MVEF Leadership 2011-12
MVEF is a volunteer-driven organization managed by a Board of Directors and advised by Parent and Teacher School Representatives. Join our team!
Board of Directors (Click on name for Bio)
Liza Levin, President
Adrienne Heiskanen, Treasurer
Niki Theil, VP - Realtors for the World Ahead
Page McDonald, VP - Key Donors
Sara Jenez, Secretary
Laura Blakey
Peter Darrah
Greg Fowler
Jane Girvin Harrison
Shelly Hausman
Karen Heitkamp
Kevin Klemm
Hafsa Mirza
Junne Moy
Heather Myers
Margaret Poor
Susan Seutter
Sandra Wang
Andrea Gray, Executive Director
School Representatives
Schools have different needs and perspectives, thus we aim to have parent and teacher representatives from each school at the board meetings to help guide our group decisions. They committ to support and promote MVEF at their schools. Please note, everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend board meetings. We have more positions that need to be filled, and new ones that can be created for an enthusiastic new volunteer. Please Join Us.
Leadership Bios
Liza Levin
Liza joined the MVEF board in 2009. Currently she is a stay-at-home mom to a 4th grader at Stevenson and a 7th grader at Graham. Lisa has chaired both leadership groups at PACT and during the move to Stevenson, she set up a 501(c)(3) foundation for the school. She is also on the Board of her children's Sunday School. Liza has a BS Degree in Management from University of Phoenix and worked for high-tech firms for nearly 20 years. Her family loves soccer, camping, and bringing their dog to the beach.
Adrienne Heiskanen
Adrienne joined the MVEF Board in 2010 to serve as Treasurer and parent representative from Monta Loma School. She has been an active volunteer in the CEL program at Monta Loma school, and previously served as Treasurer and Board member of Los Altos Parent Preschool. Adrienne has a background in Strategy, Corporate Development and Corporate Finance, most recently with SVB Financial Group. Adrienne holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands.
Niki Theil
Niki joined the MVEF Board in 2009. She has been actively involved in MVWSD schools since her older son started Kindergarten at Bubb in 2001 and has volunteered for a variety of positions including PTA Co-President, Walkathon Chair, School Site Representative, and Crossing Guard. Niki has a degree in Finance from the University of Illinois and has served as treasurer for two school parcel tax campaigns. Before she started spending her days driving to soccer practice and piano lessons, Niki worked at HP as a financial analyst.
Page McDonald
Page joined MVEF in 2009, after serving several years on Bubb's PTA and Site Council. Her kids have been so fortunate to grow up in MVWSD, and have benefited from the music, arts, enrichment, and after school sports programs MVEF funds. That these basic programs stand at risk of being cut in a poor economy prompted her to join the MVEF board and work with Key Donors. Page is an elementary school teacher, currently working part-time at Bubb School. Her passions are art, music, and children.
Sara Jenez
Sara Jenez joined the board in 2010. MVEF has played an important role in her kids' (6th and 8th grade) lives in terms of music and art throughout elementary school. At Graham, Sara's son has been in jazz band and played on two after-school sports teams. While her children were at Huff, she was part of the PTA executive team for 5 years, including two years as president. In addition to being a long-time classroom volunteer primarily focusing on language arts, Sara has worked in the Huff library as a volunteer and as staff. Last year she was a JustREAD tutor at Graham and she will be one again this year. She is also on the Graham PTA executive board. Outside her school-related activities, Sara is a newsletter editor and scholarship committee member for the aquatics center at Abilities United. She has her undergraduate degree from Stanford and a master's degree in public health from UNC, Chapel Hill. Sara and her family love to travel and do so whenever they can. At night you'll find her playing Scrabble against her IPad's CPU.
Laura joined the Board in 2008 after having served as a Landels parent representative since 2002 and served as president from 2009-2011. An active volunteer for our local schools, Laura chaired the successful 2008 Measure C Parcel Tax Campaign. She has served as a PTA Officer at Landels, on the Landels and Graham Site Councils, and on various District Committees. An attorney for over twenty years, many of them as in-house counsel for several local banks (including a recent four-year stint as general counsel of a start-up bank), Laura currently practices law with GCA Law Partners in Mountain View. She holds a degree in Latin American Studies from Yale University, and a law degree from Boalt Hall at UC Berkeley. Laura enjoys cooking, gardening, reading, music, baseball and spending time with her family (not necessarily in that order!).
Peter Darrah
Bio Needed
Greg Fowler
Greg Fowler joined the MVEF Board in early 2004. He has served as Board Secretary since then. Although he has no children in the District, Greg has volunteered for organizations supporting education for the past 20 years. He also serves on the MVWSD Parcel Tax Oversight Committee. His professional background is in computer systems and computer networks. He has degrees from Michigan State University and Stanford University.
Jane Girvin Harrison
Jane joined the MVEF Board in 2010. She is the mother of two MVWSD students who attend Graham Middle School. She has been involved in MVWSD through her volunteer work with the CEL program at Monta Loma Elementary school from 2002-2009. Jane is a major gift fundraiser at Stanford University and covers the Midwestern region of the country for the school. When she’s not working, driving kids to swim practice, baseball games, Girl Scouts and various other school activities, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, biking, cooking and trying her hand at gardening. Jane holds a BA in Political Science from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
Shelly Hausman
Shelly Hausman joined the MVEF Board in 2011. She has two future MVWSD students – Mathias (2.5 yrs) and Greta (4 mo). A former print journalist, she has worked in public education for 15 years; both in the community college system as well as a K-12 administrator overseeing public relations and crisis communications. Shelly is currently a freelance communications consultant. As a volunteer, she has administered a scholarship foundation, served as a chamber of commerce board member and has been recognized as a Kiwanian. She has a BA from Miami University (Ohio) and a Master’s of Public Administration from San Francisco State University.
