Our Management Team

Anne Whittington, a DDP Board member since January 2021, is a retired planner. She worked at the Port of Oakland for 30 years as a strategic and business planner and as the environmental supervisor for Oakland’s seaport. She previously was data manager for the City of Cambridge (MA) Community Development Department. She currently serves on the board of Alameda Meals on Wheels, is co-chair of the Alameda County Schools Committee for Harvard College admissions, tutors adults studying for their high school diplomas or GEDs at Next Step Learning Center in West Oakland, and is an active member of the Alameda County Grand Jury Association. She earned her bachelor of arts degree in anthropology from Harvard University, and a master of science degree in civil engineering from Stanford University. She is an enthusiastic but amateur family historian, who serves on the DNA Doe Project’s board because she admires the nonprofit’s mission to name the nameless.

Sara Press has been on the DDP board since it began in 2018. A creative and scientific thinker, she has a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has run a photography business for 30 years and a fine art publishing business for 20. As an artist, Sara’s work dealing with natural history, ethics, and cultural evolution has been collected by dozens of museums and libraries. As an educator she has taught art history to college students, conceptualization to book artists, and juried art grants – all as a means to encourage thoughtful examination of the human experience. In her community, Sara is a bio- and foster- parent and works with at-risk youth on harm reduction, connections to social services, and other means of stabilization. She is proud that DDP is a pioneer in the field of IGG and believes the decisions we make during these formative years will have far-reaching effects. She is determined to help the board create and maintain policies that reflect the spirit of humanitarianism & discovery in which DDP was founded.

Ian Kahn is a recovering attorney, occasional hired-brain, and full-time rare bookseller. He came to the book world with a strange blend of backgrounds, business and law balanced against technology and bio-ethics. Prior to his current antiquarian/fine press book business, his career revolved around startup and turnaround projects. Ian currently spends far too much of his time working to bring along not just the next generation(s) of collectors, but also printers, binders, and book artists. Ian joined the DDP Board in 2022.