Jolie Krakauer (President) is an attorney who has spent the past decade raising her three girls and providing volunteer leadership for their schools. She has served as Board Chair at the Berkwood Hedge School and at the Childrens Community Center, a parent coop where the Board effectively ran the school. She is a founding Board Member of Los Mapaches Project, a group that educates children and adults about Latin American music and culture. As an attorney, she worked at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco and later for Martin, Ryan & Andrada, where her focus was medical malpractice defense. Ms. Krakauer graduated from U.C. Santa Cruz and Hastings College of the Law. Her two older daughters Zoe and Greer are JMSG alumnae and her youngest daughter Lila is in 8th grade at JMSG.

Pamela Organista (Secretary) is Professor and Chair of Psychology at the University of San Francisco. Prior to joining the faculty at USF, she was an Assistant Clinical Professor providing psychotherapy, consultation, and supervision in the Department of General Internal Medicine at UCSF. Her research interests include community-based prevention interventions and ethnic minority health issues. Publications include Readings in Ethnic Psychology: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanics/Latinos (Routledge, 1998), and Acculturation: Advances in Theory, Measurement, and Applied Research (American Psychological Association, 2003) which she co-edited. She is the founding and present Director of the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of San Francisco and from 1998-2000 served as the Director of Academic Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Organista completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology and Black studies at Washington University in St. Louis, doctorate in clinical psychology at Arizona State University, and clinical psychology post-doctorate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. Her daughter Zena graduated from JMSG in 2010.

Carolyn Sherwood Call (Treasurer) is an economist whose recent work has focused on addressing climate change. She is a visiting faculty member at Mills College; she has been an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and has taught at Saint Mary’s College of California in addition to Mills. Carolyn has also volunteered extensively at her children’s schools. Most recently, she was a charter member of the Green Council at Redwood Day School and a founding co-chair of the RDS Parents’ Association Green Committee. She holds a B.A. from Pomona College and a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley. Her daughter Michelle graduated from JMSG in 2005.

Mike Barbee is the president of Carlson, Barbee & Gibson, a Civil Engineering, Surveying, and Planning firm that he founded in 1989. The firm specializes in land development engineering, including boundary and top surveys, planning and feasibility studies, design of grading and improvements, mapping, construction staking, and related services. Mike attended the University of Utah and U.C. Berkeley. He currently serves on the Board of the California and Nevada Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors Association. In the past, he was on the Board of Redwood Day School. His daughter Alison graduated from JMSG in 2007.

Robin Barlow Jones is an administrator at Piedmont Elementary School in the Oakland Unified School District. She has blended two careers – over 15 years in education, and 20 years in the advertising industry. As an educator, she has worked in the Boston and Oakland public school districts, as well as for the Educational Development Corp. and the USVI Department of Education in St. Croix. In advertising she worked from 1995 to 2007 as a freelance producer for agencies including Carol H. Williams Advertising, EVB, Euro RSCG and Yates Advertising. She produced radio and television projects for clients including General Motors, McDonalds, Coors, U.S. Census Bureau, PG&E, Safeway, Wells Fargo, and Allstate. Robin received a B.S. in special education from Boston University and a master’s degree in educational media and technology from Boston University. Her daughter Tajah graduated from JMSG in 2008.

Paul Brumbaum is a senior vice president of Wells Fargo's wholesale banking group, where he has worked for 27 years. In his current role, he manages environmental risks associated with the bank's lending and investing to commercial customers. Paul is a native of the SF Bay Area and has spent his whole professional career in the San Francisco offices of Wells Fargo. A 1982 graduate of Middlebury College, Paul lives in Berkeley with his wife Sandy and daughters Hannah and Ellie, both of whom attended JMSG. He is an avid outdoorsman and especially enjoys hiking, backpacking, biking, whitewater rafting, gardening and construction. He has served on various school, church and nonprofit boards, including the board of Berkwood Hedge School in Berkeley. His daughters Ellie and Hannah graduated from JMSG in 2009 and 2006.

Jennifer Curry Villeneuve believes in the power of intentional, thoughtful and engaging environments to facilitate change in the world, and knows that JMSG is such a place. Jennifer has been working on issues of education quality, equity and inclusion; the uses of appropriate research methodologies; and dimensions of organizational development for educational institutions, non-profits and philanthropic organizations for over twenty years. She examines these important areas from the varying perspectives of direct research, policy analysis, coaching and practitioner-based assessment. She has worked in small consulting firms and independently to direct evaluation and planning projects that aim create changes for all members of society. She has served on the boards of the Ft. Miley Adventure Ropes Course and Windrush School. Jennifer holds a Ph.D. in Policy, Organization, Measurement and Evaluation and an M.A. in Education Administration from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Higher Education and Adult Development from U.C.L.A. Her daughter Cassidy graduated from JMSG in 2009 and her son is in the founding class of the East Bay School for Boys.

