Position | Name (click name to send email) | Trustee Area | Term End Date |
Board President | Alan Sarver | A | 2022 |
Board Vice President | Carrie Du Bois | B | 2024 |
Board Clerk | Christopher Thomsen | D | 2022 |
Board Member | Richard Ginn | C | 2024 |
Board Member | Shawneece Stevenson | E | 2024 |
Student Board Member | Sathvik Nori | N/A | 2021 |
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 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.