PUEBLO Board of Directors
Grover C. Dye
Education: B.A. in Social Sciences from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia; M.S. W. from Howard University in Washington, D. C.
Experience: Deputy Mental Health Director, Alameda County Health Agency, retired; past Chair and Member of the Board of Directors of the Paul Robeson Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union; Chair of the Bay Area Paul Robeson Centennial Committee; Vice-President of the Alameda County Retired Association,; Member of the Advisory Committee Service International Employees Union; Past Chair and present Member of the Board of Directors of People United for a Better Life in Oakland (PUEBLO).
Previous Experience over a period of fifty years: Member of Interim Board of Directors of People United for a Better Life in Oakland (PUEBLO); a variety of work with public and private organizations which included Director of Neighborhood Development Programs, Tenant-Union Organizer, Child Therapist, Case Worker.
Alan Taylor
Education: Chosen as a New York State Regents Scholar 1969 Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio Wagner College, Staten Island, New York;B.A. History (1975 elected to the Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honors Society San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California Masters Program in Educational Technology (and the use of film, video and computers in education) Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio Graduate Program in Environmental Planning & Design
Professional Experience: Contract monitor for VMS, San Francisco. Surveyed various broadcast media; summarized coverage for VMS customers, most of whom were Silicon Valley technology companies.
Free-lance photojournalist in Hong Kong (with travel to Japan, China, Indonesia). Wrote travel and lifestyle articles for numerous regional publications.Edited and wrote business articles for the EIU (Economic Intelligence Unit, a division of the Economist magazine.)
Habitat Center, San Francisco, California. Managed the small, innovative architectural firm with an educational emphasis for three years. Specialized in energy-efficient architecture.
Inco, Ltd. New York, New York. Research function in the patent and research departments, involvement in U.S. Justice Department anti-trust investigation; wrote corporate history on downstream tax restructuring.
Roseanne Torres
Roseanne Torres is a native of California, born in the Central Valley and raised in both Stockton and Mexico Roseanne possesses a deep bi-lingual and bi-cultural fluency.
Mrs. Torres has been practicing law for over seven years. She began as a civil attorney in Stockton and went on to serve as the Deputy County Counsel for San Joaquin County.
Two years later, Roseanne joined the District Attorney’s office and served as a Prosecutor before leaving to establish her private practice in criminal and family law.
In addition to maintaining a thriving private practice, Mrs. Torres was appointed by City Council Member Nancy Nadel to serve on the Measure Y Oversight Committee. She also serves on the Board of Youth Movement Records in Oakland.
Mary Vail
Mary Vail, a thirty year resident of the Bay Area, has been engaged in social justice and labor organizing since the late seventies. For more than twenty five years Ms. Vail has served on the Board of the Bar Association of San Francisco including chairing various Criminal Justice, System Reform, Police Review and OCC Oversight Committees.
Since the mid-nineties, Ms. Vail has been employed as a Field Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board. Prior to joining the NLRB, Mary was a member of the Senior Legislative Counsel on Civil Rights and Legal Services Delivery within the State Bar of California. Additionally, Ms. Vail has served on Mayor Ron Dellums Task Force on Public Safety and Police Issues since 2006.
Anne Butterfield Weills
Anne has been a civil rights and equity activist since her teenage years. She was one of the first organizers of the womens' liberation movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to becoming an attorney she worked as a union organizer for the International Association of Machinists, the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union, and the International Garment Workers union. She also taught womens' studies at Antioch College's San Francisco campus until she was fired for helping the students organize their strike against excessive student fees and an inadequate standard of instruction.
She received her law degree from the Golden Gate University Law School in San Francisco, concentrating in labor and employment law.
In her current practice Anne handles wrongful termination, civil rights and employment cases. Currently she has five active cases at California universities, an ethnic discrimination case at the University of California, Berkeley, a sex discrimination and hostile work environment case at the University of California, Irvine, a racial discrimination case against Stanford University and Pat Washington's race and sex discrimination case against CSU/SD. Anne has two sons, a grandson, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since she was five years old.
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