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Meet the SPW Board of Directors, 2007-2008
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Janis Ahmadjian-Baer (President)
Janis completed two degrees at Stanford in Education Research, M.A.
(1975) and Ph.D. (1980), along with a B.A. degree from the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst (1973). She is also a member of Stanford
Associates, an honorary organization established to recognize exceptional
long-standing volunteer service and support of Stanford. For the
past 21 years, she has been a residential realtor, currently affiliated
with Alain Pinel Realtors in Los Altos. For the past 23 years she
has lived in Los Altos with her family and her border collie, Katie.
Her husband Rick graduated from Stanford with a Ph.D. degree in
Electrical Engineering (1983) and is a Director with Micron Technologies
in San Jose. Her daughter, Jenny, graduated from Stanford (Class
of 2008) with B.A. degree in Political Science and a History minor.
Her younger daughter, Jessy, is a sophomore at Pitzer College, part
of the Claremont Consortium in Southern California (Class of 2011).
In her free time Janis enjoys gourmet cooking and outdoor sports
of all kinds including distance swimming, cycling, cross-country
skiing, and hiking.
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Dagmara Avanindra (Director)
Dagmara graduated from Stanford with BS and MS in Electrical Engineering
in 2000. After gradulation she joined Juniper Networks - a fast
growing and exciting networking company as a Signal Integrity Enginer.
She currently works at Nvidia, as a Sr Substrate Design Lead. Dagmara
very much enjoys dancing - Modern, Lyrical, Jazz, Bollywood. In
addition to dancing herself, she also teaches dance and is involved
in dance program for Seniors in Indian Community Center. In her
free time she enjoys hiking, yoga and reading.
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Mary Bobel (Treasurer)
Mary holds a BA-Biology (1970), MA-Education (1971), and MBA (1979)all
from Stanfordand is the director of finance and administration
for the Radiology Department in the School of Medicine. Previously
she has been the chief financial officer for several technology
and education companies. In addition to SPW, Mary is on the Stanford
Parents' Committee and has two children, both Stanford grads, 07
and 03. Her son, a walk-on on the mens basketball team
in 06-07, worked last year for the mens basketball program
as the video coordinator and is now the Director of Basketball Operations
at LSU with former Stanford coach, Trent Johnson. Besides being
an enthusiastic basketball fan, Mary is a mentor for the Leukemia
Society's Team in Training, which trains cyclists for century bike
rides.
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Mary Crawford (Vice-President)
Mary graduated from Stanford in 1977 with a BA-Economics with Honors
and Distinction. Mary is a Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio
Manager, and the leading member of The Crawford-Hogan Group in Morgan
Stanley's Palo Alto office, focusing on financial planning for high
net worth Stanford and Silicon Valley families. Mary created and
has taught "Values-based Life and Wealth Planning" through
Stanford's Continuing Studies program each fall and spring quarter
for the past five years. Mary's husband Bruce graduated Co-Terminus
in Economics (BA 1976 & MA 1977). Bruce and Mary have recently
endowed a Stanford Libraries book fund for the study of South and
South-East Asia. In addition to book collecting, Mary and Bruce
volunteer annually with Habitat for Humanity's Global Village program
and have built homes in South-East Asia for the past seven years.
Bruce and Mary's daughter, Diane (UC-Davis-B.A. 2004), is now a
McGeorge 2nd year law student and son, Evan (USC-B.S. 2007), lives
and works in Los Angeles.
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Jeanne Gobalet (Membership & Directory Chair)
Jeanne earned four Stanford degrees, including a B.A. (1966) and
Ph.D. (1982). She taught for many years at a community college and
then became co-owner of the Bay Area demographic research firm www.Demographers.com
that serves a variety of public-sector clients, including many school
districts. She lives in Saratoga with her husband and son. She has
traveled to all seven continents and enjoys art, travel, and reading.
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Marcia Mathog (Communications)
Marcia graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis (Liberal Arts)
and completed her MA at Stanford in 1964. She retired, after many
years as Principal of Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, and
devotes her time to volunteer work.
