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Board of Directors
Associate Members
- Yogi Chugh
- Dirk Lorenz
- Raj Salwan
- Sharon Yap
Honorary Members
- Hattie Hughes
- Anu Natarajan
- Robert Wasserman
The Fremont
Education Foundation is currently looking for new board members.
The Board meets monthly, and board members are expected to be
actively involved in one or more aspects of our annual fundraising
activities or in administering one of our programs.
Please
contact us for more information about joining our Board
of Directors.
Meetings are scheduled as follows:
- July 27, 2009- Budget Meeting
- September 28, 2009
- October 26, 2009
- November 30, 2009
- January 25, 2010
- February 22, 2010
- March 22, 2010
- April 26, 2010
- May 24, 2010
- June 28, 2010
All meetings time are from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. and are held at the FUDTA
office at 39350 Civic Center Drive (unless otherwise noted). All meetings
are open to the public and volunteers are especially welcome. To
RSVP for meetings,
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Sherea Westra
has served the Fremont Education Foundation as the liaison between
the Foundation and the FUDTA, the local teacher’s association, for
the past five years. She has presented workshops for the Innovative
Education Grants program, phone banked at the annual music telethon,
and organized Welcome Teacher Day and Kids Day with the generous
support of Fremont Flowers.
She is a life-long resident of Fremont, having
attended Oliveira Elementary, Thornton Jr. High, and American HS.
She left Fremont for Humboldt State University following high
school, and received her Bachelors of Arts and California Teaching
Credential there. She also met the catch of her life there too -
her husband. The two have one daughter who will someday attend
public schools in Fremont.
For the past nine years, she has been a
second-grade teacher at Niles Elementary School. Many hours are
spent in her classroom and volunteering on many school and District
committees. Sherea has also served the Fremont Unified District
Teachers Association (FUDTA) in many different capacities while
teaching in FUSD. She is currently the chair of FUDTA’s Organizing
Team, member of the Beginning Teacher Support and Assistance
Advisory Panel, and member of the Peer Assistance and Review Joint
Panel.
Sherea looks forward to bringing in new
volunteers to FEF and continuing to see the three programs succeed.
David Bonaccorsi
is a life-long resident of Fremont since 1961. He played the
clarinet as a marching and school band participant at both
Centerville Junior High and Washington High School, after first
learning to play this band instrument in an after-school program at
Maloney Elementary. David is an attorney and a partner with the law
firm of Bernard, Balgley & Bonaccorsi in Newark. He has been
blessed with two children, and a spouse, brother and father who are
or have been educators in the Fremont Unified School District.
He currently serves as a Planning Commissioner
on the City of Fremont’s Planning Commission, a Board member of
OneChild, and a member of the Fremont Chamber of Commerce’s
Government Affairs Committee. His other local community activities
have included being Co-Chair of Fremont Unified’s Measure B Health
and Safety Bond Campaign, a member of the City of Fremont’s
Integrated Waste Management Affairs Committee, and an alumnus of the
Fremont Chamber’s Leadership Fremont.
Desrie Campbell is the owner of Benefits
Solutions which provides comprehensive health benefits and
financial services to individuals, families, professional
associations, executives and small to midsized businesses. Desrie
has lived in Fremont since 1996. She and her husband, Willie, have
4 young men, all of whom attended and graduated from Fremont
Schools. As an active member of the community, Desrie
serves as the Chair of the Alameda County Commission on the Status
of Women’s Gender Racial and Equity Committee and she is a 2007
Emerge graduate. She is a member of the Fremont Community
Engagement and Advisory Board, Fremont Chamber of Commerce, the
Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA). She holds a BS
in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, Fremont..
Beth Rasler,
CPA, joined the board in June 2001 to serve as treasurer. She was
named the 60,000th resident of Fremont when her family moved here in
1962. Beth grew up in Fremont and is a graduate of California State University,
Stanislaus. She has a daughter in the 6th grade in Fremont who plays
the baritone in her 3rd year of after school band. Beth is employed
by Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen and Co., a CPA firm in Fremont. She is an alumnus
of the Leadership Fremont program, a volunteer for Girl Scouts and a volunteer
at her daughter’s elementary school.
