Leadership
Lowell Bergman | Founder, Director Emeritus
Lowell Bergman is currently a board member of Investigative Studios, and was the creator of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley. He is now the Emeritus Reva & David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Reporting at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Bergman’s career spans more than half a century, from helping to found the Center for Investigative Reporting in 1977 - the first non-profit investigative reporting group - to working as an investigative reporter producer for ABC News, CBS News’ 60 Minutes, PBS FRONTLINE, and the New York Times. His stories in broadcast and print have received Emmys, DuPonts and Peabodys, and a Polk, and he shared in a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He was named one of the "Thirty Most Important Investigative Reporters" in the last century by George Washington University’s Encyclopedia of Journalism.
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.
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.
Randy Jones Toll | Board Director
Randy Jones Toll has enjoyed diverse career paths in media and entertainment, hospitality, and alternative dispute resolution. Randy and her husband are investors and executive producers of Broadway shows and movies with a slate of projects at various stages of development. Her primary career spanned 23 years at Marriott International, leading corporate sales strategy and large-scale technical projects. She was also a member of the board of governors and hotel industry advisor for a major industry association and later served on a Children’s National Hospital grants and fundraising board. Since 2011, Randy has been a part of NVMS Conflict Resolution Center (NVMS-CRC, affiliate of George Mason University) as a VA Supreme Court-certified court mediator and mentor, juvenile restorative justice (RJ) practitioner, and board member/board president, where she led the re-branding and restructuring of this evolving non-profit. In 2022, she built an RJ program for adults 18-26 for the Fairfax County Prosecutor. Randy continues to contribute to the community on the NVMS-CRC Advisory Council.