Board of Trustees
Dina Eastwood, Chair | Debra Bowen | Kevin M. Bacon | Stephen D. (Steve) Burns | Collie Christensen | Jack Coffey | Ruth Coleman | Richard S. Costigan | Jens C. Egerland | Marcy Friedman | Pam Giarrizzo | Dolores C. Huerta | Sarah Meeker Jensen | Sherry Lansing | Nancy Lenoil | Fred L. Main | Jillian Manus | Robert Martin | Wanda McDaniel | Nancy E. McFadden | Kitty O’Neal | Alice Perez | Anne-Marie Petrie | Dave Pringle, Treasurer | Cassandra Pye | Patricia Roboostoff Splinter | Jami Warner | Andrea Wong | Allan Zaremberg, Secretary
Dina Eastwood, Chair In Central California, Dina Eastwood is perhaps best known as “Clint’s Wife.” But to the rest of the nation, Dina is known as co-host with Peter Funt of the landmark TV series Candid Camera. Married since 1996 to one of America’s most renowned film stars, Dina often finds herself at Clint Eastwood’s side — on a movie set, at The White House, or at a golf tournament. She also continues to contribute news reporting and anchoring to station KSBW-TV. It’s all part of a very hectic life for the Fremont, California native. Dina has also hosted a show on education and became a contributing editor for Golf Digest Woman magazine. She dedicates much of her time to the two non-profit boards on which she sits: The Charitable Council and The Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy. Dina and Clint have one daughter. They live on the Monterey Peninsula in California.
Debra Bowen is a pioneer in open government reform, election integrity and personal privacy rights. She became the sixth woman in California history elected to a statewide constitutional office when she was elected as Secretary of State in November 2006. As the state’s chief elections officer, Secretary Bowen is responsible for overseeing state and federal elections, a role that requires her to test and certify all voting equipment. Her goal is to ensure that voting machines certified for use in California elections are secure, accurate, reliable and accessible, and every voter’s ballot is counted exactly as it was cast. As Secretary of State, Bowen is also charged with managing many business filings, campaign finance and lobbying activity filings, the state archives and other key government services. An attorney, Bowen most recently served 14 years as a lawmaker in the State Assembly and Senate. She authored landmark consumer protection laws to protect people from becoming identity theft victims and closed the digital divide by authoring the first-in-the-world law that put all of California’s legislative information online.
Kevin M. Bacon is a management consultant, recently retired from the public sector practice of IBM Business Consulting Services, where he served civilian agencies of the federal government. Mr. Bacon is a former partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Government Consulting Practice, where he advised government agencies on how to improve the timeliness, quality and value of their services. From 1978 to 1981, Mr. Bacon was a senior consultant for the California State Legislature in the Assembly Office of Research in Sacramento. He is a member of the Council for Excellence in Government, the American Society for Public Administration, and the Government Finance Officers Association. From 1998 to 2004 he serve on the board of the IBM Endowment for the Business of Government. He has served as a Trustee of the UC Davis Foundation since 2003. Mr. Bacon and his wife, Kim, reside in Austin, Texas.
Stephen D. (Steve) Burns is Manager of the California greenhouse gas project, for Chevron Corp., located in Sacramento, California. In this capacity, he leads a team of technical experts, business representatives, and government affairs and legal professionals that advise the company’s senior leadership on compliance options for the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32). Prior to joining Chevron, he worked for two years at Enron Corp. where he had federal and international advocacy responsibilities. Before entering the private sector, he worked for 11 years in non-profit research and policy organizations that focused on energy, trade and global development issues, as the executive director of the 22-nation Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) Energy Forum, and as the trade and economics program officer at the Asia Foundation in San Francisco. He also worked two years on the staff of the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Burns is the past Chairman of the Board of the San Francisco Global Trade Council, and currently serves on the Board of the California State Capitol Preservation Fund. He has a master’s degree in public policy from the George Washington University, and received his undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary in 1984. He and his wife Sarah live with their four children in Sacramento.
