ABOUT US

Upon the death of Mario Savio in November, 1996, admirers, colleagues and family established the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture series and, subsequently, the Mario Savio Young Activist Award. The fund operates under the fiscal sponsorship of the Tides Foundation.ping.gif

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Connie Heller, Co-founder, Linked Fate Fund for Justice
  • Lynne Hollander Savio, Chairperson, retired librarian
  • Colleen Lye, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
  • Mark Randazzo, Director, EDGE Funders Alliance
  • Nadav Goldberg Savio, Design Lead, Google.org
  • Steve Silberstein, Founder, Innovative Interfaces
  • Elaine Sundberg, Director of Academic Programs and Graduate Studies, Sonoma State University
  • David Walls, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Sonoma State University

ADVISORY BOARD

  • Ben Bagdikian
  • John Burton
  • Ronald V. Dellums
  • Phil Donahue
  • Troy Duster
  • Marian Wright Edelman
  • Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Daniel Ellsberg
  • Suzanne Goldberg
  • Adam Hochschild
  • Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Ralph Nader
  • Victor Navasky
  • Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • Alice Walker
  • Alice Waters
  • Howard Zinn (deceased)

CONTACT US

Email us at savio at sonic dot net or write:
Mario Savio Young Activist Award
P.O. Box 152
Guerneville, CA 95446

Photograph courtesy of Ron Enfield