Victoria R. Fong is now Development Manager for Berkeley Community Media. She started her involvement with public access television two years ago as a Development Intern at Access San Francisco. Victoria’s passion for community television was sparked while attending the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she majored in Community Studies, with an emphasis in Social Documentation. There she produced numerous video documentaries with topics ranging from student organizing, exploring multiracial identity, to journalistic integrity. At BCM she supervises interns, works with Board development, organizational outreach, fundraising, community partnerships, and is the co-producer for 28 Minutes, a monthly magazine news show on the Berkeley community.

She was Camera Assistant on the film Kieu, which screened at the 2006 Asian American Film Festival. She also directed a short, Since Salazar, part of the 2005 May Day Labor Film Festival.

http://www.kieuthemovie.com/

http://www.betv.org/staff.htm

Anais Koivisto graduated from Boston University in 2005 and has been appearing to great acclaim in New York and regional theatre. A piece she co-created, Ismene’s Antigone, was recently selected for the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. She has also acted in films.

"The play False Servant is yet another example of enormous versatility and enormous talent of the Off-Off-Broadway scene in New York. Written by the 17^th century French playwright Marivaux, it is truly timeless and just as applicable today as it was three hundred years ago. Its adapted translation, written by Martin Crimp, is similar to Russian translations of Shakespeare – modern, relevant, and easily understandable.

In fact, the dialogues rival in humor and wit those of Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw. The tale of a girl who dresses up as a man to test her suitor is probably as old as theatre itself (and still can be very funny), but it’s the dialogue that makes it so enjoyable. The acting is great too: the stage sextet delivers on the usual spectacular level of hungry Off-Off-Broadway and miles above the usual cellophane crap of "70-Years-And-Running" Broadway shows. The cast is well selected, and everybody does a good job, especially the lead actress, Chevalier (Anais Koivisto), and the main conman, Lelio (J. T. Arbogast)."

http://www.russianmix.com/russian-culture-in-nyc/theater-the-false-servant-review/).

After studying with Elvia at SOTA, Melody was a member of The Dance Company of San Francisco, where she trained in lyrical, jazz and modern dance with Chris Jacobsen. She moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career in 2003. Her credits include Mark Meismer's company, "Evolution:, Justin Giles' company, "Soul Escape", Ellen Degeneres, and So You Think You Can Dance. She teaches and choreographs around the country as a faculty member of SHOCK The Intensive and MUSE Dance Company. 

http://www.shocktheintensive.com/faculty.html

Aaron was a Theater Tech student at SOTA and went to Humboldt State. As a freshman, he decided that he needed to understand lighting dancers better, so he took a dance class and  loved it.  He spent three years at Humboldt dancing in school productions and with a small start-up company in Arcata called Astrum. He also performed as the Snow King in a production of The Nutcracker in Eureka . Aaron studied in summer programs in Salt Lake City and here in San Francisco with LINES Ballet for two summers.

Wanting a greater challenge, Aaron left Humboldt after his junior year and went to New York to study with the Alvin Ailey School. He spent a semester with them, then took more classes at Hunter College, then studied during the summer at Jacob's Pillow, which auditioned internationally. Now wanting a paid job, he auditioned and signed with the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble (EDE) in Rochester Hills (suburban Detroit), Michigan. While there, he also danced in the Detroit Opera's production of Aida in April 2006. He moved back to San Francisco in June 2006, auditioned for ODC/Dance and was hired as one of two paid apprentices (the other, Jose Campos is also a SOTA alumnus)!

From the Voice of Dance:
One of the highlights of this 36th season will be the return of former San FranciscoBallet principal dancer Joanna Berman, dancing with ODC in Ms. Way’s Investigating Grace. Former Hubbard Street Dance Chicago company member Erin Derstine will also join the Company as Guest Artist.  We are happy to announce that Private Freeman, recently contemplating retirement, will continue dancing with the company.  This season, ODC/Dance introduces two new apprentice dancers: Aaron Perlstein and Jose Campos. (both SOTA alumni!  http://www.voiceofdance.com

Keyboardist, vocalist and composer Salvador Santana, son of legendary guitarist Carlos Santana, graduated from SOTA in 2000 in Music. He went on to major in the Musical Arts Program at Cal Arts in Valencia, CA.

The Salvador Santana Band came together in 2004 and they've been touring and playing and recorded their debut album SSB in 2008.  They play a mix of hip hop, funk, rock, Latin and other  world music.  

After graduating in Drama from UCLA, Summer returned to SF to attend the Clown Conservatory. In the spring of 2006 she began working with Cirque du Soliel's John Gilkey.

http://www.projectartbridge.org