Collie Christensen is the President of Dreamworks Development, a real estate investment and development company in Sacramento, CA. He currently has projects ranging in the 5 western states and also in Mississippi and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Mr. Christensen is the Deacon at his church (Christ Community Church). He leads a group of teenagers from his church every year to build homes in disadvantaged and impoverished communities in Mexico. Collie and his wife Kira are dedicated philanthropists who have sat on many boards for charity auctions and fundraisers.
Jack Coffey is the former Director of California government affairs, policy, government and public affairs, for Chevron Corp., headquartered in Sacramento, Calif. In this capacity, he directed responsibility for the company’s interests in California politics and supervised a team lobbying the legislature and regulatory bodies in the State. He currently serves on the boards of the California Senate’s International Relations Forum (CIRF), the Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC), the California Manufacturers and Technology Association (CMTA), and the Leland Stanford Mansion Restoration Project. Coffey is also a board member and treasurer of the California Council on Environmental and Economic Balance (CCEEB), and a board member and secretary of California Foundation on Energy and the Economy (CFEE).
Ruth Coleman currently serves as director of California State Parks. She was appointed chief deputy for California State Parks in January 2002, after having joined the department in December 1999 as deputy director for legislation. Before coming to State Parks, Ms. Coleman worked as policy director for Assemblywoman Helen Thomson and was legislative director for state Senator Mike Thompson. She also worked for the Air Resources Board in the electric vehicle program and for the Office of the Legislative Analyst. Prior to her work in Sacramento, she spent three years teaching mathematics as a Peace Corps volunteer in Swaziland, southern Africa.
Richard S. Costigan is the Senior Director of State & Government Affairs at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. His practice focuses on legislative and government relations. He has substantial experience in state government, legislative affairs and public policy, concentrating on issues such as energy and natural resources, business, transportation, infrastructure, housing and tax matters. He has been extensively involved in the creation, implementation and dissemination of numerous legislative public policy and budget proposals. Recently, Mr. Costigan was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California State Personnel Board (SPB), which is responsible for California's Civil Service System.
Jens C. Egerland is the Executive Director for the State of California in Accenture's U.S. Government Operating Group. He joined Accenture in 1988 and since then has gained experience in the management, development and implementation of welfare eligibility, employment training systems and customer relationship management systems. Over the past few years, Jens has spent much of his time working with State governments to build world-class capabilities in the area of customer service. He graduated from American University in 1983 with a B.S. degree in political science. Jens and his wife live in Sacramento with their son, Sam.
Marcy Friedman is the current chair of the California Arts Council. She is a design consultant whose work includes several shopping centers in the Sacramento region. Ms. Friedman has more than 35 years of experience in the arts community, including non-profit board service. She is the co-chair of the Crocker Art Museum Expansion Capital campaign and was the director of the Sacramento Regional Foundation for 12 years. She sits on the boards of the Stanford Mansion Foundation, the California State Alliance and the Capital Unity Council. Ms. Friedman was chair of Sacramento’s Art in Public Places committee, served on the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and was actively involved in selecting the public artworks that beautify Sacramento’s airport terminal and the new State Capitol buildings. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University.
Pam Giarrizzo has been an attorney with the Secretary of State’s office since 1993. She currently serves as the agency’s chief counsel. Previously, she served as general counsel to the business programs division, and as senior staff counsel in the elections division. Before joining the Secretary of State’s office, Ms. Giarrizzo held several top-level staff positions during her thirteen-year career in the state assembly, including chief consultant to the assembly committee on elections, reapportionment and constitutional amendments, chief of staff to a member of the assembly, and legislative director in the speaker’s office of member services. Ms. Giarrizzo is a graduate of San Francisco State University and McGeorge School of Law. She lives in Sacramento with her husband, Phil, and their son, Zack.
