Candidate for
Board Member; Berkeley Unified School District

School Activist, Board Leader, Former CFO and CPA

Berkeley Schools Advocate

• Berkeley High School Governance Council and School Site Council (2005-2008)
• Berkeley High School Site Plan Sub-Committee (2004)
• Superintendent's Advisory Committee for Small Schools (2003). Drafted "Berkeley High School Small Schools' Guiding Principles"
• Berkeley Schools Volunteers--WriterCoach Connection literacy volunteer at Berkeley High, King MS, and Longfellow MS. Math tutor King MS. (1994-present)
• Berkeley Unified School District Citizens' Budget Oversight Committee (1989-1991)

• Founding Board Member and Treasurer, Community Alliance for Learning, sponsor of the WriterCoach Connection (2001-05)Received "Outstanding Volunteer Award" in April 2008.
• Board Member and Treasurer, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)(1999-2003). Received BOSS "Turning Lives Around" Award in October 2007.

• Chief Financial Officer, Oclassen Pharmaceuticals
• Controller, Genentech, Inc.
• Founding Committee Member, Association of Bioscience Financial Officers
• Auditor and CPA, Coopers & Lybrand
• Lecturer in Business Administration, Northeastern University

• MBA Finance & Accounting, Columbia University, New York
• BA Religious Studies, UC Berkeley