2025-26 LAEF BOARD

The Los Altos Educational Foundation Board of Directors is comprised of volunteers from the 9 schools in the Los Altos School District. The board members are responsible for ensuring the strategic, fundraising, fiscal, and organizational goals of LAEF are met.

Front row: Jeff Zeisler, Prajakta Ranade, Melinda Kersey, Chryssa Sanders, Shen Jackson, Brandon Kam, Patricia Moll Kriese. Back row: Shivanjali Srivastava, Rama Mulpuri, Katherine Olsson Carter, Emily Harris, Jack Lo, Murray Stokely, Betsy Williams, Gaurav Jain, Mike Beman, Dharini Shukla, Adina Ardelean, Shruti Gopinathan.

Not pictured: Aarthi Srinivasan, Lisa Sung, Laurel McAndrews and Martina Whalen.

Board Officers

Chryssa Sanders, President

Shen Jackson, Vice President, Development Co-chair, Oak

Brandon Kam, CFO, Finance Chair, Covington

Melinda Kersey, Secretary, Almond

Board Members

Adina Ardelean, Egan

Mike Beman, Santa Rita

Katherine Olsson Carter, Springer

Shruti Gopinathan, Gardner Bullis

Emily Harris, Blach

Gaurav Jain, Covington

Patricia Moll Kriese, Major Donor Captain, Gardner Bullis

Jack Lo, Development Co-chair, Gardner Bullis

Laurel McAndrews, Covington

Rama Mulpuri, Oak

Prajakta Ranade, Loyola

Dharini Shukla, Program Impact Co-chair, Almond

Aarthi Srinivasan, Grantmaking Co-Chair, Blach

Shivanjali Srivastava, Covington

Murray Stokely, Program Impact Co-chair, Loyola

Lisa Sung, Grantmaking Co-Chair, Egan

Martina Whalen, Springer

Betsy Williams, Governance Chair, Santa Rita

Jeff Zeisler, Past President, Almond

Volunteers

We are grateful to the many volunteers who generously donate their time and expertise to support LAEF, and enable the district to have strong schools.

Nik Abraham

Kevin Armstrong

Kristine Bardman

Carrie Bosco

Terri Buchner

Julie Chai

Grace Choi

Stephanie Dauer

Katie Dedominicis

Kimberly Dickerson

Greg Drummond

Nancy Faz

Margaret Gong

Serena Hung

Bryan Johnson

Denise Khalid

Rajeev Kutty

JP Lu

Kathy Lyon

Margaret Macdonald

Melanie Macdonald

Sarah March

Brandon Marquis

Raquel Matteroli

Sandra McGonagle

Kevin Melia

Toral Patel

Kelly Rafferty

Prathima Rao

Sherri Rose

Aubrey Rotschi

Katherine Schermerhorn

Erich Schmidt

Jen Segalla-Yan

Nikita Shah

Tal Shalon

Mira Sharma

Kim Sheehan

Stephanie Shum

Wade Spenader

Aleks Stanojevic

Gayle Tait

Lisa Taormina

Oksana Trapeznikova

Emmanuel Ventadour

Erik Walukiewicz

Aubrey Wing

Amy Wu

Kusum Yammada

Arya

Khevya

Myra

Noa

Roshni

Sara

Yash

Staff

Heather Macdonald, Executive Director

Kyuri Doeden, Donor Specialist

Anna Kjos, Marketing Coordinator

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