Board

John Barton, President

A Palo Alto architect, Stanford lecturer and a member of the Palo Alto City Council. He has served two terms on the Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Trustees and is past Chair of the Board of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce.

Bruce Heister, Vice President and Treasurer

Retired Executive Vice President of Alcan Inc. and President of Alcan Asia Pacific Limited. Volunteer leadership positions in arts, educational and historical preservation organizations. Serves as Events Chair for the Community Working Group.

Litsie Indergand, Secretary

A member of Peninsula Interfaith Action through the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, where she is the former chair of the Social Justice Committee. She is a past President of the Board of Trustees of that church, as well as of the Midpeninsula Chapter of the United Nations Association and the Walnut Grove Homeowners' Association. She is a former member of the Palo Alto Human Relations Commission.

Donald Barr

Associate Professor of Sociology and Human Biology at Stanford University and the founder and director of Stanford's undergraduate curriculum in health policy. He has been a practicing physician in the Bay Area for more than 25 years. He convened the first meeting of the Community Working Group in 1998 and served as its Board President from 1999 through 2006.

Christine Burroughs

CEO of InnVision for more than 15 years of service, she developed a model nonprofit corporation that has 20 sites providing housing and services to over 16,000 homeless individuals and families each year. She has served in a leadership capacity in several local coalitions and was honored as Woman of Achievement by the San Jose Mercury News/Women's Fund and selected as one of the Power 100 in Silicon Valley by San Jose Magazine.

Larry Duncan

Graphics designer, day laborer. Served as representative of and for the very poor with the Palo Alto Human Relations Commission's Homelessness Task Force, Stanford Homelessness Action Coalition, and Urban Ministry of Palo Alto Executive and Advisory Boards.

Dena Mossar

Retired. Former Palo Alto City Council member and Mayor (1998 - 2007). Served on several regional boards and commissions, including Bay Area Air Quality Management District and San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. Also worked as Community Liaison, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Program Director, Peninsula Conservation Center.

Mark Sabin

Currently works for Wave One in Palo Alto as a Project Manager. He is a board member of the Palo Altans for Government Effectiveness (PAGE) and is a member of Alliance for a Livable Palo Alto and Santa Clara County Housing Action Coalition. He is past Board Chair of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and past member of the Palo Alto Community Development Block Grant Citizens Advisory Council.

Tom Wasow

Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Stanford University, where he has also played various administrative roles, including Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Dean of Graduate Policy. He has served on a City of Palo Alto Task Force on Homelessness and on the Advisory Board of Urban Ministry of Palo Alto.