1999 SABBATICAL RECIPIENTS

Father Gregory Boyle is the Director of Jobs for a Future and Homeboy Industries, a nonprofit program of the Proyecto Pastoral at Dolores Mission. Located in East L.A, Jobs for a Future is an employment referral center and economic development program for at-risk youth. Homeboy operates several self-sustaining businesses -- a bakery, silkscreen shop, and cleaning service, among others -- which provide transitional, on-the-job training and employment for gang-involved youth. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Fr. Boyle worked in Bolivia after his ordination in 1984. He served as Pastor of the Dolores Mission from 1986-1992.

Anne Bray is the founder and Executive Director of LA Freewaves, a media arts network that provides creative links among arts organizations, cable stations, cafes, libraries, schools and videomakers. Freewaves produces a biennial festival of independent video, and offers new media workshops and a website to artists, curators, programmers, teachers and students. Bray served as the video curator at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions from 1985-1989. Since 1989, she has been teaching at various institutions, including Cal Arts, Claremont Graduate University and UC Santa Barbara. An internationally recognized artist in her own right, her work has been exhibited and performed in New York, Milan, Montreal, Boston and throughout Southern California.

Saundra Bryant has been Executive Director of All Peoples Christian Center since 1983. Founded in 1942, the Center is located two miles south of downtown Los Angeles in a neighborhood that has seen dramatic demographic and social change. Bryant became intimately involved with the Center as a child, when she was placed in its day care program at the age of two. She returned to the Center as an adult after her graduate education in Tennessee and a position as a casework specialist with the California Youth Authority. Today, the Center's many services include day care, ESL/literacy classes, supplemental food distribution, job training, after-school tutoring and sports, a youth summer camp, and retired and senior volunteer placement.

Abby Leibman is the founder and Executive Director of the California Women's Law Center. The Center is a statewide policy and support organization on women's rights, specializing in issues of sex discrimination, violence against women, family law, childcare and reproductive rights. In addition to protecting and advancing the law as it relates to women and girls, the CWLC provides public education, community organizing, technical assistance and advocacy on behalf of underserved populations of women whose legal needs are unmet. A graduate of UC Hastings College of Law, Leibman was recognized in 1998 as one of California's 100 most influential attorneys by the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

Bill Watanabe is the Executive Director of both the Little Tokyo Service Center and LTSC Community Development Corporation. The partner organizations provide social services, counseling, consumer education, translation and transportation services, peer support groups, housing and community development projects for the Japanese American, Asian and Pacific Islander and general communities. Watanabe's extensive community service also includes board leadership of the Little Tokyo Improvement District, the Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California, and the LA Tofu Festival. Most recently, he was the developer of the Union Center for the Arts Complex in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of downtown LA.

Carol Williams is the Executive Director of Interval House, a domestic violence shelter serving Long Beach and Orange County. She has served as the organization's director since shortly after its founding 20 years ago. Today, Interval House maintains three shelter facilities and administrative headquarters to provide comprehensive services to battered women and children. The organization offers counseling and a 24-hour hotline in 32 languages, emergency shelter and second stage housing, and a wide range of education, outreach and aftercare programs. Williams is noted for her extraordinary mentoring skills; her senior staff include many former clients who have gone on to receive national recognition for their work in violence prevention.