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Staff

Gracie Oliva

Sea Kayak Program Manager
Yoseline Castillo

Youth LEAD Program Manager
Jerry Lam

River Program Manager
Jodie Darensbourg

Youth LEAD Program Coordinator
Aimee Good

Executive Director
Sherri Barr

Operations Director
Liz Bernstein

Director of Individual Giving
Daniel Berger

Program Director
Diane Poslosky

Executive Director Emerita

ETC Board of Directors

Kirsten Gibney Scott

Board Chair: Partner, Kantor & Kantor LLP. Employee benefits lawyer representing employees and retirees. JD, University of California, Berkeley. BA, University of Pennsylvania. Her hobbies include pickleball, sea kayaking, biking, photography, and taking adventures with her husband and two kids.
Carol Pereira

Board Vice-Chair: CFO, Altamont Capital Partners, a Private Equity firm based in Palo Alto, CA; Former Board President, The Carey School; BS Engineering and BS Economics, University of Pennsylvania; MBA, Stanford University. Carol loves to SCUBA dive, swim and travel.
Russell Sprunger

Board Secretary: Strategy & Operations Manager, Google; BS, University of Southern California; MBA Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Russell loves getting outdoors on foot, biking, boarding or skiing with friends and family.
Willie Halsted

Board Treasurer: Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank’s Climate Tech division. B.S. in Business Operations from Georgetown University. Willie is passionate about contributing to climate solutions, preserving nature and democratizing access to the outdoors. In his spare time, he loves rafting with ETC as a volunteer guide as well as hiking, biking, and backcountry skiing.

 

 
Dick Blair

Owner, Bear Track Farm, with Betty Hui. Principal, Morgan Miller Blair, a Law Corporation. JD, Hastings Law School; BA, UC Berkeley.
Robert Lew

Retired estate planner for families and businesses. University of California Davis, BS. In his spare time, Bob is a woodworker, fly fisherman, photographer, cook and kayaker.
Seth Chanin

Sr. Manager, Social Impact, LinkedIn. BA, Colby College.
Seth loves exploring and guiding groups on rafting, kayaking, backcountry skiing, and mountain biking adventures
Matt Ackley

Associate Director of Outdoor Education and Leadership at Stanford University. Matt is a former NOLS instructor, writer for film and television, and ETC winter intern. He enjoys swimming, hiking, and camping with his wife, kids, and dog, Sunny.
Elena Van Loo

Senior Administrative Analyst, Customer Access & Accessibility, BART. Former youth wheelchair basketball coach. Longtime ETC guide, inclusion trainer, youth mentor, public speaker. Loves to connect with all diversities but put focus in bringing individuals with disabilities into the ETC family to enjoy the outdoors!
Howard Levitt

Retired Director of Communications and former Chief of Interpretation and Public Affairs, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service. BA, University of California, Berkeley. An avid cyclist, Howard is an active volunteer with the San Francisco Education Fund, San Francisco Village, Reading Partners SF,  the SF Bicycle Coalition and ETC.  Howard met his wife, Wendy Scheffers – also a longtime volunteer guide – through ETC.
Cecilia Oduwole

PMP: Business Consultant, Specialist at Kaiser Permanente. Twenty-five years working at all levels of finance departments for large and small nonprofit organizations and private companies (from GAP, Inc. to Nellcor, to Assay Technology). BS, International Business from San Francisco State University, San Francisco. Cecilia enjoys dancing, reading and nature walks.
Beth Smith

Beth grew up in Nashville, and in 1989, she found a job and moved to Berkeley. She knew she could have an easier, fuller life here, as a person with cerebral palsy, who mostly uses a wheelchair. Every year since its beginning, she’s come as a presenter to ETC’s Inclusion Training. A licensed clinical social worker, her graduate degrees are in Clinical Social Work from the University of Tennessee and Early Childhood Development and Child Life from Mills College.
Erik Martinez

Environmental Protection Specialist at the US Environmental Protection Agency. Erik’s interests center on finding efficient and responsible methods for managing natural resources to avoid overuse and degradation while ensuring that these resources can be enjoyed by all. He enjoys spending time outdoors, including as an active volunteer ETC guide in the sea kayak and whitewater rafting program.
Brandon Nunez Dominguez

Non-voting, Youth Board Member: Senior in the Class of 2026 at Leadership Public Schools: Richmond. A former Youth LEAD participant, Fellow, and Senior Fellow, Brandon has also served as a field intern. His hobbies include skateboarding, hiking, kayaking, rafting, and camping.
Gabriela Garcia Alvarado

Non-voting, Youth Board Member: Senior in the Class of 2026 at Leadership Public Schools: Richmond. Student athlete and owner of a home cake business. Youth LEAD Fellowship Senior Fellow and field fellow for the summer programs.

ETC Emeritus Board Members

David Kennedy

(Emeritus) History Professor, Stanford. Ph.D. and MA, Yale; AB, Stanford; former Associate Dean of the School of Humanities, Stanford; Coro Foundation Board of Directors; Stanford Associate Board of Governors; History Pulitzer Prize-winner in 2000.
Harriet Moss

(Emeritus) Former President and CEO of Antenna Audio, Inc.,  the world’s largest producer of audio tours for museums and visitor attractions. Harriet served on the boards of Friends of the River, Carpe Diem West and ETC and is currently the President of the West Marin Fund, a foundation supporting the communities of West Marin.
Kathryn Lino

(Emeritus) Office Manager for James Lino Construction; West Marin community volunteer; Retired sign language interpreter for people who are deaf / hard of hearing; parent of ETC Youth LEAD alumnus; BA in Outdoor Education from Dominican University.
Charlie Sharp

(Emeritus) Independent Business Consultant. Retired Continuum Administrator for Kaiser Permanente; Former Board President for Oakland Fund for the Arts; Masters in Public Administration, CSU East Bay; Registered Nurse, CSU Dominguez Hills; ETC Winter Guide.
Steve Herzog

(Emeritus) Wealth Manager (CFP), Laird Norton Wetherby. BA Dartmouth College; MA Tufts University. ETC Sea Kayak and River Guide. Steve loves all things in the mountains or on the water, including skiing, mountain biking, kayaking and outrigger canoeing.
Tom Morehouse

Consultant, Shipping and Information Storage Industry. MBA, San Jose State. Tom spends his off-hours hunting, fishing, and teaching fly casting.

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