Rickey Ivie is a senior partner of Ivie, McNeill & Wyatt. Founded in 1965, Ivie, McNeill & Wyatt is a mid-size general practice litigation and transactional firm that represents consumers, businesses and public entities. Mr. Ivie received his undergraduate degree from UCLA in 1973 and his Juris Doctor degree from UCLA School of Law in 1977. Mr. Ivie was a member of the Los Angeles County Insurance Commission for over 10 years. He serves as Commissioner of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services Commission, is a member of the UCLA Foundation Board of Trustees, Arbitrator for the Superior Court, County of Los Angeles and a member of the State Bar Committee on Professional Liability Insurance.
Bill is a native of Pasadena, and is the owner of the Summit Enterprises real estate and development firm in Southern California. He and his wife Brenda are heavily involved in philanthropic work for the arts and education locally and nationally. Bill serves on the Smithsonian National Board, and was a founding donor and heavily involved with the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
Anita DeFrantz, a former President/CEO of LA84 Foundation, is considered by many as one of the most influential women in all of sports. In 1981, she became a member of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1984 Games. DeFrantz is a former Olympian, and was appointed to the International Olympic Committee in 1986, and became the first woman to serve on the IOC executive committee in 1997.
Roberts is a Lawyer and founder of the law firm Bobbitt and Roberts. In 1968, Roberts, while a student at UCLA helped found the first African American studies program at the university, and established the Center for Afro-American Studies, later known as the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.
He has served as president of Solar Records. Roberts served as a founder and director of Community Build, he also served as chairman of Broadway Financial Corporation and Broadway Federal Bank FSB. In 2005, he founded and served as co-chair of Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools. He is currently serving on the board of several foundations.
Danny is a longtime civil rights activist who moved to Los Angeles from New Orleans. In the early 1970s, he was named president and CEO of the Brotherhood Crusade civil rights and community development organization. In 1974, Bakewell co-founded the National Black United Fund. In 2004, he purchased the Los Angeles Sentinel, the oldest and largest African American newspaper on the West Coast where he is the publisher.
Minnie is the President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the NAACP, and is also a retired educator from the Los Angeles Unified School District. As a Life Member of the NAACP, Hempstead has served as a member of the Executive Committee, Treasurer, and First Vice President, and Chair of the Education Committee. Minnie will be working closely with the CALLED UP project team through the NAACP’s national of CES.
Darrell is a native of Southern California (Riverside), who first aspired to become a major league umpire but instead was drafted into Major League Baseball as a catcher/outfielder and played for the Los Angeles Angels. Miller currently serves as the MLB Vice President, Youth and Facility Development and heads up the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton, California the promotes the sport in inner-city communities around the country.
Damon is a graduate of UCLA and a longtime businessman and CEO of Contemporary Services Corporation (CSC), a full spectrum crowd management and event security firm. Zumwalt has also founded other companies that include ProtaTECH, APEX Security Group, and Contemporary International that have provided expertise and services for the world’s largest events that have included the 2010 G8/G20 Summit in Toronto, and 9 Olympic Games events.
Erikk has had an accomplished career in the Los Angeles professional sports landscape. Aldridge is a member of the Anschutz Entertainment Group’s (AEG) external affairs team and serves as the Director of the STAPLES Center Foundation. Prior to joining AEG (one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world), Aldridge worked as an executive for the both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Lakers.
Throughout Zev’s long career as a Southern California politician, he has served on both the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. During his public service career, Yaroslavsky was the county’s leader in the cultural arts. The Los Angeles Times said of him before he retired in 2014, “It would be hard to find another major politician anywhere in the entire country with Yaroslavsky’s record for outright arts support and achievement.”
Curren has served as a Los Angeles-area politician dating back to 1993 when he served as a member of the Inglewood City Council. During his long career, he has served in the California State Assembly and State Senate. In 2010, Price was selected by his colleagues to serve as the Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus. In addition, Price served as Chairman of the Legislative Joint Committee on the Arts.
Mel Levine was born and raised in Los Angeles. He represented the Los Angeles area in the US Congress for ten years and in the state Assembly for 5 1/2 years and was recognized as one of the area’s most effective and respected legislators. Both before and after his service as a legislator, he has been a practicing lawyer, in the past 24 years with the Los Angeles-based international law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He was an avid fan of the minor-league Hollywood Stars and, in their honor, started an adult league Hollywood Stars baseball team in 1971, on which he still plays and which begins its 47 years of competition in March 2017.
Dan is a graduate of UCLA and a Bruin Baseball Hall of Famer, competing on the school’s Pac-8 baseball team in several games umpired by Emmett Ashford in the early 1970s. Guerrero served as UCLA’s Athletic Director for 18 years, during which the school won 32 NCAA team titles in 15 different sports. Guerrero was one of a few Athletic Directors in history to serve as Chair of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee, the president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and the president of the Division 1 Athletic Director’s Association. He currently serves as the President of the U.S. International University Sports Federation.
Doug served for 16 years as Chapman University’s Sports Information Director at Emmett Ashford’s alma mater in Orange County. He currently serves as the school’s Associate Athletic Director where handles all matters relating to NCAA rules and legislation, compliance and eligibility, and oversees the university’s physical activity curriculum. Aiken’s work on the advisory committee will help keep Emmett Ashford’s legacy alive at the university.
Frank is a former member of the UCLA Bruins 1976 Rose Bowl championship team, and also an assistant coach and academic advisor for the team for 15 years. He was an integral part of the school’s development efforts to construct former UCLA football coach Terry Donahue’s Pavilion at the Rose Bowl Stadium. Stephens currently works for the New York Life insurance company in Southern California.