OUR TEAM
Purvi Shah
Founder and CEO
Rachel Handsman
Program Lead
Sejal Desai
Operations Manager
Carmen Rodriguez Ericson
Program Coordinator
Caroline Robins
Artist-in-Residence at George Mark
Deborah Hopkins
Artist- in-Residence at LPCH
Mara Grimes
Development contractor
Erica Boznanski
Partnerships contractor
Daniela Sardiello
Volunteer Coordinator
Lillian Ma
Grants Writer
Kristine Dworkin
Writer and Editor
Joshua Bernstein
Technology consultant
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Artist Advisory
Bianca Levan
Rinat Goren
Don Ross
Research Advisory
Dawn Linhardt, Chair, OTD, OTR/L, CLT, C/NDT
Priya Talreja, Health Coach at Stanford Prevention Research Center
Parent Advisory
Vidhya Navalpakkam
Courtney Angle Rodgers
Health Advisory
Adrianne Angle – Yoga Instructor
Merian Willis-van-Eijk – MSN, RN, CPHON Stanford Children’s Hospital
Dr. Subha Aahlad – Pediatrician, Foster City Pediatrics Medical Group
Pam Simon – Program Manager/NP Stanford Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program (AYA) at LPCH and Stanford Health Care
Dr. Ayelet Hirshfeld – Psychoanalyst and Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Technology Advisory
Apurva Shah, CEO Duality Robotics, Adjunct Faculty at CCA
Janis Nakano Spivack, CEO Brite Catalysts
Karan Parikh, CEO GreenRain
Finance Advisory
Accounting
Pratish Patel – Associate Professor of Finance at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Jensen & Novacic
Legal Counsel
Morrison & Foerster