Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees 2019–2020

Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens, Consul Général de France Sophie Laffite, Consule Générale Adjointe Thierry Bognon, Chef de Chancellerie Juliette Donadieu, Attachée Culturelle Jean Charconnet, Attaché de Coopération pour le Français

Pria Hidisyan, Co-Chair Mark Westover, Co-Chair Antoine Carrière, Member at Large of ExComm Michael Pincus, Member at Large; Organization &

Governance Committee Chair Alexandra Thusy-Privat, Member at Large of ExComm Nick Waugh, Treasurer; Finance Chair David Abernathy Alexandre Bayen Christine Beliveau Alexandra Erman Pascal Hoffmann Jean-Philippe Kouakou-Zebouah Alexandra LaGatta, PA Francophone Co-President Mehdi Lazar, Head of School Steve Levine Michelle Mebine, Faculty Participant Aaron Ross Kristen Sidell Hannah Stott-Bumsted Brian Turner, PA Anglophone Co-President Patrice Zauret, Faculty Participant

Incoming Trustees 2020–2021

Jeremy Bled became the Francophone Co-President of Parents’ Association in the 2020–2021 school year. He is the founder and owner of Souvenir Coffee, an independent coffee company in the Bay Area. He previously worked as an Analytics Manager (IT) in The Permanente Medical Group. He was born and raised in Berkeley and is an alumnus of Berkeley High and Carleton College in Minnesota. Along with his wife Katherine, he has three daughters at EB.

Rhonda Goldstein became the Anglophone Co-President of the Parents’ Association in the 2020–2021 school year. As Senior Counsel for the University of California, Rhonda handles litigation matters on behalf of the campuses, medical centers and laboratories within the UC system. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame. Along with her husband Jacob, she has two children at EB.

Elodie Voleau holds a certificat d’aptitude professionnelle pour les aides spécialisées, les enseignements adaptés et la scolarisation des élèves en situation de handicap (CAPA-SH) and has three years of experience working as a support teacher at a Paris middle school. Since 2016, Elodie has been teaching French in the Lower School, and has been part of the Support Team, helping provide individualized instruction for students who need it. For the last two years, she held the position of French as a Foreign Language teacher at EB. Elodie loves to understand how students are learning and gives to all students the same knowledge by using multiple approaches so they can find the one that suits them best.