Our Board
Martin Ludlow
Chairman
Martin Ludlow is the Founder & President of the Los Angeles Jazz Festival and Bridge Street Productions. His passion for the arts and high-level experience in politics and community organizing have enabled him to pioneer impactful social justice-driven productions and partner with world-renowned artists and community organizations. Mr. Ludlow brings over 35 years of experience in large-scale music and live events production, delivering over 100 major events involving more than 500 musical acts with a significant focus on racial, social, and economic justice.
Mr. Ludlow previously served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council and President of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, the second largest labor organization in the United States. Mr. Ludlow is the founder and producer of the Los Angeles Jazz Festival, the first-ever, large-scale international jazz festival in Los Angeles, which will debut August 2025, with nearly 190,000 attendees and featuring 150 acts, culminating on Dockweiler Beach.
Doug Moore
Secretary
Doug Moore serves as the Executive Director of the United Domestic Workers of America, which represents 165,000 home care and family child care providers across the state of California. Mr. Moore was appointed to the California Task Force on Family Caregiving in 2017, Governor Gavin Newsom’s Task Force on Alzheimer’s Prevention and Preparedness in 2019, and the California Master Plan for Aging stakeholder committee in 2021. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the International Domestic Workers Federation, where his focus is on worker solidarity and domestic workers’ rights globally.
Mr. Moore started his labor career in 1980 and joined AFSCME in 1999 as a regional field administrator. In 2001, he was promoted to assistant director for AFSCME International’s Western Region before being appointed Executive Director of the United Domestic Workers of America in 2008. Mr. Moore was selected as an International Vice President for AFSCME in 2008.
Terri New
Treasurer
Terri New is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience managing major fundraising and capital campaigns, specializing in the strategic design, planning, and execution of large-scale national fundraising operations. Over the span of her career,
she has managed countless events featuring high-profile political figures, celebrities, musicians, and media personalities. Her client list is the Who’s Who of American politics, including President Joe Biden, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Sen. Raphael Warnock, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
Ms. New is the founder and president of Capital Strategies, a full-service fundraising firm based in Los Angeles, California, with a long history of working with elected officials, political committees, philanthropists, corporations, celebrities, and non-profit organizations nationwide
Dominique DiPrima
Board Officer
Dominique DiPrima is the host and producer of First Things First with Dominique DiPrima on KBLA Talk 1580, where she is making radio history as the first African-American woman to host a commercial drive-time talk radio show in Los Angeles. Before helping to launch Tavis Smiley’s talk radio startup, Dominique hosted and produced the early morning talk show “The Front Page with Dominique DiPrima” on Stevie Wonder’s Los Angeles radio station KJLH 102.3-FM for 17 years.
In addition, Ms. DiPrima acted as Co-Host and Senior Producer for the syndicated Michael Baisden Show and Co-host and News Director for The Steve Harvey Morning Show. On television, Ms. DiPrima hosted Home Turf with Dominique DiPrima for eight seasons on San Francisco’s NBC affiliate KRON-TV garnering 5 Emmy Awards. Ms. DiPrima served as a Commissioner on the Status of Women under L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. She was named Los Angeles Pioneer Woman of the Year by the L.A. City Council in 2019
Bobby Avila
Singer / Producer
Singer, songwriter, and producer Bobby Ross Avila originally began his early teen career as an artist, with his brother IZ as his stage support. The two quickly morphed their careers to take on record production and songwriting as “the Avila Brothers,” which allowed them to find success with musical heavyweights such as Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Mary J. Blige, and Chaka Khan, amongst many others.
The Avila Brothers are the only Latinos in music history to receive Grammys in the Urban category, producing for many Grammy Award-winning artists, such as Usher, Janet Jackson, Anthony Hamilton, Macy Grey, Gwen Stefani, Earth Wind & Fire, and others.
Willie L. Brown Jr.
Mayor of San Francisco Ret.
Two-term Mayor of San Francisco, legendary Speaker of the California State Assembly, and widely regarded as the most influential African-American politician of the late twentieth century, Willie L. Brown, Jr., has been at the center of California politics, government, and civic life for an astonishing four decades. His career spans the American Presidency from Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush, and he’s worked with every California Governor from Pat Brown to Arnold Schwarzenegger. From civil rights to education reform, tax policy, economic development, health care, international trade, domestic partnerships, and affirmative action, he’s left his imprimatur on every aspect of politics and public policy in the Golden State.
