People
Scott Phoenix
April 4, 2025Scott Phoenix is a partner at Fifty Years, a venture capital firm backing founders solving the world’s biggest problems with technology. He was previously the co-founder and CEO of Vicarious,…
Sam Cantrell
December 11, 2024Sam Cantrell has worked in the educational space for close to a decade. Born and raised in Berkeley, he has been committed to giving back to the community that helped…
Susana Barajas
October 30, 2024Originally from a small town in Mexico, Susana Barajas has been living in the U.S. for nearly a decade, embracing the Bay Area’s vibrant, polycultural atmosphere. She holds a B.A….
Madalyn Wang
October 9, 2024Madalyn has lived her whole life in the Bay Area, except for four years studying English at Mount Holyoke College. While earning her master’s at San Francisco State University, she…
Polly Lockman
September 6, 2024Polly Lockman has served as the communications director at The College Preparatory School since 2013. She has a B.A. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a B.F.A….
Dave Hoverman
September 6, 2024Dave is a senior partner at Bain & Company, a strategy consulting firm, where he works with private equity investors and their portfolio companies. He leads the firm’s practice in…
Shruti M. Deorah
September 6, 2024Shruti M. Deorah is the executive director of the India Energy & Climate Center (IECC) at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley and an Affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley…
River Allen
August 27, 2024River Allen is a video artist, musician, and community organizer who loves to foster joyful learning spaces with youth. They have worked as an after-school teacher since 2017 in California,…
Andrew Solter
August 16, 2024Originally a Southern California transplant to Berkeley, Andrew fell in love with Bay Area living. He studied biology at Cal and has worked in math and science education since 2007…
Lukasz Strozek – Board Chair
July 30, 2024Lukasz Strozek is Chief Technology Officer at LendingClub, where he oversees a global engineering team responsible for the development of the company’s technology solutions across a number of lines of…