Stacy Nathaniel Jackson (President) received a BA in Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. His visual art, poetry, and plays have appeared in Los Angeles City Hall, Femina Potens Art Gallery, New American Writing, and Black Arts Quarterly, among others. Stacy is currently the Assistant Director of the Foundation Business Office, UCSF Foundation; Board President of Fresh Meat Productions; member of the UCSF Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues, and the Transgender Subcommittee.

Shawna Virago (Vice-President) twists together insurgent country and punk roots rock, creating anthems for a new generation. Bucking the bigotry of mainstream music, Virago is one of the true pioneers of tranny rock. Her tuff and vulnerable lyrics dig deep at police brutality, the economic marginalization of transgender people and life lived on the sweet continuum of being trans. With her cigarette-singed vocals and school of hard knocks guitar playing, Virago’s songs punch out in-your-face sex and politics. One part poetess, one part ice queen and one part honky-tonk glamour girl, Virago is a Bay Area icon. Virago is also Director of TrannyFest, the acclaimed transgender film and video festival. www.shawnavirago.com

Tina D’Elia (Secretary) is a queer mixed race Latina powerhouse femme writer, actor and singer. She is the Hate Violence Survivor Program Director at Community United Against Violence. She has performed in many local venues and Festivals including the Fresh Meat Festival, Liquid Fire’s productions, the Dyke March and the National Queer Arts Festival. She co-emceed several SF Dyke Marches and is the writer and performer of “Groucho,” her acclaimed one-woman show. Her film credits include The Pursuit of Happiness, The Mercy Man and Seven. D’Elia co-Wrote and co-produced “Groucho,” a short film based on her one-woman show, which has been screened internationally at various independent film festivals. Her short story “Lost Black Jack King in my Eyes” was published in the Lambda Award Winning Best Lesbian Erotica Anthology. D’Elia is the recipient of the Ollin Civil Rights Award from Instituto Familiar de la Raza June 2006.

Ryan Buchholtz (Treasurer) is a MFT Candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a volunteer at Sha’ar Zahav and a photographer, visual artist.

Bobby Cheung (Member) is a mixed-media and digital artist born in Hong Kong. He moved to San Francisco at the age of 10. He holds a B.S. in industrial technology, Magna Cum Laude from San Francisco State University. He has served as a Fresh Meat in the Gallery curator since 2005. www.mingster007.com

Erin Singer (Member) is an aspiring tap dancer and fermentation-ist. When not tracking down artists or making photocopies, erin can be found baking at Arizmendi Bakery in the Sunset.

Sean Dorsey (Member) is an award-winning choreographer and dancer and the founder and Artistic Director of Fresh Meat Productions. Recognized as the nation’s first out transgender choreographer, Dorsey’s acclaimed work is a powerful fusion of dance, storytelling and theater and is creating new space for transgender and queer bodies and stories in modern dance. Dorsey has been awarded two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and the Goldie Award for performance. He was recently named Best Dance/Performance Troupe by the SF Weekly. Dorsey has been named one of the international dance scene’s most promising choreographers by Europe’s leading dance magazine, BalletTanz, and was named one of the Top Ten in Bay Area dance by both the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Bay Area Reporter. Dorsey is the recipient of a prestigious Wallace Alexader Gerbode Choreographer’s Commission and has received commissions from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Queer Cultural Center and Highways Performance Space. For more information, visit the Artistic Director’s page