Sandi Pantages served on the Fremont Education Foundation
board in the mid-1990’s, and rejoined the board in late 2001. Now
retired from the Alameda County Library, Sandi worked in the Fremont
libraries for 32 years and was the manager of the Fremont Main
Library for many years. She is an active member of Niles Rotary, and
is also involved with the Fremont Symphony Guild and the League of
Women Voters of the Fremont, Newark and Union City Area. Sandi grew
up in Concord, obtained her undergraduate and graduate degrees from
UCLA and worked a few years at the Library of Congress before
returning to the Bay Area in 1969. She lives with her husband Dick
in the Brookvale area of Fremont.
Parvin
Ahmadi has lived in the City of Fremont for 14 years and
has worked for the Fremont Unified School District for 10
years. She started in Fremont as a teacher at Weibel
Elementary Schools. She later became a Vice Principal at
Weible and a Principal at Parkmont Elementary School for
five years. Parvin has been the Director of Elementary
Education in Fremont since 2005. She has been a board
member of the foundation for two years. She has worked on
the Allocations Committee to support the foundation's
efforts to award grants (IEG) to classroom, as well as the
Elementary After School Band program.
Kathleen Caine was born at Washington Hospital and is very
nearly a lifelong Fremont resident, having spent her college years
in Berkeley.
After graduation, she went on to receive her
Masters in Communications from San Jose State, while raising her
family. After several years in high tech marketing, she changed
careers and became a teacher with the Fremont Unified School
District. Her most recent return to college was to obtain a
teaching credential in business.
She is a former PTA President, Drama Coach,
English Language tutor and member of the FUSD Technology Advisory
Committee. Kathleen joined the Fremont Education Foundation
Board in 2008.
After nine years of varying levels of
involvement with After School Band,
Anne Damron is celebrating her tenth
year by assuming responsibility for the Telethon. Her background
includes public relations work for a specialized retailer and a book
publisher.
A part-time employee of FUSD, Anne also volunteers for Girl
Scouts, numerous academic, parent and sports groups at American High
School, the Gifted and Talented Student Parent Advisory Committee
and is the chairperson of the district’s Health and Sex Education
Advisory Committee. Along with their three children, Anne and her
husband Peter have lived in Fremont since 1990.
Nina
Moore has served on the board of the Fremont
Education Foundation since 1997, and served as Foundation president
from 1999 - 2003. She is also currently serving her second term on
the Fremont Unified School District Board of Education.
Nina has lived in Fremont since 1991 with her husband Mike and
their two children. She is a transplanted East-Coaster who moved to
the Bay Area in 1988 to join Sun Microsystems, where she worked as a
Director of Information Technology until 1993. After leaving Sun to
become head of Client Services for a San Mateo start-up, Nina left
the workforce in 1995 to spend more time with her family and take a
more active role in her community. In 2008, she returned to the
workforce as Director of Government and Community Affairs for the
Fremont Chamber of Commerce.
Her previous local community involvement has included: League of
Women Voters, Action Committee Chair; Tri-Cities Children’s Centers
(now Kidango) Board of Directors; FUSD Commission on Instructional
Equity; FUSD Community Facilities Committee; Niles PTA.

Debra Watanuki, UCLA (B.S., M.S.),
taught in post-secondary education until she changed careers upon
earning a law degree from Hastings College of the Law in 1991. In
addition to her own legal practice in business and estate planning
here in Fremont, Debra serves as a commissioner for the city’s Human
Relations Commission, and enthusiastically promotes education by
volunteering at her child’s school and the Fremont Education
Foundation.
Lara York
has been a board member of
FEF since 2000 and served as President from 2003-05 and
Vice-President from 2001-03 and 2005-08. In 2006 Lara
was elected to the Fremont Unified School District Board
of Education.
Lara moved to Fremont in 1992 after completing her BS in Business
Administration from California State University, Chico. After
working for a major publishing company for several years, she made
the decision to stay at home with her children and become more
active in the community.
Lara is an active member of the
community including her involvement over the years with groups
including: The Fremont Chamber of Commerce; The League of Women
Voters of Fremont, Newark & Union City; the American Association
of University Women; Citizens for Better Community; The
Tri-Cities Democratic Forum; The Cultural Arts Council; The
F.U.N. Mothers' Club; PTA; School Site Council; FUSD Financial
Advisory Committee, Parent Representative Advisory Assembly and
the Community Facilities Committee.
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