Recognizing the New Graduates of the Leadership SRV Program

Leadership San Ramon Valley celebrated the Class of 2017 with a graduation ceremony on May 25th at the Village Theater in Danville on May 25th. The Leadership San Ramon Valley program is designed to promote community engagement by giving participants an in-depth look at various aspects of the community and further developing their leadership skills.

Participants have attended ten monthly day-long sessions since September focusing on a variety of topics related to the dynamics of the San Ramon Valley, such as education, community services, local and state government, regional planning, community economics, communications, and cultural arts. Presenters and panel members for these sessions have included current elected officials and experts in their fields. In addition to the monthly class sessions, participants completed related fieldwork assignments that provide them with opportunities to interact with each other and with local leaders to explore community issues and topics related to the class sessions.

Each class also performs a community service project. The Class of 2017 chose to address the issue of Youth Stress and Anxiety in our community by raising funds for Discovery Counseling Center which provides programs and individual counseling to help teens and youth appropriately manage stress and anxiety. Class members raised $5,000 including $1,500 from Chevron, and their efforts to provide volunteers for the Devil Mountain Run resulted in an additional grant of $5,000 from UPS, yielding a total of $10,000 raised for Discovery Counseling Center!

The class is comprised of this diverse group of individuals who live and/or work in the San Ramon Valley:

• Lynn Ashley Community Volunteer
• Suvain Ayyappan Oracle
• Joe Doherty Gagen McCoy
• Christopher Duerrmeier Discovery Counseling Center
• Sue Fairbanks San Ramon Regional Medical Center
• Andy Firmin ENGEO
• Amanda Flasck Marriage & Family Therapy Intern
• Rebecca Gilman SRV Fire Protection District
• Raylee Glasser Town of Danville
• Rachel Hamilton ATI Architects & Engineers
• Brian Hilliard Attorney
• Christine Koehne San Ramon Valley Unified School District
• Shirley Lapp San Ramon Valley Council of PTAs
• Michelle Lee Retired Military
• Kerry Linn Chevron
• Andrew Lowe Keller Williams Realty
• Aparna Madireddi Fate Lady/Arvasoft Software Consulting
• Jeanett Mulder Chevron
• Ian Murdock Town of Danville
• Jennifer Pachan City of San Ramon
• Gina Pacheu Kids' Country
• Chris Petteruti Kaiser Permanente
• Paul Phillips UPS
• Najib Rahmatti Patelco Credit Union Mortgage
• Robert Riegel ATI Architects & Engineers
• Jim Selover SRV Fire Protection District
• Jeneen Slack Summit Financial
• Chris Weeks Sunset Development
• Tami Williams City of San Ramon
• Lily Zhu Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs

Honorary Class Member:

• Robert Combs J. Rockcliff Realtors

The LSRV program is now accepting applications for the upcoming 2017-18 class. To learn more about this engaging program, please visit www.leadershipsrv.org or email Executive Director, Rachel Hurd at leadershipsrv@att.net .