Daniel Jaffe, formerly a corporate/securities attorney, currently a teacher at the UCLA Extension writers’ program

Cheryl Head, television producer, filmmaker, broadcast executive, media funder, and author of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery Series

Alvin Orloff, former Go-Go Boy, punk band member, impresario, and current manager at Dog Eared Books in San Francisco’s Castro District

Michael Nava, attorney, advocate, activist, award-winning author of the “Henry Rios” series

Avery Cassell, writer, poet, cartoonist, grandpa, and artist

Wayne Hoffman, journalist, activist, columnist, managing editor at Tablet Magazine

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, poet, reviewer, and editor-in-chief at Foglifter