Board
of Directors
Gail
Myers
President
Chair, Programs
Teacher
Hayward Unified School District
Monica
Stevens
Vice President
Vice President, Corporate Debt
Wells Fargo Bank
Seth
Cloues
Secretary
Head Teacher
BlueSkies for Children
Douglas
Park
Treasurer
Chair, Facilities
Project
Manager
Signature Properties
Liisa Hale and Claire Bainer
BlueSkies Administration
Co-Directors, BlueSkies for Children
Yasuyo Abe
Chair, Personnel
Senior Researcher
Berkeley Policy Associates
John Ifcher
Chair, Development
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University
Anita Addison
Planning Director
La Clinica de la Raza, Oakland
Khadija Fredericks
Director, Admissions,
Financial Aid and Marketing
St. Pauls Episcopal School
Alberto Duarte
Officer
San Francisco Police Department
Krishen Laetsch
Senior Program Consultant
for Education
San Francisco Foundation
Molly Rosen
Former Vice President
BlessingWhite, Inc.
Lisa Russ
Senior Fellow
Movement Strategy Center
Isavana Samanna
Manager, Human Resources
Deloitte Consulting
Kristi Schutjer-Mance
VP Operations and Research
Children Now
Lisa Ruth Shulman
Executive Director
Action Alliance for Children
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Leadership Staff
Co-Directors
Claire Copenhagen Bainer and Liisa Hale
Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale have been Co-Directors of BlueSkies since 1995.
Claire holds an M.A. in Early Childhood Education (ECE) and has taught in pre-school classrooms and at the college level for 30 years. Her years of classroom experience strongly influence her adult teaching, as she has a clear understanding of classroom and family dynamics as well as academic theories that pertain to work with young children. In 2003 Claire was awarded a fellowship with Eureka Communities (now known as LeaderSpring), during which time she focused her study trip on learning and visiting programs where grass roots training programs like ours in ECE were being successfully implemented and influencing the early childhood community. Claire currently serves as the Vice President of the Alameda County Child Care Steering Council and is a member of the Early Childhood Mental Health Committee.
Liisa holds a B.A. in Early Childhood Education,
served as the Program Director for toddler programs
at BlueSkies for several years prior to becoming Co-Director, and has
taught in and managed Infant Toddler programs for over 25 years. She
also served as a California State Director Mentor
for three years and was a Mentor in the Every Director
Counts project of Alameda County First 5, serving as a mentor and coach
for directors in other schools through an intensive 18 month training
cohort. Prior
to her career in ECE, Liisa administered a college
financial aid program, which makes her one of the few people with strong
administrative experience leading an early childhood program.
Ameena Muhammed
Hedco Infant Toddler Center Program Director
Janice Haywood
Ellen Sherwood Nursery School Program Director
Ma Leong
Director of Support Services
Rhonda Ramiro
Director of Development |
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