Hillary Kambour
Chair
Hillary (she/her) is a retired trial and appellate attorney who spent most of her career representing abused, abandoned, and neglected children. Since moving to Dry Creek Valley in 2015, Hillary is busy in her garden, volunteering around the area, running, hiking, and biking, and trying to become proficient in Spanish. She lives with her husband Michael and their adorable Labrahula (really a mutt) Ziggy. Hillary’s first love was film. She spent her tweens holed up in a local theater watching classic films, her parenting years watching thrillers, and until COVID, never went more than a week or two without a movie theater experience. She loves movies, but mostly loves to watch them on the big screen with the “ooohs” and “ahhhhs” of her fellow moviegoers around her.
Lisa Rhodes
Vice Chair
A native to the Golden State, Lisa (she/her) has lived and worked in both SoCal and NorCal, devoting much of her volunteer efforts to celebrating and promoting her cherished Hispanic culture and community. She was a long-time Board Member of MANA de San Diego, a national organization catering to the advancement of underprivileged Hispanic girls. She served on the board and led the chapter’s development effort via its signature annual fundraiser called “Brindis.” Now in Healdsburg, Lisa helped found Corazon Healdsburg, a grassroots organization dedicated to bridging the cultural and equity gap many North Sonoma County resident Latinos face. Responsible for the organization’s name (“heart” in Spanish, a language she speaks fluently), Lisa served on the Corazon Board for six years. More recently, she’s gotten involved with local organizations Reach For Home and Latinos Unidos. And passionate about the arts in all forms, she now serves on the Board for True West Film Center. Lisa calls Healdsburg her forever home, sharing an 1890s Queen Anne she restored over several years with her husband, Michael, a practicing attorney. Lisa has several other historical renovations currently underway in town. As she likes to say, “It’s important to invest in our community’s future in ways that make all of its residents feel equally at home.”
Michael Lumpkin
Treasurer
Michael (he/him) is a highly creative and effective executive leader with over 30 years’ experience leading international media arts organizations. Over the course of his career, he has established an admirable track record of program development and expansion, quality film festival programming, fundraising, financial and operational management and strong community support; demonstrated a talent for practical and successful strategic planning as well as board and staff development; and proved his ability to build and sustain long-term alliances with the film, philanthropic and business communities.
Lumpkin has maintained a high profile at a number of important international film festivals, including the Berlin International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Hotdocs, IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam), and the Sundance Film Festival where he has served on the Documentary Competition Jury. He has also served as a juror for numerous international film festivals including the Berlin International Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
In 2021, Lumpkin relocated back to Northern California working as an independent consultant specializing in public relations and awards strategies for documentary films.
Michiko Conklin
Secretary
Michiko (she/her) is currently the Vice Chair of the City of Healdsburg Parks and Recreation Commission. She is on the Arts and Culture Master Plan Committee as well as the Saggio Hills Park Naming Committee and a member of the Creative Leadership Team. Of course, since she lives in Healdsburg, she and her husband had a vineyard (now sold!), for which she was the CMO (read: accounts payable). Her real career was spent in marketing, primarily with advertising agencies in New York and San Francisco, as well as with several start-ups. A graduate of Harvard Business School, she also has an undergraduate degree in architecture from Yale, with a secondary focus in art history. She has been on the Boards of several museums: Museum of Sonoma County, Randall Museum in SF and with the Modern Art Council at SFMOMA. She spends her days obsessively making lists of films to watch (and actually watching some of them!), reading The New York Times and running.
Dinna Eisenhart
Dinna Eisenhart lived in Healdsburg with her husband, Fred Eisenhart, part-time since 2009 and full-time since 2018. Dinna is the owner of EFT Properties, a real estate investment and management company from 2009 to present and has managed 12 residential and multi-family units. In 2024, she wrote a cookbook on Filipino Cuisine, In My Kusina (2024) as a tribute to her mother. Dinna’s leadership experience within the not-for-profit realm includes chairing committees and events for organizations including The Outdoor Art Club of Mill Valley, CA, Summer Search Bay Area, Ross Valley Women’s League, Ross Valley, CA, Mill Valley Tennis Club, and O’Hanlon Art Gallery.
Dinna enjoys traveling to Asia, Mexico, and Europe, and playing tennis and pickleball. Dinna and Fred are supporters of True West Film Center.
Alan Kick
Alan (he/him) is an experienced executive skilled in developing and implementing systems, programs, and tools to improve and support financial and operational management. After success in a series of management roles with increasing responsibility in the telecom industry, he built and managed the operations functions at a startup consulting firm he co-owned. His leadership was instrumental in the firm being named one of Consulting magazine’s “Seven Small Jewels” and recognition by Inc. magazine as one of America’s fastest-growing private companies.
Alan and his husband Steve relocated full-time to the Dry Creek Valley area in 2020 after renovating the house they originally purchased in 2012 as a second home. When he’s not tending to the fruit grove, olive orchard, or vegetable garden, Alan typically can be found managing renovation projects or doting on their two English Bulldogs, Freddie and Ethel.
Alan has loved movies forever. He enjoys the escapism and fantasy they bring to people and thinks actors have a great life as they get to “try on” many different personas and learn about many different aspects of life.
