Sheila Davis became SVTC's Executive Director on July 1, 2005. Over the past 5 years, Davis has played a valuable role at SVTC and in shaping environmental policy in the high tech industry. Her experience provides a strong foundation for SVTC's continued success. Last year she assumed the role program manager, overseeing all programs. Davis is also the program director of SVTC's Clean Computer Campaign and serves as a steering committee member of the national Computer TakeBack Campaign. Sheila's research, advocacy and policy development led to a successful ban on hazardous electronic waste from the California municipal landfills and the subsequent passage of the first electronic recycling legislation in the nation. Sheila holds a bachelor degree from the University of California and served as a journalist, state legislative aide and community development specialist before joining the staff of SVTC.

Ted Smith is SVTC's founder and former Executive Director. He is currently SVTC's Senior Strategist. Ted is also co-founder and Coordinator of the International Campaign for Responsible Technology (ICRT), an international network committed to working for the development of sustainable, non-polluting technologies. He serves as the National Chair of the Computer TakeBack Campaign which is working to promote life-cycle producer responsibility within the high-tech electronics industry. In 2001, Ted was recognized by the Dalai Lama for his environmental leadership. For more information.

Anthony Reese joined the SVTC staff as Interim Director of Finance and Administration in April 2005. Anthony is the founder of Mananson Consulting, an organizational and community development consulting firm whose mission is to transfer the skills, tools and processes that sustain community change efforts. He has served as Chief Financial Officer for City Year Inc, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Management Assistance for the Robin Hood Foundation, Associate Director of the Greenlining Institute, Director of Administration for Partners in School Innovation, and Associate Director to NCDI. Anthony is a graduate of UCLA, and the Coro Foundation's Public Affairs Program in Los Angeles. He holds a Master's Degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he specialized in urban economic development...and he loves his work!

Aditi Vaidya is Program Director for the Sustainable Technologies Program at the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. She was previously working with the Jenifer Altman Foundation and the Environmental Health and Justice Program of the Mitchell Kapor Foundation. Aditi is a health scientist, trainer and advocate for environmental justice, community-based research and community organizing. She continues to support grassroots community organizations by designing and conducting health and environmental research around a variety of issues. She obtained her Masters in Public Health in environmental and occupational health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Ms. Vaidya has worked with the environmental justice organizations across the country including Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, the Just Transition Alliance, and the Southwest Workers Union. She currently serves on the Board of South Asian American Voting Youth (SAAVY) and has served as co-chair of the Saguaro Panel of The Funding Exchange.

Gopal Dayaneni is Communications Coordinator for the Clean Computer Campaign. Gopal has been involved in fighting for social, economic, environmental and racial justice through organizing & campaigning, teaching, writing, speaking and direct action since the late 1980's. He was the Oil Campaign Coordinator for Project Underground, a human rights and environmental rights organizations which supports communities resisting oil and mining exploitation around the world. Gopal has been organizing and training in non-violent civil disobedience in opposition to the War on Terrorism at home and abroad and is an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign and domestic policies, corporate globalization, war profiteering, and the systemic links between war and racism. Most recently, he provided progressive organizations with support in Strategic Communications and Campaign Planning through the Design Action Collective. He is an active trainer and organizer with the Ruckus Society and a member of the Progressive Communicators Network. Gopal serves on the boards of Media Alliance and the International Accountability Project. Gopal is also an early childhood educator, working formerly as a teacher and as the co-director of the Tenderloin Childcare Center, a community based childcare center supporting children and families forced into homelessness.

John Doucette is Campus Coordinator for the Clean Computer Campaign. He is working to mobilize universities as purchasers to promote extended producer responsibility in the PC industry. He is a recent graduate of Santa Clara University with focuses in Economics and Environmental Studies. Away from the office he coaches a youth basketball team at Sacred Heart School in Saratoga.

Rina Mehta joined the SVTC staff as Project Director of the Health and Environmental Justice project in September 2004. Rina received her Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2004. She comes to SVTC with a long-standing dedication to women's empowerment, health and social justice. Rina's graduate thesis explored the different dimensions of women's empowerment and the link between women's empowerment and contraceptive use in India. Prior to entering graduate school, Rina worked for four years on issues related to reproductive health and justice for low-income API communities in Oakland. Rina is also an aspiring dancer and has been studying Kathak, one of India's six classical dance forms, for six years now.

Neelam Pathikonda joined the Health and Environmental Justice Project as their lead organizer. Neelam is a 27 year-old South Asian woman currently living in Oakland, CA. Neelam has been engaged in community organizing work for the past 7 years. She has worked with diverse communities such as South Asians, Southeast Asians, women, youth, homeless folks and queer communities on issues such as jobs, transportation, welfare, reproductive freedom and war & violence. Neelam is very interested in the intersections between oppression and health. She is currently getting her Masters of Public Health at San Jose State University and hopes to create a community health clinic that engages in organizing, political education and policy change strategies to build healthy communities. Neelam was raised in Texas and believes chocolate is a religion.

Hilary Klein is a community organizer with Tierra Viva, SVTC's Health and Environmental Justice Project. Hilary was born and raised in Washington DC. She studied political science at UC Berkeley but learned more about politics doing student activism than in the classroom. She has a long standing commitment to radical, grassroots political work and has participated in activism and organizing around a number of issues, including affordable housing and immigrants' rights. She also coordinated a counseling center for battered women at La Casa de las Madres. She spent six years living in Chiapas, Mexico and working with women's cooperatives in Zapatista support base communities. She came back from Chiapas committed to putting into practice the Zapatista model of constructing autonomous, community based alternatives to oppressive state institutions. Hilary currently serves on the board of San Francisco Women Against Rape.

Luisa Charavin and Isabel Winchester are two of the education specialists for the Families and Community Education School (FACES) program of the Health and Environmental Justice project.

Michael Robin became SVTC's Development Associate in June 2004. Michael has more than 15 years experience as a writer and editor for political journals as well as business and technology magazines, and has written on topics ranging from computer recycling in California to environmental justice in the Brazilian rain forest and changes in the international division of labor. He received a B.A. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley and a Master's in International Studies from the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver.

Corinna Dixon joined the SVTC staff as Executive Assistant in 2003, transitioned to Interim Director of Operations in 2004, and is currently supporting Fundraising as the Administrative Associate. Corinna was previously the Collections Registrar and Office Manager at the Cupertino Historical Museum (CHM). Prior to joining CHM, Corinna served as an Executive Administrator at such companies as Apple, Sony, Newbridge Networks, and Palm. She has also volunteered on several archaeological research projects on location in Hawaii, Bali, and Cyprus. She received a B.A. in Liberal Studies from the California.

Leslie Byster joined SVTC staff in 1992 as Program Director. Since 1999 she has served as SVTC Communications Director. She is SVTC's webweaver, produces SVTC's newsletter, Action, and other SVTC and ICRT publications. Leslie is active in the International Campaign for Responsible Technology, communicating with SVTC's international partners and members of the ICRT list-serve in the U.S. and around the world. She has researched the environmental and occupational health impacts of the high-tech industry and has written for several journals. She also works on issues regarding trade and the environment.