Chris Bertolet (50 shows) is a 36-year old writer of teleplays, screenplays, short stories, not-so-short stories, music reviews, webzine columns, and assorted waste. He is currently working on a novel called Gabby Road: The Inner Adventures of Outstanding Man, but has had enough good ideas stolen to feel safe saying more. When not writing or otherwise occupied, Chris spends time strumming guitar and playing with his inhumanly cute daughter Lucy.

Charlie Dirksen is an antitrust and securities lawyer practicing with Gold, Bennett, Cera and Sidener in San Francisco. He has been assisting the Foundation with a wide variety of projects since 1996, and currently serves as a Vice President of the Board and an Associate Counsel to the Foundation.

Herschel Gelman (31 shows) graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with bachelor's degrees in computer science and electrical engineering in 1997, and currently does computer security work for the federal government. He has been involved in the online Phish community since 1993, and is a founding member of the Mockingbird Foundation.

Ellis Godard (106 shows) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University-Northridge, where he teaches the Sociology of Law, Statistics, and Research Methods. He studies cross-cultural patterns of conflict management among those who know little about each other, and has published on reality shows among other topics. He saw his first show 10/10/90 has volunteered for the Phish.Net since 1991, coordinated production of both the Phish Companion and Sharin' in the Groove, and currently serves as Executive Director and Treasurer of the Foundation. He lives in Ventura County with his wife (Funding Director Kristen Godard) and two children (Noah and Maya), and he never for an instant believed that the breakup would be permanent.

Jeremy D. Goodwin (93 shows) resides in Swampscott, Massachusetts. He graduated from George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs in 1999, with a degree in Political Communication. He is a journalist, working mainly for the Swampscott Reporter and the Marblehead Reporter, on the North Shore of Massachusetts. He is also working towards completion of his first novel, a postmodern "adventure tale". Jeremy is the editor or co-editor of several Companion sections, including Show Reviews, Venue Information, and the Travel Log. He first saw Phish in 1995.

Jack Lebowitz (71 shows) is an environmental lawyer and law firm partner in Saratoga Springs, New York, specializing in the permitting of new industrial plants. A "Deadhead" since his college days in 1970, he has seen over 50 Phish shows since 1993 with his wife and fellow Mockingbird contributor Kathleen ("Kat") Griffin. He and Kat have two teen-aged children, Gavin and Annie, who are following in their parents' Phish-fan footsteps. He curently serves as Secretary of the Board and General Counsel to the Foundation.

Dan Purcell (61 shows) practices law in San Francisco. He first heard Phish in 1989 at the Zoo at Amherst College, but only became a serious fan after discovering the rec.music.phish Usenet group in early 1992. He is proud to have been a Mockingbird Foundation board member since the project's inception in 1996.

Jim Raras, Jr. (153 shows) thoroughly enjoys music in all aspects of his life. Beyond the Mockingbird Foundation and his personal listening, he brings superior quality audio and video to people as his profession. Jim is employed by the country's largest residential systems integration firm and currently resides in the Boston metropolitan area. Jim has been seeing Phish for over ten years and is very grateful for the lessons learned and people met along the way as well as the opportunity to take a common passion for music and use it to help others.

David Steinberg (241 shows) earned his Masters degree in Mathematics from New Mexico State University in 1994, and is currently a computer programmer in Seattle. He first saw Phish in his undergraduate days at Bard College, later created the Phish Stats web site, and used that knowledge to create the statistics for The Phish Companion.

Marcie Vogel Frahm (157 shows) saw her first Phish show in 1989 in Baltimore, and graduated from the University of Maryland shortly thereafter. Her passion for music and dedication to the jamband scene for more than 15 years landed her work in Colorado in 2001. There, she met her husband who proposed to her with a 20-foot banner at Madison Square Garden during Phish's show there on New Year's Eve 2002. She is proud to be the only woman among Mockingbird's founding Board members, and looks forward to taking her son, Shane, to his 1st Phish show soon!