Barbara Kimport, President
Barbara Kimport was most recently Development Director at San Francisco AIDS Foundation, one of the nation’s oldest and largest AIDS service organizations. Barbara has led philanthropic initiatives at major San Francisco non-profits and consulted with a variety of education and social service organizations in strategic planning, program design and implementation and resource mobilization. She holds a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School and has lived in San Francisco with her family for 35 years.
Cindi J. Nicolas, Vice President
Cindi Nicolas is a former partner with Accenture. During her 20 year career at Accenture, she led four business units, most recently leading the U.S. technology practice for Customer Relationship Management. She now shares her expertise in business and technology with local San Francisco non-profits, including HPP and the San Francisco YMCA. She is also the proud mother of two young children.
Jean J. Chang, Treasurer
Jean Chang is Senior Vice President at Impact Community Capital LLC, a socially responsible investment vehicle. Her prior experiences include Tipping Point Community, The Development Fund, McKinsey, and Morgan Stanley. She was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador. Jean graduated from UC Berkeley (Haas) and Harvard Law School.
Catherine Stefani, Secretary
Catherine Stefani is a Legislative Aide to Supervisor Mark Farrell in San Francisco where she works on various public policy issues. Catherine is an attorney who began her legal career as a prosecutor in Contra Costa County. She received her B.A. in Political Science from St. Mary’s College of California and continued on to receive her J.D. and LL.M in Government and Public Policy from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.
Tom Coyne
Tom Coyne was born and raised in San Francisco and specializes in real estate development and management. He attended the University of San Francisco and is the father of two children. Tom is also a swimmer at the Dolphin Club and is actively involved in Advokids, a nonprofit dedicated to defending the rights and meeting the needs of children who are in the foster care system.
Mildred Crear
Mildred Crear is currently retired but spent her professional years working for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, first as a Public Health Nurse and ending her career serving as the Director of Maternal and Child Health for 10 years. She is also on the boards of New Bridge and the Ethnic Health Institute at Summit Hospital, and is an advisory board member for Support for Families. Mildred earned an MPH in Administration from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
Linda Griffith
Linda Griffith is a Vice President at the YMCA of San Francisco, where she serves as the risk manager and in-house counsel for this 14 branch association of YMCAs. Earlier in her career, she worked in insurance brokerage, consulting, and at private law firms. Linda received her law degree from the University of Kansas and an undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of Maryland. She is married with one child.
Mary E. Johnson
Mary E Johnson is a Bay Area native who earned a BS Business Administration, Marketing Concentration from California Polytechnic State University, SLO. Mary enjoyed a 10+ year career in Integrated Media Sales, most recently at Time Inc representing CNNMoney.com and FORTUNE.com. Mary has been actively committed to volunteerism since grade school dedicating time in recent years to St Joseph’s Family Center, Hands on Bay Area and Grace Cathedral Family Ministries, and has assisted with HPP’s Our House. Mary currently resides in San Francisco with husband Brent and son Moses.
Barry Lipman
Barry Lipman is an attorney adviser and was senior partner from 1980 – 1998 at Goldfarb & Lipman, a law firm specializing in real estate. His nonprofit board experience includes being a trustee of the Hamlin School from 1993-2002, San Francisco University High School from 2003-2009, and the SF Zoological Society from 1995- present. He received his J.D. from UC Hastings and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. His principal interest is traveling, and he hopes to visit 100 countries in his lifetime.
Dan Moreno
Dan Moreno has a CPA practice in Burlingame, California concentrating in the areas of tax compliance, attestation and planning. Prior to establishing his own firm, he was in industry and other CPA firms. Dan graduated from the University of San Francisco and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the Tax Division of the AICPA, the Information Technology Division of the AICPA, and the California Society of CPAs. Current and past volunteer activities include being a board member of a foundation, President, Board member and Finance Chair of two Catholic high schools on the Peninsula, and involvement with other charitable organizations.
David Prowler
David Prowler is President of Prowler, Inc., providing land use and development services to non-profit, public, and private clients in San Francisco. Previously, he was Director of the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development and the Mayor’s Project Manager for the Ballpark and Mission Bay. A former VISTA community organizer, he was principal author of the Chinatown Community Plan.
Dr. Ifeoma Udoh
Dr. Ifeoma Udoh is the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, and the Research Director for Pangaea’s Oakland NIH study. Ife has extensive experience in implementing international and domestic HIV/AIDS programming and monitoring and evaluation activities in low resource settings. She has served as an M&E advisor to National AIDS Programs and community-based organizations in both the Eastern Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Ife holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology from UC Berkeley and received her undergraduate degrees in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from UCLA.