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Who We Are

Our Mission

WE ARE

A non-profit organization serving Silicon Valley for 45 years to build a caring and inclusive community, free of bias and bigotry, by bringing people together through education and supporting victims of crime.

WE DO

  1. Youth leadership for an inclusive community
  2. Educational programs to reduce prejudice & teach respect
  3. Inter-religious partnership & understanding
  4. Conflict and violence prevention
  5. Advocacy and assistance for crime victims

You May Know Us By Our Programs

  • Camp Everytown (formerly Camp Anytown)
  • Leadership Today
  • Common Ground Enrichment Institute
  • Building Connections
  • Flash Judgments
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Student Contest
  • Extremes of Hate: Holocaust Studies & Critical Thinking
  • Experiencing Diversity & Interrupting Prejudice
  • Interfaith Dialogues
  • Victim Witness Assistance

SV FACES
Board Officers & Executive Committee

Chair Carl E. Cookson Alliance Title (ret.)
Vice Chair Dr. Frank Fiscalini City of San Jose (ret.)
Treasurer Eric Wang Deloitte & Touche LLP
Secretary David Heagerty Coakley Heagerty Co.
  Craig Nordlund Agilent Technologies, Inc. (ret.)
Executive Director Pat Mitchell, SFCC  

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Board of Directors
Rabbi Melanie Aron Congregation Shir Hadash
Mikael Berner Nuance Communications (ret.)
Chief Robert Davis San Jose Police Department
Hon. Len Edwards Center for Families, Children & the Courts
Pam Evans NetApp
Dotty Hayes  Intuit (ret.)
Bob LoPresto Duran Human Capital Partners
Lisa McCormack The Melita Group
Tesha Poe The Hillbrook School
Joyce Steakley Lockheed Martin Space Systems
   
Meeting Times  

The Audit and Executive Committee usually meets
on the fourth Monday of each month, 8:30am - 10:00 am.

The Board of Directors usually meets
on the fourth Thursday of each month, 8:30am - 10:00 am.

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Leadership Council

Founders Circle Chair Larry Sonsini Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Council of Chairmen Irwin Federman US Venture Partners
  Michael E. Fox, Sr. ME Fox Distributing
  Mark Jensen Deloitte & Touche LLP
  Gordon Yamate Knight Ridder (ret.)

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Past Board Members
Lon Allan The Harker School
Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio Sierra Ventures
Roy Avondet Deloitte & Touche LLP
Charles H. Brock Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel
Maryles Casto Casto Travel, Inc.
Dr. Leo Chavez  
Rich Christopher  
Paul M. Cook AgileTV
Hon. LaDoris Cordell Stanford University
Hon. Joe Coto State Assembly of California
Papken der Torossian Therma Wave
Mandeep S. Dhillon Togetherville, Inc.
Phillip Drayer Kalydus
Robert Finocchio, Sr.  
Robert Fox Fox Properties
Peter Giles The Tech Museum of Innovation
Hon. Ron Gonzales City of San Jose
Dr. Frank S. Greene New Vista Capital
Hon. Susan W. Hammer City of San Jose (ret.)
Dan Hancock Shapell Industries of No. California
Jay T. Harris  
Charles C. Harwood GE (ret.)
Larry Jinks San Jose Mercury News (ret.)
Phil Kipnis Pacific Coast Visions
Dr. David Klinger Lockheed, retired
Sandra Kurtzig  
Dr. David Lam Lam Research (ret.)
Chief William Lansdowne  
Abraham D. Lev  
Sydney Levin Levin Enterprises
Kenneth Levy KLA-Tencor Corporation
Fr. Paul Locatelli, SJ Santa Clara University
Arthur Lund  
Robert Marshall Selby Venture Partners
Sherman Naymark General Electric (ret.)
Larry Olmstead Leading Edge Associates
Rabbi Daniel Pressman Congregation Beth David
Richard Previte MarketFusion, Inc.
Amy Purchase Reid Lombardo & Gilles LLP
Myra Reinhard Pepper Lane Properties
Robert J. Saldich Commonwealth Club, Raychem (ret.)
Ann Skeet American Leadership Forum
William D. Smythe Smythe European (ret.)
Thomas W. Steipp Symmetricom, Inc.
Linda W. Sullivan NBC11 & Telemundo
Joel Suty Lockheed Martin Space Systems (ret.)
Richard Tanaka Steinberg Group
Glen Toney Applied Materials (ret.)
Jack Tramiel  
De Tran V-Times
Henry T. Yamate Petrinovich, Pugh & Co., LLP

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