Renn Rhodes
Renn (he/him) is a retired chief financial officer, having served in that role for over 30 years in several international equipment leasing businesses. In that role, he traveled the world, visited offices in more than 15 countries on a regular basis, and raised substantial financing for equipment purchases. He has a BA in economics, an MBA in accounting and is a lapsed CPA.
Since retiring, he has served on several non-profit boards, including five years on the finance and buildings and grounds committees of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and the last two years as their treasurer. For several years he also mentored business start-up hopefuls through a program run by the Small Business Administration called SCORE.
He and his husband, Marty Roberts, purchased property in the Dry Creek Valley in 1997 and have spent considerable time in the Healdsburg area since then, more or less relocating full time in 2020. In 2021 they moved into Healdsburg and are enjoying becoming more involved in the community.
Renn has been a movie fan for his whole life, starting with the 25 cent Saturday-afternoon double-features at the Rialto Theater, and is looking forward to helping bring that magic back to everyone with our new film center.
He and Marty enjoy traveling, spending time with friends and hanging out on Maui.
Veronica Rodriguez
Veronica (she/her) is a Mexican-American multi-hyphenate who hails from Modesto, California. She released her second feature film THE SLUMBER PARTY for Disney+ in the Summer of 2023. Her first taste of the industry came as an assistant at Funny or Die after graduating from USC’s Peter Stark Producing program. At FoD, she would work her way up to being a Producer and Director for their digital content, including the unforgettable “How To Become Legally Recognized As A F*ckboi”. Veronica has been selected to participate in the Sundance New Voices Lab, was the 2019 Sundance Institute’s Latinx Fellow, and participated in the Viacom ViewFinder and Refinery 29’s Shatterbox director programs. Her first feature, LET’S GET MERRIED for VH1 / MTV Studios earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Director. She has also staffed as a writer on Netflix’s FREERIDGE, a spin-off of ON MY BLOCK, HBO’s BETTY, and Disney’s GABBY DURAN & THE UNSITTABLES, which led to her first episodic directing credits. She is currently writing a feature film for Disney.
Jeffrey Schlesinger
Jeffrey (he/him) is currently the Founder and CEO of Former Bros. Media LLC. Founded in January 2022, the company provides strategic advice to a variety of media clients including Canal Plus, Dick Wolf Productions , Archie Comics/Studios, and Genius Brands. He additionally is an investor and advisor to several early stage “entertainment-tech” companies including Vuulr, Meta Media and Open Sesame.
For the prior 8 years Jeff was President of Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution, overseeing the sale of all films and television programming from Warner Bros., HBO, and Turner Broadcasting to broadcast networks, pay tv services, cable networks, satellite broadcasters, and streaming services around the world. Prior to that position he was President of International Television Distribution at Warner Bros. since 1994. He was at the company for 37 years, joining Telepictures in 1983 and rising through the ranks through 5 successive mergers including Lorimar, Time, Turner, AOL and AT&T. In this last position, he oversaw a global sales organization, as well as 26 production companies in 14 countries acquired under his leadership. He helped create and sat on the Boards of several joint venture pay tv film services including HBO Latin America, HBO Asia, and The Movie Network in Australia. Prior to joining Warner Bros. Jeff worked in the international division of Universal Television, Children’s Television Workshop (Sesame Street) and as the National Sales Manager for Astral Television in Canada. After graduating from the film school at New York University, he worked as a film editor for independent producers and the long running CBS new program “60 Minutes”.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn (he/him) is a 35-year veteran of the entertainment industry and currently splits his time between Los Angeles, where his production company is based, and Healdsburg. During his long film career, he has been instrumental in the making of a multitude of films, as a studio executive at Focus Features, Dreamworks, and Amblin Entertainment, and as an independent film producer. While he has overseen projects in an assortment of genres, his forte has been in character-based dramas, including several Academy Award winning films. He began his career in entertainment with a job in the proverbial mailroom, at Castle Rock Entertainment.
Since 2000, he has been on the board of the Virginia Film Festival which takes place every fall in Charlottesville. As a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he has served on the Executive Committee for Best Foreign Language Film, the Producers Branch Advisory committee to the Academy Museum, a mentor in the Academy Gold Mentorship Program, and is currently part of the LGBT+ Coalition. Until 2022, Glenn taught several courses in film and television production as co-head of UCLA’s prestigious two-year MFA producing program. He also taught courses at Chapman University and Sonoma State University.
He spends a lot of time with his husband Kurt in California, traveling together when possible and hiking a lot with their two adorable dogs, one of whom is unfortunately almost untrainable.
A native of Tampa, Florida, Glenn credits his parents with instilling in him a love of film, from Creature Feature double matinees on Saturday mornings to taking him to age-inappropriate Academy Award winning films that challenged his young outlook on the world at an early age.
True West Film Center owes sincere and ongoing gratitude to the members whose generous and extensive contributions helped launch and shepherd the organization. Thank you for your service!
Jenness Brewer, Founding Board Member
Sue Campbell
Nancy Dalwin, Founding Board Member
Joe Dobbins, Founding Board Member
Renay Fanelli, Founding Board Member
Walter Gendell
Jenifer Gomez
Tod Hill, Founding Board Member
Randy Schai
Kirsten Tellez
Dianne Vernon, Founding Board Member
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