Tim Distler, Treasurer has spent his career working in the renewable energy project finance and development industry.  Along this path, he’s lived and worked in Boulder, CO, Chicago, IL and now San Francisco where he currently works for Spruce Finance, a leading owner and operator of distributed generation solar and residential energy assets.  Tim has a strong passion for renewable and environmentally sustainable energy sources as well as business and investment strategy.  He thoroughly enjoys solving new and interesting problems and learning from this process along the way.  In his free time, Tim enjoys trail running, skiing in Tahoe or Colorado, camping, cycling, and traveling to Sonoma or the Russian River to relax with friends, wife and two young children.  Tim is orginally from the Chicago area yet spent most of his childhood in Iowa where he attended the University of Iowa during undergraduate school.  He since went on to earn an MBA from Lindenwood University in St. Louis, MO.

Megan Bober, is the student representative to the board and is a member of `Til Dawn. Megan has been singing for as long as she can remember. She loves to sing and play instruments including piano, guitar, and ukulele. She has been working with her voice coach, Amber Morris, for 4 years. She enjoys performing at open mics around Marin. Megan is in Performance Workshop in the music program at Redwood High School. Outside of music, she loves playing soccer and basketball.

Lorenzo Jones, is a professional Executive business coach, speaker, facilitator, trainer and executive with more than 20 years experience that is solidly grounded in creating a positive learning environment by building a high degree of connection and trust with his clients. Lorenzo has lived in Marin more than 15 years. He grew up in Wichita, Kansas and came to California to earn his degree from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles before launching a career as a corporate retail manager. He is the owner of Lorenzo Jones Consulting and Coaching Group.

Kylee Ortiz is a Senior Manager at Kaiser Permanante by day, and a renegade prose and multi-media visual artist by night. She received a BA in English from the University of California Berkeley. Kylee, has always been creative, and she had great support from her family when it came to pursuing her passion. Her motivation to pursue the arts ultimately led her to get a Masters in Transformative Arts from John F. Kennedy University where she realized how omnipresent creativity can, and should be in education. Kylee recognizes just how important arts education is to developing well-rounded, and confident leaders. She believes in the transformational power of art, and knows that when young people are provided a safe space for art making and guidance accessing their creative source, their potential is limitless. With that belief, five years ago, she and her husband conspired a semester long, after-school pilot program. They facilitated transformational research-based art making, non-judgmental dialogue, and exhibited their art in a local gallery. Proceeds benefited a local non-profit. Kylee lives in San Geronimo with her husband and three children.

Sarita Patel story has always been about weaving people together with purpose and heart. Her decades of working alongside visionaries as a steward of their lives, gives her a unique perspective on building teams of people with passion, loyalty and abundance.  She zeroes in on each individual’s soul purpose to create teams that thrive in collaboration vs. competition.  Her ability to touch people at a heart level while running complex companies and personalities has given her the insight only a few have ever experienced.  This insight is being shared to shape the quality of individuals to inspire and teach with abundance so the rest of their teams, families, and communities can learn from them.  The very essence of leadership, going out ahead to show the way, derives from more than usual openness to inspiration, to insight.

Sarita is a first-generation Indian born from parents who immigrated to US in the early 60’s.  Her mother’s lack of access to education became the catalyst to educate and nurture her daughters so they had freedom to make choices for themselves. Growing up in a village environment taught her early on that no one person thrives unless everyone in the village thrives. Sarita holds a Journalism degree from Ernie Pyle School of Journalism where Courses on Ethics in Media played a huge role in her investigative nature to how culture shapes individuals today.  She has worked with Founders, executives and support staff from McDonalds, Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, Spiegel Catalogues, Gap, Esprit de Corp, Lucasfilm Ltd, Apple and now consults with people all over the globe to build short- and long-term vision plans which are custom to each individual or group. She is a breast cancer survivor and works with families balancing life issues such as Technology & Relationships, Elder Care, Mental Illness and Philanthropy.  Sarita currently sits on the advisory boards for Ronati, Zen Moose Capital, Evergrain  and Heroic Artists and has helped produce movies geared towards humanitarian efforts such as SOLD and Spinning Gold.

She is raising her 18-year-old son in Marin county.