Alice Guittard has spent more than fifteen years of her career in philanthropy, both in raising funds and grant making. Most recently she served as Director of Grant Making at Price Philanthropies Foundation, where she oversaw grants in several areas including food security. She is passionate about food security as a core need to support family and community health and therefore equity. Alice also serves on the board of Karen Organization of San Diego. She is a San Diego native and graduate of the University of California, San Diego.

Sharon M. Lawrence, Esq., Chief Executive Officer, joined California CASA in November 2017 after a successful 20-year tenure as CEO of Voices for Children, the CASA program for San Diego and Riverside counties. Under her leadership, the organization experienced extraordinary growth (from $400,000 in 1997 to nearly $7,000,000 in 2017) and national recognition. Sharon has brought to the state’s CASA network and the California CASA association her deeply felt passion for helping foster children and improving the foster care system, as well as her strong leadership skills, legal and legislative expertise, and fundraising and managerial knowledge. To date, Sharon’s most significant accomplishment has been the securing of $60 million in state funding for the CASA network. The recipient of many honors over the years, she serves on numerous statewide and regional committees addressing the needs of foster youth, and promotes CASA to individuals, foundations, corporations, elected officials, and government agencies throughout California and beyond. Prior to joining Voices for Children in 1997, she was an attorney and litigator at Lewis, D’Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, a large law firm in San Diego; she specialized in medical malpractice. She received her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, Austin, where she was managing editor of the Texas International Law Journal, among other honors, and her B.A. from the University of Denver, Colorado, with a triple major in Speech Communications, Psychology, and Political Science.

Hazzy Pipo brings over 15 years’ experience in human resources. Throughout her career, Hazzy has held leading human resources positions in not-profit, private,and publicly traded companies in financial services,youth development, homeless services,and mental health.

Hazzy began her career in Human Resources at Arrow Financial Services,a subsidiary of Sallie Mae Corporation, then moving to U.S. Financial Management where she helped build the company from a team of 25to over 75 employees in a span of two years. Hazzy shifted to the nonprofit world joining Girl Scouts San Diego as their Human Resources Director for over five years. Since 2013, Hazzy serves as the Human Resources Director for Episcopal Community Services, a social services agency supporting more than 6,000 clients in San Diego in the areas of early childhood education, mental health, and nutrition.

Hazzy received her BS in Business Administration from USIU/Alliant International University and achieved professional HR designations of PHRca and SHRM-CP. Hazzy was awarded San Diego Business Journal’s 2nd Annual HR Professional of the Year Award. Over the years, Hazzy has volunteered at Mama’s Kitchen, Girl Scouts San Diego and San Diego Society for Human Resources Management. In her free time, Hazzy enjoys spending time with family and friends, exploring locally owned restaurants, and scenic walks.

Kristine is committed to good stewardship in the community, ensuring that resources are used effectively and sustainably to benefit those in need. Her commitment to improving the health and well-being of the San Diego community is evident in all her efforts.

Dedicated to serving the community and advocating for the underserved, Kristine is an active member of the San Diego Rotary, where she contributes to the Military Affairs and Youth Homelessness committees. She has also served on the boards of the National Farm to Preschool Network and the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Advisory Board

Laura Galinson is the Founder and President of the Galinson Family Foundation, the Price-Galinson Collaborative Fund, the Alternative Families Fund, as well as the Laura Jo Galinson Advised Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego.

Laura has a Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Religion from University of Colorado, Boulder, where her passion for photography blossomed as yearbook photo editor. After college, she took photos for the Boulder Daily Camera and Denver Post, won an award for a photo picked up by the New York Times Magazine, and traveled to Australia with her winnings. Later she was a photographer for the Associated Press, until moving into the world of publishing. Laura says she learned everything she knows about books from her time working at John Cole’s Book Shop and White Rabbit Children’s Bookstore, two legendary book sellers in La Jolla. From there, she became Assistant to Sandra Dijkstra, regarded by many as the most powerful literary agent on the West Coast, where Laura worked with Janell Cannon to produce Stellaluna. Laura was then recruited to become Senior Publicist at Harper Collins in San Francisco, where she worked until relocating back to San Diego in 1997. At that time, Laura’s father, Murray Galinson, introduced her to Sol Price, and her work in philanthropy began.  