Dolores C. Huerta is co-founder and first vice president emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW) and president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation. She is the mother of 11 children, and has 20 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Ms. Huerta has played a major role in the American civil rights movement. For more than 50 years she has been a political and cultural activist and grassroots organizer supporting a range of issues including desegregation, securing human rights, and improving public services for low-income people. Over the years, Ms. Huerta has received numerous awards and honors to recognize her political activism, including being inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Sarah Meeker Jensen is President of Jensen + Partners. A licensed architect, she has focused the last decade of her professional career on the program and construction management of complex medical facilities. Sarah founded Jensen + Partners in 2002 to provide Owner’s Representation Services for large healthcare and science projects. Following the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, Sarah led the design and construction of a new academic health center for UCLA in the capacity of Assistant Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences Construction. Jensen + Partners has served as the construction manager for the Orthopedic Hospital Campus Reconstruction Plan, the newly opened Century City Doctors Hospital, for two Catholic Healthcare West hospitals, and for multiple research facilities at the City of Hope Cancer Center. Ms. Jensen works closely with medical users, as well as the design and construction teams, in order to create the best physical, functional and cost-effective results. Her professional focus is on bringing clarity to projects and on solving complex problems. Graduate of UCLA, 1980 and Amherst College, 1977.
Sherry Lansing served as chairman of the Motion Picture Group of Paramount Pictures from November 1992 until March 2005. Currently she serves as the CEO of The Sherry Lansing Foundation, which encompasses many aspects of her philanthropic work. During her chairmanship at Paramount, Ms. Lansing oversaw more than 200 films, three of which won the Academy Award® for Best Picture. A pioneering studio executive, she is the first-ever woman in the film industry to oversee all aspects of a studio’s motion picture production. Ms. Lansing has received numerous honors and awards, including the Horatio Alger Humanitarian Award in 2004. She serves on the executive committee of the board of directors of Friends of Cancer Research, as a trustee of the American Association for Cancer Research, and as the chair of Stop Cancer, a non-profit philanthropic group she founded in partnership with Dr. Armand Hammer. She is a Regent of the University of California and a member of the American Red Cross board of governors. In 2005 Lansing was appointed to the Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, established by California’s groundbreaking proposition 71, which provided $3 billion in funding for stem cell research. Ms. Lansing graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science degree.
Nancy Lenoil is the chief archivist for the State of California. She is the first woman to hold this position. Ms. Lenoil began her career with the State Archives in 1987. Additionally, she has been Administrator of the Western Archives Institute since 1992. Ms. Lenoil has a Master of Arts degree in History with a Graduate Certificate in Archival Administration from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She received advanced training in archives administration through a fellowship funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Fred L. Main is counsel with the Sacramento office of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips. He has significant experience in public policy and legislative and regulatory advocacy. Prior to joining Manatt, Mr. Main was the senior vice president and general counsel at the California Chamber of Commerce. He was in charge of the Chamber’s public policy program, including advocacy before the Legislature, courts, regulatory boards and on initiatives. Mr. Main is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton and earned his JD at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Jillian Manus is president of Manus & Associates Literary Agency, Inc., based in New York and Palo Alto. She represents a wide range of non-fiction and fiction authors and is known for paying special attention to books that empower women physically, psychologically and spiritually. Ms. Manus serves on several local and national boards, including the board of trustees for New York University and the Dean’s Council for the Tisch School of the Arts. She is also chair of the California Governor and First Lady’s Conference on Women and Families. She remains very active in the development efforts of numerous literacy and mentoring programs across the country, including serving on the Leadership Advisory Council for Save the Children. Ms. Manus is the mother of three children and is married to Alan E. Salzman.
Robert Martin is a tribal chairman of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, a 1,000-member Indian tribe located near Banning, California. He has served for more than two decades in tribal government. During his earlier tenure as chairman, he oversaw the construction of the original Casino Morongo. He has worked closely with city, county, state and federal lawmakers on economic development; land, water and energy resources, education, environmental, transportation, regional impact and tribal gaming issues. His advocacy for Native American education and advancement extends beyond his own tribe. He has served as a member of the board for the California Indian Manpower Consortium, the California Indian Child Welfare Consortium, Riverside/San Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc., and Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association. Martin has also been active in encouraging the tribe's economic diversification, which led to the tribe's partnership with the Arrowhead water bottling plant, the construction and operation of restaurant franchises, and the development of longer term economic development planning.
