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Vince Adams

Chair

Vince has been on the EBI Board of Trustees since 2020, after spending a year on the Board’s Finance Committee and previously serving as a member of EBIPA. Vince grew up in Atlanta, but he has lived in the Bay Area for over 20 years. In 2015, he and his wife (Ana) moved to Oakland so that their then 5-year-old son (Nicolas) would have the opportunity to attend EBI. Nico is now a rising seventh grader, and he has thrived in his eight years attending the school.

In his professional life, Vince is the CFO of Everlane Inc, a local apparel retailer, and he has spent the past 25 years working in a variety of financial roles for Fortune 500 and smaller companies. Vince enjoys board service, and he has been a part of other non-profit, public company, and private company Boards.

Dr. B Busselle

Vice Chair

When it came time to choose a school for her own children, she enrolled them in La Scuola, an Italian-immersion school in San Francisco, where she discovered and fell in love with IB teaching and learning. When she and her husband moved to Oakland, EBI was an easy choice for kindergarten. Their 7th-grade twins have been at EBI for eight years and they are passionate about the Spanish-language, IB curriculum, mission, and wonderful community of EBI. B has served as a classroom representative and co-president of EBIPA and is excited for a new chapter of building the EBI community as Vice Chair of the Board.

Dr. Steven Oliver

Treasurer

Steven grew up in Ohio and Southern California; he moved to the East Bay to attend UC Berkeley where he received both his BA and PhD in Physics. After graduate school, Steven made the decision that academia is not for him, and instead joined McKinsey as a management consultant where he spent 4 years serving high tech companies. Since 2010, Steven has worked at Google, first as Principal of Business Operations and Strategy, and presently as Director of Search Product Analytics, Insights & Strategy.

Steven has been a part of the EBI community for 11 years, together with his wife and two children, one a new EBI alumna and the second a rising 5th grader. He is re-joining the Board of Trustees after a prior six-year term, including two years as Treasurer.

Victor Rodríguez

Secretary

Victor was born and raised in the East Bay. He earned his law degree from UC Berkeley, where he met his wife. After law school, he was a Skadden Fellow at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Los Angeles. Victor thereafter worked as a chambers attorney at the California Supreme Court until he was appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court. He presently sits on the First District Court of Appeal and serves as co-chair of the Judicial Council’s Advisory Committee on Providing Access and Fairness and is also chair of the Language Access Subcommittee.

Victor lives in Oakland with his wife and two children, and the family is committed to — and the beneficiary of — the mission and values of EBI.

Dr. Caitlin Bilotti

Caitlin is a board-certified emergency medicine physician. She attended MIT as an undergraduate and then earned her medical degree from the University of Rochester. Thereafter, she completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at UCSF, with an area of distinction in toxicology and medical education. She works for TMPG in the Kaiser Permanente emergency departments in Oakland and Richmond. Caitlin lives in Oakland with her husband and three children.

Dr. Sally Cantrell

Sally is a Child Psychologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, where she provides clinical treatment, conducts assessments, and offers consultation to parents statewide using a telehealth model. Much of her work over the past decade has focused on meeting the
specialized needs of low-income children, children involved in the child welfare system, and children of Spanish-speaking immigrant families. She is also trained in the basic sciences and holds a doctorate in Infectious Disease and Immunology from U.C. Berkeley, where she did research on virulence factors related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission. Her interest in education is partly borne out of her personal experience as the daughter and granddaughter of early childhood educators, as well as an enriching experience attending a burgeoning progressive independent school in Atlanta, GA that has since grown into a thriving institution.
She is a long-time EBI parent that sees a similar positive trajectory for the school, given the relevance of its mission to today’s world. In her role as a board member, she is focused on creating an environment that supports the unique traits and abilities of each child in
attendance.

Luz Cazares

Luz is a fierce advocate for equity in education and expert in PK12 leadership, finance, and operations. Luz is known for taking complex education and finance-related information and translating it into digestible, meaningful components. Luz has worked at the local and state levels for over twenty years in three states and a range of districts—from the large and diverse Chicago Public Schools to the small and suburban Alameda Unified School District. For over 10 years, she served at the Cabinet level as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Deputy Superintendent. Luz earned her BA from the University of Chicago and her Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a Lecturer for the master’s and doctoral programs at the Berkeley School of Education, serves as the State and County appointed Trustee charged with the financial oversight of the Oakland Unified School District, and serves on the National Center for Youth Law advisory committee on school funding inequity.

Luz and her husband chose EBI for the IB education and to ensure their boys are fluent in Spanish. Luz believes deeply in the IB mission to encourage students to become active, compassionate, and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

Luke Dunnington

Luke Dunnington spent his youth in Austin, TX and formative years in Virginia where he earned a BA in History & Psychology from the University of Virginia. From ’99-’02, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, working with coffee growers to export into US specialty markets. Luke moved to Berkeley in 2006 to pursue his MBA at the Haas School of Business, where he met his wife, and upon graduation launched a career in large scale solar development building over 1,500 MW in California and Texas over the last decade. As the COO and Co-Founder of Intersect Power, a leading developer of solar power plants and clean energy infrastructure, Luke is driving economic solutions to climate crisis. He lives in Oakland with his wife and three children.

Lourdes Haro

Lourdes Haro grew up in the Central Valley of California and is a first-generation immigrant from a history of farm and cannery workers from the heartland of Mexico. Lourdes came to the Bay Area for college and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric and International Area Studies from U.C. Berkeley.

