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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 of Hellman & Friedman. He is also a director of Activant Solutions, Inc., Catalina Marketing Corporation, Getty Images, Inc., and Internet Brands, Inc. He is also active in the Firm's investment in Web Reservations
International. He was formerly a director of DoubleClick, Inc. and Vertafore, 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.
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 on the boards of Moldaw Family Residences, Taube-Koret Campus for Jewish Life, Jewish Senior Living Group, and 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, and director of the Faultline Foundation, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research, and Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. He serves on the advisory boards of UC Berkeley Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Environmental Design. He was formerly on the boards of San Francisco Day School, Architectural Foundation of San Francisco, 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 was appointed to the board of the Presidio Trust in 2011. She served as
co-chair of the Campaign for the Presidio and Golden Gate National Parks. She was previously board chair of KQED and Grants for the Arts and president of the
Junior League of San Francisco. She has also served on the boards of California
Pacific Medical Center, 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. Dr. Hernández is a graduate of Yale University, Tufts School
of Medicine, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. 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,
the Blue Shield of California Foundation, First Republic Bank, Mills
College, and The Bay Citizen. She is also a trustee of the Western
Asbestos Settlement Trust and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of
San Francisco’s Economic Advisory Council, the Public Policy Institute
of California Statewide Leadership Council, the Lucile Packard
Children’s Hospital Public Policy Committee, the Yale University
Council, the UCSF Chancellor’s Advisory Board, and the UCSF Clinical and
Translational Science Institute Advisory Board. Her prior affiliations
include President Clinton’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection
and Quality in the Healthcare Industry; the Council on Foundations; the
Institute of Medicine’s Committees on the Consequences of Uninsurance
and the Implementation of Antiviral Medication Strategies for an
Influenza Pandemic; and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
Executive Session on Philanthropy. Dr. Hernández also co-chaired San
Francisco’s Universal Healthcare Council.
Tatwina
Lee is a board member
of the Rose T. Y Chen Charitable Foundation, a member of the art advisory board
for the Chinese Cultural Foundation of San Francisco, and a board member of the
Quarryhill Botanical Garden in Sonoma. She has served as the acting executive director of the Chinese Culture Center of
San Francisco. Previously, she served on the board of trustees of the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music and 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.
Edward
H. McDermott is a managing director of SPO Partners & Co.,
a private investment partnership that makes concentrated, long term investments
in public and private companies. Prior to joining SPO Partners & Co., he worked with
Goldman, Sachs & Co. in their investment banking division. Mr. McDermott serves as a
board member of Lamar Advertising and Aggregates USA. He is also a former board president of San
Francisco School Volunteers. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his M.B.A. from the Stanford
Graduate School of Business. Appointed in 2011.
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 senior vice president and chief information officer at Genworth Financial Wealth Management. He is a trustee of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and a board member of San Francisco Summer Search, a support organization for at-risk youth. He is past president of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Commission and 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 dean and 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 and the Hispanic Journal of the
Behavioral Sciences, on the senior editorial board of the American Journal of
Community Psychology, as well as on the Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos editorial
board. He was previously a member of the Latino advisory board for the
California State Office of AIDS and 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 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 is the past chairperson of the New World Foundation and The California Wellness Foundation. She also has served as a board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, United Way of the Bay Area, the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, the National Network of Grantmakers, and the Council on Foundations, and she 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.
Sarah Stein is managing director and the co-director of research at Hall Capital Partners LLC. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs & Company and the Fisher Family Foundation, and was an English teacher in Guangzhou, China. She is currently a trustee of the Breakthrough Collaborative, Crystal SpringsUplands School, and KIPP Bayview Academy. She is a former trustee of Princeton University, where she received her undergraduate degree. She earned her Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Education from Stanford University. Appointed in 2012.