Mark Fillinger is Director of Development at NextLight Renewable Power LLC, where he is responsible for developing NextLight’s utility-scale solar projects. A 20-year energy industry executive, Mark has extensive experience with siting, permitting, and negotiating project-related contracts. Previous work with PowerLight Corporation (now SunPower) included development of the company’s power purchase agreement offering, negotiating and closing the first $40 million of projects developed under this structure. While at the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority, he developed a third party photovoltaic acquisition program for state agencies. Mark holds a B.S. in Energy Economics from the University of California, Davis and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University. His daughter Kiley graduated from JMSG in 2009 and his daughter Chloe is currently in 8th grade at JMSG. 

Tiffani Harris is a tax accountant with Burr Pilger Mayer Inc. in Walnut Creek. A native of California’s Central Valley, she graduated from St. Mary’s College in Moraga in 2008 and passed the CPA exam shortly afterward. She has volunteered for community service through various school organizations, held softball clinics to coach elementary school girls, and was awarded Outstanding Offensive Player of the Year and Captain’s Star on the Section Champion High School softball team. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Taxation at Golden Gate University.

Jody Brunk Knowlton is Principal and Co-founder of Artsource Consulting of San Francisco, a firm specializing in the development of fine art collections for private, corporate, and institutional collectors world-wide. Prior to co-founding Artsource Consulting in 1994, Ms. Knowlton worked with Roselyne C. Swig Artsource, where she managed multiple corporate and private fine art collections, and developed ArtReach, a rotating exhibition program that partnered non-profit arts institutions with businesses. Ms. Knowlton has helped found nonprofits working on domestic violence and arts in education, and has served on the parent board of Thornhill Elementary School for the past five years. Her daughter Sarah graduated from JMSG in 2008 and her younger daughter Olivia graduated from JMSG in 2010.

Daphne Muse is the former director of the Women’s Leadership Institute at Mills College. An educator, author and activist, her books include the New Press Guide to Multicultural Children’s Literature for Young Readers and a collaboration with award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni on challenges and opportunities for historically black colleges in the 21st century. Among her many projects, Ms. Muse spent six years as a writer for Breaking Barriers, a collaborative effort of Scholastic Inc. and Major League Baseball. Her current initiatives include launch of Grandmothers Going Global (GGG), an NGO designed to create a global network of grandmothers offering exchanges, mentorships, respite, retreats and cultural, academic, and leadership opportunities. Ms. Muse has a B.A. in American and English Literature from Fisk University.

Rhonda L. Nelson is a member of Severson & Werson where she is co-chair of the Labor and Employment Group. She was a member, vice-president, and president of the Oakland Barracuda Aquatics, and a member of Equal Rights Advocates. She was a co-founder of NIA at Head-Royce School where she and four other African American women established an endowment scholarship fund for a child of color. She was also on the steering committee of the Learning Disabilities Network, a parent run organization. Ms. Nelson has a J.D. from U.C.L.A. Law School, a M.P.A. with an emphasis in Judicial Administration from U.S.C., and a B.A. from U.C.L.A.

Walter Patrick has worked as special assistant to the S.F. Unified School Districts’ superintendent since 1998, overseeing facilities projects for the school district. Before that, he had his own business for five years as a consultant in administration, human resources and facilities. Prior to that, Mr. Patrick worked in a series of human resources positions including a vice president of human resources at Crocker Bank, and human resource positions at Ford Aerospace and AircoTemescal Co., a metallurgy firm. He received his Master's in business administration and labor relations from California State University Hayward. Mr. Patrick has served on the boards of the I Have a Dream organization and of Oakland YouthWorks. His daughter Kayla was in JMSG’s founding class of 2002. 

Lisa Urry is a Professor of Biology at Mills College, with a specialty in developmental biology. Having served as Chair of the Biology Department from 2004-2009, she was on sabbatical for 2009-2010, and returned for the 2010-2011 academic year. Since 2004, she has been a coauthor on the largest-selling college-level general biology textbook in the world (Biology, by Campbell and Reece), which has sold about 7 million copies in total; the 9th edition will be published in October 2010. She received her B.A. from Tufts University in Biology and French, worked as a research biologist at the New England Aquarium, and then obtained her Ph.D. at MIT from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. She did post-doctoral work at Tufts University, Harvard Medical School, and U.C. Berkeley prior to beginning her current position at Mills in 1995. Her daughter, Lily Dobberteen, graduated from JMSG in 2005.

Mike Volk has had his own independent consulting business since 1982, specializing in technical and marketing consulting related to pumps and other industrial equipment.  He teaches short courses on pumps, and has authored a 500-page handbook on pumps, published by CRC Press. Mr. Volk has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineering and a masters in business.  His daughters Sarah and Monica graduated in 2005 and 2003.

Victoria Jew Wong is a self-employed architect in Oakland who develops her own projects, both residential and commercial. A third generation Chinese-American and a native San Franciscan, Ms. Wong is a member of the Jack London Aquatic Center Masters Rowing Team. She received her bachelor’s degree in architecture from UC Berkeley. Ms. Wong’s daughters Rachel, Stacey, and Jodie graduated from JMSG in 2005, 2007, 2010.