Lourdes has over 25 years of progressive project management, training and leadership experience for the nonprofit sector in the areas of healthcare, social justice and social enterprises/business. Being well versed in managing non-profit operations that include finances, HR matters, and training programs, Lourdes has successfully worked with a broad base of stakeholders. Currently, Lourdes works in procurement, facilitating construction contracts between general contractors and local and special district agencies for a corporate sector technology company (Gordian) that focuses on building and facility management. Lourdes holds a C-27 Landscape Contractors license and industry-recognized certifications in project management, RESCAPE design, firescaping, water efficiency, safety, and green building. Lourdes has been actively involved with sustainability initiatives in her community having served on the Green Team with Habitat for Humanity’s East Bay chapter and on the board of Keep Oakland Beautiful.

Risha Jamison

Risha is a native Chicagoan who relocated to the Bay Area 20 years ago by way of Columbia Law in NYC. She is an attorney who focuses on privacy and security. She's worked in big tech (Facebook and Stripe) and has also spent years as in-house counsel at non-profits where she gained much board and audit-related experience. She has also served on several non-profit boards including Vice Chair of the Oakland Citizens' Police Review Board and most recently
Oakland Feather River Camp, which provides families and Bay Area youth access to community and nature in Plumas National Forest.

She and her spouse Christina are proud mamas of Elias and Ariel (5th and 8th graders for 2023-2024 school year) and have been in the EBI family for 8 years. Risha loves the EBI community and looks forward to supporting EBI during its next stages of growth.

Tiffini Jones

Tiffini is a youth academic enrichment, development, and violence prevention committee member with over 15 years of executive management experience in the nonprofit, education, and entertainment sectors. She has experience implementing and operating programs in various entities, including board governance, stakeholders, reporting, designing K-12 curricula, strategic planning, managing community-based organizations’ risk processes, and handling investigations and regulatory agency inquiries.

Tiffini is a single mother of two children. One of the reasons her family joined EBI eight years ago was not only for the invaluable multilingual, international education but also for the opportunity to build a community with parents, faculty, and staff that supported bridging cultures, creative perspectives, and alliances that reflect the core brand of global citizens she wants her children to be.

Raised in the Bay Area, she lived in the opportunity gaps we work to close. She was fortunate to encounter people who cared enough to create opportunities for her siblings and herself. As an Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer with two organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tiffini witnesses the achievement and opportunity gaps up close and finds being a part of EBI’s Board a perfect collision of everything she loves – education, research, data, equity, and opportunity.

Dr. Zack Kahn

Zack, parent of a rising EBI third grader, has been part of the EBI community for five years. He has worked in education for over 19 years and comes to the EBI Board with over 12 years of school leadership experience at the elementary, middle, high school, and district levels.

Zack has a proven history of working collaboratively and transparently with students, families, and staff. The schools he has led have received state and national awards for academic achievement and equitable outcomes, and have increased in enrollment even while neighboring schools were in decline.

Having served as an English and Spanish teacher, a union leader, a district collective bargaining negotiator, and now a district-level HR professional, Zack has substantial knowledge of what it takes to attract, support, and retain the talented staff at the core of any thriving school.

Bob Lesser, MPP, LP

Bob is a founder, psychotherapist, and executive coach. Bob worked at the New York City Department of Education helping to start new schools. He went on to found and lead Mott Hall Charter School, an innovative middle school serving low-income students in the South Bronx. The school combined rigorous academics (using the IB MYP) with cutting-edge social and emotional health supports enabling students to attend top, college-bound high schools in New York and beyond. Earlier in his career, Bob designed and led international education programs for American high school students in both Vietnam and India.

Bob is a trained psychotherapist and Executive Coach currently working with start-up founders, corporate, non-profit, and education sector executives in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Boston, Canada and elsewhere. Bob is the author of the book The Peak Performance Formula: Achieving Breakthrough Results in Life and Work. He studied management, negotiation and leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he holds a Masters Degree. He obtained his BA in sociology from Vassar College. Bob lives in the East Bay with his wife and three children (pre-k, kinder, and 3rd grade at EBI).

JJ Mullane

JJ was born and raised in San Francisco and is a consumer product entrepreneur and executive who has founded two mission-driven companies and worked in executive roles at Pepsico and Sara Lee.  JJ believes passionately in building and supporting values-based brands, companies and organizations that make or offer environmentally, community and socially enriching products and services and which build inclusive, progressive cultures.  He has a BA from Bowdoin College in Maine and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. JJ and his family have been members of the EBI community for nine years with two daughters currently attending EBI.  JJ has served on the Advancement Committee of EBI.  JJ and his family are ardent supporters of EBI and believe strongly in the value of its multilingual education, IB curriculum and highly progressive and inclusive community. His children are th and 8th graders this year.

Dr. Danielle Ramo-Larios

Danielle is a licensed clinical psychologist and Chief Clinical Officer at BeMe Health, where she is helping to design and evaluate a digital mental health solution for teens. Danielle has over 20 years of experience leading research in teen substance use and digital mental health. Before joining BeMe, Danielle was Senior Director of Research at Hopelab and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Francisco, where her research focused on how to make interventions most effective for adolescents through technology. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications and multiple book chapters in substance use and mental health. She speaks and writes widely about teen mental health in the digital age. Danielle received a BA from Columbia University, and a PhD in clinical psychology from UC San Diego and San Diego State University, where she met her life partner Noa. Danielle and Noa, also a clinical psychologist, have three kids at EBI and are proud to support the mission and values of the school.

Laurence Wilson

Laurence grew up in Berkeley, not far from EBI. He graduated from UC San Diego and worked as a history teacher in Puebla, Mexico at an IB-accredited school. Laurence went back to school to earn a law degree from Stanford Law School and became an early and long-time executive at Yelp, serving as its General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer. He is now doing similar work at a venture-backed startup in the language learning space.

Laurence and his wife Miriam are enthusiastic supporters of EBI on behalf of their daughter Matilda and the community more broadly.