Philip Tymon
Philip Tymon's zig-zag career started as a scientist with a B.A. in Astronomy (and Philosophy) from Tufts University and graduate studies at U.C.L.A. However, he zigged into an M.A. in Broadcast Communications from San Francisco State University where he became interested in the free speech issues of electronic media and then zagged to New York University Law School. After law school, he worked in D.C. for Ralph Nader's National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting and later for the Cable TV Information Center and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. He has also managed three public radio stations, WBAI in New York-- owned by the Pacifica Foundation--- KZYX in Philo, CA and KOWS in Occidental, CA, which he founded. After teaching broadcasting for about a decade at San Francisco State University and other Bay Area colleges, he spent over 16 years as part of the management team at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, He is currently working with River Arts and Media in Guerneville, CA towards creating an arts center for the lower Russian River region--- and maybe even another radio station.
Charlene Rowland
Charlene Rowland grew up farming in the beautiful Canadian prairie province Manitoba. She has studied and worked in Agriculture for 3 decades. Charlene has a teaching credential is Career Technical Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources and she has been teaching Agriculture, Plant Science and Natural Resource Management in Mendocino county for ten years. Charlene has taught at Anderson Valley Middle/High School, River Community School and Ukiah High School. During the past 5 years she has been teaching at Point Arena High School and has been facilitating dozens of successful field trips, apprenticeships, job shadows and outdoor education experiences.
Joseph M. Fernandez
Joseph Fernandez at the young age of 28 was one of two co-founders of Invitrogen, Inc (LIFE Technologies)., a molecular biology company headquartered in Carlsbad, California. Mr. Fernandez developed and helped launch the company’s first commercial products. As a senior member of the management team for over ten years, he and his colleagues built Invitrogen into the leading supplier worldwide of molecular biology tools for cloning and expression. Mr. Fernandez was involved in virtually all aspects of the company - including licensing, R&D, operations, business development and marketing. Mr. Fernandez left Invitrogen after their Nasdaq IPO in 1999. Invitrogen became a top 5 worldwide biotech company and was purchased by Thermo Fisher.
Mr. Fernandez started Active Motif in 2000 which specializes in genomic tools and platform technologies for Epigenetics and Gene Regulation. Active Motif is considered the world leader in EpiGenomics and Epigenetics. Prior to joining Invitrogen, Mr. Fernandez worked at Stratagene, where he helped develop and commercialize novel products for the then-infant field of molecular cloning.
Mr. Fernandez received his undergraduate degree from Hiram College in Ohio. He pursued post-graduate work in Bowling Green, Ohio in microbial genetics before accepting the position in Industry. Mr. Fernandez is the author of a number of scientific papers and has edited chapters and a textbook on several topics of molecular biology and has more than 20 patents in the industry.
Mr. Fernandez is an active member on the Hiram College (Ohio) board of trustees and is involved in several non-profit organizations through his Family Foundation. Mr. Fernandez chaired or been a member of boards representing the NADAQ USA, AIMS UK, and Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Germany. Mr. Fernandez is also a current member of the OZ Village board.