Education is a deeply held value in my family. My mother grew up in poverty in Wichita Kansas. Public school math landed her a job at a bank and a way out. My father was raised by a single mom in the 1950's. Math gave him a sense of stability, and a small tax business he runs today.

In third grade, my public school teacher taught me how to code. As a kid who was good at math, I loved it. By middle school I was staying up late writing computer games and sharing them with friends, and then selling them to friends. I realized I started a company, and I stuck with that too. After college I started another company in the storage closet of my friend's office. We wrote algorithms that matched people to jobs, and it worked well. Eventually, LinkedIn bought the company and asked me to run their core business unit. I had this wild experience, suddenly finding myself as a leader of a multi-billion dollar organization with thousands of people.

Then I had kids, and they changed everything for me. In 2019 I started an education foundation. Now, as a parent of two young children, with an SFUSD teacher in the family, I see the crises our schools face - the financial crisis, the staffing crisis - and I want to use my experience to help every kid in our schools. As an appointee to SFUSD's CBOC I've already found millions of dollars in potential savings for our schools, and I'm ready to do more.