Comité Directivo y Personal

Tisha Weber Ford

After living in Santa Barbara for over 30 years, Ford is an active member of the community and has had the opportunity to serve many nonprofits as a volunteer, board member, and donor. As a board member, she has experience in development, finance, and governance from her tenure on the Board of Trustees at Marymount School of Santa Barbara. There she chaired the Development Committee, the Committee on Trustees, the Head Search Committee, and served as Board Chair. Ford currently serves as CEO at Weber Logistics.

Alan Griffin

Raised in San Diego, Griffin has made Santa Barbara home for over 45 years. He is the branch manager for Raymond James' Santa Barbara location, where he works with individuals, families, business owners, and professionals with financial guidance. A long-time supporter of education in the local community, Griffin has been on the board at the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara for over 25 years and even served as Board President.

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Larry Harter

Harter serves as President of Pueblo Radiology and California Managed Imaging. He also serves on the executive committee of the California Radiology Society and is a councilor of the American College of Radiology, and has been a radiologist in Santa Barbara for over 35 years. He served on the board of the Santa Barbara County Medical Society, and Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation for 12 years.

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Bukola Ishola

Bukola Ishola is also a long-time resident of Santa Barbara, as she remained in the area after receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Political Science and Black Studies from the UC Santa Barbara. Ishola is also a Benefits Consultant at OneDigital Health, where she educates her clients about nuances in the health insurance industry to further encourage knowledgeable forms of consumerism for her patrons. Apart from Ishola’s busy work schedule, you may find her spending her free time with friends or at a local farmers’ market.

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Elke Kane

Kane is a business and employment attorney at the boutique legal services firm, Trusted Legal, LLP. As a child of Mexican immigrants and a student in the public school system, she became aware of the problems that plague public schools and developed an interest in education policy and funding. While completing a B.A. in Psychology at UCSB, she student-taught at Harding Elementary School. She subsequently earned her J.D. from Santa Barbara College of Law. Active in the community, Kane has served as an executive board member for the Cold Spring School Foundation for many years.

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Daniel Meisel

Daniel Meisel is the founder of Kapok Pictures, a motion picture development and production company. Formerly an attorney with San Francisco’s Cooper, White, and Cooper, Meisel received a J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of the Law before relocating to Santa Barbara. Meisel has written, produced, or provided legal services for multiple award-winning short films with domestic and international festival screenings and airing on IFC and Showtime Networks.

Jeffrey Milem

Milem is the Dean and a Professor at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara. Prior to this position, Milem was on the faculty of the University of Arizona, University of Michigan, University of Maryland and Vanderbilt University. Professor Milem’s research focuses on ways in which colleges and universities can be organized to enhance equity, access, and success for all students, the racial context within higher education, and the relationship between how colleges and universities organize themselves and student outcomes.

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Britt Ortiz

Britt Ortiz is the Director of Early Academic Outreach Program in the Division of Student Affairs at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he graduated with degrees in Sociology and Psychology. Previously, he served as the Associate Director of Student Outreach and Recruitment Services at CSU Northridge, and prior to that, he was the Director of the First Generation Student Success Program at the University of La Verne. Ortiz spends his free time traveling, gardening, and swimming.

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Warren B. Ritter II

Originally from South Carolina, Warren B. Ritter II graduated from Wofford College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. In 2018, Ritter shifted from corporate banking to Wealth Management Strategies Insurance and Financial Solutions, where he continues to produce solutions that assist individuals with comprehensive problem solving, estate planning, and financial literacy. In his free time, Ritter is an avid reader and enjoys both playing basketball and practicing the piano.

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Felicita Torres

Felicita Torres, an attorney at Griffith and Thornburgh, practices primarily in the areas of bankruptcy and education law. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, Torres practiced in the Arizona Attorney General’s Office after receiving her degrees from Stanford University and Harvard School of Law. She moved to Santa Barbara in 2002, where she focused on child abuse and dependency issues. She enjoys spending time with her three children, and can often be found at the soccer fields and at the library.

Representante de Distrito, Carolyn Ross

Ross is an alumnus of Stanford University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in both Music Composition and English. She continued her learning at UC Santa Barbara, where she received a Master’s in Education and a teaching credential. She was immediately hired by the Santa Barbara Unified School District in 2001 as a theatre arts and reading intervention teacher. Since 2008 she has taught theatre arts and honors English at Goleta Junior High School. In 2019, Ross was named Goleta’s Finest Educator of the Year. She also received Goleta Valley Junior High School’s Certificated Employee of the Year in 2016 and Goleta Valley PTA’s Honorary Service Award in 2008.