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Rand Clark,
President
Ignacio Alarcón, Vice Present
Kate Silsbury, Treasurer
Michael Seabaugh, Secretary
Elsa Granados, Member-At-Large
Cristina Gonzalez (on leave)
Jo Ann Bell
Jane Brody
Elizabeth Farnum
Mark Hamilton
Carol Keator (Board/GMC Liaison)
Gordon Morrell
Hazel Putney (GMC/Board Liaison)
Kyle Richards
Michaela Simpson
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Kyle
Richards has worked at the University of
California, Santa Barbara since 1997. After serving
five years as the director of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
& transgender resources at UCSB, he is currently
the analyst for planning, budget, and faculty issues
in the Academic Senate office. His involvement with
The Fund for Santa Barbara began in 2001 as a volunteer
for Bread & Roses Dinner and Auction. He has been
on the Board of The Fund since 2003. Other community
involvement includes volunteering for the Santa Barbara
Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and being a rider and
team captain for the California AIDS Ride. Kyle hails
from Pennsylvania, and received both his B.S. and M.Ed.
from The Pennsylvania State University.
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Michaela
Simpson joined the
Board of the Fund for Santa Barbara in March 2003.
Ten years prior she received her B.A. in International
Relations from Stanford University. Upon graduation
she moved to Berlin, Germany, where she worked within
the recording music industry. She entered the film
music industry when she moved to Santa Barbara (her
father Michael's hometown) in January 1997. Currently,
Michaela is pursuing her Masters degree in Clinical
Psychology with a Specialty in Somatic Psychology
at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
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Elizabeth
Farnum and her family moved to Los Olivos twenty
years ago. She has worked as assistant city attorney
for the City of Lompoc and as a deputy county counsel
for Santa Barbara County.
She served on the School Board of Family School and
was active with We Watch since its inception. She
served on the Board of the Land Trust and was the
Planning Commissioner for the Third District under
Gail Marshall. She has served on the Women's Commission
as well.
Currently she is a volunteer tutor with the Central
Coast Literacy Council and is enrolled in the TESOL
(Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
certificate program at UCSB extension. Her favorite
pastimes are writing, playing with her dog and snorkeling.
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Rand
Clark moved to Santa Barbara in 1975, after
receiving a BA in History from UCLA. Since then, he
has worked as a volunteer and paid staff member for
social justice-oriented community organizations both
within and outside of Santa Barbara. For the past
20 years, he has worked as a software engineer. He
is pleased to serve the Fund for Santa Barbara as
a Vice President of the Board of Directors.
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Kate
Silsbury has been a Senior Financial Advisor
with Ameriprise Financial since 1985. In addition to
serving as Treasurer of the Fund for Santa Barbara's
Board of Directors, she serves on the Santa Barbara
County Retirement Board (2001 - present), Vice-chair
of the Montecito Country Club Women's Association (2004
- present), a member of the Women's Executive Network,
and as an Instructor with the Santa Barbara Community
College Adult Education Division. Ms. Silsbury also
holds a Masters in Education and Microbiology from the
University of Nevada, Reno.
Past memberships include:
Women's Economic Ventures Board
Tres Condados Girl Scout Board
American Society of Women Accountants, past president
International Association for Financial Planning, past
president
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Jo
Ann Bell joined the board of directors of
the Fund for Santa Barbara in and currently serves as
the Co-Chair of the annual "Bread & Roses"
event. Ms. Bell was a co-founder of the Professional
Association of Innkeepers International, the world's
largest trade organization for B&B owners, and the
co-founder/owner of the Glenborough Inn. In the 1970's,
she assisted in the authoring of California's first
legislation for the protection of battered women. She
served as a three-term board member for the original
Shelter Services for Women and was a board member for
Klein Bottle/Social Advocates for Youth. Ms. Bell and
her 7-lb Havanese, Chipper, are an active part of the
Pet Assisted Therapy program at Cottage Hospital.
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Ignacio
Alarcón joined
the Board of the Fund in 2004 and currently serves
as liaison from the board to the Grant Making Committee.
Ignacio is a mathematics instructor at Santa
Barbara City College. He came to the United States
from his native Mexico in 1983, to pursue graduate
studies at The Ohio State University, where he obtained
a Master of Science in Mathematics and a Master in
Applied Statistics. After his years in Ohio, Ignacio
worked as a lecturer of mathematics at the California
State University Bakersfield campus, from where he
came to his current position at Santa Barbara City
College. At the college, Ignacio serves as Curriculum
Advisory Committee chair, and he was recently elected
president of the Academic Senate for the 2007 - 2009
period. He also participates in his professional organizations,
the California Mathematics Council Community Colleges
South, of which he was president from 2003 to 2005,
and the American Mathematical Association of Two Year
Colleges, where he chaired the Equal Opportunity in
Mathematics Committee from 2004 to 2006.
Ignacio is active in the Santa Barbara County Chapter
of the American Civil Liberties Union, currently serving
as its president.
Ignacio's nickname in Mexico is "Nacho",
but he usually doesn't disclose this any more after
a lady in Ohio, with impeccable logic, ended up calling
him "Taco" (California may be a safer place
for this kind of thing). Back in Mexico City, some
twenty years ago, where he completed his undergraduate
education at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional,
there used to be a perception among some that mathematics
was "not good for anything". One night while
driving in a not so safe part of town, he got lost
and was bumped by a car and cut off by another. From
these two cars, nine youngsters came out, and asked
Ignacio to get out of his. As he stepped out, with
his legs shaking, Ignacio heard a voice saying: "leave
him alone, he's my math teacher". Now, Ignacio
tells reluctant students that if they feel math is
not good for anything, he is a living proof that it
can save your neck.
