejia, Program Coordinator, Community Alliance to Revitalize our Neighborhood (CARON)
César Meza-Esveile, Day Worker Program Director of North Fair Oaks, Multicultural Institute
Lucia Molina, Administrative Assistant, Garfield School
Silvia Ramirez, Community Organizer, Peninsula Interfaith Action (PIA)
Angelica Rodriguez, Public Health Graduate Student, UC Berkeley

Please visit the Fellow Profiles page to read more about the 2009 Koshland Award winners.

 

2008 Koshland Fellow Award Winners— Ashland and Cherryland

A group photo of the 2008 Koshland Award Winners.

Shanale Allen, Outreach Worker, Alameda County
Rafael Avendano, Team Up for Youth Ashland Neighborhood Sports Initiative Coordinator, Boys and Girls Club
Hilary Bass, Youth Development Coordinator, Alameda County’s Associated Community Action Program
Susan Beck, Community Volunteer, Cherryland Association
Christen Gray, Team Up for Youth Ashland Program Director, Boys and Girls Club
Maria Haro, Parent Liaison, Cherryland Elementary School
JoAnn Irons, Coordinator for the Ashland Community Center, Hayward Area Recreation and Park District (HARD)
Alfonso Macedo, Youth Pastor, New Hope Christian Fellowship
Amparo Ramos, ESL Teacher, Ashland Community Center

Read profiles of the 2008 Koshland Fellows. [PDF]

2007 Koshland Fellow Award Winners — West Berkeley

Matt Crocker, Associate Pastor, Church Without  Walls
Victor Q. Diaz, Principal, Berkeley Technical Academy
David Manson, Board Member, Berkeley Boosters
Gerardo Marin, Co-Manager, Farm Fresh Choice
Belén Pulido Martinez, Community Organizer, Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action (BOCA)
Michael McBride, Pastor, The Way Church
Lamont Snaer, Director, Rosa Parks Elementary School Family Resource Center
Ana Traylor, Board Member, West Berkeley Foundation and Stiles Hall

Read profiles of the 2007 Koshland Fellows. [PDF]

2006 Koshland Fellow Winners — Bayview (San Francisco) 

Jackie Cohen, 100% College Prep Institute
Barbara Glaspie, Visitacion Valley Community Resiliency Project
Teresa Goines, Old Skool Café
Diane Gray, 100% College Prep Institute
Misha Olivas, United Playaz
Virgie Patterson-Newman, Reach Out for the Rainbow After School Program, sponsored by Rainbow Seventh Day Adventist Church
Saniko Togafau, United Playaz
Lydia Vincent, Youth Leadership Development Program, a project of The Providence Foundation of San Francisco

Read profilesof the 2006 Koshland Fellows. [PDF]

 

Read more about our 2000-2004 Koshland Neighborhoods and Community Fellows

Download a list of 2000-2004 Koshland Fellows. [PDF]