Board of Trustees

The Occidental Board of Trustees works to ensure the longevity of the institution while respecting its mission, traditions, and heritage.

Our Board members come from a wide variety of off-campus experiences, and they provide diverse perspectives, insights, points of view, and skills which expand the context and resources for governing the College. As trustees of the College, Board members literally hold the College in trust, exercising the highest level of loyalty to, and care for, the College and its constituencies.

In this regard, trustees support the financial well-being of the College, and they use their many and varied relationships in the larger community to enhance the reputation of the College and to build support for its mission. Being a trustee for Occidental College is both an honor and a great responsibility.

While we maintain the privacy of individual Board members, you are welcome to send questions, suggestions, and feedback to trustees@oxy.edu or (323) 259-2691.

Trustee Nominations

The College encourages members of the community, including faculty, students, staff, alums, donors, parents, and former and current trustees, to submit recommendations for new members of the Board of Trustees. If you would like to submit a recommendation, please use the form below, which will be routed to the Board's Nominating & Governance Committee for consideration.

The Nominating & Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees accepts nominations for new trustees until October 15th. The Board of Trustees votes on the slate of trustee candidates proposed by the Nominating & Governance Committee at its Spring Board meeting, and new trustees begin their term on July 1.

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Officers of the College

	Tom Stritikus President, Occidental College
	Art Peck '77 P’10, P’14, Board Chair CEO, Founder, Investor (Orinda, CA)
	Maurine Halperin P'16, Board Vice Chair Director of Communications, Town School for Boys (San Francisco, CA)
	Bob Johnson '77, Board Vice Chair Principal, Planet Illogica (Los Angeles, CA)
	Amos Himmelstein, Treasurer Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Occidental College
	Gretchen Saalbach, Secretary of the College, Occidental College

Members of the Board of Trustees

	Lande Ajose '87 Managing Director and Chief of Staff, Waverley Street Foundation (Palo Alto, CA)
	Magdalena Arenas '92 P'19 Physician (Pasadena, CA)
	Kevin Berryman '81 Independent Director, Amentum (Las Vegas, NM)
	Eileen Brown '73 President, Brown's Building Blocks (Los Angeles, CA)
	David Burcham '73 Attorney at Law and Educator (retired) (Long Beach, CA)
	Nicolas Choumenkovitch '86 Senior Managing Director and Equity Portfolio Manager, Wellington Management (Boston, MA)
	Barbara Clarke P'19 Angel Investor and Entrepreneur Adviser, Author
	Lindsey Collins ‘94 Senior VP of Development, Pixar (Piedmont, CA)
	W. Don Cornwell ’69 President (retired) (Brooklyn, NY)
	Lisa Coscino '85 Executive Director, Sage Compassion for Animals (San Francisco, CA)
	Nancy Dambro '75, P'13 Physician (retired) (Fort Worth, TX)
	Azadeh Foyouzi-Mohebbi P’23 Investor, Nonprofit, Higher Education and STEM Advocate (Danville, CA)
	J. Eugene Grigsby III '66 CEO (retired), National Health Foundation (Los Angeles, CA)
	Alison Hawkins '87 Managing Principal, Artemis Real Estate Partners (Beverly Hills, CA)
	Andrew Heath '04 Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Bombas
	Lori Moore Hunter '79 P'08 Retired Insurance Executive (Los Angeles, CA)
	Gary Kaplan '71 Partner, Greenberg Glusker (Los Angeles, CA)
	Elizabeth Kennedy P'19 Philanthropic Advisor, Nonprofit Leadership (retired) (Los Angeles, CA)
	Lisa H. Link P'18 Attorney at Law (retired) (San Marino, CA)
	Enrique Lopez '89 Associate Professor, Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Chicago, IL)
	Greta J. Mandell '72 P'92 Psychiatrist (retired) \| Executive Director, Compton Arts Council (Altadena, CA)
	Theodore R. Mitchell, H'07 President, American Council on Education (Washington, DC)
	Tuan Ngo '07Attorney, DLA Piper (Los Angeles, CA)
	Christopher G. Oechsli '75 President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies (Santa Fe, NM)
	Leo Olebe ‘97 Vice President, Global Partnerships, Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
	Steven R. Robinson '77 President, SRR Trading, LLC (Moraga, CA)
	Talia Robinson '97 Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Paramount Global (Los Angeles, CA)
	Reid Samuelson '72 Partner, Samuelson Partners (Los Angeles, CA)
	Rebecca Smith Science Educator (retired) (San Mateo)
	Lawrence Solomon ’84 Equity Portfolio Manager (Retired) (San Francisco, CA)
	Jacob Stevens '08 President, Los Angeles Building Commission (Los Angeles, CA)
	Woody Studenmund Laurence de Rycke Professor of Economics Emeritus at Oxy (Retired), Author
	Les Zendle ‘74 Physician/Associate Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente (retired) (Palm Springs, CA)