Board of Directors & Staff

Board of Directors

Jessica Cassinelli

Contract CFO

Self-Employed

San Jose, CA

Jessica Early

Director, Central Arizona Writing Project; Professor of English

Arizona State University

Phoenix, AZ

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl

Executive Director

National Writing Project

Berkeley, CA

Deidre Farmbry

Senior District Advisor

The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning

Philadelphia, PA

David Hahn

Managing Director

Media Connect

New York, NY

George Haley

Senior Partner

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

San Francisco, CA

David Hoverman

Partner

Bain & Company

San Francisco, CA

Julie Kidd

Strategic Advisor, Philanthropy & Nonprofits

Independent Consultant

San Francisco, CA

Jabari Mahiri

Professor in the Graduate School of Education

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

Tonya Perry

Director, Red Mountain Writing Project; Vice Provost, Miles College

Miles College

Birmingham, Alabama

Lawrence E. Strickling

Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications & Information Administration

U.S. Department of Commerce

Chicago, IL

Carla Truttman

Educational Services Director

Siskiyou County Office of Education

Yreka, CA

Brian Wong

Chair, Board of Directors

Managing Counsel

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

San Francisco, CA

Staff

Tanya Baker

Director, National Programs

Rachel Bear

Senior Program Associate

Barbara Hasselbach Boyle

Director, Grants & Contracts

Christina Cantrill

Associate Director, National Programs

Tatiana Diaz Cubillos

Accounting Specialist

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl

Executive Director

Luke Hokama

Associate Director, Communications & IT

Stephenie Patrick

Research Associate

Kathleen Riley

Senior Manager, Program & Operations

James Stapleton

Director, Data Services

Pat Sweeney

Director, Finance

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