Dion Lim

Dion is a two-time Emmy Award–winning TV news anchor and reporter for ABC7 News in San Francisco. She is also a contributor to ABC News Live, Good Morning America, and World News Tonight and has hosted the national live television news programs America This Morning and World News Now. Lim was named a 2022 Gold House A100 Most Impactful Asian American alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and was recently named the recipient of SFCAUSE’s inaugural Champion of Truth Award. She is also the author of Make Your Moment, and lives in San Francisco. Dion is of Chinese-American descent.

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Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis