Westridge Board of Trustees
Natalie Naftzger Davis
Stephanie Chandler Dencik ’90
Brooke Larsen Garlock ’70
Natalie is an owner/operator of N3 Cattle Company, a family owned ranching enterprise. She is a former partner of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, where she specialized in antitrust litigation.
Stephanie has both financial and non-profit experience assisting companies in a variety of industries. Currently Stephanie is engaged as an independent consultant on a number of projects for both private and nonprofit organizations. Before taking on these independent mandates, Stephanie was Executive Director of MUSE/IQUE, a non-profit organization which produces concert events as well as educational and community outreach programs. Prior to joining MUSE/IQUE, Stephanie was a Vice President at FocalPoint Securities, LLC, where she was involved in numerous M&A transactions as well as debt and equity capital raises. Between 1998 and 2002, Stephanie was a Senior Associate in the London office of Robertson Stephens International, spending time in both Corporate Finance and the Private Capital Markets Group.
Brooke has worked as Executive Director of the Pasadena Oral History Project, Assistant Director of the Pasadena Historical Museum, and Director of Community Relations for the California Arboretum Foundation. She published a book, Talking About Pasadena, a collection of excerpts from oral histories, for the Pasadena Centennial.
Natalie is active at Stanford University and Dartmouth College. At Stanford, Natalie serves on the Class of 1978 Major Gifts Committee and is a member of the Advisory Council of The Stanford Center on Longevity. Natalie and her husband Phillip are on Dartmouth’s Family Fellows Committee and the Friends of Dartmouth Women’s Soccer Committee. Natalie has also served as a Board Member at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (19932007) and Children’s Hospital Research Institute (1993-1995). Natalie received her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Stanford University and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California School of Law. Natalie served on the Westridge Board of Trustees’ School Committee and chaired the Board’s Strategic Planning Committee. She and Phillip have three daughters, Katharine (Katie) ’07, Brooke ’10, and Claire ’13.
Stephanie received her bachelor’s degree in Economics and Mathematics from Hamilton College, where she graduated Cum Laude with Honors in Economics. Stephanie received a Master of Science in Econometrics from The London School of Economics and is a Certified Financial Analyst. She was Vice Chair and Treasurer of the Westridge Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee, chaired the board’s Asset Management Committee, and is a member of the Westridge Centennial Steering Committee. She and her husband Leo have two children, Emilia and Alexander.
Brooke received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Economics from Mills College and has served on the board of trustees for the Pasadena Historical Museum, the Circle of Huntington Hospital, Kidspace Museum Circle of Friends, Junior League of Pasadena, the Stanford Junior Women of Pasadena, the Los Angeles Junior Opera Project, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra support group. Currently she serves on the board of Planned Parenthood of Pasadena, the Pacific Asia Museum, and is a member of the Las Madrinas and Children’s Chain of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. First elected to the Westridge board in 1984, Brooke was co-chair of the Alumnae Endowment Campaign in 2000 and the Building for the Next Century of Excellence Campaign in 2004. She served on the Westridge Board of Trustees’ Advancement and Mission and Governance Committees and is a member of the Westridge Centennial Steering Committee. She and her husband Edward have three children, Grant, Trevor, and Evan ’09.
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