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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 president of Hall Capital Partners LLC, overseeing the business development, Information technology, and strategy, finance, and funds groups. Prior to joining Hall Capital Partners, Ms. Stein worked in the investment management division at Goldman Sachs & Co., at the Fisher Family Foundation, and taught English in Guangzhou, China. Ms. Stein was named one of Foundation and Endowment Money Management's 2011 Rising Stars. She serves on the board and
investment committee of the Crystal Springs Uplands School, is on the investment committee of the Foundation for California
Community Colleges, and serves on the endowment committee of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. She previously served as a trustee of
Princeton University, the Breakthrough Collaborative, and KIPP Bayview Academy. Ms. Stein graduated cum laude from Princeton University with an
A.B. in History. She also earned an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an M.A. from the Stanford School of Education. Appointed in 2012.
Sheryl Wong is a civic leader of education, arts, healthcare, and community organizations throughout the Bay Area. She is a former trustee of the Oakland Museum of California Foundation, where she twice served as board chair and chaired its $62 million capital campaign. She is a trustee of the University of California Berkeley Foundation, and is former president of the Library Advisory Board. She was also co-chair of the Alameda-Contra Costa Campaign Committee for Berkeley’s Campaign for the New Century. She a director of the Bay Area Tumor Institute, and previously served on The San Francisco Foundation’s Community Leadership Awards Committee. She received her undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley. Appointed in 2012.