 David Jolliffe (Executive Director): Extension 15
Starting out as an extra on “ General Hospital”, David worked in the television/film industry in Los Angeles with such personalities as Dr. Laura Schlesinger and David Copperfield until moving to the Redwood Empire in the mid 1980’s. He went to work as a production supervisor for Lake County Television, a non-profit agency chartered to operate low power television stations in the North Bay Area. David was promoted to Executive Director when he and community members launched Lake County’s first PEG channel. Reaching both cable television households by their PEG channel and non-cabled homes through over-the-air broadcast, Lake County Television’s programming became the electronic town hall meetings for all civic and community events.
David independently produced several documentaries in the area of social justice. As David pursues the completion of a documentary on the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, his relocation to the Bay Area brought him the opportunity to work as Executive Director for Berkeley Community Media. His dedication to community access is deepened by Berkeley’s history of Free Speech and the excellent staff he’s able to work with.
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 Donald Bauer (Operations Manager): Extension 11
Donald Bauer has been Berkeley Community Media’s Operations Manager since March 2003. Previous to joining BCM Donald worked for a variety of media-related companies in San Francisco, including a 5-year stint managing the day-to-day operations for a video production company and 3 years serving as the accountant/controller for a well-respected video post-production facility. Donald has a 20-plus year history working in many aspects of bay area media, ranging from television and radio production to the business and operations side of a wide variety of media enterprises.
Donald’s core duties include managing BCM’s financial and business-related responsibilities and keeping a sharp eye on the daily operations of this busy PEG access facility. Don has a solid background in both media and business, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Communications and a Masters Degree in Business. His business knowledge and broadcast & production background provide BCM with a steady hand of experienced leadership. |
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 Victoria R. Fong (Development Manager): Extension 12
Victoria is a native to the Bay Area and started her involvement with public access television two years ago as a Development Intern at Access San Francisco. Victoria’s passion for community television was sparked while attending the University of Califoria, Santa Cruz, where she majored in Community Studies with an emphasis in Social Documentation. There she produced numerous video documentaries with topics ranging from student organizing, exploring multiracial identity, to journalistic integrity. At BCM Victoria supervises interns, works with organizational outreach, membership services, community partnerships, and is the producer for 28 Minutes, a quarterly magazine news show on the Berkeley community. |
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Katherine Westholm (Programming Coordinator): Extension 13
Katherine moved to the Bay Area in 2006 from Iowa, where she was active with the local public access channel. She produced projects about economic justice, which intersected with environmental and immigrant rights. She’s excited about community media because she thinks it’s a good do-it-yourself model of the democratization media needs. At BCM she teaches workshops, oversees scheduling and solicits new programming. When Katherine’s not working, she loves reading history, writing, picnicking in parks, riding her bicycle and most especially guzzling beer at the Parkway Theatre while watching the latest effects-laden Hollywood flop.
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 Jeffrey Kimmich (Access Facilitator): Extension 16
Jeffrey is the Access Facilitator at BCM, where he maintains the studios and equipment. He also teaches the Youth TV Camp, Studio Production, and Field Production workshops. Jeffrey is a poet, musician and filmmaker and proud Oaklander. He studied film and lit at UC Santa Cruz and has worked on film crews and done lots of live-event videography. He tends to overemphasize the ontological priority of language over consciousness but still thinks shooting psychedelic rock shows is fun. Sometimes he’s talkative, animated and sometimes he’s insecure. While he wants everyone to think he's hatching a genius plot to take over the art world, he's actually just trying to find his keys.
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 Benjamin O'Brien (Station Assistant): Extension 10
I started working with video in 2004 at Purchase College in New York after two disappointing years as a graphic design major. I was attracted to the flexibility and freedom of video art, which was something I needed if I was going to survive the rest of college. I quickly fell in love with video art and knew it was more for me than just a means to an end. It took me 2 years to make a dozen 3 second videos and graduated in 2006. After I graduated, seven of my friends and I moved to Oakland, where I have been putting my video skillz to good use. Working at BCM is an exciting job where I have had the opportunity to help others make videos and bring their work to a larger audience. I have also had the holy honor of appearing on a couple episodes of Watch This!, produced by Moby Theobald, and I was a guest on Reggie in the Raw, we made raw thai coconut soup. In my free time I have been producing a children’s puppet show called Showbeast which you can check out at Showbeast.net.
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 Masako Yamada (Government Producer): Extension 10
I entered the United States in June of 1950, as one of the first 300 post WW II Japanese exchange students, to be "re-oriented and re-educated here" under the auspices of the then U.S. War Department. B.A. in Sociology, University of Kentucky, 1952. followed by graduate study in sociology at University of Wisconsin. M.A. in Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1958. As graduate research assistant at U of W and then at U of M, I was a computer programmer for IBM main frame, in the first generation and second generation computer days. Married in 1954. Was naturalized in April, 1959.
I have lived in Berkeley California since January of 1961 to date. Two sons attending Berkeley public schools, I was a parent volunteer in BUSD and active in school politics during the city-wide integration of late sixties and the turbulent seventies, Retrained and re-entered the labor market in 1977, by then the fourth generation computer field. Worked as Programmer/Analyst in Alameda County Data Processing Department, now called Information Technology Department. Retired from the Alameda County employment in 1994.
Joined Berkeley Community Media in January of 1996, as a part of League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany & Emeryville, but soon as an individual member. For a while I produced video programs, political, social and cultural. I am a member of Video Feedback, a loosely-knit producers' group, founded at BCM in December of 1996. I keep crewing for Video Feedback productions. Every election season I participate in the LWVBAE production of the local candidates' forums.
I have been a part-time staff of BCM since 1997, first as programming assistant, and currently as government producer responsible for the recording of any public meeting of Berkeley government agencies. |
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 Joseph Liesner (Government Producer): Extension 10
I got my first exposure to the TV/Video scene when, in 2000. I was accepted into the apprenticeship program at Berkeley Community Media. Prior to that I had been a teacher, caseworker, dance therapist, and carpenter/contractor. I now have completed all three tiers of the BCM Internship Program and am the Government Producer, with Masako Yamada, of The City of Berkeley's aired board and commission meetings on Channel 33.
My interest in video lead me to the Multimedia Arts department at Vista where I have completed 40 credits. Having completed classes in editing, DVD production, and motion graphics I now independently produce segments for BCM. I am mostly interested in issues concerning social justice.
My most exciting work was as part of a team producing segments for Paper Tiger's nightly news magazine during the Republican National Convention in 2004. |
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 Howard Brad Halverson (Graphic Designer): Extension 10
birth date: undetermined.
interests: expiremental music production, graphic design, literature, social justice movements.
currently: working towards a Bachelor of the Arts Degree from California State University Hayward and a Teaching Credential, lives in the magnificent city of Oakland and aspires to become a literature teacher there as well.
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