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BAWSI Advisory Council Margaret Abe-Koga
Margaret has been is an active member of the City Council championing the issues of public safety, affordable housing, environmental sustainability, youth and families and health and wellness. Margaret represents Mountain View on regional bodies including the Santa Clara County Cities Association- currently serving as 1st Vice President, the Santa Clara County Emergency Preparedness Council, the Project Cornerstone Leadership Team and on the non-profit boards of the Community Health Awareness Council and the Housing Trust of Silicon Valley, and on the Santa Clara County Local Agency Formation Commission of Santa Clara County. She is also a member of the Valley Transportation Authority Board of Directors having served as Chair in 2011, and as Vice-Chair in 2010. Margaret led the agency to financial solvency through the economic downturn and worked to maintain and continue progress on capital projects like the BART extension, light rail improvements and the Bus Rapid Transit system. Prior to her service on the City Council, Margaret served as Trustee for Area 1 on Santa Clara County Board of Education and served as Board Vice-President in 2004. In addition to elected service, Margaret has been active in the community as a Human Relations Commissioner and Environmental Planning Commissioner for the City of Mountain View, Vice-Chair of the Old Mountain View Neighborhood Association, boardmember of Avenidas Senior Services, boardmember of the Mountain View Sister Cities Association, boardmember of the Silicon Valley Japanese American Chamber of Commerce, and President of the San Jose Taiko Board. Margaret was born and raised on the peninsula by immigrant parents from Japan. She attended public schools K-12, and went on to Harvard University for college, where she earned her bachelors degree in government in 1992.??After graduation, Margaret joined Congresswoman Anna Eshoo's district office staff. In addition to her public service career, Margaret's work experience includes serving as Associate Director of the Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute (APALI) at De Anza College from 1999-2001 and 2005-2006. Margaret also owned and ran a small business- an indoor cycling fitness facility - before taking leave from the business to raise her children. She and her husband Yotto have two daughters who attend Stevenson PACT School in Mountain View. Margaret helped start BAWSI in a Box at her daughters' school. For her leadership, Margaret has been recognized with various awards including:
Margaret is also a member of the American Leadership Forum Class XXII, an Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute (APALI) Senior Fellow, and a graduate of the Working Partnerships Leadership Institute as well as Leadership Mountain View. For her hobbies, she teaches indoor cycling classes, and is training for a half-marathon and triathlon. She also holds a third degree in Kendo, the martial art of Japanese fencing.
Darla K. Anderson
Before assuming her feature film production duties, Ms. Anderson was the executive producer of Pixar Animation Studios' commercial group. Prior to joining Pixar, she worked with Angel Studios in Carlsbad, California as the executive producer of their commercial division. It was here she was introduced to the world of 3D computer graphics, and from there she relocated to the Bay Area, with the intention of gaining a position at Pixar. As one of the studio's and the animation industry's most accomplished producers, Ms. Anderson was elected to the Producers Council Board of the Producers Guild of America in July 2008. She is the first producer from the animation arena to be elected to the Council. Born and raised in Glendale, California, Anderson studied environmental design at San Diego State University. Soon thereafter she began her career in the entertainment industry, working on San Diego-based film and television productions. Anderson currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Brandi Chastain
The Bay Area native is best known for elevating the profile of women's soccer with her game winning penalty kick in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup that defeated China and ignited an explosive soccer following and increased participation in the sport. Chastain began her collegiate career in 1986 at the University of California (CAL), she was honored by Soccer America as the Freshman Player of the Year. Following her Freshman year, Chastain was forced to sit out for two years while recovering from reconstructive knee surgery on both knees. She returned to soccer in 1996 after transferring to Santa Clara University. There, she helped lead the Broncos to two NCAA College Cup Semi-Finals. Chastain was one of 24 founding players of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), she was a member of the San Jose CyberRays from 2001-2003. During the Inaugural season of the league, she helped the team capture the WUSA's World Championship title. She has also been a member of the California Storm since the mid 90's and still currently holds a place on the roster. Chastain attended Arch Bishop Mitty High School in San Jose, CA where she helped the AMHS girls soccer team to three section championships. Chastain has made the most of her time away from pitch becoming a published author of a book titled It's Not about the Bra, serving as a soccer analyst on ABC/ESPN and NBC Sports coverage of MLS and Olympic soccer competition and remaining active on the field. Chastain currently resides in San Jose, CA with her husband Jerry Smith, Head Coach of Santa Clara Women's Soccer team, and their son Jaden. She is co-founder of the Bay Area Women's Sports Initiative (BAWSI), a nonprofit that mobilizes women athletes to serve as role models of health, hope, and wholeness to girls and women in underserved communities and to children with disabilities.
