Board of Directors
Lingling Chen, President
Head of Growth and Product Marketing
Uniform Teeth
Lingling leads growth and product marketing at Uniform Teeth, a modern and premium orthodontic care brand. She is responsible for driving the GTM strategy and execution for this challenger brand to drive aggressive customer acquisition & revenue growth goals. Lingling is passionate about giving back to the community. She is a team lead at Full Circle Fund, where she leads a team of volunteers to provide strategic consulting services to Bay Area non-profit organizations. She also started the Aspirational Women initiative to support professional women to dream big and take the career leap.
Alex Wang, Vice President
Director of Programs
Climate Breakthrough
Alex grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan and the slopes of the Colorado Rockies. Her time adventuring and building friendships in the outdoors, especially at an all-girls summer camp and the National Outdoor Leadership School, has made her an advocate for the power of nature to build confidence, connection, and a sense of responsibility to the broader world. Alex has spent her career in philanthropy focusing on climate change and human rights. She currently works at Climate Breakthrough, which gives the largest environmental grant for individuals to create and scale transformative climate action. As the Director of Programs, she supports visionary climate leaders around the globe in strategy design, organizational development, executive coaching, and fundraising. Alex has degrees from Middlebury College and Johns Hopkins University, was once a Wilderness EMT. She lives on the ocean in Pacifica with her husband and two little kids, spending as much time adventuring near and far, most happily deep in the backcountry.
Deepika Mulwani, Treasurer
Senior Manager
PwC
Deepika is a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers helping fortune 500 companies with financial planning, reporting and automation. She has over a decade of experience in financial planning and accounting, and has helped various organizations streamline financial metrics and performance. Prior to PwC she led the finance analytics team at a DNA sequencing company Illumina in reporting financial metrics to S&P, and assisted Investor Relations as a Senior Manager. Having grown up in India, she learned to back pack when she turned 30 with the non-profit Sierra Club and volunteers there since the past 4 years teaching students backpacking basics in San Diego. In her free time she loves to hike, paddleboard and be outdoors.
Annette Felton, Secretary
Director, Business Analysis
Charles Schwab Financial Services
Annette believes in the power of connection and its role in building harmonious and productive communities. She is a finance enthusiast and ‘connector of dots’ who is passionate about the progress and opportunity economic empowerment fuels. Annette's experience spans building out functions and leading teams in financial planning and analysis. She is a Director at Schwab where she leads efforts to democratize financial insight enabling the organization to hone strategic direction and adapt to an evolving business environment. She is a passionate advocate for women and previously served as Co-Chair of the Women’s Interactive Network at Schwab where she championed women of diverse tenure and talent. Annette enjoys escaping into nature to introspect and cherishes the space it offers her to build perspective and admire her critter friends.
Liz Bernstein
Individual Giving Director
Marin County Bicycle Coalition
Liz is the Individual Giving Director at Marin County Bicycle Coalition. You can say she was born to fundraise. Liz grew up in Los Angeles but moved to Northern California for college and never left. With a degree in Environmental Science, she fell in love with nature and the outdoors as a freshman at Sonoma State University. Liz changed her career plans shortly after she got her MBA when her sister was diagnosed with MS. Liz has used her love for helping things to her benefit as she has been in non-profit fundraising for close to 20 years. You can find her on the trails or roads of Marin either running or on her bike. She loves playing with her cats, cooking, and spending quality time with friends.
Jocelyn Lancaster
Manager, Learning Experience
LinkedIn
Jocelyn believes in the power of learning, growth and transformation. Her own career has been one of constant evolution, from nonprofit to for-profit, from in-the-field programs to operations and leadership, and around the world. She is driven to inspire transformation in others through her work and her side hustles. Currently, Jocelyn manages a team at LinkedIn that works to provide an exceptional learner experience through Learning & Development programming, motivating LI employees to do the best work of their careers. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and 60-pound border collie mix, a motley crew who love spending time outdoors, exploring the Bay Area's beautiful parks, trails, and beaches.
Maureen Goode
Senior Director of Order to Cash
Google
Maureen is a native Northern Californian, growing up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. As a child she spent her days exploring the redwoods, developing a love of nature and deep understanding of herself. Today she carries this love of exploration into her position as Senior Director of Order to Cash for Google exploring ways to scale operations in a company which grows at extraordinary rates. Maureen is passionate about advocacy for women and is the founding member of Women@Finance in Google. Before joining Google in 2006, Maureen held positions in operations and system development at Agilent, HP, Intel and General Motors. Maureen holds a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor of Science in Human Resources from Cal State Hayward.
Maureen lives in Menlo Park with her husband, dog and cat (and three children when they want a free meal). In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, cooking, gardening and reading a good book outside.
RyLee McGill
Principal HR Business Partner
Mountain Hardwear
RyLee is the Principal HR Business Partner at Mountain Hardwear. She is responsible for the People & Culture strategy and is largely focused on talent management, organization design, the employer brand and advancing DE&I within the outdoor industry. RyLee holds a Bachelors in Global Studies/Political Science from UCLA and a Masters from USD, focused on employment law. She is a Northern California native and currently resides in Oakland. In her free time, you'll find her skiing, hiking, camping, paddle-boarding or at home spoiling her cat.