Leadership
Lowell Bergman, Founder & Board Director at Large
Lowell Bergman is a board director with Investigative Studios and was its founder when it was the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Reva & David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Reporting at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Bergman’s career spans more than half a century, from helping to found the Center for Investigative Reporting in 1977 - the first non-profit investigative reporting group - to working as an investigative reporter and producer for ABC News, CBS News’ 60 Minutes, PBS FRONTLINE, and the New York Times. His stories in broadcast and print have received Emmys, DuPonts, Peabodys, and a Polk, and he shared in a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. George Washington University's Encyclopedia of Journalism named him one of the "Thirty Most Important Investigative Reporters" in the last century.
Richard Alden Feldon, President & Interim E.D.
Richard “Alden” Feldon leads Investigative Studios as both Board President, a role he has held since 2023, and Interim Executive Director, assumed in early 2025. He brings to both roles the conviction that investigative journalism is essential to democracy and that democracy depends on well-informed citizens. His leadership philosophy is to empower great storytellers and give them the resources and independence to do their best work.
Feldon's path to Investigative Studios spans multiple sectors, each oriented toward seeking the truth and ensuring it reaches those with the power to act on it. He has served on the Board of Directors since 2017. Before that, he spent eight years in philanthropy as a board director with the Reva & David Logan Foundation and as a board director and program director with the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, supporting organizations working in investigative journalism, documentary film, arts and culture, environmental preservation, and social justice.
Earlier, Feldon spent two decades in marketing research before shifting for six years to climate change mitigation, collaborating with local, national, and international governments to achieve measurable, lasting environmental progress.
Across each chapter, the throughline has been the same: a commitment to the hard, consequential work of revealing what is true.
David Schneider, Treasurer
David Schneider has been a television journalist and documentary filmmaker for more than 40 years and owns Sonoma Films. In addition to producing his own projects, Schneider has served as a consultant on documentary films, including Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn from Investigative Studios.
Schneider spent a combined 29 years at CBS News based in Los Angeles, Denver, New York, Washington, D.C., and northern California. For eight of those years, he was a producer with 60 Minutes and was one of the original producers for 60 Minutes II and 48 Hours. In 1998, Schneider was senior producer and writer for the groundbreaking CBS Reports documentary Enter the Jury Room, which filmed criminal trials and jury deliberations via remotely controlled cameras. The broadcast received the Alfred I. DuPont Silver Baton Award. Schneider’s work has also been recognized with six Emmys and a Peabody award. From 2002 to 2009, he was Head of Documentaries at Lucasfilm, where he created and managed a 30-person unit that produced 94 nonfiction historical films for the DVD release of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones television series. The highly acclaimed documentaries were followed by Manifest Destiny, a three-part feature-length series on the history of American foreign policy. From 1980 to 1981, Schneider was a Henry Luce Scholar and worked for GMA Television News in Manila, the Philippines.
Oriana Zill de Granados, Secretary
Oriana Zill de Granados is an investigative writer and producer at CBS News and 60 Minutes. Recently, she has reported on the use of the corporate and banking system of Cyprus by Russian oligarchs to evade US Sanctions, corruption in the former Trump Administration’s efforts to build a border wall and on the government of China’s quest to collect the DNA of American citizens. In 2019, she was awarded an Alfred I. duPont/Columbia University Award for her reporting on the border crisis and the separation of children from immigrant parents. She has produced stories about failures in the government’s oversight of COVID-19 antibody testing, about allegations of sexual harassment in the restaurant industry, and questions surrounding Lance Armstrong and the use of performance-enhancing drugs, among others.
Formerly, she was a producer and writer at PBS Frontline, including reporting on the four-hour series Drug Wars, which was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award.