Sierra College Press

Editorial Advisory Board

Dr. Terry Beers

• Professor of English at Santa Clara University
• Director of the California Legacy project

Dr. David Beesley

• Professor of History Emeritus, Sierra College
• Author of Crow’s Range: An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada

Dr. Patrick Ettinger

• Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento
• Co-Director, Capital Campus Oral History Program
• Author of Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930 (University of Texas Press, 2009)

Janice Forbes

• Publisher, Sierra Heritage magazine
• Publisher, Placer Sentinel newspaper
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Sierra Business Council
• Recipient of the 2007 Placer Conservator Award granted by the Placer Land Trust to “individuals who enrich the quality of life in Placer County through resource conservation.”

Tom Killion

• Artist and Author (his web site)
• Author and Illustrator of The High Sierra of California and Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, Prose, and Prints (both in association with Pulitzer Prize recipient Gary Snyder)

Tom Knudson

• Two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient
• Reporter for the Sacramento Bee
• Author of the newspaper series “Majesty and Tragedy: The Sierra in Peril,” for which he won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Gary Kurutz

• Director of Special Collections, California State Library, Sacramento
• Has written extensively on the California Gold Rush and California Culture
• Executive Director of the California State Library Foundation
• Previous positions held:
• Head Librarian, Sutro Library
• Library Director, California Historical Society
• Bibliographer of Western Americana at the Henry E. Huntington Library
• Head of the publication program of the Book Club of California 1987-2008

John Muir Laws

• Associate of the California Academy of Sciences
• Author and illustrator of Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide and The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada

Beverly Lewis

• Director, Placer-Lake Tahoe Film Office
• Worked three years in the Louisiana State Film Office
• M.F.A. from UCLA School of Film and Television
• Documentarian, recipient of awards from National Educational Film and Video Festival, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the people who award “The Golden Globes”)

Roger Lokey

• President of the Rocklin Historical Society
• President of Norfab Engineering Inc., Rocklin, California
• Professional Corporate Pilot
• Captain, USAF B-52 bomber pilot

Malcolm Margolin

• Publisher of Heyday Books
• An expert on Native California
• 2008 recipient of the prestigious Hubert Howe Bancroft Award from the University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library in recognition of “significant achievements in support of historical research and scholarship”

Mark McLaughlin

• Sierra Nevada weather and cultural historian (his web site)
• Recipient of the Nevada State Press Association Award on five occasions for his newspaper column

jesikah maria ross

• Co-founder & Director, Art of Regional Change at UC Davis
• Community media developer
• Award-winning documentary film producer
• Co-producer of the award-winning Saving the Sierra: Voices of Conservation in Action public radio and web project

Michael Sanford

• Vice-President of Content Creation for KVIE- PBS Channel 6 in Sacramento
• More than 25 years of experience in television news, programming, and production
• In addition to many KVIE productions, Michael has also produced segments for CNN, the Discovery Channel, and the Travel Channel.

Lee Stetson

• Actor best known for his recreation of John Muir (his web site)
• Author of The Wild Muir
• Original member of the Board of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy
• Mariposa County Supervisor

Catherine Stifter

• Two-time Peabody Award recipient
• Co-producer of the award-winning Saving the Sierra: Voices of Conservation in Action public radio and web project