Sequoia Union High School District
Trustees
Overview
| Position | Name (click name to send email) | Trustee Area | Term End Date |
| Board President | Allen Weiner | C | 2020 |
| Board Vice President | Alan Sarver | A | 2022 |
| Board Clerk | Carrie Du Bois | B | 2020 |
| Board Member | Christopher Thomsen | D | 2022 |
| Board Member | Georgia Jack | C | 2020 |
| Student Board Member | Sathvik Nori | N/A | 2021 |
Allen Weiner
Allen was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, where he attended urban public schools. He graduated from Harvard University in 1985 and Stanford Law School in 1989. Before coming to California for law school, he worked as a high school teacher in New York. Prior to joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2003, Allen served for eleven years as an international lawyer in the State Department, in Washington DC and at the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands. Allen is a long-time member of the community and the father of three children who attended and graduated from our District’s schools. He is married to Mary Dent, a financial services executive.
Alan Sarver
Carrie Du Bois
San Mateo County School Boards Association
Redwood City 2020 Leadership Team
California Foster Youth Advisory Task Force
Her passion for education issues comes from 12 years of advocacy for foster youth, her two decades of involvement with the Rosalie Rendu Center of East Palo Alto, and many other community projects related to children and youth. More recently, Carrie has helped to stimulate community conversations about mental health and trauma that affect student learning.
She serves as a delegate to the California School Boards Association (CSBA) and is a past president of the San Mateo County School Boards Association. She believes her work for county and state associations allows for her own continuous learning about the complex issues related to public education. Carrie is proud of her work chairing major educational conferences on topics such as mental health, social emotional learning and vulnerable children. She was also honored to chair the CSBA Annual Education Conference in 2017, which brought together 6,000 educational leaders statewide.
Carrie was the San Carlos Citizen of the year in 2005 for her community work and fundraising efforts for public schools. She is real estate agent in San Carlos and the mother of three boys who all attended public schools. Her youngest son is a freshman at Carlmont High School.
Chris Thomsen
Chris Thomsen has been the Executive Director of Stanford University’s Institute for Research in the Social Sciences since its founding (2004). The Institute is the home to research centers on poverty and inequality, immigration, democracy, philanthropy and civil society and other domains where social science can have an impact on global challenges. Prior to that, Thomsen was appointed by the Stanford provost to be the director of the President's Commission on Technology, Teaching, and Learning. In this role (1995-2000) he provided an institutional planning focus on understanding how technology should serve the core mission of the University. He continued his work on educational technology during a sabbatical leave (1999) receiving the first appointment as the Tans Visiting Professor at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
In addition to the institutional planning efforts, Thomsen is widely recognized within the Stanford community for the decade he served as director of Stanford Sierra Camp—though it was many years ago. He left Stanford briefly (2000-2003) to head a biotech startup, where he was co-founder and president of Tao Biosciences.
Georgia Jack
Address: 480 James Avenue, Redwood City, CA 94062
Trustee Jack has worked in non-profit development/fundraising since 1990 and has held development positions at the St. Vincent de Paul Society, San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese; the Peninsula Humane Society, San Mateo; Planned Parenthood of Austin, Texas; and the Children’s Health Council, Palo Alto. She has been a staff member with Stanford University’s Office of Development since 2001. Trustee Jack is a member of the South San Mateo County League of Women Voters, the DemFems Silicon Valley, and the Redwood City Woman’s Club. She and her husband, Michael, are members of Congregation Beth Jacob, Redwood City. Trustee Jack holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Student Trustee
- Student Trustee - Nori Sathvik