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V. Toni Adams
V. Toni Adams has served as a Playworks Board member since 2002. Toni currently works for the Alameda County Office of Education as the Director of Special Projects, Student Programs and Services. Toni's other professional experiences include working as an Assistant to both Oakland's Mayor Lionel Wilson and the County Superintendent Sheila Jordan, as a volunteer Community Representative to State Senator Barbara Lee and as a Campaign Coordinator for Barbara Lee for Congress. Toni served as the Board Chair of the Oakland Convention Center, currently serves on the Oakland Convention and Visitors Board as well as the Board of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators. Toni is a graduate of Mills College and holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from a consortium of University of California and California State University.
Randy Drake, Chair
Playworks Board Chair, Randy Drake is senior vice president of community and business development for 24 Hour Fitness. Randy grew up near the Oregon-California border, graduated from Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, and received his MBA from the University of Oregon. Prior to working at 24 Hour Fitness, Randy served as the Vice President of Sales at Starbucks and the Senior Director of Strategy and Communications at Nabisco. Randy has also served as a Board member for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Northwest.
Dru DeSantis
Dru DeSantis, Principal, DeSantis Breindel, is an expert in branding, strategy, and communications. Dru was first introduced to Playworks by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation when she was tapped to produce the incredible video about our organization. Dru is interested in refining Playworks' brand and articulating the unique opportunity we offer corporations to demonstrate their corporate responsibility.
Marlon Evans
Marlon is the most recent addition to the Playworks Board of Directors. Marlon received his BA in Political Science and a MA in Sociology from Stanford University, where he competed on the football and track & field teams. After graduating from Stanford in 1997, he spent one year pursuing a career in the NFL, signing as a free agent with the Carolina Panthers and Indianapolis Colts. In January 2006, Marlon joined the All Stars Helping Kids team as executive director, where he is charged with increasing All Stars' sphere of influence beyond the San Francisco Bay Area via recruitment of athletes and sponsors, as well as establishing systems, processes, and programs that support national expansion. In February 2009, Marlon was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
Sue Levin
Sue Levin, joined the Playworks Board of Directors in 2009. She is a consultant to investors in and management teams of early stage consumer companies. She has worked across numerous industry segments on business strategy, sales and marketing, product development, merchandising, financing and organizational development. Her clients include numerous private equity and venture capital firms, and companies such as LeMond Fitness, SPARQ and gDiapers. Sue lives in Portland with her husband and two school-age kids. She coaches soccer and is a member of the school site council at her local elementary.
Wayne Meisel
Wayne Meisel, President, The Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation, has worked in the field of non-profits since 1983 when he founded the Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) as a platform for students and graduates to lead, sustain and challenge their peers to serve. As the President of the Bonner Foundation, Wayne is involved in supporting scholarship programs for low-income students at 22 schools in the Southeast and Midwest. Wayne was also a founding member of the President's Commission on National and Community Service and Teach for America.
Aenor Sawyer, MD
Aenor Sawyer, orthopedic surgeon, specializes in sports medicine, fracture care, and pediatric orthopedic surgery. In her current practice she utilizes her experience in physical therapy, exercise physiology, medicine and surgery as she cares for adult and child athletes from many different sports, and from recreational to Olympic or professional levels. As well as a clinical practice, Dr. Sawyer maintains an active role in research with emphases in sports injury prevention, overuse injury, anterior cruciate ligament repair, stress fractures and bone health. She also volunteers her time as the Director of the Pediatric Bone Health Consortium and the Director for We Duet for Kids, a fundraising program to assist childhood cancer survivors.
Mark Seiler, Treasurer
Mark Seiler is the Managing Partner of Metrovation, a real estate development firm and Principal of Metrovation Capital, a real estate capital company. Mark serves on several Boards of Directors including Boys and Girls Club of Oakland and Jewish Family and Children's Services of Northern California and is Past President of Rhoda Goldman Plaza a not-for-profit Assisted Living and Alzheimers Community.
