CONTRIBUTORS
Lloyd Barde is a
renowned concert
producer, as well
as Music Editor for
Common Ground
Magazine, DJ
Heartbeat, and the
founder of Backroads Music (and
still sells CDs!). He and Deborah have
led “Calling in the One,” 8-week
co-ed classes, for the past six years.
www.lloydbarde.com
John Briscoe has
published several
books on history,
law, and of poetry.
His poetry and legal,
literary and historical
essays have been
widely published in literary and
scholarly journals.
Bruce Burtch, called
the “Father of Cause
Marketing,” Bruce
is an internationally
respected cross-
sector partnership
and cause marketing
expert. For over 40 years, Bruce has
provided workshops, training and
created partnerships between the
for-profit, nonprofit, education
and government sectors which
ignited their economic and social
environmental impact, while
focusing on creating a greater good.
Noah Griffin is a
former weekly
syndicated
columnist for the San
Francisco Examiner
and a winner of the
prestigious Eugene
Block Award for excellence in
journalism. He has been published in
the Boston Globe and San Francisco
Magazine. He currently writes a
monthly column for the Marin IJ and
is the Founder of TheCole Porter
Society.
Lily O’Brien is a Bay
Area writer whose
articles have appeared
in the San Francisco
Chronicle, the Marin
Independent Journal,
the Pacific Sun,
the San Francisco Classical Voice
and Strings Magazine. Passionate
about music and the arts, she
has performed as a folk, jazz and
classical singer, and currently sings
with the Marin Symphony Chorus.
Candace Killman
philosophy is based
on finely developed
listening skills,
discovering her clients
unique needs fro their
project. She teaches
her clients basic design theory as
part of a shared creative experience.
Bente Mirow has
been a professional
freelance writer for
more than 30 years.
Somewhere in time
she went back to
school and backed
up her profession with a Master’s
Degree in creative writing and art
history. Most recently, she has built
her own publishing platform from
where she shares life skills messages:
www.InnerWeather.com. Locally,
she is better known as the Store
Manager of RileyStreet Art Supply in
San Rafael, where she has roamed
for 10 years.
Alejandro Palacio is
a media artist who
works in responsive
installations and
interactive media
design. He uses
video, photography,
installation, and mixed media to
explore the complexity of human
experiences such as immigration
and identity. Alejandro is the
communications & development
Manager for Community Media
Center of Marin.
Ed Schwartz began
his career in wine
promotion at New
York’s “21” Club. As
his interests in wine
grew, he moved West
to be closer to the
grapes. Ed has written more than
500 published articles on wine, food
and travel. Mostly recently, Ed was
the wine editor for The Nob Hill
Gazette.
Nicola White is a
London based artist
who makes artwork
from objects found
while mudlarking
along the banks of
the River Thames.
Nicola has also been working with
San Quentin death row inmate
artists since 2015, and founded
ArtReach as a platform to help
show their work which is made in
solitary confinement. Proceeds of
sales by the San Quentin Artists go
towards helping prisoners to buy
more art materials and a percentage
is donated to charity towards
providing college scholarship funds
for family members of murdered
victims.
Judith M. Wilson is a
feature writer who
enjoys telling a wide
variety of stories
reflecting life in the
North Bay, from art
to agriculture to the
mysteries of sparkling wine. She is a
regular contributor to NorthBay Biz,
and her work has appeared in North
Bay Woman and Marin Independent
Journal’s special sections. She also
writes theater reviews for telli.
com. Previously, she worked as a
newspaper reporter and editor in
the educational book publishing
industry.
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