Board of Trustees

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Leadership Public Schools incorporated in 2002. Our board is comprised of our CEO, teacher, student, and parent representatives, and a number of volunteer community members. The Full Board may be reached via email at LPSBoard@leadps.org.

Josefina Alvarado-Mena
Ms. Alvarado-Mena is the Chief Executive Officer of Safe Passages, an Oakland-based non-profit specializing in cross-agency collaboration focusing on improving the health and safety of children and youth. Under Josefina's leadership, Safe Passages established a Joint Powers Agreement between the cities of Oakland and San Lorenzo, Alameda County Departments of Probation, Health and Social Services, and the Oakland and San Lorenzo school districts. Ms. Alvarado-Mena also serves as the CEO of the affiliated Youth Ventures. Their major initiatives include wrap-around intervention programs for middle school, violence prevention curricula K-8, an early childhood program for children exposed to violence, and a young offender intervention program. She is the former Director of the Educational Empowerment Program at Centro Legal de la Raza, a legal aid clinic, in Oakland and the former Executive Director of Student, Family and Community Services for the Oakland Unified School District. Ms. Alvarado-Mena is the recipient of the James Irvine Foundation's Leadership Award with an accompanying grant for Safe Passages. Ms. Alvarado-Mena received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. 

Adam Cioth
Mr. Cioth has a background in finance and education. He worked as in investment banker for ten years at Goldman Sachs in New York and for five years for Volpe Brown Whelan in San Francisco where he served as Head of the Investment Banking Division before launching his own advisory firm, Rolling Hills Capital, serving early-stage technology companies. For the past ten years Mr. Cioth has served on the board of directors of the French American International School and International High School, including two years as Chair of the Finance Committee and six years as Chair of the Board. Since 2003, Mr. Cioth has served on the Advisory Board of the California HealthCare Foundation’s Leadership Program involved with curriculum development, program marketing and selection of program fellows. Mr. Cioth received a B.A. from Princeton University, studied graduate-level International Economics at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, France, and received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Larry Cuban
Mr. Cuban is a Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University. He taught courses in the methods of teaching social studies, the history of school reform, curriculum, and instruction, and leadership. He has been faculty sponsor of the Stanford/Schools Collaborative and Stanford's Teacher Education Program. Mr. Cuban’s background prior to becoming a professor includes 14 years of teaching high school social studies in inner-city schools, directing a teacher education program that prepared returning Peace Corps volunteers to teach in inner-city schools, and serving seven years as a district superintendent of the Arlington, Virginia Public Schools. Mr. Cuban received a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. from Cleveland's Case-Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His major research interests focus on the history of curriculum and instruction, educational leadership, school reform and the uses of technology in classrooms and have resulted in numerous books and publications.  

Sandy Dean
Mr. Dean is a founding member of Sansome Partners, a direct investment firm in San Francisco. With Sansome for ten years, he has been involved with a variety of private and public equity investments. Mr. Dean currently serves as the Chairman of Mendocino Redwood Co LLC, the largest FSC certified operator of redwood timberlands in California. Mr. Dean has a B.A. degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Dean has previously served on the board of the Bay Area Discovery Museum.