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Board of Directors

Proud recipients of University of San Diego’s Kaleidoscope Award  for Exceptional Governance.

 

Rudy Vargas
Chair
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Price Philanthropies Foundation

Heather Bentley 
Vice Chair
Executive Director, Franchise Team Lead-Epilepsy, Neurocrine Biosciences

 

Devon Gibson 
Treasurer
Audit Manager, Deloitte & Touche 

Tara Marathe
Secretary
Chief of Staff, Climate Imperative Foundation

Barbra Calantas
Vice President, Biological Resources Director, Environmental Science Associates, Founder of the Environmental Professional Diversity Collective

 

Jasmine Davenport
Executive Director, Our Climate

 

Scott Grimes
Vice President, Endangered Habitats Conservancy

 

John Johns
Retired President, Providence Marketing Corporation

 

Kristen Koch
Director, Southwest Fisheries Science Center

 

Jessica Mier
Director, Senior Congressional District Leadership Learning and Development

Matthew Mitchell
Vice President, Corporate Development, Arialys Therapeutics

Anai Novoa
Ph.D. Candidate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Vanessa Sandoval
Environmental Planner,  City of San Diego

Cabinet Members

Sean Caddell
Significant Property Specialist, Coast Sotheby’s International Realty

 

Tres Conrique
Faculty, University of San Diego, School of Business.

 

Kurt Gering
Executive Vice President of Human Resources, National Funding

Theodore J. Griswold
Partner, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, LLP

 

 

Dan McClellan
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.) & International Consultant 

 

 

Dr. Noelle Norton
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Diego

 

Ileana Ovalle
Global Strategy & Operations Lead, Google Procurement Responsibility

 

 

 

Scott Pearson
Director of Environmental Services, SDG&E

 

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