Sue Sartor, Los Ayudantes Board Chair, helped found Los Ayudantes in 2002 and has served on the Board ever since. During the past 30 years, she has worked in a variety of educational settings in Silicon Valley area, including as a Spanish-bilingual classroom teacher in San Jose as well as 9 years as a Bilingual Resource Teacher and Migrant Resource Teacher. For the past 19 years, she has worked at Las Lomitas School in San Mateo County, Ca. as a classroom teacher, English Language Development teacher and now as an administrator. Sue also currently serves as the Las Lomitas District’s English Language Development Coordinator and her background in curriculum and instruction for English language learners is a valuable resource to Los Ayudantes staff and volunteers.

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Priscilla Hexter has tutored students at McKinley Middle School in our Book Club program for over four years and served on the Ayudantes Board for over three years. Having attained undergraduate and graduate degrees in Art History, she worked for 20 years as Director and Curator of Stanford University’s Art Spaces. Proficient in Spanish, French and Italian, Priscilla also spent many years as both coordinator and a volunteer with Stanford’s English-in-Action Program, which helps Stanford students from around the world gain English conversation skills.

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Ann Latta helped to found Los Ayudantes in 2002. She has served on the Board, including four years as Board Chair, and has tutored with Ayudantes both at McKinley Middle and Fair Oaks Elementary in our Book Club and Poetry Club programs.

Ann spent her professional life working as a research librarian in the Stanford University Libraries, serving as the Assistant Head of the Cubberley Library at Stanford’s School of Education. Beyond her professional life, Ann helped create the CAL Aggie Camp for underprivileged children. And under the auspices of the Jr. League of Palo Alto, she helped create the Child Advocacy Council, providing child abuse education. She also served with a citizens group to overhaul the foster-care system in San Mateo County, California. Currently, she serves on the boards of the Cleo Eulau Center and Trinity School, Menlo Park, Ca. in addition to Los Ayudantes.

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Catherine Card Marquardt has served for two years on the Ayudantes Board and has just begun serving as a tutor in the McKinley Middle Book Club program. With a Masters in Education from Bank Street College, Catherine has spent 16 years working as an elementary school teacher—at The Lenox School of New York City, the International School of Amsterdam, Netherlands and at Trinity School of Menlo Park, Ca. During this time, she not only taught in the classroom, but also served as a Curriculum Coordinator, Lower School Librarian, Teacher Mentor and spent 2 years on the Board of Trinity School.

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Ann Rosenblum

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Becky Zeren has served on the Ayudantes Board for over three years. With a BFA from Ohio University and a Masters from Stanford, she has worked in classrooms and libraries throughout her professional career, serving as President of the San Mateo County (Ca.) Reading Association, receiving several professional grants including one from the Japanese Fulbright Memorial Fund and four summer workshop grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently a member of the Curriculum Committee for the California School Library Association and works as the Library Media Specialist for Trinity School, Menlo Park, Ca.