Board of Trustees

Dawn Cameron, Parent/President

Dawn has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since she was four years old, attending elementary school in Milpitas and high school in Fremont. She spent one year as an exchange student to The Netherlands during high school, where her host family sent her to a girls’ finishing school run by Catholic Nuns in a 300-year-old abbey. She has a Bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from San Jose State University and Masters of Public Administration degree from the University of San Francisco. Professionally, she has worked in the public sector for 25 years as a transportation and land use planner specializing in collaborative and strategic planning. Dawn has two daughters: her oldest daughter graduated from our school in 2006 and her youngest daughter is currently enrolled. Dawn has been on the Board since 2004 where her roles include serving as board president, facilitating the school’s strategic planning process, and serving on the Management Team.

Janet Dunwoody, Movement Teacher/Board Member

Janet was born in Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with an honors degree in history and a black belt in karate. After graduating, she took secretarial and credit control training and worked in the hotel industry. She obtained an Irish national fitness-training certificate and worked as a personal trainer, instructor and gym supervisor in Dublin. In 1993 she and her family moved to Calgary, Canada where she first worked as a day-home provider and then obtained YMCA and Canadian national fitness-training certificates. Janet worked at the YMCA as an instructor and then became the supervisor of the member services department. In 2000 her family relocated to California and her children transferred from the Calgary Waldorf School to the Waldorf School of the Peninsula. Janet is a graduate of the Rudolf Steiner College Teacher Training Program and Spatial Dynamics training. In 2006 she joined other Spatial Dynamic graduates in the Hands in Peace Conference, an international friendship festival, held in Beijing, China. Janet has three children. Her son and oldest daughter graduated from our school and her youngest daughters is currently enrolled.

Alan Eagle, Parent

Alan has 20+ years of experience in Silicon Valley start-ups in a variety of account management and product marketing roles. He is a Los Altos Hills native, attended Gunn High School, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science and mathematics from Dartmouth College. He also has an MBA from the Wharton School. Alan enjoys writing, coaching youth baseball and soccer, and traveling. He is an avid skier, biker, hiker and backpacker. His two children are students at our school.

Todd Elworthy, Parent

Todd is a native Californian having grown up in the San Fernando Valley, Encino and Tarzana, respectively. He attended a small Lutheran church school from kindergarten through sixth grade and then attended Los Angeles Unified School District schools for middle and high school. His baccalaureate studies in Biochemistry were completed at the University of California Davis in March 1985. He was awarded a Ph.D. in (Organic) Chemistry from the University California Santa Barbara in August 1990. He has been motivated by the interest to understand the interplay of chemicals, the living cell, and human physiology which has led to a 14 year career in the discovery of human pharmaceuticals. Consciously supporting the healthy development of self and those in his family have been powerful, motivating principles for Todd. He has served as a board member since July 2005.

Ivan Gaviria, Parent

Ivan was born in Lima, Peru and grew up in suburban Chicago after his two psychiatrist parents immigrated to the United States. He graduated cum laude from Duke University with a bachelor's degree in history and political science and received a J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. Professionally, Ivan is a partner in the law firm of Gunderson Dettmer where he works with start-up technology companies. He first discovered Waldorf education during a stint in southern California where his oldest child attended kindergarten at the Waldorf School of Orange County. Ivan has three children; two of which are currently enrolled at WSP.

Pierre Laurent, Parent/Vice President and Treasurer

Pierre was born and raised in France. He received a MS in Computer Science in France and a MBA from Kellogg, Northwestern University (Chicago). After studying in France and a brief work experience with a contractor for the European Space Agency, he joined a promising software startup which had just gone through its IPO in Washington state. After eight years at Microsoft and three years at Intel in various managerial and marketing capacities, he moved with his family to the Bay Area. Pierre and his wife Monica, a faculty member at WSP, have three children. Pierre has served on the board as Vice President and Treasurer and is a long-time member of the Strategic Planning Committee.

Simona Hodek Martin, Parent

Simona was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Following the Prague Spring in 1968 her family fled to Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Santa Clara University with a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and worked in the high tech industry for 14 years. Her most memorable professional experience was working in Asia and Latin America for Cisco Systems, managing the real estate, strategic planning, design and construction activities in those regions. In 2000 she retired to raise her two children. Since coming to our school in 2000, Simona has been involved in fundraising and committee work at our school and co-pioneered a Waldorf-inspired playgroup and participated in an anthroposophical book club. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2003, and served on the High School Research Committee, Strategic Planning Committee, Finance Committee and as board treasurer and vice president. Simona has been a member of the board of trustees since 2003 and is currently enrolled in the foundation studies program at Rudolf Steiner College.

Sandy Olson, Parent

Sandy grew up in Westport, Connecticut and has lived in the Bay Area for 10 years. She graduated from Sacred Heart University with a Bachelor’s degree in accounting and was a CPA with Ernest & Young, LLP for many years. In 2000 she retired to raise her twins who are in first grade at our school. She co-chairs the Spring Gala fundraiser and has participated in other fundraisers along with other committee work at the school.

Katharina Woodman

Katharina grew up on a farm in northern Germany as the youngest of four siblings, which greatly accounts for her down-to-earth, no-frills attitude. Before and during her studies of German, English, and Social History at Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, she lived and worked in different parts of the UK. Her work experience includes teaching German as a foreign language, desktop publishing, and copy editing. Katharina experienced Waldorf education first hand through watching her four nephews through K-13, and their parents co-founding their local Waldorf school, and working as board members and teachers themselves. Her summers in Germany are filled with conversations on anthroposophy and management of a school. As a parent at WSP (her two children attended K-8 at WSP and continued their Waldorf education at SFWHS), Katharina filled many roles and served on the board for six years, being its secretary and member of the core group for five. She attended all Healthy Waldorf Schools conferences since their inception in 1996 and completed the Collaborative Leadership workshops with Torin Finser from Antioch College. Having retired from active paternal duties, Katharina enjoys pursuing anthroposophy classes, including eurythmy and singing, and study group. As a woman of leisure, she was able to re-join the board in the fall of 2006 as a community-at-large member.