Board of Directors
Stacey Redman, President and Founder
Stacey founded the Tim Griffith Memorial Foundation in 2005 after losing her son to senseless violence in 2004. Stacey is a Bay Area native and graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor’s in Sociology. Stacey has worked in Human Resources for over 25 years at various San Francisco Bay Area companies such as Autodesk, Levi Strauss, Mervyns and Oral B Laboratories. She has a grown son, daughter-in law and three grandchildren who resides in Redwood City. Stacey is currently working as an HR Consultant in BioTech. Stacey co-facilitates the Meadowlark Grief Retreats. In addition to founding and leading the Foundation, she has been a “Big Sister” in the Big Brother Big Sister’s program, a peer grief counselor at Kara in Palo Alto and has served on the Advisory Boards of the Service League of San Mateo County, as well as Crime Victims United of California. Stacey is a recipient of the Jefferson Award, San Jose Giants Hometown Hero Award and the Bill Lane Community Service Award.
Carolyn Yates, Vice President
Carolyn is a founding member of the Tim Griffith Memorial Foundation, joining in 2005. She has an extensive background in the field of Organizational Leadership and Development in several industries including technology, health care, and retail. Carolyn has worked internally in establishing leadership and development initiatives and teams and has done independent consulting to organizations. She is currently working at Google as a Director focusing on organizational development.
Denise Harvey, Secretary and Auction Chair
Denise is a founding member of the Tim Griffith Foundation, joining in 2005. She is an officer of the board and also serves as Auction Chair. She is a Bay Area native and has worked as an HR Professional for the last 23 years at technology and retail organizations. She currently works at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco as a Strategic HR Business Partner providing HR strategy and thought leadership. Denise has expertise in team dynamics, culture, change management, leadership development and holds a SHRM certification. While raising her now-grown son and daughter, Denise was very involved in the community as a Girl Scout and Boy Scout Leader, PTA and School Site Council Member. Today, Denise and her husband Rick are raising a granddaughter.
Katie Blanchard, Foundation Treasurer
Katie Blanchard joined our Board of Directors as our Treasurer in March of 2021. She decided that serving on a Board and contributing her talents toward something meaningful in our communities was the next step in her professional career. As the VP of Financial Analysis for Autodesk, Katie has a well-honed financial skill set. She is a 20 year resident of San Francisco, and fan of the Giants and 49ers. She grew up in Sacramento and graduated from Sacramento State. Katie enjoys playing the piano and cello and cooking as creative outlets. Katie and her husband William and their two daughters Brianna, 12, and Carmen, 7, visit Sacramento often.
Julie Gayner, Communications Chair
Julie Gayner is a founding member of the Tim Griffith Memorial Foundation, joining in 2005, and acts as the volunteer Communications Chair. In addition to volunteering with the TGF, she is a volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocate in Alameda County and a crisis counselor with the Crisis Text Line organization. Both organizations support at-risk youth. Julie has over 20 years experience as a Learning and Organization Development professional in global organizations in retail and high tech industries
Deb Lemos, Operations Chair
Joining in 2005, Debbie is a founding member of the Tim Griffith Foundation and acts as the volunteer Operations Chair for the organization. In addition, she is the current Chair of the Academic Scholarship Committee and runs the TGF-Stanford Internship program. In her professional role, she has over 20 years of experience in the fields of Research Administration and Operational Management in both clinical and academic environments. She is currently employed as the Director of Finance and Operations of the Mathematics Department at Stanford University. Previous to her current position she has worked in other departments at Stanford including: Sociology, OB/GYN and Microbiology. Her prior volunteer work includes School Site Council Member, PTA Board Member, Woodside Pony Club, Woodside Vaulters, and parent volunteer.
Debbie Lee, Board Member
Debbie served as TGF’s Executive director for two years before retiring in 2017. In addition to serving on the board, she is now joining the Meadowlark Retreats as a facilitator for the Mother’s Retreats. Debbie has extensive non-profit management experience and, equally as important Debbie truly believes in the heart and soul of the Foundation and Tim’s spirit. She has a special interest in helping those that are grieving. She has volunteered for 17years for Kara, a grief support organization in Palo Alto, where she serves as a peer grief facilitator and volunteers as a children’s grief counselor at the annual grief camp for youth, Camp Kara, in Livermore. Debbie ha sworked for non-profit and not for profit organizations for over 20 years in the Bay Area. She worked as Development Director for Child Advocates of Silicon Valley was responsible for all areas of development including donor stewardship, grant writing, volunteer outreach, fundraising and event management. She previously held the position of Director of Membership and Standards at SolarTech, a not-for-profit trade association for the solar industry where she managed all aspects of association membership including events as well as spearheading the organization’s standards program and helping to launch their501(c)3. Before her work at SolarTech she was the Senior Director of Membership and Events at IDEMA, a not-for-profit trade association for the disk drive industry where she was responsible for global membership benefit management, new member outreach and member retention as well as event management and sponsorship marketing. In addition, Debbie held the position of Executive Director of All Stars Helping Kids (NFL Hall of Famer, Ronnie Lott's charity organization) where she participated in major projects for that organization including completion of funding for building the Technology Room at UCSF Children's Hospital, and funding programs at both the Eastside College Preparatory School and the Sacred Heart Nativity School.
Maria Segal, Board Member
Maria joined the board in 2024 and serves as a facilitator of the Meadowlark Mothers Retreats. Maria and her husband Mitch are residents of Half Moon Bay, CA and are the parents of three sons. In 2009 their middle son Andrew passed away while a student at the University of Arizona from an undiagnosed heart condition. It was through this tragedy that they both encountered the Foundation by attending Meadowlark Mother's and Father's grief retreats in 2010. Maria is currently a volunteer grief counselor with KARA, a non-profit organization based in Palo Alto, CA and is an active member of Cupertino Rotary. Professionally Maria is a Residential Real Estate Agent with Compass in Saratoga CA.
Pam Smith, Board Member
Pam joined the board in 2024 and supports the operations and logistics of the Meadowlark Mother Retreats. Pam and her husband Joe reside in Petaluma, CA and are the parents of three sons. In 2012 their youngest son Trevor died in a roadway traffic accident and shortly after that tragedy, Pam was introduced to the Foundation when she attended a Meadowlark Mother's grief retreat. Pam works as a hairdresser in Petaluma. She established and runs the Trevor Smith Memorial Foundation which awards scholarships to Petaluma youth for athletics, drama and education all in memory of Trevor's talents and interests.
If you are interested in joining the Tim Griffith Foundation board, please contact Stacey Redman for more information.
Staff
Linda Murphy
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