Sonny Le is a PR & Media Consultant. In addition to consulting for corporate and nonprofit organizations, he facilitates workshops for the East Bay Resource Center for Nonprofit Support and other resource organizations. He recently directed the Census 2000 PR and Media Campaign in Northern California and coordinated the New California Media EXPO & Awards in February. He's also on KSW's Advisory Board and has directed and raised funds for a number of nonprofits, including the old Ohana Cultural Center. He's a founding member of the Ohana Open Mike in the East Bay.

Samuel Sheng has been doing local theatre, independent films and all sorts of odds and ends in the San Francisco Bay Area for the last four years to support his habit of acting. Onstage, he has appeared in the 25th Anniversary revival production of "The Chickencoop Chinaman" at Asian American Theatre Company, four productions of the Magic Theatre's "Young California Writer's Project", the West Coast Premiere of "The Joy Luck Club" at Theatreworks, the world premiere of Thick Description's "Under Western Eye's" opening up their new space, The Thick House, "South Pacific" for the Mountain Play, a Sold Out Award winner at the 1998 San Francisco Fringe Festival, "Sex, Murder and Mayhem Never Looked This Good" for the Guerilla Theatre Company, the award winning one act, "Cause and Effect on Clement Street" at the New Play Festival '97 for the Santa Cruz Playwright's Festival, "Along For the Ride", the New Play Award from the 1997 SF Weekly Black Box Awards for Icicle Productions and most recently, "Café Depresso" at the Exit Theater for Tanta Productions, etc. He also co-founded R/Evolution Theater Company, which debuted June 16th, 2001 with "TEXAS" at the Thick House.

Pearl Ubungen is a fourth Filipina American born and raised in San Francisco. She creates work that combines the use of post-modern dance with elements of theater, text, popular culture and original live music. She is known for her commitment to community-based site-specific work and her collaborative process with visual artists, musicians and community members. Her works with her dance company, Pearl Ubungen Dancers and Musicians, include I-Hotel/The Fall, Makibaka!, and Tagulaylay.

Carlos Villa is a professor in the Painting Department and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1969. He received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA in Painting from Mills College. Villa has exhibited his work internationally, including exhibitions at the Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto; the INTAR Gallery, New York; and the American Academy at Rome, Italy. His work is featured in the permanent collections of many institutions, including those of the Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba; Columbia University, New York; the Oakland Museum; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum, New York.

Annie Koh