Michael
Gosney, Founder, Co-director
Michael
Gosney is a pioneer in digital publishing who has developed
multimedia, Internet and ePublishing projects for sponsors and
clients such as Apple Computer, Toshiba, Lucent Technologies,
GE Capital Mortgage, Kodak and Peter Norton. He has produced
publications and events with leaders in sustainable design.
Books include Deep Ecology, ed. By Michael Tobias, After Eden
by Michael Tobias, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster
Fuller, Arcosanti: An Urban Laboratory? by Paolo Soleri.
Michael
founded Verbum, Inc. in 1988, with the publication of Verbum
magazine, one of the first desktop published magazines and an
influential catalyst for "cyberculture" and advanced
media development. In 1991 he published Verbum Interactive CD-ROM,
the industry's first true multimedia title that set a standard
against which early new media productions were measured. Michael
and the Verbum team produced many books and CD-ROMs in the 1990s
educating creative professionals on digital media production.
In 1998 Verbum produced Peter Norton's PC Guru, a consumer CD-ROM
with a companion website that again set a new standard for digital
media design. In 1998 he co-founded two new ventures: Studio-V,
a production group specializing in web design working for clients
such as National Discount Brokers, GE Capital Mortgage, and
Lucent Technologies; and Radio-V, an Internet-based music channel
in partnership with industry leader EMusic.
Michael
has served as a director on the board of Paolo Soleri's Cosanti
Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona since 1995. He has produced
the bi-annual Paradox Conferences at Arcosanti, Arizona with
speakers including Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry: Innovation
Inspired by Nature; William D. Browning, Director, Rocky Mountain
Institute Green Development Services; Elizabeth Burdock, Director
of PATH, Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (www.pathnet.org),
U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development (HUD); Erik Davis,
author of Techgnosis; Joe Firmage, scientist, entrepreneur,
author; Jon Jerde, founder of the Jerde Partnership International,
foremost urban designer; Mark Pesce, co-inventor of VRML; Paul
Ray, author of The Cultural Creatives; and Paolo Soleri, urban
designer and founder of Arcosanti, a model eco-city project
in central Arizona. Michael has also produced the annual Digital
Be-In in San Francisco for 12 years, a seminal gathering and
exposition showcasing humanistic applications of digital media
and exploring the emergence of "cyberculture" as force
for social evolution.
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Marc
Kasky, Co-director
Marc Kasky
has served as the Executive Director of San Francisco's Fort
Mason Center since 1980. As the driving force of one of the
nation's most successful community projects, his responsibilities
included planning and management for the conversion of the former
military base into a vital center for the arts, ecology, peace
and education. He currently serves as Director Emeritus for
Fort Mason, working on long term planning, ongoing development
activity, consulting with other communities on Fort Mason Center-type
projects, and public relations.
Currently
Marc is involved in the landmark "Kasky vs. Nike"
lawsuit concerning corporate vs. human rights and the "corporate
right to lie." See http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org for extensive material on the case.
Prior
to his position with Fort Mason, Marc was the Executive Director
of the San Francisco Ecology Center where he managed all aspects
of the influential environmental education center.
Marc
currently serves on several Boards of Directors: Green City
Project, Chair; Waking Up In the Nuclear Age; Home Away from
Homelessness; Presidio Alliance, Chair; SF Community Television
Corporation Advisory Board. Previous boards on which he has
served include Apprentice Alliance, Business Arts Council, Bay
Area Book Council, Bay Area Peace Navy, Bay Voice, City Celebration/World
Arts West, Compumentor Project, Design Council of the San Francisco
Bay Area, Creating Our Future, Elmwood Institute, San Francisco
Leadership Council (Chamber of Commerce), Treasure Island Citizens'
Advisory Board.
Marc
speaks extensively in the Bay Area and nationally on the conversion
of surplus public facilities to community cultural use. His
articles have appeared in numerous publications, including California
Living, The Association of Humanistic Psychology "Perspectives,"
Fellowship magazine, Awakening In The Nuclear Age Journal, the
Men's Journal and the Briarpatch Review. Marc earned a B.A.
from Wesleyan University and a Masters in City Planning from
Yale University.
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Marjorie Athwal, Director, Secretary
Marjorie Athwal, a resident of Berkeley, California, was born in India where she spent her formative years. A travel industry professional, she has travelled extensively, with the study of community and cultures as a central interest. She has worked with several non-profit groups, and holds a real estate license for practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has also been a grassroots activist and was an organizer for the Oaks Project that does training in citizen democratic participation. Marjorie has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage for 10 years. Presently she is living and working in a Buddhist community in Berkeley.
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