Anne Cribbs
Since then, BASOC, under Anne's leadership, has attracted numerous national and international athletic competitions to the Bay Area. Anne Cribbs and Company provides leadership for the Monterey Horse Park (a legacy project of the 2012 Olympic bid), the 2008 U.S. Olympian Reunion and the annual Rich May Memorial Golf Classic. Anne has served as President of the Northern California Olympians, past Vice President of the U.S. Olympic Alumni Association and is the current vice chair of the San Jose Sports Authority. She acts as an Advisory Board Member for the Women's Sports Foundation and is interim Chair of the California Senior Games Board of Directors. Anne recently completed a position as the President and CEO of the 2009 Summer National Senior Games, (August 1 - 15, 2009) featuring 10,000 athletes, 18 medal sports and 5 demonstration sports, at venues at Stanford, Palo Alto, San Jose, Sunnyvale and San Francisco, with an economic impact of $35 million. Born in Menlo Park and now residing in Palo Alto, Anne and her husband have nine children.
Julie Foudy
A four-time All-American at Stanford University, her playing career after college included four World Cup tournaments as well as three Olympics. She won gold medals in the 1996 and 2004 Olympics to go with a silver medal in 2000. In 2007, Foudy was inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame. She also served as president of the Women's Sports Foundation from 2000 to 2002.
Lennies Gutierrez
Brent and Dana Jones Born and Raised in San Jose, California, Brent graduated from Leland High School. From there he went on to Santa Clara University where he graduated with a BS in Economics in 1985. During his time at Santa Clara, Brent received 1st Team All-American Honors for Football (1985), AP Kodak Football News All-American honors, All WFC Player of the year (1985), Greater San Jose Male Athlete of the Year (1985), played in the East-West Shrine All-Star Game 1986, and was then drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers 1986 in the 5th Round. Brent's NFL career spanned 12 years, most of which came in a San Francisco 49ers uniform. After being drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers and spending the 1986 season there, Brent was traded to the San Francisco 49ers and spent his next 11 seasons in "The City by the Bay." During his time with the 49ers, Brent was an All-Pro selection four times (92, 93, 94, 95), selected to the Pro Bowl four times (92, 93, 94, 95), and was the champion of Super Bowls XXIII, XXIV, and XXIX. He totaled 477 catches, 38 touchdowns and 5,935 receiving yards, making him the 49ers All-Time leader in reception yards for a Tight End and 5th All-Time for the 49ers in receptions. Professional Sports Honors
After retiring in 1998, Brent went on to become a television analyst providing commentary for NFL broadcasts for CBS National Football League Studios (1998-2006). During this time he also became Co-Founder & Managing Director of Northgate Capital Group (2000-Current) where he currently serves as a Managing Member. NCG currently manages $3.2B in assets. In 2007, he was an assistant Varsity Football Coach at Monte Vista High School and he currently serves on the Board of Regents at Santa Clara University, the Board of Directors for the NHL's San Jose Sharks, the Advisory Board for the Stanford Stroke Center, the Board of Directors for ProTrade Inc., and as Spokesperson for OC Jones Construction (a company that focuses on building playing fields and futures for youth in the Bay Area). Brent lives in Danville, California with his wife Dana. He is the proud father of Rachel, who attends Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo on a soccer scholarship while majoring in Business Administration, and Courtney who is at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is studying Management in Society - Economics & Sociology while also on a soccer scholarship. Courtney has led the Tar Heels to National Championships in 2008 and 2009 as their starting forward. Brent and Dana are very involved with numerous charities, children's causes and their daughters' high school, college and soccer activities. Brent has chaired and sponsored the Brent Jones YoungLife Open Golf Tournament for 25 years in the San Jose area, giving back to the Christian program that was so instrumental in developing his faith. They have been heavily involved with CityTeam Ministries, Girl Scouts of America, Special Olympics, ARF with Tony LaRussa, the Taylor Family Foundation, BAWSI Fathers & Daughters Program along with Brandi Chastain, and numerous other organizations in the Bay Area. He is also a favorite guest of the "Leader in Sports" Radio KNBR in San Francisco throughout the year.