Also of note is Laura’s history as a competitive swimmer from age 5 to 40.  As a youth, she routinely competed in the YMCA Nationals and Junior Olympics, and was a part of the number one ranked relay team in the U.S. at age 13. Laura went on to dominate in U.S. Masters Swimming and International Gay & Lesbian Aquatics (IGLA) competitions. At the age of 36, she broke the World Record for the 100 meter individual medley at the IGLA Olympics in Atlanta.

Today, Laura focuses her charitable work on her passions for education, youth, mental health, the arts, Africa, Israel and San Diego, and she continues to be an avid photographer and swimmer.  Laura and her wife, Jodi Diamond, are devoted mothers to their children Hannah, Bob, Syvan and Teddy.

Among her many contributions to the community, Laura currently provides leadership to the Museum of Photographic Arts (Education Chair and Acquisitions and Development committees); Jewish Women’s Foundation (Board Member), Support the Enlisted Project (Advisory Board and Development Committee), Psych Armor (Mental Health Advisor), and Hillel San Diego (Board Member and Capital Campaign Chair).

As the former executive director of Feeding America San Diego, Jennifer oversaw efforts to expand emergency food distribution to communities affected by limited access to grocery stores and farmers’ markets, low wages, and the high cost of quality food. During her tenure, Jennifer increased food distribution from 2.5 to 19.2 million meals per year and grew philanthropic revenue from $1.2 million to $5.4 million annually. Prior to joining Feeding America, Jennifer managed agency relations and volunteer programs at Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and, before that, served as a volunteer at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona. In 2013, she earned the Tribute to Women in Industry Visionary Award for her contribution to hunger relief in San Diego County. She holds bachelor and master’s degrees in public administration from the University of Arizona, and also serves on the board of directors for SuperFood Drive. 

Ann Jaffe is an active philanthropist in the San Diego and Jewish communities. She is a member of the School Nutrition Association, University of California, San Diego Center of Integrated Medicine Strategic Advisory Board, the California School Nutrition Association, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and is active with the Farm to School Movement. She is the past president of the San Diego Jewish Academy and was the driving force in the building of their new campus.

Ms. Jaffe is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and has worked for University of California, Riverside and was the School Nutrition Director of the Escondido Schools. She also served as the National Sales and Marketing Director for Nutri‐Foods Intl. and Coca Cola Foods.

Vince has spent a 30-year professional career in banking and mortgage banking, capped with the founding of AimLoan.com, a national mortgage banking company in 1998.  For the past 25 years, he has brought a similar energy to San Diego’s nonprofit sector, having focused primarily on issues of food and shelter for the most vulnerable members of our community.  He is the current chairman the board of directors of St. Vincent de Paul Village (Father Joe's Village) and has previously served on the boards of the San Diego Food Bank, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and the San Diego Home Loan Counseling Service.  He is a strong believer in collaboration and collective impact, and helped organize and fund the University of San Diego Food Security Project, which since 2012 has worked with the region’s major food banks and hunger relief agencies to collaborate on improving the county’s food delivery systems.  Vince earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of San Diego and a master’s degree in finance from San Diego State University.

In addition to her career as a businesswoman who co-founded Rancho La Puerta fitness spa and resort in 1940 and founded the Golden Door in 1958, Deborah was CEO/President of the Inter-American Foundation (1984-1991), a federal agency making grants for grassroots development throughout Latin America and the independent nations of the Caribbean. She is also founder of Eureka Communities, and she is currently a board member for Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Congressional Management Foundation (she conceived and launched “Setting Course: A Congressional Management Guide” now in its 14th edition in 2015).

Her community work and philanthropy in the San Diego area spans seven decades, during which she founded a major arts foundation, served on innumerable boards, and spearheaded the campaign to rebuild the Old Globe Theatre.

In 2001, Deborah founded the New Americans Museum located in Liberty Station. The Museum provides inspiring and compelling educational and cultural programs and activities exploring San Diegans’ diverse immigrant experiences.

In 2002, San Diego Rotary named her “Mrs. San Diego.”

In 2012, Mexican President Felipe Calderon presented her with Mexico’s highest honor for a foreign citizen: The Order of the Aztec Eagle. President Calderon praised her life-long community involvement and efforts to further the health of Mexico’s environment and people.

Now 93 years old, “but feeling like she’s in her 50s,” Deborah lectures and travels frequently, speaking on the high principles of “living the longer, healthier life,” as well as being a tireless advocate for health reforms. Most recently, she is the founder of wellnesswarrior.org, a non-profit web-based platform for raising awareness of national health issues.