La Cocina’s Board of Directors are community residents and business and civic leaders
Lindsay Hower, Board Chair
Global Director of Development, Climate Change program | The Nature Conservancy
Kim Alter
Chef + Owner | Nightbird and Linden Room
Cristina Arantes
Former Chef + Owner | Kika’s Treats | La Cocina Graduate
Laura Sagues Barr
Senior Vice President | CBRE Group
Ruth Bender
Director, Donor Advised Funds | Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma
Jamie Brown
Partner and General Counsel | Associate Capital
Katie Colendich, Secretary
Head of Corporate, Employment + Equity, Legal | Asana, Inc.
Alina Hua
Principal at Legato | Privacy Associates
Dilsa Lugo
Chef + Owner | Los Cilantros | La Cocina Graduate
Rafael Morales
Senior Manager, Development, Policy and Impact | Self-Help
Nicole Nelson
Manager of Marketing and Communications | The Justice Collective
Huong Nguyen-Yap
Vice President of Equity and Justice | Northern California Grantmakers
Leena Paxinos
Vice President, Community Affairs Manager | U.S. Bank
Nubia Solomon
Group Marketing Manager | LinkedIn
Linda Xu
Chief Commercial Officer | Skipify
Miki Yamamoto
Senior Vice President and Head of Regulatory Affairs | ArriVent Biopharma
Sonia Melara
Lorena Melgarejo
Monica Morse
Diane Paisley
Seema Patel
Judy Patric
Tannis Reinhertz
Krystin Rubin
Martha Sanchez
Victoria Sanchez de Alba
Meche Sansores
Jane Segal
Katie Sharafi
Jaclyn Shull-Gonzalez
Jagadha Sivan
Linda Stoick
Barb Stuckey
Laura Ambroseno
Alison Arth
Gwyneth Borden
Michelle Branch
Patricia Chang
Malea Chavez
Suzanne Cutts
Traci Des Jardins
Nancy Harris
Alec Hughes
Surina Khan
Joel Lacayo
Daniel Lee
Shelley Lindgren
Lawrence Louie
Michelle Magat
Amir Massih
Fernay McPherson