Wanda McDaniel has worked for the past 16 years as the LA-based executive vice president of global communications for the Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani, concentrating her work in the worlds of film, television, sports and music. She migrated to LA from Dallas, where she worked as a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald and created the magazine Ultra, which continues its three decades of success for the Dallas Morning News. In 1977, she joined the Los Angeles Herald Examiner as a columnist, covering everything from Hollywood to politics. Ms. McDaniel has written for Vanity Fair, Time magazine, Texas Monthly, Los Angeles Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. She is a former president of the Rodeo Drive Committee and now is president of the First Lady’s Remarkable Women’s Fund. She is mother of two New York University students and wife of Albert Ruddy, a film/TV producer.
Nancy E. McFadden is Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corporation. She is responsible for managing the company's federal, state and local government relations, and philanthropic and community initiatives, while helping guide its efforts to be a national environmental leader. Before joining PG&E, McFadden spent nearly two decades as a key legal, policy, and political strategist in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, most recently as senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to Governor Gray Davis. Prior to working in Sacramento, McFadden served for eight years in the Clinton Administration as deputy chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore and general counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Washington Post named her one of the “go-to people” in the Clinton Administration for her significant record of accomplishment. McFadden started her career practicing law with the firm of O'Melveny and Myers, during which time, she was named “One of the 40 Best Lawyers Under 40” by Washingtonian magazine. In addition to serving as an executive with PG&E, McFadden has been appointed by the California State Senate and two governors to serve on the California Medical Assistance Commission, the agency that negotiates MediCal contracts with hospitals and health plans. McFadden is a Bay Area native, and has a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a bachelor's degree from San Jose State University. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts and the Women's Foundation of California.
Kitty O’Neal currently anchors the most popular Sacramento afternoon talk show on KFBK. Additionally, she partners with Tom Sullivan on his show from 1:30 to 2:30, and is listed as entertainment and lifestyle editor. She also has a number of TV credits locally on KOVR 13 and nationally on CBS and A&E Channel’s Biography. In her free time, she donates much of her time to community events. Previously, Kitty was a professional singer. She graduated from Sacramento State in Communications and is married to Kurt Spataro, partner in Sacramento’s Paragary Restaurants Company.
Alice Perez is currently in charge of SMUD’s Residential Services Program, including the Greenergy program. Previously, she was the VP and leader of U.S. Bank’s National Multicultural banking initiatives. Perez guided the bank’s decisions to meet the financial needs services for the high-growth Hispanic and other multi-cultural markets and coordinated the banks outreach and strategic partnerships to reach the multicultural audiences. She currently serves on a number of political, civic and community affairs boards US Hispanic Chamber, CA Hispanic Chamber, Nat’l Hispanic Corporate Council, Asian Pac Chamber in Sacramento, HOPE-PAC (Hispanics Organized for Political Equality), and a number of youth organizations. Graduated from Sacramento State in Finance.
Anne-Marie Petrie is Business Development Director for CBS Radio’s California Stations. Her focus is government initiatives and political candidates. She has an extensive professional background in non-profit fundraising, political public relations, radio sales, and distribution in the entertainment industry. She served as Director of Client Relations for Nelson Communications/ Porter Novelli. Herublic Service includes: WEAVE, B Street Theatre, Kings Women’s Organization and Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue. A successful fundraiser for women’s causes, Petrie has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to build new buildings for W.E.A.V.E. Pertie graduated from Boston University in English Literature/Language and is married to Geoff Petrie, President of the Sacramento KINGS.
