Staff
Executive Director Amy André (e-mail Amy)
    Along with an MBA, focusing on nonprofit management, and an MA in sexuality studies, focusing on LGBT community issues, Amy Andre has over a decade of experience with local and national LGBT nonprofit organizations.
    As a Point Foundation Scholar, Andre earned her MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business in 2009. Prior to that, she worked at Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, criss-crossing the nation to educate thousands of employees at Fortune500 companies about LGBT rights. Before coming to Out & Equal, she served as Vice President of the Board at Open Enterprises, a cooperative where she worked for almost seven years.
    The co-author of Bisexual Health: An Introduction and Model Practices for HIV/STI Prevention, a book published by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Andre has articles in Curve Magazine, Alternet.org, and The Bilerico Project, among dozens of other publications.
    A lifelong bi and LGBT activist originally from the East Coast, Andre has lived in San Francisco since 1997. She currently resides in the Castro with her fiancée, filmmaker Kami Chisholm, PhD.

Deputy Executive Director Brendan Behan (e-mail Brendan)
    A native of San Diego, Brendan relocated to San Francisco in 2005 to work with San Francisco Pride. In 2003 Brendan received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in Chicana/o Studies with an emphasis in history and a minor in Gender Studies. Having studied at the Universidad de la Habana, Cuba, in 2002 and having completed his undergraduate education in 2003, Brendan returned to San Diego with a commitment to community organizing and devoted most of his time to cross-border activism related to trade issues, indigenous rights, and the environment. Working with groups such as the San Diego support committee to the Tijuana-based Frente Zapatista de Liberación Nacional and helping to organize bi-national clean-ups of the ecologically sensitive Tijuana Estuary, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, Brendan continued to deepen his involvement in grassroots organizing. Brendan has welcomed the opportunity to apply these experiences to the struggle for queer rights with San Francisco Pride.

Projects and Events Coordinator Amy Anner (email Amy)
    Amy Anner came to San Francisco Pride in January 2009 as the coordinator for the CAPI Conference and shortly thereafter became a staff member.  She relocated to San Francisco from the East Coast in 1991 and holds degrees in political science and women’s studies with a minor in Spanish.  She has extensive experience producing events throughout the Bay Area and has worked for numerous nonprofits including, TechSoup, Craigslist Foundation, Frameline, and the SFSPCA.
    Amy has volunteered for organizations such as SF Women Against Rape, Frameline, and the SFSPCA.  She worked with women’s groups in El Salvador on lesbian visibility and took coursework in Venezuela researching women’s rights and reproductive care.  She has also trained dogs for over twelve years and in her spare time works on films.  Amy is excited to be part of the San Francisco Pride team.

Director of Sponsorship Lindsey Jones (email Lindsey)
    Lindsey will be posting her bio here shortly.  Please check back soon.

Office Manager Sydni Peeler (email Sydni)
    Raised in Livermore, California, Sydni now lives in Oakland.  Sydni is happy to be working for her first non-profit.  With a background in communications and politics, Sydni hopes to play a key role in helping the organization maintain long-term relationships with other San Francisco community organizations. 

Programs & Special Projects Coordinator Imani Brown (email Imani)
    Having grown up in the Bay Area, Imani is glad to be living and working in San Francisco.  Her B.A. is from Pomona College where she majored in Women’s Studies with a focus in Politics.  While at Pomona, Imani worked at the Queer Resource Center and Women’s Union serving the Claremont Colleges’ LGBT community and its allies.  Her senior thesis, which profiled the California same-sex marriage debate, won the President’s Prize in Women’s Studies.  Imani values her study abroad experience at Cambridge University in England, where she focused on feminist theory and critical race studies, and her time at the University of Ghana in Accra.  In addition to her work as a feminist and queer activist, Imani is also proud of her time in student affairs, having worked at programs such as Summerbridge San Francisco, helping to run an after-school and summer program for low-income students and students of color in the San Francisco Bay Area.  As a member of the SF Pride staff, Imani feels privileged to work with such a wonderfully diverse community.

Transition Manager Joshua Smith (e-mail Joshua)
    Berkeley resident and San Francisco native Joshua Smith brings to the table fifteen years of organizational experience as a past board member of SF Pride. Currently, he serves as co-chair of the Soul of Pride and Community Dance Arena stages at the SF Pride Celebration.
    Joshua co-founded and serves as President of SF Lovevolution (formerly Lovefest/Love Parade), the nation’s largest non-profit electronic music parade and festival.  Outside of his community work, Joshua has a decade of experience in the banking sector.

Contractors
    Beverage Manager: Andy Copper, beverages [at] sfpride.org
    Bookkeeper: James Gong
    Donations Manager: Brian Probst, donations [at] sfpride.org
    Event Director: Joe Wagenhofer, event_manager [at] sfpride.org
    Exhibitor Relations Managers: Richard Kravitz & Bill Montgomery,
      exhibitor_relations [at] sfpride.org
    Operations Manager: Scott Schumake
    Parade Coordinator: Marsha Levine, parade [at] sfpride.org
    Recycling Manager: May Briosos

sfpride.org