Board of Directors:
Meeth Soni
Meeth Soni is the Co-Legal Director at the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), an immigrant rights organization dedicated to ensuring due process for all. Meeth has been practicing immigration for over ten years and has dedicated her career to representing survivors of torture and persecution and advocating against inhumane and oppressive immigration enforcement practices. Meeth is also a zealous dog-mother and lives with her brood in Los Angeles.
Lee Fang
Lee Fang is a journalist with The Intercept. He has a long-standing interest in how public policy is influenced by organized interest groups and money. He was the first to uncover and detail the role of the billionaire Koch brothers in financing the Tea Party movement. His interviews and research on the Koch brothers have been featured on HBO’s “The Newsroom,” the documentaries “Merchants of Doubt” and “Citizen Koch,” as well as in multiple media outlets. He was an investigative blogger for ThinkProgress (2009-2011) and then a fellow at the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute and contributing writer for The Nation.
Kelly Whalen
Kelly Whalen has more than 20 years of experience directing and producing long-form documentary for national PBS and primetime television. She directed and produced the national Emmy-nominated documentary “Tulia, Texas” (Independent Lens); produced the PBS series Livelyhood, the Not In Our Town special “Light in the Darkness,” “The Fire Next Time (POV), “Murder in St. Petersburg” (FRONTLINE World,) “Policing the Force” (WNET’s Expose: America’s Investigative Reports,) and “Everything Comes from the Streets” (KPBS/Truly CA.) Today, as senior producer of KQED Arts, she creates and curates short form documentaries about artists and culture makers often on the frontline of social justice and change.
Maryann Tekverk
Maryann Tekverk manages institutional fundraising at Rainforest Action Network, and has 8 years of experience fundraising for a variety of environmental and social causes. Previously, she directed a successful campaign to ban single use plastic grocery bags in San Diego, California. Maryann has an MS in Earth Sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Nando Vila
Nando Vila is a host and producer focusing on politics, culture, and sports. He was Vice President of Programming at Fusion TV from 2013-2018. During the 2016 election cycle, he executive produced the Emmy-nominated documentary The Naked Truth: Trumpland, which profiled the people who fueled the Trump candidacy. Recently he executive produced, created, and hosted the political sketch comedy show Happy Ending for Fusion and hosted the popular Gimlet Media podcast We Came to Win.