ABOUT Michael Franti Michael Franti, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the Helen Crocker Russell Award) – artist, activist, founder of Spearhead, for embodying a social movement of justice and activism and being a voice for...
ABOUT Malcolm Margolin Malcolm Margolin , Writer, Publisher, and Founder of Heyday Books, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2008 Community Leadership Awards (the Helen Crocker Russell Award) – for promoting California’s diverse cultures for more than...
ABOUT Insight Prison Project Michael Morgan, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2006 Community Leadership Awards for making symphonic music essential to the culture of the East Bay community. He is dedicated to minority access to the arts and arts education,...
ABOUT Linda Tillery Linda Tillery is a Bay Area legend, an ethnomusicologist, producer, percussionist, arranger and vocalist, educator and beloved performer. A San Francisco native, she founded the Cultural Heritage Choir twenty years ago to bring African diasporic...
ABOUT Jordan Simmons The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards presents Jordan Simmons, artistic director of the East Bay Center for Performing Arts, with the Helen Crocker Russell Award for building a better future for young adults through music and...
