Mr. Bell is an alumnus of St. Mary's College of Maryland and holds a B.A. in Public Policy Studies. Mr. Bell also sits on the board of The Edgewood Center for Children & Families, the oldest children's charity in the western United States. Edgewood began as a refuge for Gold Rush orphans more than 150 years ago. Each year the organization serves over 5,000 severely challenged Bay Area children and families through community-based and residential programs.

Mr. Bell began volunteering for The GLBT Historical Society in early 2008 and joined the board in August of that year. He was appointed to the Executive Committee in 2009.

TERENCE KISSACK

Terence works at U. C. Berkeley where he administers policies and procedures related to the solicitation of major donors. He holds a PhD in American History from the City University of New York. Prior to joining U. C. Berkeley, Terence served as Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society, consulted with various non-profits and taught at a number of Bay Area colleges. His most recent book entitled “Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895 – 1917” was published by AK Press in 2008.

Terence began volunteering with the GLBT Historical Society in the early 1990s and joined the board in 2007.

BILL LIPSKY

Bill Lipsky received his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at Pepperdine University, Los Angeles; a Curriculum Specialist with the Graduate School of Education, UCLA; and a program developer and facilitator for Visa, Citicorp, MCI, Wells Fargo, and the City and County of San Francisco. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (2006). His articles have appeared in Review of Politics, Educational Leadership, Social Studies, Curriculum Review and other publications. He collects Edward Gorey first editions, Scrooge McDuckiana and American world’s fair memoribilia. He lives in San Francisco with his partner of 27 years and Miss Scarlett O’Hairball (who will never be hungry again) and Hillary Rodham Kitten.

Bill has been a volunteer at the GLBTHS since 2005 and a member of the Board since 2006.

AMY SUEYOSHI

Amy Sueyoshi is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University jointly appointed in Ethnic Studies and Human Sexuality Studies.  She teaches on race, gender, and sexuality and has published more specifically on Asian American queer issues in Frontiers: A Women Studies Journal and Amerasia.

She holds a B.A. from Barnard College and a Ph.D. from UCLA.  Amy has also worked as a community organizer in New York City and remains involved in the queer Asian community both in Japan and San Francisco.  She has served as a newsletter editor and a fundraising coordinator for organizations such as O-musubi, APIQWTC, and API Family Pride.  She first came to the GLBT Historical Society in 1997 while doing research on gay Asians for a seminar paper in graduate school.

Ms. Sueyoshi joined the board in August 2007.

HENRY LUCERO

Henry Lucero has over thirteen years of experience in professional management, fundraising and event planning. Working in both for-profit and non-profit businesses, he understands the unique needs of each entity. Under his direct leadership, Henry has raised over 40 million dollars from grants, contracts, individual donors, corporations and special events. Currently Henry is the Deputy Executive Director for Development at Project Inform, which fights nationally and in San Francisco to end HIV/AIDS by stimulating the development of increasingly effective treatments and a cure; advocating for unlimited access to quality healthcare for all low-income individuals; and providing thorough and accurate information about how to survive HIV disease. Prior to his position at Project Inform, Henry was the first Development Director at PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support) He also held the position of Planning and Development Director for LifeLong Medical Care a community based health center located in Alameda County. Henry began his non-profit career first as Development Director then eventually Executive Director of Project ReStart a homeless agency based in Reno, Nevada. He received his degree in Political Science and Spanish from the University of Nevada and resides in San Francisco, California with his partner and their black lab Logan.

ANDREW JOLIVETTE

Andrew Jolivette is an associate professor in American Indian Studies, Educational Leadership, and Race & Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the the Board Presdient of the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture---Speak Out and the author of two books, Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery & Mixed Race Native American Identity (2007) and Cultural Representation in Native America (2006). Professor Jolivette is currently working on a third book, Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV: A Community History in the Bay Area.

DENISE BELLOTTI

Denise is Director of Service Transformation at Cisco. She joined the board in 2004 and has served in several capacities including Co-Chair of the board. Denise has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Oregon and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of California, San Diego

BOB MICHITARIAN

Bob Michitarian is a corporate attorney and founder of Tyr Legal, a strategic law firm serving biotech and high-tech companies, executives and small businesses. He also heads the National Legal Recruiting and Consulting Practice for Levin & Company, a leading executive search firm in the life sciences. Levin & Company has offices nationwide and recruits Board Directors and Senior Executives for companies in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices, healthcare IT and services, and greentech/cleantech. Mr. Michitarian has served as an Executive Officer and General Counsel of private and public companies. His in-house legal experience includes life science companies Genentech, Affymetrix, CoTherix and 4Dx Molecular Diagnostics. He also served as Vice President and General Counsel of the e-commerce software companies Blaze Software and its acquirer Brokat Technologies. Mr. Michitarian holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. In 1993, he chaired the Law Review’s Symposium on Sexual Orientation and the Law, which included live presentations and debates as well as the publication of a 600-page scholarly journal. He has served for six years on the National Board of Directors of Lambda Legal, a leading civil rights organization, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Stanford Daily Corporation, an independent student news entity. Mr. Michitarian also advises nonprofit organizations and political campaigns. Mr. Michitarian joined the Board in 2008.

MARJORIE BRYER

Marjorie Bryer is past Co-Chair of the Board of the GLBT Historical Society and a member of the Archives Working Group. She has worked for the Historical Society as a project archivist and has been a volunteer for nearly 10 years. She has written grants and co-curated several exhibits for the organization. She also wrote the introduction for the microfilm edition of the Historical Society’s periodical collection, “Our Stories.” Bryer has a Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Minnesota and a Master’s in Library and Information Science from San José State University with a specialization in archival administration. She is currently a Manuscripts Survey Project Archivist at The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. Her academic work as a historian and her practical work as an archivist reflect her political commitment to preserving the history of groups that have been marginalized by society.

E. G. CRICHTON

E.G. Crichton is an interdisciplinary artist who uses a range of creative strategies to explore social issues, history, and site-specific subject matter. She often works within community settings and collaborates across disciplines with performers, writers, scientists and composers, to name a few. Her work has been exhibited in art institutions and as public installations in Europe, Japan, Australia and across the U.S. As first Artist-in-Residence for the GLBT Historical Society, she has developed a project called LINEAGE: Matchmaking in the Archive that involves a growing number of participants, each one matched with the archive of someone who has died. In 2000, E.G. and artist Kim Anno won a Creative Work Fund grant to work with the GLBTHS on a project called Lost and Found: a Museum of Lesbian Memory in San Francisco, and Stories of Courage in the city of Richmond. E.G. is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has taught since 1994. She sometimes brings art classes on field trips to the archives, and has involved several of her students in the Lineage project.

STEVEN GIBSON, MSW

Steve is a refugee from the mid-West who fled St. Louis in 1992 to pursue his dream of becoming a professional homosexual. Upon arriving in San Francisco, he deferred his student loans and paid his dues working retail for nearly two years while trying to get a job in HIV prevention. He ultimately succeeded and was offered a position at the STOP AIDS Project, where he worked for nearly 11 years. He is the director and founder of Magnet, the gay men's community health center located in the Castro.

He earned his MSW at St. Louis University where he specialized in Community Organizing and Social Justice. While living in St. Louis, he was a member of ACT UP/St. Louis and was arrested for disrupting a speech by former President George H. Bush.

Mr. Gibson is one of the newer members to the Board of Directors for the GLBT Historical Society. He is of the belief that our history must be told to us by us as history has for far too long denied us that right. Our history is not only our past but it is our present. He is delighted to be associated with a group of dynamic individuals passionate about our history and our future.