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. Each Leadership Public School will also be represented by a Site Council comprised of parents and community members.

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.  Josefina 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. 

Sandy Dean, Board Treasurer
Mr. Dean is a founding member of Sansome Partners, a direct investment firm in San Francisco. With Sansome for 10 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 MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Dean has previously served on the board of the Bay Area Discovery Museum.

Marsha Dugan
Ms. Dugan is a former businessperson, now active in civic affairs and caring for her family. Ms. Dugan’s business background includes 12 years in the oil and gas exploration business, time in Prague with the MBA Enterprise Corps, and work in branding with Prophen.  She is active with the St. James Church, serving on the vestry, and co-chairing their program for homeless meals. Ms. Dugan holds a B.A. from Randolph Macon Women’s College and an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill. 

Mutiu Fagbayi
Mr. Fagbayi is Founder, President and CEO of Performance Fact, an educational consulting firm that specializes in educational reform. He has an extensive background in facilitating and coaching educational leaders and their teams at the national, state and local levels. His areas of focus include strategic planning and school improvement; creating and sustaining high-performing learning organizations; implementing accountability systems; developing leadership at all levels; and building trust.