speakers
BALLARD | FISHER | GREEN | HILL | SICK | SIDDAMALLAIAH | SILVER | SYMONS
Stephanie Ballard works with graduate-level psychology students and faculty at Alliant in Los Angeles, helping them find the best published literature for their dissertations, journal articles, etc. She is co-chair of her campus diversity committee and is active in AWARE-LA (Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere-Los Angeles). Stephanie has master degrees in both Library Science and Health Education, and experience in public health, health care, and human services.
Bill Fisher is a Professor with the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. He has taught in the areas of management of libraries and information organizations and special libraries/information centers for over 25 years. He is a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and served as SLA’s President in 2002-2003. He is currently chair of SLA’s Leadership and Management Division. He has written and presented on management-related topics throughout his career, including a presentation at the 4th International Conference on Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice. He also serves as an editorial advisor for the online journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.
Robert-Jay Green, PhD, is Founder and Executive Director of the Rockway Institute, a national center for LGBT research & public policy, and Distinguished Professor in the APA-Accredited Clinical Psychology PhD program at California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Francisco. Among his over 70 publications are the co-edited books, Family Therapy: Major Contributions and Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families: A Handbook for Therapists.. In 1998, he received the award for “Significant Contributions to the Study of Family Diversity” from APA’s Division 43 (Family Psychology) and in 2002, he received the award for Outstanding Contributions to Family Systems Research” from the American Family Therapy Academy. Most recently, in 2007, he received the award for Distinguished Professional Contributions from the Division of LGBT Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Green has served on many journal editorial boards including Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, Family Process, and Journal of GLBT Family Studies. He is a Fellow of APA Divisions 44 and 43.
Cindy has worked as an information professional in a variety of industries including environmental, engineering consulting, executive recruiting and high-technology. Her two most recent positions include the position of Vice President for Information Management at Outsell, an international research and advisory firm for the publishing and information industries and the manager for Sun Microsystems' Digital Libraries and Research Group. She is passionate about working with people to get the knowledge, information and connections they need. She especially enjoys creating strategic relationships with content partners to develop new uses and access points into their content. She has explored the potential of embedding content into portals, wikis, blogs, social networks, virtual worlds, and microblogs to facilitate knowledge collaboration throughout an enterprise. She enjoys testing the potential of new and emerging technologies to connect people, content, and knowledge.
Cindy is a Fellow and past-president of SLA. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on the information profession, technology uses, trends and issues, and management topics. Over the years she has taught at San Jose State University in the Library and Information Sciences program. On a personal note, Cindy backpacks at high altitudes, rides metric century bicycle rides, and is the happy owner of a Nook and a Kodak video camera. Her favorite country is Iceland because its rugged terrain was used by US astronauts to train for their Moon landings. Cindy has been to NASA's Space Camp twice.
Lisa Sick is a Training Specialist with PsycINFO with an extensive background working with academic, health sciences, and hospital libraries. She is the primary trainer for these institutions, as well as the Medical Library Association conference. Prior to becoming a trainer, Ms. Sick spent over 20 years as an indexer for the APA databases and also indexed for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and AARP. She is currently enrolled in a graduate program in Global Health at George Mason University.
For the past 25 years, Dr. Siddamallaiah has worked as Principal, Library and Information Officer, with the National Institute of Mental and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS) in Bangalore, India. Having a passion for the science of librarianship, he delivers special lectures to many universities in India and Thailand. He observes that LIS education in most universities is more of a demonstration of tools and techniques for handling information, rather than teaching the discipline as a science.
Dr. Siddamallaiah is President of the Health Science Library Association of India (HLAI), a Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Information Division, of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Informatics Center (NIC), MEDLARS Division, Delhi.
David Silver is an associate professor of media studies and environmental studies at the University of San Francisco where he teaches classes on media history, digital media production, and green media. David co-directs USF's Garden Project, a freshmen-to-senior living learning community built around an organic garden on campus. He blogs at silver in sf.
Johnny Symons is an Emmy-nominated independent film and videomaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His documentary Daddy & Papa (2002), about the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men raising children, premiered at Sundance, aired on PBS and international television, and garnered multiple Best Documentary awards. His newest film, Ask Not (2008), an award-winning feature-length documentary about the impact of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the US military, broadcast in 2009 on PBS’ Independent Lens.
Symons is the co-producer of the Academy Award-nominated Long Night’s Journey Into Day (2000), about South Africa's search for truth and reconciliation, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. His work has screened at more than 200 international film festivals and is used by hundreds of college educators and community organizers. Symons graduated with honors from Brown University and has a master’s in documentary production from Stanford University. He currently teaches documentary at Stanford and the Art Institute of California--San Francisco.