Levi Sumagaysay, an immigrant who was raised in Vallejo, is a journalist. She has worked at the Vallejo Times-Herald, Alameda News Group and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She is now the editor of SiliconBeat, the award-winning technology news blog of the Mercury News, where she has worked in various writing and editing roles for the past…

Leila G. Devine has served for 26 years with the federal government, 17 years as a Budget Analyst with the USDA Forest Service, and nine years as a Budget Analyst with the Social Security Administration.  She is an active member of the community, volunteering as a parent club member of the North Bay Athletic Gymnastic…

Pati Navalta is a longtime Bay Area journalist, serving as the Community Editor for the Vallejo Times-Herald, News Editor at the Alameda News Group, and Editorial Writer and Columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, where she was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for her editorial series on the need for foster care reform in…