Cassandra Falby, MS, LMFT
Board Chair
Psychotherapist, Performance Artist, Filmmaker-Director The Texture of Honesty
West Indian American Genderqueer Femme

Mel Y. Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, Filmmaker-Director Local Grown Corn
Queer Chinese American nonbinary trans person

Mel Y. Chen is Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at UC Berkeley, where they get to work with so many fierce and engaged queer, trans, nonbinary, first-generation, immigrant and BIPOC students. They write in academic and arts publications, and teach about intersections of race, gender, sexuality, disability, and humanness with praxis and spaciousness. They were deeply changed by a screenwriting workshop and the 2006 filmmaker cohort, and are part of a queer/trans of color arts collective that has held a sustaining space for more than ten years.

Nat Ruiz Tofano
Nonprofit Manager and Coordinator, Filmmaker-Director A Boy on the Side
Queer Multiracial Mexican and Chinese nonbinary person

Xavier Morales, MSW
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Manager, Filmmaker-Director Running on Empty
Filipino-American Transman

Xavier is a Filipino-American transman from Philadelphia, PA who has spent most of his life in the SF Bay Area. For 20+ years, Xavier has worked in the nonprofit and public sectors, in fields such as public health, supportive housing, youth development, evaluation and strategic planning, funding development and most recently, DEI work at the SF Dept of Children, Youth and Their Families. Equity, access, and the centering of the most impacted voices are the throughlines of his career. His participation in the 2009 QWOCMAP filmmaker cohort gave rise to these values, and he is committed to ensuring QWOCMAP’s irreplaceable legacy lives on.