BAVC Director Team

Marc Vogl, Executive Director

Marc is the Executive Director at BAVC. Marc joined BAVC in 2011 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where he served as a Program Officer in the Performing Arts. At The Hewlett Foundation Marc managed operating, facility and capacity building grants to arts and arts-education organizations throughout the Bay Area, and led the Foundation's work to promote next generation leadership in the arts sector. Earlier in his career Marc co-founded the sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster and the Hi/Lo Film Festival and served as Executive Director of the Lobster Theater Project, a multi-disciplinary San Francisco arts nonprofit. Combining an interest in the arts and public policy Marc has served as a member of the San Francisco Arts Task Force, on the Barack Obama Campaign’s National Arts Policy Committee and is currently co-chair of the Funding Advisory Committee to Oakland’s Cultural Commission. In 2010 Marc won the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader award for his work to promote opportunities for young leaders in the arts sector. Marc has History and English Literature degrees from Brown University and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Carol Varney, Managing Director

Carol is the Managing Director – a role she has held since January 2011. As Managing Director Carol oversees all program areas, and sits on the review panels for the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies and the Media Maker Fellow Awards, among others. From 2008-2011 Carol was BAVC’s Director of Development, and before joining BAVC worked for many years in development at cultural organizations such as Stanford Lively Arts, Maine College of Art and the Portland Museum of Art. Carol serves on the Board of San Francisco Cinematheque, and the Camden International Film Festival, and is a past Board member of SPACE Gallery, the Maine Jewish Film Festival, Project Inform, and the Bay Area Chapter of the NAMES Project. Carol holds a degree in Media and Cultural Studies from Hampshire College.

Kim Bender, Director of Development

Kim Bender is responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of BAVC’s long- and short-term development and fundraising goals. Kim joined the BAVC team in 2011, bringing extensive leadership and development experience in the Bay Area film and media community. Most recently she was Director of Foundations and Major Gifts at the San Francisco Film Society, and had similar responsibilities before that at the California Film Institute. Kim is also a writer of fiction and screenplays and has produced a number of short films. Kim was a Producing Fellow at the American Film Institute, and worked for HBO and several independent producers before moving to the Bay Area to focus on writing and nonprofit work.

Jenn Olivia, Director of Technology and Operations

Jenn Olivia leads technology and operations for BAVC. She came to BAVC while completing her Masters thesis, Performing Queers: Queer Performance, Venue, and Disidentification in Contemporary San Francisco, in Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University. Prior to moving to the Bay Area for graduate school, Jenn lived in San Antonio, Texas where she was born and raised. Jenn brings 16 years of project management and leadership experience to her work at BAVC, as well as a passion for art, technology, education and social justice. She has worn many hats in her time, including playing in punk bands, recording and touring for ten years, managing an upscale cafe, helping manage a new and used book store, organizing community fundraisers, participating in political activism, publishing several zines, and co-founding a feminist collective. In addition to her work at BAVC, Jenn completed her first short film last year, Have to Lose, which screened to a full house at CounterPulse theater space in San Francisco.

Mindy Aronoff, Director of Training and Resources

Mindy leads the team that provides all adult training and technology education to digital media professionals, educators, artists and mediamakers, independent producers, vocational rehabilitation clients and job seekers. The scope of this department includes over 600 classes annually, as well as custom classes, and the California state-funded Employment Training Panel contract. Previously the Director of Business Development, she forged partnerships with corporations and government for BAVC, strategized marketing and public relations efforts, and planned for product development. Mindy came to BAVC in 1999 as Industry Outreach Coordinator. She holds a B.A. in Design from UCLA and has over 17 years in commercial arts management.

Jennifer Gilomen, Director of Independent Media

Jen Gilomen is Director of Independent Media at BAVC, where she leads programs for documentary storytellers and transmedia artists. These programs include a year-round fellowship program called MediaMaker Fellows, the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies, and SF Commons— San Francisco’s innovative public access television station and associated community media programs. Jen is also an award-winning independent documentary producer and cinematographer who has created nationally and internationally distributed films, including Deep Down and the associated Virtual Mine game in Second Life, which were funded by ITVS and MacArthur Foundation and nominated for an Emmy in 2011.

Ingrid Hu-Dahl, Director of Next Gen Programs

Ingrid directs all Next Generation (youth) programs at BAVC. Formerly a program officer of youth media and editor-in-chief of Youth Media Reporter at the Academy for Educational Development, Ingrid has extensive knowledge of the youth media field as an intermediary, leading a National Youth Media Summit in 2009 and the GFEM Investing in Youth Media funder briefing. She also has a history of working with youth on the ground, launching a middle grade "Youth Create Media Project" throughout the boroughs in New York City and Newark, NJ; and, she is a founding member of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls (Brooklyn, NY) where she teaches girls expression/empowerment through music and collaboration. Dahl lectures nationally and internationally on youth media, gender and music, and social change. She has also taught courses at Rutgers University on imagery and culture, media and pop culture, as well as created her own course on Riot Grrrl and public speaking at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. A musician over 12 years, Dahl has toured the nation, examining the intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality. She is currently in the bi-coastal band RAD PONY. Dahl is a board member of Women, Action and the Media and affiliated with The Op-Ed Project.

Moriah Ulinskas, Director of Preservation

Moriah provides leadership, vision, and direct management of BAVC’s Preservation program, one of the only non-profit audio/ video preservation programs in the United States. She oversees management of staff and technicians, establishment of new program practices and incentives, development of regional and national partnerships, fundraising, outreach and dissemination, and program integration within the BAVC community. Coming from a background in video art, Moriah has taught courses at the California College of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, and the San Francisco Art Institute as well as served as a California Arts Council artist- in- residence. Most recently, Moriah was the director of the Public Art Mini-Grants program for the City of Richmond and Documentation and Exhibitions Coordinator for inSite_05- a series of public art interventions on the San Diego/ Tijuana border.