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The Organization
The Board of Directors of the Funnel Foundation
Tracy Stampfli is the founder and Executive Director of Funnel. She has worked as a mathematician, teacher, and software engineer. She is one the founding members of the Digital Workers' Alliance, a progressive membership organization which works to promote sustainable economic growth and to create bridges between high-tech workers and local community members and grass-roots organizations. She has worked with several nonprofit organizations in the Bay Area, including Hands On San Francisco and Open Hand.
Abie Hadjitarkhani is a teacher, writer, and high-tech worker. He co-founded the Paraffin Arts Project, a non-profit educational arts organization, to foster intermedia collaboration and greater community involvement in the arts. The Paraffin Arts Project has received support from the Zellerbach Family Fund and the California Arts Council for its work, which includes sponsoring readings and performances as well as publishing 6,500, a journal of new work from both young and established writers. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University.
Will Luo is a software engineer and video activist. He worked for Intel and Sun among others before working for a research consulting company, Applied Minds. A founding member of Sleeping Giant productions, he participated in planning, production, and post-production of the popular documentaries, "Showdown in Seattle" and "Breaking the Bank." Will has done volunteer work with Christmas in April, AIDS walk, AIDS ride, and Changing America.
Sasha Magee is a documentary filmmaker, computer programmer and community activist. A long-time resident of San Francisco's Mission District, he is on the advisory boards of several local community organizations, including St. Peters Housing Committee, and has helped to found numerous community-oriented media organizations, such as Sleeping Giant Productions and HellaVision. Sasha was also one of the initiators of the Independent Media Center movement, and has worked to organize working people in many places across the US, including Chicago, Dallas, Salinas and Oakland.
Saskia Traill is primarily interested in child development from ages zero to twenty-one. She currently works at the National Economic Development and Law Center to improve child care policy. She was recently a fellow both at the Stanford Center on Adolescence and at the Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender, researching risk factors for mental illness in adolescent girls. Saskia has worked withthe Foundation for Child Development in New York on improving media reports about children and families, as well as on family leave issues. She served as the Development Officer for Learning through an Expanded Arts Program, a teacher-training program to implement more hands-on academic programs in New York City's public schools. In the Bay Area, Saskia has worked with a number of youth development organizations, including the Quest Scholars Program, East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring, and the San Mateo Teen Crisis Line. She has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University.