As Mayor of California’s most cosmopolitan city, Mr. Brown refurbished and rebuilt the nation’s busiest transit system, pioneered the use of bond measures to build affordable housing, created a model juvenile justice system, and paved the way for a second campus of the University of California, San Francisco, to serve as the anchor of a new development that will position the City as a center for the burgeoning field of biotechnology. Today, he heads the Willie L. Brown, Jr., Institute on Politics and Public Service, where this acknowledged master of the art of politics shares his knowledge and skills with a new generation of California leaders.
John Clayton
Bassist / Composer / Arranger / Producer
He is a Grammy winner with nine additional nominations and has written and/or recorded with artists such as Milt Jackson, Diana Krall, Paul McCartney, Regina Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gladys Knight, Queen Latifah, McCoy Tyner, YoYo Ma, and Charles Aznavour, to name only a few. John was the principal bassist in the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (The Netherlands) from 1980-1984.
In 1986, Mr. Clayton co-founded the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and rekindled The Clayton Brothers Quintet. In addition to his individual clinics and workshops, he also directs the educational components of Centrum, The Port Townsend Jazz Festival, and the Vail Jazz Workshop. John’s arrangement of the “Star Spangled Banner” helped propel Whitney Houston in her 1990 performance at the Super Bowl (the recording went platinum). His recordings with the Clayton Brothers, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Milt Jackson, Monty Alexander, Count Basie, and others are plentiful.
Mr. Clayton feels, “I’ve been guided by a village of musicians who helped me understand the humility that goes along with playing music at the highest level you can. Ray Brown used to tell me to ‘Learn how to play the bass!!’ Just take care of the music, and it will take care of you.
Antonio Villaraigosa
Mayor of Los Angeles Ret.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is a respected voice in American politics and a prominent policymaker who keenly understands America’s mainstream and emerging communities. In 2013, Mr. Villaraigosa finished his two terms as the 41st Mayor of the City of Los Angeles after eight years of major strides in transportation, crime reduction, infrastructure, energy and resource sustainability, right-sizing government, business development, and education reform. Prior to his election as Mayor, he served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2003 to 2005. From 1994 through 2000, he served in the California State Assembly as Democratic Whip, Majority Leader, and Speaker of the Assembly. He was a member of President Obama’s Transition Economic Advisory Board and was the 2012 Chairman of the Democratic National Convention.
Mr. Villaraigosa has also served in academia as a fellow at Harvard University and a professor of public policy at the University of Southern California. He is also a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Additionally, he works in the private sector as a senior advisor with Banc of California, amongst others. He serves on the McGraw Hill Global Education Board of Directors. Mr. Villaraigosa currently serves as a Co-Chair and Partner at Actum, LLC, a well-respected global political consulting firm.
Warner Williams
Vice President of Chevron North America Exploration and Production
Warner Williams served as Vice President of Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company’s Gulf of Mexico business unit from 2008 until his retirement in 2014. Williams was responsible for Chevron’s offshore shelf and deepwater production operations and shelf exploration activities in this role. During his tenure, he held the distinction as the highest-ranking African American official at the Chevron corporation. Mr. Williams joined Chevron as a Production Engineer in 1974 and progressed through assignments of increasing responsibility serving in various leadership roles during his tenure with the organization.
In November 2000, Mr. Williams was named to lead the team which merged Chevron’s and Texaco’s worldwide oil exploration and production assets into the newly- formed ChevronTexaco Corp. Mr. Williams currently serves as President and CEO of Warner Williams, LLC, a business consultancy firm servicing clients through with his unique expertise and voluminous relationships in the public and private sectors. Mr. Williams has served on the boards of America’s Energy Coast of America’s WETLAND Foundation; the American Association of Blacks in Energy; the Back to Work Coalition, the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association; the National Ocean Industries Association; the Executive Business Council of New Orleans; the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation; the New Orleans Recreation Foundation; and the Viterbi School Engineering Board of Councilors (University of Southern California). Also, Mr. Williams has served as a Director for the Valley Republic Bank.
