Bob Estrin serves as President of the John M. Lloyd Foundation, a Los Angeles-based private family foundation that funds projects around the world addressing the root causes of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Bob also sits on the Board and is Chair of the Investment Committee of General Service Foundation, a private foundation that funds international peace and human rights programs in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. GSF also has programs involved with reproductive health and rights, as well as the protection and preservation of Western U.S. water resources. Bob is also a private social mission angel investor.
Bob Estrin enjoyed a long and varied career as a film editor, working on such acclaimed feature films as Badlands, The Candidate, and A River Runs Through It, in addition to work on documentaries and television. He taught in the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California from 1993 to 2001. Bob achieved the status of tenured full Professor in 1995 and headed the Editing Department at the Film School from 1995 to 2001.
Bob received his B.A. from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1968 and his Masters of Fine Arts in 1970 from San Francisco Art Institute.