Annie McGeady has nearly 20 years experience working with nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions in a variety of capacities. Annie has advised nonprofits representing areas of education, arts and culture, social justice, and disability rights. She volunteers with her daughter’s school, and is committed to developing access to creative opportunities for all.
Cyrus Wadia, Vice-President
Cyrus joined the Performing Arts Workshop's Board of Directors in 2009. He is an intellectual property and music & recording industry attorney at Cooper, White & Cooper, LLP in San Francisco. Cyrus focuses his law practice on trademarks, copyrights, Internet-related transactions and litigation, and represents artists, writers and designers in protecting their intellectual property. An avid musician, Cyrus strongly believes in the Workshop's mission of developing critical thinking, creative expression and learning skills in young people through arts education, and the Workshop's support of local artists and teachers.
Ron Reitz, Treasurer
Ron Reitz joined the Workshop's board in 2008 as a member of the Finance Committee. This role is in-line with his experience as a CPA working in the nonprofit sector. Ron joined the Board to contribute to the Workshop's mission of providing young people the opportunity to learn and express themselves through the arts. His interests include bicycling, backpacking and exploring California deserts.
Adrienne Leight Rogers, Secretary
Adrienne joined the Performing Arts Workshop Board of Directors in 2010. A lawyer and a mother, Adrienne is committed to the Workshop’s mission of helping children develop critical thinking and problem solving skills through arts education. Adrienne is on the Board of the Friends of Harvard Swimming and Diving. She is also a member of the Recent Alumni Board of Hastings College of the Law. She teaches legal writing and research at Hastings.
Garth Applegate
Garth Applegate is a former Performing Arts Workshop teaching artist. Currently, Garth is a teacher at the San Francisco Friends School. He built the Friends instrumental music program to include an orchestra and world music ensemble in every grade of the middle school, a middle school jazz band, a beginning fourth grade band program and various other smaller ensembles. Prior to teaching at Friends, Garth attended the Westtown School and went on to receive his BA in music education at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After touring in North Carolina, Garth moved to San Francisco where he taught music and visual art to youth on probation at the Principal Center's Collaborative. Garth keeps busy writing and performing around the Bay Area and recently completed "Muse at Eleven", his debut CD of solo classical guitar pieces.
Wynne Bamberg
Wynne has worked for over 20 years at the University of California, San Francisco in research and administration, most recently studying outcome measurement in mental health care. She has two artistically passionate children in the San Francisco Unified School District and is a strong advocate of public education and arts in the schools. As a violinist and music educator, Wynne agrees whole- heartedly with the Performing Arts Workshop's philosophy of developing critical thinking, creative expression, and basic learning skills through the arts.
Karen Harris
Karen M. Harris, ASA, CFA, Vice President in the Capital Markets Research Group. Karen joined Callan in May 2000. She is responsible for assisting clients with their strategic investment planning, conducting asset allocation and liability studies, developing optimal investment manager structures, and providing custom research on a variety of investment topics. Karen works with a broad range of clients, from public to corporate pension plans, state and private insurance funds, endowments, foundations and operating funds. Karen is also an instructor at the “Callan College” and has spoken frequently at the Callan Investments Institute. She is also a shareholder.
Sajjad Masud
Sajjad earned his MBA at Harvard Business School and his MSE in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has held many titles: Director of Product Marketing, Group Product Manager, CEO and Founder of Apvision, an offshore software and services company focused on solutions for the financial sector. Earlier in his career, he held several engineering and consulting positions at Oracle Corporation. Sajjad is a board member at San Francisco Contemporary Players and currently serves on the Workshop's Marketing Committee.
Natala Menezes
Bio Coming Soon.
Tina Mitaine
Bio coming soon.
Debbie Molof
Debbie Molof is principal of Mission Education Center Elementary School (MEC), a San Francisco Public School for newly arrived Spanish speaking immigrant students, who transition to other public schools after one year. Debbie has been a teacher and administrator in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) for the past 25 years, promoting and supporting arts education. She is committed to the Workshop's mission which promotes integrating standards-aligned arts programming with the classroom curriculum and helps students' develop critical thinking, creative expression and basic learning skills through leadership in the classroom.
Monique Olivier
Monique joined the Workshop board in February 2006. A lawyer and social justice advocate with a background in theater design and direction, Monique is committed to Performing Arts Workshop's mission of bringing arts education to urban youth. In her law practice at Duckworth Peters Lebowitz Olivier LLP, Monique represents individuals and classes in civil rights, employment, consumer protection, immigration and appellate matters. She also serves as a volunteer attorney for the Legal Aid Society–Employment Law Center and as a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association.
Kim Piechota
Kim Piechota has nearly 15 years experience working for non-profit and community-based organizations in the field of affordable housing development. Kim currently manages multifamily housing development projects for Chinatown Community Development Center in San Francisco. She is committed to public education and to keeping arts education alive and well in the schools, and has two children in the San Francisco Unified School District.
David Pilz
David joined the organization in 2012 as a member of the Finance and Program Quality committees. He has 10 years of experience in the finance sector, and has provided financial expertise to a variety of social justice organizations through his work at Tides. He is also a volunteer tour guide at SF City Guides, which leads free walking tours around San Francisco. He believes strongly that teaching performing arts to young people does more than just provide a break from other studies--it teaches very important skills such as how to communicate and understand each other, and builds confidence to express their creative ideas.
Merti Walker
Merti Walker is a working artist, with a degree in sculpture from Mills College in Oakland. She is currently working as a painter, and studying portraiture. She has lived and worked in San Francisco for decades, raised her children here, and understands the need for art in our schools. Other boards Merti has served on include Capp St Project, California Crafts Council, and the SF Civil Grand Jury.
Founder, Director Emeritus: Gloria Unti
Since 1956, Gloria Unti has been helping to evoke the creativity of children, educators, and artists. Trained extensively in the Hanya Holm, Martha Graham, and Jose Limon techniques, Ms. Unti has dedicated herself to advancing the arts as a force for education, expression, and individual empowerment in the community. Ms. Unti’s work in schools and community centers has been featured in major publications, such as Now and Look, documented on film by the Guggenheim and Carnegie Foundations, and covered by numerous television stations. She has been honored with many awards including the Honor Award from the California Dance Education Association, the Honor in Dance Award from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Hall of Fame Award from Dance Bay Area, and the Isadora Duncan Award for Sustained Achievement, and the WAVE award from GirlSource.
E-mail: gloriasarvis@yahoo.com
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