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Members of the Board's Finance Committee at work on the annual budget

Board of Directors

Matt Alexander, President
Matt is co-director of the June Jordan School for Equity, a small, innovative public high school in San Francisco. He has over a decade of experience as a teacher and administrator in urban schools and also spent two years as educator-in-residence at Linda Darling-Hammond's School Redesign Network at Stanford University. He lives in the Outer Sunset and is the parent of twins in third grade at CACS.

Rebecca Archer, Facilities Task Force Chair
Rebecca is a Deputy County Counsel for the County of San Mateo where she represents the Assessor-Clerk-Recorder, Public Health and several San Mateo County School Districts in all aspects of their operations. She spends her time outside work of cooking and reading and will someday (when her kids are grown) get back to painting. Her daughter is in the first grade at CACS and her son is in preschool.

Dan Bierman, Staff Liaison
Having failed in his childhood goal of bringing the Dodgers back to Brooklyn, Dan has settled for being a teacher and Master Tutor for The Princeton Review, one of the top test prep companies in the country.  In his "free" time, Dan can often be found helping out in the classrooms at CACS, where he has one son in second grade and another in fifth.  Outside of school, Dan spends time helping to coach his son's teams and watching the Mets.

Ellison Folk, Vice President
Ellison is an environmental attorney who represents environmental groups, community organizations, and public agencies throughout California. She has two boys at CACS. Ellison previously served on the board of directors of Save San Francisco Bay Association. In her free time, she loves to cook — especially dessert.

Ross Hammond, Communications Liaison
Ross works as an independent consultant providing grantmaking, advocacy, strategic planning, policy analysis, communications, and facilitation services to foundations, NGOs, multilateral organizations, and government agencies. Ross is the parent of a CACS second grader and a preschooler. He lives in the Sunnyside neighborhood of San Francisco.

Terrence Ireland, Treasurer
Terrence is currently a Financial and Budget Analyst for the School of Medicine Dean's Office at UC San Francisco. He has worked in the area of financial planning and analysis for the past 15 years at such organizations as the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Visa. He has 3 children attending Creative Arts Ñ one in elementary and 2 in middle school, and is a member of the school's Finance and Diversity Committees.

Rahula Janowski, Diversity Committee Chair
Rahula is a trained mediator and an experienced facilitator and consensus/facilitation trainer. She is particularly  interested in collaborative conflict resolution in groups and organizations, which uses both mediation and facilitation skills, and in group dynamics and functional process.  Rahula is the mother of a CACS third grader.

Maria Jenerik, Faculty Representative and Middle School Task Force Co-Chair
After 20 years in the radio business, Maria pursued her dream of becoming a teacher, working first as a paraprofessional and later teaching 3rd, 6th, and 7th/8th grades at Creative Arts. Maria serves as coach of five CACS sports teams, and in her classroom, she employs project-based learning that draws on her passion for theater, social and environmental justice, outdoor education, and service learning. Maria is the parent of two CACS alumni.  In her free time, she enjoys gardening, biking, running, eating out, and reading.

Eileen McCann-Kingston, Family Association Committee Chair
Before joining the CACS community, Eileen earned her degree in horticulture and became the owner of the first chemical-free gardening business in San Francisco. She came to CACS with her older son, who graduated in 2007, and currently has a son in the sixth grade.  After years of volunteering, Eileen joined the CACS staff in 2001, working as a substitute teacher, classroom aide, and educator in the Breakfast Club, summer camp, and aftercare. Her hobbies include gardening, jewelry design, hiking, hanging out at the beach with her family, and reading.

Mehmet “Sky” Orun, Secretary
Mehmet (or Sky at CACS) is an IT senior manager at Genentech, where he is responsible for data management and data quality solutions, their associated budget and roadmaps, oversight for projects, contracts and contingent labor force, and managing and developing employees.  He also serves on the board of SF-DAMA, a professional, non-profit organization, and has been active in micro-scale local food growing, eating, building, shopping, and fund-raising activities. He has a first grader at Creative Arts and a younger daughter at home.

Kathy Scott, Middle School Task Force Co-Chair
Kathy is a studio director at Walker Warner Architects where she manages half of the architectural staff and is involved in design, strategic planning, marketing, financial oversight of projects, and contract negotiations. She spends her time outside of work coaching soccer and inventing unique architectural projects for Creative Arts kids. Her sons are in second and fourth grade at CACS.