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Board of Trustees
Our Trustees have a deep, personal commitment to the Bay Area. They lead The San Francisco Foundation through their expertise, their knowledge of our community, and their passionate belief in the power of philanthropy to change lives.
Andy Ballard is a managing director at Hellman & Friedman. He also serves as a director of Activant Solutions, Inc., Catalina Marketing Corporation, Getty Images, Inc., and Vertafore, Inc. He was formerly a director of DoubleClick, Inc. Prior to joining Hellman & Friedman in 2004, he was employed by Bain Capital in San Francisco and Boston. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College and earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Appointed in 2008.
Stephanie DiMarco [vice chair] is founder and CEO of Advent Software, Inc., the company she co-founded in 1983. She is a member of the advisory board of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley. She also has served as a member of the advisory board of the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley and is a former trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation board. Appointed in 2001.
David Friedman [chair] is a senior principal and chair of the board of Forell/Elsesser Engineers. He is the immediate past chair of the board of directors of the Jewish Home of San Francisco, currently serving as chair of the board of Moldaw Family Residences and trustee of the Jewish Home and Senior Living Foundation. He is also a trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation, a trustee and treasurer of the Friedman Family Foundation, director of the Faultline Foundation, and vice president of the board of directors of Architectural Foundation of San Francisco. He was formerly on the boards of San Francisco Day School and Asian Neighborhood Design. Appointed in 2004.
Charlene Harvey worked for 16 years with the Management Center of San Francisco as a staff consultant to nonprofit organizations. She is co-chair of the Campaign for the Presidio and the Golden Gate National Parks and serves on the boards of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and the Well Network. She is a past chair of KQED, past chair of the advisory committee to Grants for the Arts, and past president of the Junior League of San Francisco. She has served on the boards of the Rosenberg Foundation and the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, among others. She was awarded the SPUR Award in 1997 and the Outstanding Volunteer Fund Raiser Award in 1996 by the National Society of Fund Raising Executives. Appointed in 2003.
Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., is chief executive officer of The San Francisco Foundation. Prior to becoming CEO of the Foundation, she served as the director of public health for the City and County of San Francisco. She is an assistant clinical professor at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and maintains an active clinical practice at San Francisco General Hospital in the AIDS clinic. Dr. Hernández currently serves on the boards of Blue Shield of California and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. She is also a trustee of the Western Asbestos Settlement Trust and serves on the UCSF Advisory Councils of Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Lesbian Health and Resource Center, and the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved. Her prior affiliations include President Clinton’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry; the Pew Commission on Environmental Health; American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR); the Council on Foundations; the Volunteerism Project; the National Alliance for Hispanic Health; and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Executive Session on Philanthropy. Dr. Hernández also co-chaired San Francisco’s Universal Healthcare Council.
James Hormel served as United States Ambassador to Luxembourg during the administration of President William J. Clinton. He also served as alternate representative of the U.S. Delegation to the 51st United Nations General Assembly and as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He is a member of the board of governors of the San Francisco Symphony, the board of directors of People For the American Way, the board of governors of the Commonwealth Club of California, and the board of trustees of Grace Cathedral. He was a founding director of the City Club of San Francisco and is the founder of Equidex, Inc. Appointed in 2002.
Tatwina Lee is a member of the board of trustees of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and has served as the acting executive director of the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco. Previously, she was the chair of the boards of the Library Foundation of San Francisco and the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, co-chair of the Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library, and president of the East Bay Music Foundation. She was also a member of the Chinese American Committee for the Main Campaign of the Library Foundation of San Francisco and the Princeton Parent Fund National Committee. For more than a decade, she was an active volunteer in the Berkeley Public Schools. Appointed in 2003.
Marcela C. Medina is vice president and general manager of Univision 14 KDTV and TeleFutura 66 KFSF. Prior to joining KDTV, she was general manager of KLUZ-TV/Univision 41 in the Albuquerque/Santa Fé area and, prior to that, served as network sales manager for the Telemundo network in Los Angeles and as sales executive for NBC's flagship station, WNBC-TV, in New York City. Currently, she serves on the boards of the Latino Community Foundation and the Commonwealth Club of California. She has also served as a trustee with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the National Association of Broadcasters, among others. Appointed in 2005.
Hugo Morales is the executive director and a founder of Radio Bilingue, Inc., the National Latino Public Radio Network. He serves on the boards of the California Endowment, the Rosenberg Foundation, and University of California at Merced. He is a member of the California State University at Fresno Advisory Council to the President. He serves as a commissioner for the California Postsecondary Education Commission and for First 5 Fresno County. He founded the Central California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and was a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1994 and the Lannan Foundation Award for Cultural Freedom in 2006. Appointed in 2002.
John Murray is the CEO of Element98, a technology development and consulting firm. He is a member and past president of San Francisco's Recreation and Park Commission and a member of the board of Summer Search, a support organization for at-risk youth. He is a former member of the State Recreation and Park Commission and served on the City's 2001 Elections Redistricting Task Force. Appointed in 2005.
Kurt C. Organista, Ph.D., is associate professor of social welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on psychopathology, stress and coping, and social work practice with Latino populations. He is interested in Latino health and mental health, conducts research in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention with Mexican/Latino migrant laborers, and is author of Solving Latino psychosocial and health problems: Theory, practice, and populations published in 2007 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, Hispanic Journal of the Behavioral Sciences, and American Journal of Community Psychology, as well as on the Latino Advisory Board for the California State Office of AIDS. He was previously a member of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health. Appointed in 2009.
Peggy Saika is the president/executive director of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy. She is immediate past chair of the board of directors of the California Wellness Foundation. She was the founding executive director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) and previously was executive director of the Asian Law Caucus. She is a co-founder of the Asian Women's Shelter, Asians/Pacific Islanders for Choice, the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. She has served on the boards of numerous organizations and was the first Asian American appointed to the Alameda County Commission on the Status of Women. She served on the Advisory Council of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and was appointed by President Clinton to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council. She was also a fellow for the Kellogg International Leadership Program. Appointed in 2009.