Sharon Clark Kelleher
Sharon's career highlights include being named the Most Improved Female Player in 1991 and Player of the Year in 1998 and 2002. She has many singles and doubles titles to her name, including the USTA National Indoor Championships, National Outdoor Championships, the Thailand Open and the Japan Open. She has played exhibition matches at several professional tournaments including the SAP Open, Siebel Open, US Open and Australian Open. Her experience also includes serving as tournament director, tennis camp director, coach for top juniors, co-chair of the USTA NorCal Wheelchair Tennis Committee and manager of the South Bay Smash Wheelchair Tennis Team. From 2006 to 2011, Sharon created and directed the Bay Area Women's Sports Initiative's BAWSI Rollers Program, a wheelchair sports and fitness program for third through sixth graders at several Bay Area schools. Through this program, more than 200 children with physical disabilities have experienced a variety of adapted sports, being part of a team, and learning life lessons from their volunteer coaches, who also serve as positive role models.
Joanie Kriens
She characterizes this shift: "My true passion for service has emerged from raising children. Being a parent has allowed me to have very powerful experiences of unconditional love, commitment, and the need for teaching, nurturing, problem solving, and communication. In the process of raising our children, I have been able to discover and reflect on the impact my own childhood has made on me, and these experiences inspire me to help others". "Giving is so important to me, and I strongly believe that through giving to others within our community of family, friends, and teachers, as well as other like-minded communities, we receive the benefit of their influence, inspiration, learning, and growth."
Scott Kriens
Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Scott cofounded StrataCom, Inc., in 1986 and served as its vice president of sales and operations until the company was sold in 1996 for $4.5 billion to Cisco Systems. In the early 80s, he held product-management and marketing roles for Tandem Computers, a maker of fault-tolerant computer systems, and management roles at Burroughs Corporation, now Unisys. Scott was honored with the nationwide 2000 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and named one of Business Week's top 25 Managers in 2000. He has also received recognition for his achievements in the world of Internet technology, being named one of Forbes' Top Tech Execs in 1996 and one of the "25 Most Powerful People in Networking" by Network World in 2006 he was appointed by the president as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee; and he has been called to testify before Congress on subjects of networking and telecommunications. During his tenure as Juniper's CEO, Scott's experience with leadership development led him to the belief that a commitment to explicit focus on self-awareness and authenticity were critical to success. This commitment was personally transformative and ultimately led Scott to a full-time commitment to the Kriens Foundation as a way to contribute these experiences more broadly. A California native, Scott was born in 1957 in Berkeley and obtained his bachelor's degree in economics, and more recently an honorary doctorate, from California State University, East Bay. He lives in Saratoga, California, with his wife, Joanie, and their two children.
