Candidate for
Board Member; Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District

KARIN FREEMAN FOR SCHOOL BOARD 2014

"Excellence in Education"

KARIN FREEMAN'S LEADERSHIP RECORD:

EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

• Member, PYLUSD Board of Education since 1989
  o Served as President multiple terms
• Member, North Orange County Regional Occupational Program (ROP) Board of Trustees since 1991
  o Served as President multiple terms
• Member and past president, Orange County School Boards Association Board of Directors since 1993
• Member, California School Boards Association (CSBA) Delegate Assembly since 2002
• Member, Orange County Committee on School District Organization since 2007
• Validator, CSBA Golden Bell Award, six times
• Local Governmental Relations Chair, 2007-2009, CSBA
• Member, former Yorba Linda Elementary School District Board, 1986-1989
• Active leader in the merger of Placentia Unified with Yorba Linda Elementary School District in the late 1980's

• Past PTA President, Linda Vista Elementary School, two terms
• Past chairman of various PTA committees including Science Fair and Carnival
• Past Site Council member, Linda Vista Elementary
• Volunteered: 9 years at Linda Vista Elementary, 5 years at Ruby Drive Elementary, and for the past 7 years at El Camino High School via Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce's Business Booster Club

• Member, Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce since 1984, serving terms on the Board of Directors and on the Executive Board
• Member, Education Committee, Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce
• Member, St. Jude Hospital Community Benefit Committee since 1999
• Founding member and current committee chair, Yorba Linda Historical Society
• Member, Placentia Founders Society
• Member, Yorba Linda Veterans Memorial Planning Committee, 2006-2009
• Steering Committee member, North Orange County Leadership Institute 1994-2000
• Treasurer, former education foundation (YL4Ed) for now defunct YLSD

• B.A., Political Science, University of California, Irvine
• Masters in Governance, California School Boards Association (CSBA)
• Former technical English teacher, IBM Germany
• Formerly in management, Southern California Edison
• 1990 Recipient of Honor, Orange County Commission on Status of Women
• 2005 Recipient, Marian Bergeson Award as Outstanding Board Member in Orange County
• Family: Married to fellow UCI graduate Jeff Freeman. Our two children attended district schools. We have five grandchildren, one grandchild now in a PYLUSD pre-school. PYLUSD resident for 41 years.