Board & Advisors
Board of Directors
Click here or on a name below to learn about our leadership team.Liz Quinn - President
Director, Business Partnering, Adobe
Elisa Odabashian - Vice President
Retired Consumer Advocate, Consumer Reports
Faculty, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
Jessica Ovbiagele - Treasurer
Assistant Director of Finance, Internet Archive
Jacquie Davidson - Secretary
Global Director, Workforce Transformation and Mobility Managed Services, Vialto Partners
Ke'ili Deal
Senior Specialist, Partner Events, Salesforce
Penny Dong
Vice President, Program and Alliance Management, Immune-Onc Therapeutics
Tracey Carrillo Fecher
Chief Executive Officer, Sonrisas Dental Health
Kimberly Griffin
Attorney At Law, Scale LLP
Kalvyn Rasquinha
Product Manager, Adobe
Jim Salas
Director of Talent Acquisition, Stellar Solutions
Caitlin Smallwood
VP, Data Science & Engineering, Search & Assistant, Google
Othar Hansson, Chair Emeritus
Principal Engineer, Google, Inc.
Advisory Team
Art Adams
Jack Brigham
Judy Brigham
Warren Chiang
Chalan Colby
Eugenia Durdall
Charles Garfield, PhD
William Goines
Betsy Haehl
Tracy Herrick
Linda Kaiser
Priscilla Lau
Chris Librie
Karen Letendre
Michael Lydon
Stephen Player
Program Consultants
Maria N. Berardi, Ph.D., LMFT
Susan Hamlin, MFT
John Parker, MD (Camp Kara)
Liz Powell, MFT
Nicholas Ross, PhD
Sue Linville Shaffer, EdD, MFT
Serving on Kara’s board has been so meaningful – knowing that the work we do brings hope and healing to those who are grieving.