Marilyn McGraw
Marilyn works with successful and emerging leaders domestically and abroad ensuring their ability to achieve organizational and personal goals. She is also an ongoing speaker at both corporate and nonprofit events and has been featured in such global publications as Japan's JMA Management Center Measurement of Training Evaluation journal. In addition, she is the author of Running Away for Three Weeks, an inspirational autobiography designed to prepare readers for maximum effectiveness in the workplace; creator of Discovering Your Workplace Gifts, an assessment to help individuals identify the gifts they were motivated to discover in Running; and author of Six Steps to Excellence for Leaders, a roadmap to personal and professional excellence for all leaders. Marilyn's academic background includes: a Bachelors in Psychology, with a minor in Business from California State University, Fresno; a Masters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from San Jose State University; a Doctorate in Organizational Psychology from Saybrook/Claremont Graduate University; and a Business Administration certificate from University of California, Berkeley. Her professional organization affiliations include Bay Area Organization Development Network (BAODN), The Evaluation Consortium, HRExecNet, LinkSV, EPIC, SJSU/Saybrook/BearingPoint Alumni Associations, and American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) where she served for four years as a board member. She is also a HRDrivers consortium founding partner.
Nancy NeSmith
Nancy is a proud mother of two daughters, both of whom are standout soccer players. As a stay at home mom for 20 years, she has been active in her daughters' school community and PTA. She is a founding member Helping Hands, and is an active supporter of Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) and BAWSI. From 2008 to 2011, Nancy and her husband Brian were owners of the Gold Pride Women's Professional Soccer team, which won the WPS Championship in 2010. Her newest venture is Shadow Pictures, which produces educational and thought provoking documentaries.
Diane Smalley
As a high school and college athlete, Diane realized the tremendous positive influence sports has on girls and women by teaching life and leadership lessons as well building self-confidence and esteem. Playing on tennis, basketball, and volleyball courts directly contributed to her leadership skills. Diane believes in offering as many possible leadership opportunities to students whether it involves participation in athletics, student council, service to the environment, or any situational leadership that students want to be involved in. During her tenure as a student leadership advisor, Diane's programs won state recognition through the California Directors of Activities and California School Board Association's Golden Bell Award.
Kathy Toon
COACH: From 1990-2004, Kathy was the Associate Head Coach for Women's Tennis at the University of California-Berkeley, where she guided three doubles teams to NCAA championship victories. Her collegiate tennis coaching career includes stops at the University of San Diego and Mills College. CONSULTANT: Kathy also serves as a sports psychology and performance consultant to university and high school teams in the Bay Area. Her client list includes the University of California- Berkeley, where she works with the women's basketball, men's soccer, women's field hockey, women's golf and lacrosse teams. Other clients include Menlo High School, Marin Academy, Campo Lindo High School, Katherine Delmar Burke School and the Riekes Center. In addition, organizations such as the ITA, USTA, LGPA, NCAA, Pac-10 and Prince Corporation have hired Kathy to lead performance seminars. SPEAKER: In addition, Kathy is a senior trainer for the internationally recognized Positive Coaching Alliance, having conducted hundreds of workshops for thousands of coaches, athletes and parents across the country. AUTHOR: Coach Toon's first book, Get Your Game Face On!, teaches you the powerful yet little-known 4-step process top athletes use to deliver their best performance under pressure. Complete with a daily training log, Get Your Game Face On! is the essential guide for anyone seeking excellence both on and off the playing field. PARENT: Kathy is also the proud mom to 7 year old Dylan and 4 year old Alex.
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Margaret Abe-Koga has served on the Mountain View City Council since being elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. While on the Council, Margaret served as Vice-Mayor in 2008, and as Mayor in 2009, making her the first Asian American female to serve in those capacities in Mountain View's history.
Darla K. Anderson is a Senior Producer at Pixar Animation Studios, and the producer of Disney•Pixar's Toy Story 3. Ms. Anderson joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1993. Since then, her prodigious producing talents have contributed to some of the world's most beloved and acclaimed animated feature films including Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Monsters, Inc. Ms. Anderson produced the Golden Globe™ winning feature Cars, for which she was awarded Producer of the Year in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures from the Producers Guild of America.
