Ed Boutonnet, CEO of Ocean Mist Farms; Luis Valdez, founder of El Teatro Campesino; Susan Matcham, Salinas lawyer; Brian Contreras, founder/director of Second Chance Family and Youth Services; Margaret Bates, education advocate; Steven Packer, CEO of Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula; John Wilmot, retired U.S. Army sergeant; David Epel of Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University and Anthony Toney, former NFL player and director of the Seaside unit of the Boys and Girls Club of Monterey County.