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Cristina
Gonzalez is the Program Specialist for the
National Conference of Community and Justice's
(NCCJ) Central Coast Region, serving the Santa
Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties.
Cristina received her BA from UCLA, triple majoring
in Sociology, Women's Studies and Chicana y
Chicano Studies with specializations in Women
of Color and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Studies. Prior to joining NCCJ, Cristina was
the Associate Affiliate Director for Future
Leaders of America in Santa Barbara County and
a volunteer for 14 years.
Cristina has volunteered and worked developing
youth leadership programming for homeless shelters
and youth organizations throughout Los Angeles,
Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. Cristina
interned with the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising
Training (GIFT) where she was trained in fundraising
principles and techniques, explored the context
of progressive movement work and the relationship
between fundraising and social justice. She
is a member of the Valuing Diversity Workgroup
of the Santa Maria Valley.
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Elsa
Granados joined the Board of the Fund for
Santa Barbara in May 2004. She has been in the
field to end violence against women since 1985
and has served as the Executive Director of Santa
Barbara Rape Crisis Center since 1997. She has
a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Masters
Degree in Public Administration with an emphasis
in Nonprofits. She serves as a member of the Board
of Directors of the California Coalition Against
Sexual Assault (CALCASA), of the Santa Barbara
Women's Political Committee and as a Commissioner
on the Santa Barbara County Affirmative Action
Commission. Ms. Granados has a longstanding history
in community activism including issues related
to immigrant rights, violence against women, and
other socio-economic justice issues.
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Mark
Hamilton, 62
is the father of two grown daughters. He and
Sally have been married for 24 yrs (Their first
date was at Dance Away). He has been a resident
of Santa Barbara since 1961. Following a BA
in History at UCSB he spent two years in the
Peace Corps in India working on Family Planning.
He returned to UCSB and earned a MA in Modern
European Intellectual History and South Asian
Studies. He also attended the Humanistic Psychology
Institute (now Saybrook) and has training in
Gestalt psychology. He began teaching hgh school
in 1971. For most of his teaching career he
was involved in Alternative Programs in the
Santa Barbara High School District. He is now
retired, travels, plays golf and is actively
involved in social and community issues. He
has been President of the Santa Barbara Federation
of Teachers, was on the board of Sara Foot Primary
School, and was on the founding board of The
Center for a Post Modern World. From 1985-1990.
He and Sally were the Santa Barbara Coordinators
of Beyond War. In 1989-90 they spent a year
in Japan and following that he became the president
of the Santa Barbara-Toba Sister City Organization.
From 1991-1995 he was on the board of Central
Coast Congregate Care that ran Sara House and
Heath House. He has also been on the board of
the Santa Barbara Unitarian Universalist Society.
He is currenly on the Board of the Nuclear Age
Peace Foundation, the Santa Barbara ACLU Chapter,
the Center Stage and the Fund for Santa Barbara.
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Gordon
Morrell is the Executive Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer of Yardi Systems,
a software company in Santa Barbara. In addition
to the Fund, he serves on the Board of PXE International,
a grassroots organization which promotes research
and education about a rare genetic disorder,
pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Gordon has a Ph.D.
from University of California, Santa Barbara;
M. Ed. from the University of Hartford; and
a BA from Syracuse University.
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Dr.
Michael O.L. Seabaugh is a licensed
Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Santa
Barbara and Santa Monica, California. With over
twenty years experience, he specializes in the
psychotherapeutic treatment of adults as well
as interpersonal therapy for couples and families.
He is also the author of Healthspan, a weekly
column on healthy aging, that appears in the Santa
Barbara Independent and other papers. Dr.
Seabaugh received his Bachelors degree from the
University of Missouri School of Journalism. He
earned a Masters of Fine Arts in writing at UCLA,
a Masters of Science in Education from USC. He
was awarded his Ph.D. at USC in Counseling Psychology
where he was honored with the Outstanding Academic
Achievement Award. As a specialist in the field
of Health Psychology, Dr. Seabaugh has served
as a consultant/educator for a wide variety of
health service organizations including Santa Monica
Hospital, Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital, Robert
F. Kennedy Hospital, Alcohol Center for Women,
UCLA Eating Disorders Clinic. Dr. Seabaugh has
been a resident of Summerland for seven years.
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Jane
Brody has
been teaching English at Santa Barbara City
College since 1975. A large part of her
work is to teach reading/writing skills
to under-prepared college students, those
whose reading/writing skills are 7th-12th
grade or below (over half the students at
SBCC fall into this category). Many of these
students are non-native speakers of English.
She also teaches
freshman literature/composition/critical
thinking and world literature. At the
moment, she is developing a new English
course called "literature and medicine,"
which will offer fiction, poetry, drama
and memoirs by health care professionals
and patients on issues of illness, wellness,
suffering, caregiving.
Along with teaching full-time, Jane served
on the Academic Senate for many years,
chaired committees such as Academic Policies,
and has been department chair more times
than she can count!
Other professional work includes teaching
in a federally funded program at Cal Poly
to help children of migrant workers get
their GED's (high school equivalency diplomas).
She also taught at Humboldt University
in EOPS (Extended Opportunity Programs
and Services) teaching reading to American
Indian students.
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Carol
Keator
Carol joined the Board in November 2006
- more details to be posted soon!
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