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Previous Working Board Members
Taína Del Valle Asili
Taína Del Valle is a young puertorriqueqa teacher, poet, singer, visual artist and activist. In addition to work with SEF as a co-founder of the BUILD project and instructor with the Unlocked Minds prison poetry program, Taína also works with many other activist organizations including Philadelphia Con Vieques (a community based organization working to end the atrocities currently being committed in Vieques, Puerto Rico), Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Friends of MOVE. Check out Taína's website. Sara Zia Ebrahimi
From Gainesville, FL, Sara Zia has been involved in many Alternative Education and Independent Media campaigns, including the Philadelphia Independent Media Center and Paper Tiger TV. She is also a co-founder of the Prometheus Radio Project which has campaigned to reintroduce a low-power FM radio license. Before moving to Philadelphia she was a staff member of the Civic Media Center, a community-based independent reading room and library, for 4 years as well as a DJ at Free Radio Gainesville. Sara Zia currently
works for Bread and Roses Community Foundation. Sara Zia's website: From Spark to Fire Productions
Erica Lee
Erica M. Lee was born and raised in Philadelphia. She attended public school for 12 years and can clearly see a need for young people to know about alternatives. Erica got involved in SEF because she believes in empowering young people to get actively involved in their own education. Erica represented SEF in support of the School Funding Equity campaign, and was a co-founder of the BUILD Project.
Adrien Lowe
Adrien Lowe is a parent and activist living in Philadelphia. Besides work on the BUILD program and SEF, their activist history includes organizing around women's rights, anti-racism, AIDS, anti-poverty and Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual and Transgender issues.
Nicole Meyenberg
Previously the Managing Director of a small community press and de-facto director of Books Through Bars, Nicole now works for a fundraising and nonprofit management consulting firm. Her areas of interest and "expertise" include resource development, program design, qualitative research, prisoner education, school-community partnerships, and urban education. Her involvement in Books Through Bars is shifting, but she maintains responsibility for fundraising, research, curriculum development, program evaluation, and board development.
Emily B. Nepon
Emily Nepon has been a homeschooler, unschooler, public schooler, alternative college dropout and student. Her history of studying alternatives to traditional education includes work with Growing Without Schooling Magazine (Cambridge, MA), Drop Out Magazine and Resource Center (Sacramento, CA), and being a founding member of The Experimental Program in Education and Community (EPEC) and the Alternative Higher Education Network (AHEN) at Hampshire College. Nepon is a former board member of Resource Generation and New Society Educational Foundation. Thankful for activist-education in many intersecting movements, she recently completed a study of the 1980's activist group New Jewish Agenda, and is pleased to document that history online at newjewishagenda.org
Karl Muth
Adriyel Paymer
Thea Rome
Billy Wimsatt, currently Executive Director of the League of Young Voters aka The League of Pissed Off Voters.
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