Karen Heitkamp
Karen joined the MVEF board in 2011. She and her husband, Ross, have two children in MVWSD schools. They have a third grader at Stevenson and a sixth grader at Graham. Karen has enjoyed volunteering in the classrooms at Stevenson and has served as chair of the school PTO. Her former work experience includes 15 years in the Medical Device field in a variety of positions, most recently in Sales & Marketing.
Kevin Klemm
Kevin Klemm joined the MVEF Board in 2010 after serving as School Site Council President at Theuerkauf for the past 3 years. He and his wife Iva have three children at the school, 5th and 3rd grade girls and a kindergarten boy and have been active volunteers at the school since 2005. Kevin is a realtor for Coldwell Banker in Palo Alto and has been a sponsor of the Read-a-thon and Monte Carlo night and serves on the Realtor Advisory Council for the MVEF's Realtors for the World Ahead. Kevin is the son and grandson of educators from both sides of the family and has had the benefit of many inspiring teachers. A lifelong entrepreneur, Kevin founded and owned International Networking, a high tech export company for ten years in Kansas City that took him to twenty six countries and allowed him to pursue his hobby of coaching wrestling. That hobby brought him to Palo Alto, California and Stanford University in 2003 where he started a non profit wrestling club. Besides real estate, his current hobbies are coaching and cheering for his kids in their youth softball, basketball and wrestling and has a passionate commitment to the district, the community, and to our wonderful teachers.
Hafsa Mirza
Bio needed
Junne Moy
Junne became a resident of Mountain View over two decades ago when she began her career in Marketing at a small high-tech research firm off of Shoreline Boulevard. Since then, she has been actively involved in the community including Huff Elementary and Graham Middle schools. In addition to volunteering in the classroom and school functions, most recently, Junne served as a member of the Huff School Site Council. She joined the MVEF board in 2011. Junne has extensive experience in marketing strategy, branding and product positioning and all aspects of marketing communications with a keen emphasis on messaging. She held various leadership positions at companies including HP, Sun Microsystems and Compaq Computers. Currently, she provides marketing strategy and planning to small businesses and start-up companies. Junne also leads pro-bono services to the bay area non-profit organizations working to improve local communities. Junne and her husband, Tony, have two daughters who are attending Huff and Mountain View High schools.
Heather Myers
Heather Myers is the mother of two children currently attending Landels Elementary. She served as President of the Landels PTA from 2008 to 2010 and is currently the Vice President and an active volunteer school-wide. Heather also spent three years on the Site Council at Landels. Heather is currently an independent contractor focusing on statistical analysis and survey design. She holds a doctorate degree in Psychology and a masters degree in statistics both from Stanford University. She loves hiking, dancing and swimming with her family. Heather has a passion for education and enjoys reading with children in the schools
Margaret Poor
Margaret joined the MVEF board in 2011, after having been a school representative for Edith Landels Elementary for a year. Before having children, Margaret spent 12 years in the software industry, usually working for startups, and most recently as president of a venture-funded company located in San Francisco and Research Triangle Park. Before that, she spent many years in public school learning to play the recorder, clarinet, and piano, marveling at Mr. Ted Haines, who taught her entire town in Massachusetts how to play instruments. Margaret's children are in kindergarten and third grade. She has two patents in her name.
Susan Seutter
Susan is the mother of two boys at Landels Elementary, who love the art and science programs they get through MVEF. A product of public schools, Susan believes that children can truly excel in their local schools with strong community involvement. Susan has served in senior leadership positions at high tech companies for the past 20 years. She is currently the Director of Manufacturing Services at National Semiconductor. Susan has a BS in Civil Engineering and an MS in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from San Jose State University . Susan loves the outdoors and enjoys spending time with her family while hiking, camping and gardening.
Sandra Wang
Sandra joined the MVEF board in 2011 and previously served as a School Rep for Bubb Elementary. She has 2 children and her daughter attends Bubb Elementary. Sandra works in a small biotech company in Mountain View. Sandra believes and supports that Art and Music is a vital part of her daughter receiving a well-rounded education which led her to become involved in volunteering for MVEF. Sandra and her family enjoy going for walks in and around the Bay Area and travelling around California.
Andrea Gray
Andrea Gray joined MVEF as the Executive Director in July 2010. Prior to MVEF, Andrea was the Director of Marketing for Acterra, an environmental non-profit. Andrea has over 15 years of experience in marketing, product management and operations in the packaged goods, technology and entertainment industries. She began her career as a brand manager for Proctor & Gamble, was Director of Marketing for NetworkCar, an automotive technology start-up, and then worked as a marketing consultant to technology companies and non-profits. As a volunteer, Andrea has been involved with a number of community service and educational organizations. Andrea has two children in the Dual Immersion program at Castro Elementary School. She enjoys being outdoors with her family, hiking, biking and skiing.