Michael Isip, Producer
Michael Isip began Hope on the Street three years ago as Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism. The program has received numerous awards from the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill, the National Mental Health Association, as well as from the mental health boards of Alameda and San Francisco Counties. Isip is was recently one of five journalists nationally to receive a Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health with which he will develop a documentary about barriers to health care. He is also a two-time winner of the Award for Coverage of Politics and State Government from the Center for California Studies.

As an executive producer at KQED, Isip oversees This Week in Northern California, a weekly, live, half-hour public affairs program. He is also KQED executive-in-charge of California Connected, a statewide newsmagazine program.

Prior to coming to KQED, he was executive producer at KVIE-TV in Sacramento and part-time investigative researcher and field producer for WLS-TV in Chicago. Isip has a B.A. in government from Cornell University and a J.D. from DePaul College of Law.

Elizabeth Pepin, Associate Producer
Elizabeth Pepin currently works as an associate producer and research and development associate at KQED. Pepin has more than five years of production experience in the Bay Area and has won three local Emmys for her documentary film work. Her numerous projects for KQED and PBS include American Experience: The Year 1900, Bay Window: the Price of Prosperity and The Fillmore: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco. In addition to being a filmmaker, Pepin is a photographer and a journalist. She holds a B.A. in journalism from San Francisco State University.

Robert O'Geen, Editor, Hope on the Street
Robert O'Geen joined KQED in January 2001. As AVID coordinator, O'Geen has been an editor for KQED productions Springboard and The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, and he provided additional editing on the documentaries Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay and Presumed Guilty.

Before joining KQED, O'Geen worked for KOLO-TV in Reno, Nev., where he edited The Legacy of the Mapes and segments of John Tyson's Journal, among others, and provided numerous creative contributions to Zomboo's House of Horror Movies.

Sevda Eris, Outreach Coordinator
Sevda Eris currently works as an outreach coordinator at KQED. Eris has more than six years of experience managing media and public relations for a variety of international organizations, including the World Bank, America Online and the American-Turkish Council. Since moving to the Bay Area, she has been pursuing her longtime interest in documentary filmmaking, freelancing in film and video production. Eris holds a B.A. in communication from U.C. San Diego and an M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University.

Sue Ellen McCann, Executive Producer
Sue Ellen McCann joined KQED in 1999 and works primarily on current-affairs programming. She has executive-produced KQED's award-winning series Bay Window for the past four seasons and has overseen more than a dozen productions for the series, including "Presumed Guilty", "GunShots," "No Turning Back" and " The Celebrity and the City." During her tenure, Bay Window has won four local Emmys and one national Emmy. Ms. McCann is also the KQED executive-in-charge of one of PBS' newest series, FRONTLINE/World, a magazine program on the global community, introducing viewers to countries and cultures rarely covered by the U.S. media.

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