Simone Otus Coxe

Simone Coxe has spent the last twenty years working with nonprofit media from local to global.  She is the chair emeritus, co-founder and current director of CALmatters, a non-partisan non-profit media organization focused on California state politics and government.  She is also a director and former chair of Internews, an international media support organization working in 100 countries.  Other current boards are the National Trust for Local News, the States United Action Fund, and the advisory board of the UC Berkeley Journalism School.  Her previous board experience includes KQED, the Pluralism Fund, and the World Affairs Council of Northern California.  She has been a supporter of Human Rights Watch since 2002.  From 1985 to 2001, Coxe was the CEO and co-founder of Blanc & Otus Public Relations, providing services to the high technology industry from offices in San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Atlanta, and London.  Coxe is an alumnus of  the University of California, Berkeley.