Meet the Board of Directors

The SMSCA Board is comprised of up to 25 community members with a wide variety of backgrounds elected for two-year terms.

Jeff Jarow
President

Yoriko Fisher
VP Kizugawa

Marta Tehrani
Recording Secretary

Danhua Wang
Director

Deborah Daly
Executive VP

Lisa Azuma
Membership

Roger Goodman
Director

Stephen Weaver
Director

Nat Trives
VP Japan

Ken Gilday
Treasurer

Liz Grossman
Director

Olivia Chu
Director

Monika White
VP Hamm

Amy Scripps
PR Director

Vince Landay
Director

Ruth Fragoso
VP Mazatlan

SMSCA Advisory Board

Holly Kiger
Executive VP

Don Kiger
Director

Robert Holbrook
Director

Judy Neveau
Recording Secretary

Andrea Bjornlie
Director

Raymond Carriere
Director

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SMSCA Advisory Board

Members of the SMSCA Advisory Board generously support the association in a wide variety of ways related to their leadership positions within the Santa Monica community.

City of Santa Monica
Rick Cole
City Manager
Stephanie Venegas
​City Liaison to SMSCA
Jacqueline Seabrooks
Chief of Police
Bill Walker
​Fire Chief
​Debbie Lee
​Chief Communications Officer
Karen Ginsberg
Cultural Services Director
Julie Rusk
Chief Civic Wellbeing Officer
Dean Kubani
Office of Sustainability 
Jennifer Taylor
Economic Development 
Gary Carter
City Broadband Manager
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Government
Ben Allen 
CA State Senator
Richard Bloom
CA  State Assemblyman

Santa Monica College
Dr. Kathryn Jeffery
President
Kirsten Elliott
Communications and Academic Relations Dean
Toni Trives 
Modern Language Department Chair
Nancy Grass 
Office of Student Life Assoc Dean
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Santa Monica - Malibu
​Unified School District
Dr. Ben Drati
SMMUSD Superintendent
Dr. Antonio Shelton
SAMOHI Principal
Steve Richardson
Principal, John Adams Middle School
Florence Culpepper
Principal, Lincoln Middle School
Kevin O. McKeown
Director of Bands
Claudia Bautista
Spanish High School Teacher
Laurie Lieberman
School Board President
Maria Leone Vazquez
School Board Member
Tom Whaley
Visual and Performing Arts Coordinator

Private Schools 
Luthern Williams 
New Roads - Head of School
Dee Menzies
Carlthorp - Head of School
Roger Hosn
Art Institute - Campus President
Laura Valencia
SM Language Academy - CEO

​Children's Non Profit Organizations
​Michelle Arellano
Boys and Girls Club - CEO
Tara Pompasino
YMCA CEO
Eula Fritz
Police Athletic League - CEO






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Santa Monica Organizations
Misti Kerns
Travel and Tourism
President
Laurel Rosen
Chamber of Commerce President
Kathleen Rawson
Downtown Santa Monica President
Jeff Klocke
Pacific Park - Vice President
Jim Harris
SM Pier Corp  - Historian
Julia Ladd
Santa Monica Place - VP 
Vince Landy
AYSO Liaison
Jeremy Umland
Sonoma WineGarden - CEO
Ted Braun
UCLA  - Director Marketing Services
Ian McIlraith
Soka Gakkai International   Community Relations Director
Matthew Allnat
Jonathan Club - CEO
Guido Lamell
SM Symphony - Maestro
Len Lanzi
LA Venture Associates - Executive Director

Service Organizations
​Mitch Kraus
Rotary Club - President
Neil Carrey 
Kiwanis - President

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SMSCA Foundation

The Santa Monica Sister City Foundation, established in June 1989, provides additional financial support for the programs of the Santa Monica Sister City Association. These programs include the Student Ambassador Exchange and other cultural and sports exchanges between the City of Santa Monica and our Sister Cities. The Foundation has fiduciary responsibility to accept grants, memorials, honorariums, bequests from wills, donations from both individuals and corporations and income from fund raising events. It provides endowment income for the programs of the Sister City Association. Please consider making a donation to the Santa Monica Sister City Foundation so that we can continue to support our members in their eye- opening, cultural and educational endeavors. Your generous support is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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