Dave Pringle is the president of Pacific Coast Companies, Inc., and the executive vice president of Pacific Coast Building Products, Inc. He also sits as a board member on several of Pacific Coast’s subsidiaries. Prior to his move to Pacific Coast, he spent eight years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in its audit and business advisory services group, attaining the level of senior manager. Mr. Pringle spent most of his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Sacramento and participated in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ international transfer program, serving clients in Madrid, Spain for a year. He is also an active board member of Friends For Kids, an organization in Sacramento that contributes to non-profits that provide preventative and rehabilitative services for children. Currently, Mr. Pringle serves as the Treasurer on the Museum’s Board of Trustees.
Cassandra Pye develops and manages strategic communication, public affairs and political programs as the senior vice president in APCO Worldwide’s Sacramento office. Prior to joining APCO, Ms. Pye was deputy chief of staff to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, serving as a member of the governor’s senior staff and his post-recall election transition team. Previously, she served for 12 years as vice president of corporate affairs and political director for the California Chamber of Commerce, where she also led the Jobs Political Action Committee (JobsPAC) and the Coalition for California Jobs. Ms. Pye has nearly 24 years of experience advocating for business trade associations across diverse industry sectors. She has worked on a broad range of policy issues, including food safety, labeling, product distribution, labor relations and local government finance.
Patricia Roboostoff Splinter has been a Silicon Valley leader for over 27 years. She has an extensive background of success, supervising work forces around the globe, managing multi-million dollar budgets and implementing strategic initiatives. Ms. Splinter has held many senior leadership positions throughout the valley, at large multinational corporations as well as at startup companies. Most recently she was senior vice president of administration and human resources for NetManage. For the majority of her career, she was an executive at Intel Corporation, where she held a variety of senior management roles. Ms. Splinter balances her high-tech career with a love of agriculture and the outdoors, driving tractors as “CEO” of the family’s Placer County orchard and vineyard, DallaTerra, where she and her husband, Mike, raised four children. Not only is she a proven leader, she is also an active community member, serving on a number of boards of directors for foundations and non-profit organizations. Currently she is on the boards of the Goodwill of Silicon Valley and of the Applied Materials Foundation.
Jami Warner is president of JWarnerGroup, a public relations consulting firm she established in 2005 after serving as general manager of Edelman’s Sacramento office for ten years. She has two decades of media, communications, political and government relations experience in both the public and the private sectors. Prior to her career in private sector public relations, Ms. Warner served as a senior staff member for three California elected officials. She has been instrumental in developing and implementing creative and effective public service, media relations, business-to-business, issues and crisis management, public affairs, internal and external communications, legislative support and grassroots programs for government agencies, Fortune 500 corporations and statewide associations. In 2004 California First Lady Maria Shriver appointed Ms. Warner to the executive committee of the California State Alliance and to chair the Remarkable Women’s exhibit. She received a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from California State University, Northridge, and before entering the public relations field, worked as a political reporter. A California native, she lives in Sacramento with her husband, James, and their daughter, Lily.
Andrea Wong is the CEO of Lifetime Entertainment. She joined ABC in August 1993 as a researcher for ABC News' “PrimeTime Live.” In June of 1994, she was named executive assistant to the President, ABC Television Network, and in November 1995, was appointed executive assistant to the president, ABC, Inc. In September 1997, she took on expanded duties when she was promoted to vice president and executive assistant to the president, ABC, Inc. By 1998, she was appointed vice president, Alternative Series and Specials, ABC Entertainment, and in 2004 promoted to executive vice president, Alternative Programming, Specials and Late Night, ABC Entertainment. Ms. Wong graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1988. She earned an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1993.
Allan Zaremberg, Secretary is president and chief executive officer of the California Chamber of Commerce. He took over the top staff position in 1998 after six years as executive vice president and head of the Chamber’s legislative advocacy program. Enhancing the state’s economic growth has been the goal of Mr. Zaremberg’s activities. Before joining the Chamber, he served as chief legislative advisor to and advocate for Governors George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson. Mr. Zaremberg served as a captain and flight navigator on a KC-135 jet air refueling tanker while in the U.S. Air Force from 1970 to 1975. He received a BS in economics from Penn State University and a JD from the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, where he was a member of the Law Journal.