Richard Brandi
Richard Brandi's career as an architectural historian began after he and Woody created the West Portal History Walk in 2001. This successful project led Richard to switch his career to history and he now works with architects and planners throughout the state. He wrote San Francisco West Portal Neighborhoods, helped restore the Kirkham Earthquake shack, and obtained a graduate degree in historic preservation. Richard successfully nominated the WNP for the State of California's Governor's Award in Historic Preservation and represented the WNP in an international conference in Kobe, Japan. He and Woody La Bounty coauthored the Parkside Historic Context Statement, the OMI Historic Context Statement, and the OMI survey now underway. He lectures on San Francisco history and has led walks through West Portal, Forest Hill, St Francis Wood, Diamond Heights, Yerba Buena Center, Golden Gateway, and the Embarcadero Center. Board member since 2004.
David Gallagher
David Gallagher is a founder of the Western Neighborhoods Project, creator, designer and developer of outsidelands.org. Both his parents were born in San Francisco. He grew up looking at old pictures from a box in the closet and has never gotten tired of it. He is the producer of a popular internet video series called "David's Pointless Minute". He lives in an eastern neighborhood, but has a view towards the west.
Al Harris
Al Harris has been an Ingleside resident for thirty years. Al attends more than twenty meetings a month as a Safety Network coordinator and Community Convener, is a former library commissioner, board member of the Friends of the Geneva Office Building, and a true lover of local history.
Woody LaBounty
Woody is a founder of the Western Neighborhoods Project. LaBounty has recorded the oral histories of hundreds of San Franciscans, launched San Francisco’s most popular history Web site, and led a successful campaign to save four 1906 earthquake refugee cottages for the 100th anniversary of San Francisco’s great earthquake and fire. He is a frequent contributor to the media, and has written a book about the 19th Century "Carville" neighborhood.
Jamie O'Keefe
Jamie O'Keefe is a fifth-generation San Francisco native from the Richmond District who works for the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council at the Legion of Honor. She has a background in Museum Studies and does curatorial and registration work for the San Francisco Fire Department Museum as well as Guardians of the City Museum & Memorial, a project to unite the histories of the SFFD, SFPD, and the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. She is also an event coordinator for Jimmy's Old Car Picnic in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco's longest running classic car event. Jamie hopes to encourage people of all ages to be proud of their neighborhoods and to participate in activities that help preserve and promote their shared heritage.
Felicity O'Meara
Felicity O'Meara lived on the 600 block of Balboa from 1978 to 2001 and would be delighted to move back to that neighborhood. She also lived in the Inner Sunset for a couple of years. In the Richmond she was active in the group Friends of Ocean Beach/Coalition to Save Ocean Beach and was involved in the several-year struggle -- ultimately successful -- to save Parcel Four from becoming a large condo development with approximately zero open space. Before all that, she was born in New York, grew up in Chicago, and moved to San Francisco in 1970. She works as a technical editor for Moody's Analytics in SF.
Paul Rosenberg
The spirit of civic duty which has been so marked in the City and County of San Francisco during the past generations has brought to the front many able, earnest, and patriotic sons of California with laudable ambition to honorably fill positions of public trust and place San Francisco among the foremost of the progressive cities of the nation and among the most prominent of these is Mr. Paul Rosenberg. Few are the men in the municipal affairs of San Francisco who have made such a splendid record as he and certainly there is none more worthy of complementary notice than he. Mr. Rosenberg is a fine specimen of manhood, standing six feet in his stockings and weighing 175 pounds. His health is perfect and as a result his brain is clear, which enables him to think correctly and act vigorously and morally in the performance of his duties. As he has been quoted, his life has not been eventful, nor has it been given to accidents or notable enterprises; he has said that moderation has always been the controlling tone in his career. Being an eloquent speaker, a man of inexhaustible energy, and having over the course of four decades exercising his profession, it is no vain boast to make that he has become one of the leading men of America, politically, professionally, and in general public affairs. By his ability as a speaker, and logical explanation of the facts, he is capable of swaying the opinions of an audience to a marked degree. The material make-up of this man is that which made rulers in years gone by.
Lorri Ungaretti
Lorri Ungaretti is a San Francisco native who has discovered the lure of the city's history just in the past ten years. She is the author of four books: Stories in the Sand: San Francisco's Sunset District, 1847-1964; Then & Now: San Francisco's Sunset District; Images of America: San Francisco's Sunset District; and Images of America: San Francisco's Richmond District. In 2006, the San Francisco History Association gave her the Walter G. Jebe Sr. Neighborhood, and in 2010 she received a Women's History Month Commendation by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She is on the boards of directors of the Western Neighborhoods Project and of the San Francisco History Association. As a City Guide, she leads tours of the Inner Sunset and Sigmund Stern Grove.
Arnold M. Woods
Arnold M. Woods is a Bay Area attorney who has resided in the outer Richmond district of San Francisco for the last 14 years. He is general counsel to the Western Neighborhoods project and has been a board member since the WNP's inception. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law.
