Meet our Board

Behavioral research and program evaluation Operations Manager and Project Director; Contract & Grant Negotiator and Administrator; jewelry and knit accessories designer. Bearskin Meadow was my summer home for 15 years beginning in 1965. I was also a Counselor-in-Training (the original “LIT”), and counselor. January 2011 was my 50th anniversary of healthy and active life with diabetes, due in large part to the teachings of camp and the DYF.

Executive Director of Intersection for the Arts, the oldest nonprofit cultural institution of its kind in San Francisco. I am also on the Board of Directors of the California Arts Advocates and a Co-Director of Arts Forum SF. My son Hayden was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when he was 4 years old. DYF has been a critical source of education, support, and community for our family.

I am a clinical social worker, presently working as an independent consultant. I personally have been living with Type 1 Diabetes for 39 years. I initially became involved with the DYF in 1990 as a BMC counselor and have been serving on the Board of Directors for the past five years.

Pediatric Anesthesiologist

I’ve been associated with DYF since our son’s diagnosis with Type I diabetes mellitus in 1997, participating as a camping parent, camp medical staff, annual Gala co-chair, and board member.

Doug Fowler is a 35 year veteran of real estate brokerage, having managed one of the top firms in the nation. He is currently the owner of Stand Out LLC a firm that specializes in providing metrics and ratings to the real estate industry. Doug is immediate past president of DYF and got involved with DYF because of the support that it provided his own family once his daughter was diagnosed at age 5.

I became envolved with the Diabetic Youth Foundation because of my wife’s working at work camp weekends with the Senior Girl Scout troup she was in charge of some 17 years ago. She needed another driver and after meeting Frank, Nancy, and the parents that were there – I felt the Bearskin Meadow magic. After Mats Wallin took over as Executive Director, and he found out that I was a leader in Lions Clubs International – I became a Board Member. I make presentations to service clubs, doctor groups, and other interested parties about DYF and the Magic.

Clinical Psychologist. My sister, Tyronda, who I’ve raised since age 9 has Type 1B Diabetes, diagnosed at age 10. She is now 23, recently graduated from college, starting MBA program in August. We have been involved with DYF since 1998. She attended kids camp, was an LIT & we both attended family camp. I provided psychological/social support to DYF families adjusting to their new lifestyle. I have been on the DYF Board of Directors since 2002.

President of JRDV Architects, an international architecture and planning firm based in Oakland. My daughter, now headed to college, first attended Bearskin Meadow Camp at age 4 shortly after she was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. She calls Bearskin Meadow Camp her favorite place on earth and has attended camp every summer since. During this period, I have worked on master planning and building improvements for camp while my wife Maria Wolf wrote Miracle Forest, a book illuminating the remarkable story of the founding of camp and the DYF.

Chief Executive Officer of Teles Properties Inc, a Southern California Real Estate Brokerage Firm with Escrow and Mortgage Affiliates, Senior Counsel to the Law Firm of Fragomen, Del Rey Bernsen and Loewy, LLP and Past- President of the DYF. My son has Type 1 diabetes diagnosed at 9 years old and I and my entire family have been involved with the organization since diagnosis as family campers and thereafter as staff volunteers at Bearskin Meadow Camp.

IBM, Regional Director of Sales. My daughter, Aisling, has Type 1 diabetes and was diagnosed at 9 years old. She is now 19 years old and my entire family has been involved with DYF since diagnosis as family campers. I have been on the DYF board of directors since 2008. My wife Lynette and I were co-chairs for the Gala in 2010.

I am a Fire Engineer in downtown San Jose and Vice President of the San Jose Fire Museum. My Daughter Allison was diagnosed with Type-1 Diabetes on her Ninth birthday. She is 15 now a sophomore in high school and doing well in every way. I joined the Board of Directors of the DYF to try to give back just a little of what given to my whole family.

Mary Lou Stuart, Manager, Community Relations for LifeScan, Inc. has a passion for giving back and diabetes. The DYF helps me meld those two areas into actions that can personally affect children living with diabetes. Although my children and husband do not have diabetes, we have a family history and many friends and extended family members that are thriving thanks to information, education and support similar to what the DYF provides. I have been involved with the DYF for the past 6 years, serving on the board for the past 2 years.