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Board of Directors
Our Board is composed of leaders in education,
business, and the community. These volunteers provide valuable
strategic guidance to Civicorps Schools.
Rita Isaacs, President
Rita.Isaacs@cvcorps.org
Rita Isaacs spent eight years in international film sales, followed by four years of consultancy in corporate systems design and administration for international film, television and video start-up companies in Los Angeles. Following the birth of her second child, Rita retired to spend the next 20 years homemaking and volunteering. She has served on the on the parent boards of preschool, elementary, middle and high schools as well as for various parent organizations in the city of Piedmont. She also served as Vice President of the Board of Directors at Temple Sinai in Oakland, assisted on their capital campaign, and chaired their 2000-2002 Endowment Campaign.
Eric Premack, Vice President
Eric.Premack@cvcorps.org
Eric Premack is the founder and Executive Director of the Charter Schools Development Center (CSDC), a leading provider of policy expertise and technical assistance to charter schools, charter-granting agencies, and policy makers. Premack has played a leading role in the development of the chartered school concept since its inception in his native Minnesota in the 1980s and has helped to draft and implement chartered school legislation in over 25 states, at the federal level, and overseas. He is known for his broad and deep expertise in all aspects of charter school matters and his in-depth grasp of education policy. Prior to founding CSDC, Premack provided consulting services to hundreds of California school districts and previously was a non-partisan education policy analyst for the California Legislature. He is a graduate of both the College and the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy of the University of Chicago.
Craig Y. Bloom, Secretary
Craig.Bloom@cvcorps.org
Dr. Bloom is currently in private practice in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) in Berkeley, California and serves as Chief of OMS at Alta Bates- Summit Medical Center. He is currently an associate professor of OMS at the University of the Pacific and Highland Hospital Alameda Medical Center in Oakland, CA. Previously he has served as Chairperson of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of California, Irvine. He lives with his wife in Lafayette California and they have 2 daughters.
Robbie Yohai, Treasurer
Robbie.Yohai@cvcorps.org
Mr. Yohai is a licensed real estate broker and developer. Currently, he is the Managing General Partner for Linden Associates and President of Schaefer Heights, Inc. in Oakland, California.
Stephen Davenport
Steve.Davenport@cvcorps.org
Stephen Davenport is a 1953 graduate of Oberlin College and received his MA from Trinity College in 1965. He has a long career in education including teaching since 1957, serving as the Head of School for the Country School in Connecticut (1973-77) and the Athenian School in Danville, California (1977-87), and consulting to independent schools from 1987 to 2000. Steve has published articles in The New York Times and was awarded “Capital Area Teacher of the Year” in 2000. Davenport’s most recent work, Saving Miss Oliver’s, is a novel of leadership, commitment and change. It is about what happens in an all girls boarding school when the long-time, beloved, autocratic headmistress is fired.
Kathlean Kizzee
Kathlean.Kizzee@cvcorps.org
Kathleen Kizziee is a retired Elementary School Principal, Administrator and Teacher (38 years). She has been recognized as Outstanding Administrator of the Year at California Distinguished School, John Muir Elementary. She has served on various school district committees on topics ranging from strategic planning, school facilities, and coordinated compliance review to bridging the achievement gap and differential instruction. She graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelor of Sciences and Elementary Education Teaching Credential and holds a Master of Arts in Education from the University of San Francisco.
Yolanda Peeks
Yolanda.Peeks@cvcorps.org
Yolanda Peeks has been a member of the EBCC Board since 1995, but was an active supporter for many years earlier in her role as district liaison to the partnership between the Oakland Unified School District and EBCC’s middle grades Service Learning program, Project YES, and the Americorps Early Readers Initiative. Yolanda served Oakland students for over 30 years as teacher, principal, assistant then associate superintendent of curriculum & instruction, and executive director. In the latter stages of her career, Yolanda joined the staff of the Developmental Studies Center in Oakland as director of professional development, establishing a national cadre of teacher trainers who served as workshop facilitators and coaches. Then, as an executive associate with Performance Fact, Inc., Yolanda focused on enhancing the leadership capacity of district-level leaders, school principals, assistant principals, and school leadership teams. Dedicated to participating in efforts to expand successful learning and rewarding life opportunities for youth, Retired in December 2007, Yolanda consults with educational organizations and continues to volunteer with and serve on the boards of non-profits that are dedicated to improving the health, academic achievement, and life-long success of children.
Anne Scheer
Anne.Scheer@cvcorps.org
Anne Scheer is the Chief of Maintenance and Skilled Trades at the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) in Oakland, California. She oversees the Maintenance and Skilled Trades Department, including a staff of 65 regular full-time employees and a $12.4 million budget. She is responsible for all major maintenance of the District’s 68 parks encompassing 98,000 acres of open space. Ms. Scheer has worked her way up at EBRPD, starting in fire services in 1978; working as a Park Ranger until 1983, then shifting to office work as an Administrative Analyst II for 11 years before her promotion to Trades Manager in 1994. Ms. Scheer has been in her present position since 2002. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Amy Slater
Anne.Scheer@cvcorps.org
Amy Slater was an attorney specializing in intellectual property and other business matters for more than 20 years and was the general counsel of Ask Jeeves, Inc. (now Ask.com) from 1997 to 2000. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law and at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley. In addition to serving on the board of Civicorps Schools, she is also on the boards of the East Bay Community Foundation and International House at UC Berkeley.
Download the Board of Director's By-Laws (PDF 60KB) Download the 2011-2012 Board Meeting Schedule (PDF 10KB)
Download the January 18, 2012 Board Meeting Agenda (PDF 16KB)
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