Leadership

**R. "Alden" Feldon | President**

After a 20-year career in marketing research, Alden went to work in 2006 to help mitigate climate change because he recognized that it is one of the greatest challenges of our era. For the following six years, he designed climate action plans and developed greenhouse gas measurement protocols with local, national and global communities and governments. Over the next seven and a half years, he brought his passion to the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation to help empower the world-changing work of nonprofits in investigative journalism, documentary films, arts & culture, the environment, and social justice. He is also co-founding Earth Legacy Alliance, a nonprofit, philanthropic advisory firm dedicated to creating partnerships that advance environmental and wildlife protections, environmental justice, and our shared responsibility to live in harmony with the natural world. He has a BA in Philosophy (Northwestern University) a MA in Counseling Psychology (Pacifica Graduate Institute) and is a certified Life Coach, poet, and musician.

**David Schneider | Treasurer**

**David Schneider** has been a television journalist and documentary filmmaker for more than 40 years and is now owner of Sonoma Films. In addition to producing his own projects, Schneider has served as a consultant on documentary films, including *Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn* from Investigative Studios. Schneider spent a combined 29 years at CBS News based in Los Angeles, Denver, New York, Washington DC and northern California. For eight of those years, he was a producer with *60 Minutes* and was one of the original producers for *60 Minutes II* and 48 Hours. In 1998, Schneider was senior producer and writer for the groundbreaking CBS Reports documentary *Enter the Jury Room* which filmed criminal trials and jury deliberations via remote controlled cameras. The broadcast received the Alfred I. DuPont Silver Baton Award. Schneider’s work has also been recognized with six Emmys and a Peabody award. From 2002-2009, he was Head of Documentaries at Lucasfilm where he created and managed a 30-person unit that produced 94 nonfiction historical films for the DVD release of *The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones* television series. The highly acclaimed documentaries were followed by *Manifest Destiny,* a three-part feature length series on the history of American foreign policy. In 1980-81, Schneider was a Henry Luce Scholar and worked for GMA Television News in Manila, The Philippines. He is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College with a degree in Literature and Philosophy.

**Oriana Zill de Granados | Secretary**

**Oriana Zill de Granados** is an investigative writer and producer at CBS News, *60 Minutes.* Recently, she has reported on the use of the corporate and banking system of Cyprus by Russian oligarchs to evade US Sanctions, corruption in the former Trump Administration’s efforts to build a border wall and on the government of China’s quest to collect the DNA of American citizens. In 2019, she was awarded an Alfred I duPont/Columbia University Award for her reporting on the border crisis and the separation of children from immigrant parents. She has produced stories about failures in the government’s oversight of Covid-19 antibody testing, about allegations of sexual harassment in the restaurant industry and about questions surrounding Lance Armstrong and the use of performance enhancing drugs, among others. Formerly, she was a producer and writer at PBS Frontline, including reporting on the four-hour series Drug Wars, which was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award.

Sumi Aggarwal | Board Director

Sumi Aggarwal is an investigative reporter and editor. Until recently, she was the Editor in Chief at the Center for Investigative Reporting. Prior to that, she spent nearly a decade at CBS News’ 60 Minutes, where she produced a wide variety of stories. She has also worked as a Booking Producer at The Today Show and led Executive Communications for Google’s Search and Maps teams. Sumi was also an Adjunct Professor at the City College of New York, where she helped establish the broadcast journalism curriculum. She began her journalism career in local media at her hometown newspaper and worked at several local television stations on the West Coast. Sumi is the recipient of a number of journalism awards - the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, several News Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow award. She has also been a judge for numerous honors including being on the Pulitzer Prize Jury and The National Magazine Awards. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.