Board & Advisors
Board of Directors
Liz Quinn - President
Adobe Business Partnering
Elisa Odabashian - Vice President
Teacher, School of Public Health, U.C. Berkeley
Retired Consumer Advocate, Consumer Reports
Jessica Matsumori- Treasurer
Associate Vice President for Finance at Santa Clara University
Warren Chiang - Secretary
Associate Vice Provost, Director of Undergraduate Residential Programs at Stanford University
Tracey Carrillo Fecher
Chief Executive Officer at Sonrisas Dental Health
Penny Dong
Chief of Staff to SVP Oncology Development, Nektar Therapeutics
William J. Goines
Co-Managing Shareholder Silicon Valley , Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Priscilla Lau
Strategic Partner Manager, YouTube
Chris Librie
Director - ESG, Applied Materials
Jim Salas
Director of Talent Acquisition, Stellar Solutions
Othar Hansson, PhD - Chair Emeritus
Principal Engineer, Google, Inc.
Advisory Team
Art Adams
Jack Brigham
Judy Brigham
Chalan Colby
Eugenia Durdall
Charles Garfield, PhD
Kimberly Griffin
Betsy Haehl
Tracy Herrick
Linda Kaiser
Mary Lemmon
Karen Letendre
Michael Lydon
Stephen Player
Program Consultants
Maria N. Berardi, Ph.D., LMFT
Robert Cusick
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.