Leadership
Lowell Bergman, Founder & 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 began working on investigative journalism projects in 2013, serving as a board director with the Reva & David Logan Foundation and as a board director and program director with the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. Over the following seven years, he played a pivotal role in supporting and advancing the work of nonprofit organizations across investigative journalism, documentary film, arts and culture, environmental advocacy, preserving democracy, and social justice. He has served on the Board of Directors of Investigative Studios since 2017. In early 2025, Feldon assumed the role of Interim Executive Director and is guiding the organization into its next chapter to create and support investigative journalism.
Before his philanthropy and journalism careers, Alden spent two decades in marketing research and then, in 2006, shifted his focus to mitigating climate change. For six years, he collaborated with local, national, and international governments and communities to develop climate action plans and greenhouse gas measurement protocols to achieve measurable, lasting environmental progress.
Randy Jones Toll, Vice President
Randy Jones Toll has enjoyed diverse career paths in media and entertainment, hospitality, and alternative dispute resolution. She joined the Investigative Studios board in 2023.
Randy and her husband are investors and producers of Broadway shows and movies with a slate of projects at various stages of development. Her primary career spanned 23 years at Marriott International’s corporate sales strategy and large-scale technical projects. She has served on several boards (Association of Corporate Travel Executives - ACTE, Children’s Hospital). Since 2011, Randy has been a part of NVMS Conflict Resolution Center (NVMS-CRC, affiliate of George Mason University) as a VA Supreme Court-certified court mediator and mentor, juvenile restorative justice (RJ) practitioner, and board member/board president, where she led the rebranding and restructuring of this evolving non-profit. In 2022, she built an RJ program for the Fairfax County Prosecutor for adults aged 18-26. Randy continues to contribute to the community as the NVMS RJ Fellowship Program chair and on the NVMS-CRC Advisory Council.
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.