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.
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