Phyllis Rosenfield, M.A., Executive Director/President
Phyllis Rosenfield is the founder and Executive Director/President of Listening for a Change. She has a background in education, sociology, fine arts, and social justice. A graduate of George Peabody at Vanderbilt University, she completed two years of post-graduate work at Cal Poly State University, University of California Santa Barbara, and Sonoma State University. In addition, she earned a masters in Equity and Social Justice at San Francisco State University. She taught elementary and middle school for fifteen years with a focus on equity in education. She is the photographer and co-creator for “The Sonoma County Survivor Project”, and has served on numerous boards and commissions, including Chair of the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights and President of the Sonoma County League of Women Voters.
Fawn Canady, PhD
Fawn Canady is an Assistant Professor of Literary at Southern Oregon University as aa Assistant Literacy professor. Fawn is drawn to the way oral history bridges differences and reveals the rich living history of our communities. Fawn plans to continue partnering with Listening for a Change to engage Southern Oregon communities with those in the North Bay Area on the topic of stories of climate resilience. She is excited to revive her oral history work in preservice teacher preparation as an opportunity to learn from and with caregivers about home literacies. Fawn is also looking forward to the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, four distinct (yet moderate) seasons, and Oregon’s two designated Dark Sky Sanctuaries. She will California, but looks forward to new opportunities to connect from just over the border.
Roger Eardley-Pryor, PhD, Secretary
Roger works at UC Berkeley’s Oral History Center as a historian and oral history interviewer. Roger earned his Ph.D. in History at UC Santa Barbara and his B.Phil. in Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University in Ohio. At Berkeley, he specializes in oral histories on contemporary science and technology, the environment, university history, civic activism, and intergenerational trauma. These long-form, full-life interviews range from four to over twenty hours in length, with transcripts publicly available online. Roger also develops and secures funding for new oral history projects, helps coordinate educational initiatives, engages in public outreach, and produces interpretive materials including podcasts and museum exhibitions. His newest hobby is taking his daughter to her dance class.
Sandra Pardo, B.A., Chair
Sandra Pardo is a Social Worker for the Adult & Aging Division, County of Sonoma for the past 16 years. She works with people 60 and older and helps identify resources and services that allows them to live independently in their homes. Previously, she worked for Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and the late Senator John Vasconcellos, as Case Worker and District Director. Born in Chicago, raised in Healdsburg and Geyserville, she is married & has three kids in college. She enjoys photography and traveling. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Sonoma State University.
Ted Milkoff
Ted Milkoff was a social studies teacher for 34 years in Santa Rosa at the middle school, high school, and junior college level. Ted also worked with Theodore “Ted” Sizer on educational reform. Sizer was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder of the Essential Schools Movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools. One of Ted Milkoff’s accomplishments was developing and implementing a law education program for high school juniors and seniors. Ted enjoys hiking, playing ukulele, and singing in a choir that performs at elementary schools in Sonoma County.
Larry Resnicoff
Larry Resnicoff has a background in psychology and education. He is a graduate of Long Beach State University and later completed his secondary teaching credential at Sonoma State University. His teaching career was for 26 years with middle school students. Larry’s hobbies include music, tennis, tree planting, and spending lots of time with his grandchildren. Larry appreciates the importance of Listening for a Change’s engaging youth in creating opportunities to explore what it means to be human and to care about justice and the values of human rights.
Staff Members
Evan Johnson, Videographer
Evan Johnson is a 20 year multimedia professional with stops along the way in public television at The Community Media Center of Santa Rosa, C-Media and The Community Media Center of Marin as well as Broadcast coordination and video production for the City of Santa Rosa and studio production for Al-Jazeera affiliate AJ+. Evan is a jack-of-all-trade video credits in numerous non-profit and company productions.
Advisory Committee
Noel Adams
Les Adler
Meg Alexander
Daphne Beletsis
Laura Blum
Erica Bosque
Carla Hernandez Castillo
Connie Codding
Emily DeMeo
Pamela Devlin
Lillian Fonseca
Louise Bayles Fightmaster
Michael Gillogly
Patrick Grattan
Cynthia Hayashi
Tamarya Hulme
Daniel Lanahan
Naomi Metz
Victoria Mwangi
Lucinda Orth
Oscar Pardo
Tamara Stanley
Nina Strika
Marcos Suarez
Richard Zweig