Chastain was a member of the US National team over 12 years between December 1988 and January 2004, collecting 192 caps. During that time, she served as a trailblazer for women's soccer as part of the golden decade of the US Women's National team during the 90's, one of the most dominant teams the sport has seen to date. She was a member for the 1991 and 1999 Women's World Cup Championship teams as well as the Olympic teams that brought home gold in 1996 and 2004 and silver in 2000. 
Anne Warner Cribbs is a tour de force for all things Olympic. As a 14-year-old swimmer, she won gold in the 1959 Pan American Games. The next year as the American record-holder, Anne swam to fifth in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in the 200-meter breaststroke and another gold as the breaststroker on the U.S.'s 4x100 medley relay team. A 1979 Stanford University graduate, majoring in social sciences, Anne launched a career of public relations, community service and advocacy for women in sports. Her work has spanned volunteering for the 1984 Olympic Games to co-founding the American Basketball League, the first women's professional basketball league in the United States. She became President and CEO of the San Francisco Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee (BASOC) in 1999, and led the San Francisco Bay Area's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Foudy, currently a television analyst for ESPN/ABC and for NBC's Olympic coverage, played for the United States Women's Soccer National Team for 17 years. She served as captain for 13 of those 17 years.
Lennies is the Director of Government Affairs for Comcast for the South Bay and Peninsula areas. She previously worked at the California State Capitol where she focused on policy issues for 10 years. She sits on the Redwood City/San Mateo County and Cupertino Chambers of Commerce and is an active board member of the Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project and the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley. Lennies is a member of the 2011 class of the Latino Leadership Alliance. She is a graduate of UC Davis and the Lorenzo Patino Law School of Sacramento. 
Sharon Clark Kelleher enjoyed playing many sports during her childhood, including soccer, softball, volleyball, and track and field. During her senior year of high school, while serving as captain of both the soccer and track and field teams, she became a paraplegic as a result of a car accident. Sharon began playing several wheelchair sports and excelled in tennis. In 1998, she became the number one ranked wheelchair tennis player in the United States and the number three ranked player in the world. She competed in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and Athens in 2004. Sharon was also a member of the US National Wheelchair Tennis Team for eight years, and she led her team to the final of the World Team Cup three times.
Born in San Francisco, California, Joanie worked in Silicon Valley with both HP and Varian Associates for 15 years, before becoming a mother herself. She and her husband Scott have two children, which inspired Joanie to begin helping in the public school system and her local community.
Scott Kriens is chairman of Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR-NYSE). He led the company from its inception in 1996 until 2008, as both CEO and chairman, as Juniper grew to over $3.5 billion in annual revenues.
Backed by 15+ years experience in organizational effectiveness and leadership development, Marilyn McGraw, Ph.D. is currently the Sr. Director, Global Talent Management for Hitachi Data Systems in Santa Clara, CA. Her role focuses on creating measurable outcomes through individual and corporate development along with organizational development initiatives. By motivating individuals to operate at their highest potential, she has gained a reputation for facilitating employees' ability to achieve sustainable results.
Nancy NeSmith is a dedicated BAWSI supporter and is deeply involved in the Bay Area community. She graduated with a BA in business from Simmons College, where she also played collegiate tennis.
Diane Smalley has spent her career in public education as a teacher, athletic coach, leadership advisor, Dean of Students, and currently serves as the principal at Saratoga Elementary School. A graduate from University of California at Davis with two graduate degrees in educational administration from San Jose State University and counseling from Santa Clara University, she is an advocate for providing leadership opportunities to even her youngest students.
Kathy Toon is a jack-of-all (coaching) trades and a master of a many. Her quest to gain an edge on the competition led Coach Toon down many paths: Sports medicine, exercise physiology, nutrition, time management and sports psychology to name a few.