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Mae Tai O'Malley (Associate Director)
Mae received her B.A. in Political Science from Stanford in 1994
and her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley in 1998.
Mae is the founder and managing attorney of Paragon Legal, a legal
services firm that provides top-tier contract attorneys to companies
and firms. Prior to starting Paragon, Mae worked at Morrison &
Foerster, as well as in-house for several technology companies.
Mae is a mother of three rambunctious young boys and currently can't
remember what her hobbies are.
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Buffy Poon (Associate Director)
Buffy majored in Human Biology and graduated in 1994. Since then,
she had stints in investment banking, strategy consulting, database
application programming, and marketing. Buffy joined eBay in 1998
as a product manager and held various positions before leaving in
2002 to start a family. She most recently worked as a part-time
reader for Stanford's undergraduate admissions. She has three young
children.
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Nancy Reyering (Secretary)
Nancy completed bachelor's degrees at Stanford in Linguistics
and in French after enjoying a successful career as an entrepreneur.
She currently manages real estate investments in addition to being
an active volunteer, sailor, swimmer, and traveler. Nancy lives
in Woodside with her husband Marty Walker (PhD, Stanford, '79),
dog Blossom, and 5 horses. Their daughter Taress (MA, Sciences-Po
Paris/UNC Chapel Hill, '07) is making the most of her return to
the west coast, not only as an SPW member, but as a POA with Merrill
Lynch in San Jose.
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Lily Sarafan (Director)
Lily Sarafan is COO of Home Care Assistance and HCAFranchise,
North America's premier provider of non-medical home care. She is
also Founder of The Prose Pros, a boutique editing firm, and Co-Founder
of At Home Dentistry, a new venture in home-based cosmetic and restorative
dentistry. Lily earned an M.S in Management Science and Engineering
and B.S. in Science, Technology & Society from Stanford in 2003.
Her landmark research on the role of the Internet in Iran under
the advisorship of Dr. Robert McGinn has garnered critical acclaim
in academia as well as extensive media coverage. An active fundraiser
for a number of social and political causes, she sits on committees
for Stanford's Reunion Campaign and PARSA Community Foundation.
Lily's interests include international travel, historical fiction
and all things culinary.
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Nita Singh (Director)
Nita graduated from Stanford with a Bachelors degree in Electrical
Engineering in 2003. After graduation, Nita joined Intel's Mobility
Group where she had an opportunity to manage both domestic and international
mobile platform development, evangelism, and business expansion
efforts. Currently, Nita works as a Product Manager at Yahoo! where
she is responsible for driving online media product initiatives,
outbound marketing, and overall strategy. Nita also serves on the
Stanford Women's Community Center Advisory Board and in her free
time enjoys traveling, exploring new entrepreneurial based projects,
and working with causes representing women in technology and upper
management.
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Caroline Tsay (Director)
Caroline graduated from Stanford with a BS in Computer Science in
2003 and an MS in Management Science & Engineering in 2004.
She is currently a Product Manager at Yahoo!. Previously, she was
a Senior Consultant for the Supply Chain Management practice at
IBM Global Business Services. She is on the Speakers and Panels
Committee for Cardinal Young Alumni and in her free time, she enjoys
spending time with family and friends and playing tennis with the
United States Tennis Association.
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Janeen Rossi Tuitupou (Webmaster)
Janeen graduated from Stanford School of Education in 1991 with a
Master's in Language, Literacy, and Culture. She is Director of Development
at RAFT, a nonprofit
organization that advances education with creative ideas and materials
to inspire teachers and motivate students for lifelong learning. Prior
to the past 5 years in nonprofit fund development, Janeen founded
two education-related businesses and developed new methods and elearning
products for corporate training. Since 1989, Janeen has been involved
in the grantmaking side of philanthropy in the Bay Area as a Director
of the Rossi Family Foundation. This summer, Janeen and her husband
David made the first of what will likely be many visits back to his
homeland, the Kingdom of Tonga. |
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