Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees
Nancy Barry - Chair
- Graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Business School
- Named one of America's 20 Best Leaders 2006, by U.S. News and World Report
- President, Nancy Barry Associates Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
- Former President, Women's World Banking, largest global microfinance network, 1990-2006
- Leadership positions at World Bank, 1975-1990
- Member for 6 years of Mrs. Strauss' Girl Scout Troop
David Fanning
- Graduate of University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Executive Producer and creator, FRONTLINE, the PBS documentary series since 1983
- 2004 Columbia University Journalism Award
- AFS student living with Don Strauss' sister, Marjorie Anderson and family, 1964/65
- Don and Dorothy Strauss gave the seed funding for his first major documentary in 1974
Sally Stephens Reeder
- Graduate of UCLA
- Admissions Testing Consultant for Campbell Hall School, North Hollywood, California
- Chairman of the Board, Mansfield Chamber Singers, Beverly Hills, California
- Lifelong friend of the Strauss family and an avid quilter
James E. Stofan
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Associate Vice Chancellor, Alumni Relations, Vanderbilt University
Former Assistant Vice President of Alumni Affairs & Protocol, University of California
Former Executive Director, UCI Alumni Association
Worked with Dorothy during her service on the UCI Alumni Association Board
Duncan Strauss
- Graduate of UC Davis
- Former journalist/critic for the Los Angeles Times
- Co-owner of Strauss-McGarr Entertainment - manages comedians, operates a comedy club
- Hosts Talking Animals, an NPR radio show about animals and animal issues
Gordon Strauss M.D.
- Graduate of Stanford University and NYU Medical School
- Formerly on psychiatry faculty at UCLA Medical School
- Currently practices and teaches psychiatry at University of Louisville
- Swims for exercise; indulges taste for gourmet food to overcome the beneficial effects of swimming
Matthew Strauss
- Graduate of Vassar College and California Western School of Law
- Attorney practicing in San Diego
- Son of Gordon Strauss and eldest grandson of Don and Dorothy Strauss
- Inherited Don and Dorothy’s love of playing in the ocean
Nancy Strauss Tietge
- Graduate of UC Santa Barbara
- M. P.H. from San Diego State University
- Trying to become proficient in Spanish
- Has the Strauss love of travel
Elizabeth (Liz) A. Toomey
- Graduate of UC Davis
- Assistant Vice Chancellor, Community and Government Relations, University of California, Irvine
- Former Assistant Director, UCI Alumni Association
- Worked with Dorothy during her service on the UCI Alumni Association Board
- Introduced to Dorothy and Don Strauss in 1963 by her parents, Jean and Dan Aldrich