An advocacy communications consultant, Steve focuses on writing, editing, and visibility building to advance public interest organizations and causes. Prior to that, he spent 15 years in senior communications roles at the UC Office of the President and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. A San Francisco native, Steve has led the Bay Area Democracy Funders since its inception in 2011 and is active politically. He holds an M.A. from San Francisco State’s Department of Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts.