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H. Levinson, CPA - President Maggie McArthur - Vice President Wendy Parkman - Treasurer Jeff Dubois - Secretary Robin Acker Carol Campbell Seth Golub Jean Bernard Guerree Sarah Lipson Doyle Ott Kelly Snow Caroline Orrick, Advisory Board BIOGRAPHIES Ken Levinson – President Ken has 25 years of experience serving on various not-for-profit boards, including Gallaudet University, the Center for Nonprofit Management of Southern California, No Limits Theater Group and several private schools and national educational organizations. He joined the Circus Center Board after taking clowning classes. Ken is a CPA, formerly with Price Waterhouse and is now a partner in Kornetsky & Associates. His career also included a five year stint as Executive Director of the Children’s Hearing Institute in New York City where he was in charge of fundraising for a segment of Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hospital. Ken currently serves as the Chair of the National Development (Fundraising) Council for the Alexander Graham Bell Association in Washington DC. His dedicated service to the community has resulted in being the recipient of the California Society of CPA's Public Service Award and the Lakeside School Distinguished Alumnus Award. Maggie McArthur - Vice President Maggie is a management consultant with the international consulting firm, Bain & Company, focusing on strategic issues such as growth strategy, operational and profit improvement, and reorganization. She brings to the table a breadth of business and financial skills. Maggie recently received an MBA and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business. At Stanford, she continued to expand her passion for volunteerism and nonprofit management. Maggie was a leader of Stanford’s Net Impact chapter, a network of MBA’s committed to the not-for-profit sector, and the Chief Financial Officer for I Have a Dream, a youth mentoring program in East Palo Alto. Maggie was a gymnast for 10 years and started flying trapeze at Circus Center in 2002. She was asked to help with the Finance Committee and eventually to join the board after trips to Africa volunteering for Habitat for Humanity, working in the Australian offices of Bain, and returning to school for her MBA. sociation in Washington, DC. His dedicated service to the community has resulted in being the recipient of the California Society of CPA’s Public Service Award and the Lakeside School Distinguished Alumnus Award. Wendy Parkman - Treasurer Wendy re-joined the Circus Center Board after a hiatus of almost 10 years. Her career as a performer and teacher of circus arts goes back to the beginning of the circus renaissance in San Francisco in the mid 1970's, when the Pickle Family Circus and Make-A-Circus began. She performed with the Pickle Family Circus as a juggler, acrobat and aerialist from 1979-1983, and as an aerialist with the Flying Karamozov's production of The Comedy of Errors, at the Goodman Theatre (1983), the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles (1984), Lincoln Center (1987), and in Joanna Haigood's Zaccho Dance Theatre at Theater Artaud in 2002. With Judy Finelli she was one of the founding members of the Pickle Family Circus School in 1984. She was an integral part of the transition to the San Francisco School of Circus Arts teaching recreational classes and serving on the board from 1994-1998. She has been teaching circus arts and theatre at the Urban School of San Francisco since 1989, as well as being a guest teacher at various schools in the Bay Area, the Young Conservatory of ACT and Cal Shakes. Jeff DuBois - Secretary Jeff was recruited for the Board in order to help the Circus Center’s new transition to the future with his unique Strategic Planning and organizational skills. Jeff is currently the Organizational Development Director for Edgewood Center for Children and Families. While there, in collaboration with the executive management team and the Board of Directors, he was responsible for the development and implementation of the agency’s Strategic Plan. Trained in Participatory Decision Making (PDM), Jeff has had extensive experience using the PDM model with a variety of not-for-profit organizations and groups. He also has a strong background in accreditation, having organized and managed the successful reaccreditation of the entire agency by the Council on Accreditation. Jeff’s volunteerism includes group facilitation for the Overseas Development Network and project coordination for AmeriCorps*VISTA. Robin Acker Robin Acker has provided direct service to individuals and families, and has designed and directed programs in the not-for-profit sector for over 20 years. She has held numerous positions at Edgewood Center for Children and Families, including Director of the Circle of Care Program, Assistant Director of School- Based Services, Interim Director of Development and finally Associate Clinical Director. As a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist, she has experience ranging from hands-on work with severely emotionally disturbed children to the creation and supervision of programs to protect vulnerable populations. Other projects she has overseen include Youth Advocates, Inc. at Huckleberry House II in San Francisco and the Intensive Treatment Foster Care at Seneca Center in San Leandro. Robin has been involved with the Circus Center since 1998 when her son Colin began taking beginning acrobat classes. Colin now performs with San Francisco Circus and hopes to continue his career in the Circus Arts. Carol Campbell Carol comes to the Circus Center with varied experiences in the world of sports and athletic performance. Her career started out as the Co-Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of Philadelphia and moved into the area of sports, including being in charge of marketing efforts for Runner’s World magazine and being the Director of the Mayor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports for San Francisco. Carol had a 15-year stint as the head coach of the University of Indiana gymnastics team and also coached and taught gymnastics at Farmingdale University and several high schools. She was responsible for several sporting events, including five State Regional Gymnastics Championships, and running and tennis events. Carol has also been very involved in Community work with the Suicide Prevention Hotline, Marin Public Schools Curriculum Committee and the Women’s Sports Foundation. She has also served as President of the Division of Girls and Women’s Sports for the State of New Mexico and the Mill Valley Co-op Preschool. Seth Golub Seth is an expert in the devil sticks, having published a book with Klutz, demonstrated and taught at juggling festivals and trade shows, and invented related apparati, including the Devil's Triangle. After years of recreational juggling and off-road unicycling, his involvement with the Circus Center began with Chinese acrobatic classes in 2001, in which he still trains. In 2006, he visited Laos on a 300 mile unicycle tour, stories and photos of which can be found on his web site. Seth is a software engineer who specializes in machine learning and has worked for small and large software companies for over 20 years. Seth also runs a non-profit music review board, which has published over 750 independent reviews of professional and amateur cappella albums from around the world since he co-founded the organization in 1993. Seth continues to build upon his many talents and is currently working on enhancing his skills as a circus photographer. Jean Bernard Guerree Jean-Bernard is an entrepreneur and has been responsible for the successful entry of over 50 American high-tech companies in Europe in the past 10 years. Among others, he has been instrumental in the European expansion of companies such as eBay, Netscreen, Tell Me, Webex, Amazon, Entopia, Nuance, Motive Communication, Visto, Business Wire, E*Trade, First Data, Websense. He led the California Tech Showcase initiative, building on his experience and ability to identify US companies with high potential, work with them on their European strategy and help them in the phase of implementation. In 2003, Jean-Bernard was nominated President of the Conseillers du Commerce Exterieur de la France for the West Coast region of the US. He has also been a board member of the French American Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco for 5 years. An accomplished athlete, he used to be a member of the French national ski team. Sarah Lipson Sarah has worked with children and youth in San Francisco for the past 10 years as a classroom teacher, instructional reform facilitator and administrator. In 2001 Sarah was elected to the Board of Education for the San Francisco Unified School District. Sarah served a four-year term as Commissioner and was Vice President of the School Board. She is currently Assistant Principal of Bessie Carmichael school in the South of Market. Sarah is the mother of two children, Elsie and Henry. Both children have taken and continue to take classes at Circus Center. Doyle Ott Doyle is a long time circus performer, director, teacher, scholar and administrator. Currently, he is the Artistic Director of Children's Theatre at Children's Fairyland in Oakland, California and teaches theatre at Sonoma State University. A graduate of the Clown Conservatory, Doyle has performed in numerous theater productions and clown and circus shows including Make A Circus, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and Lunatique Fantastique. He has also taught classes for both children and adults, in a wide range of subjects including puppetry, clowning, acting, movement, creative drama, storytelling, improvisation, mask making, juggling, aerial arts and others. Doyle has presented his research on youth circus training internationally at academic conventions and youth circus festivals. His directorial experience includes children and adult theater and circus shows, for such organizations as the New Conservatory Theater, the Crucible, Splash Circus Theatre, and others Kelly Snow |
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