Advisory Board Members

Anna Goldwater Alexander
Director of Photography, Wired Magazine

Jim Bruner
Senior Vice President, Mutual of Omaha Bank; Trustee, Drake
University; Board Member, Arizona Sports Foundation (Fiesta Bowl); Chairman, Board of Directors – Scottsdale’s Museum of the West; Trustee, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust.

Sam Kathyrn Campana
Lead Consultant, Desert Discovery Center Advocates for Desert Discovery Center Scottsdale; Former Mayor at City of Scottsdale, AZ

Bob Carlson
Real Estate Professional, Ross Carlson Homes – Realty Executives; Member of the Board of Directors and Development Chair for Homeward Bound Arizona

Lisa Corey
Senior Clinical Quality Auditor RN, United HealthCare

John Dannerbeck
President, Superbird; Former Chairman, Maytag Dairy Farms, Inc.; Former President, Anchor Brewing

Deanne Desautels
President, CEO & Chief Accounting Officer, Accounting and Finance Professionals, Inc. / Staff-Logic, Inc.; Member of the Board of Directors for Homeward Bound Arizona

Kristin Atwell Ford
Producer/Writer, Quantum Leap Productions Inc.; Owner, Watershed Films LLC; Former Board Member, KidsRead USA

Laura Franco French
Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Mayor at City of Phoenix, AZ

Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.
Chairman, Nelson Taplin Goldwater; Board of Directors, National Collectors Mint; Board of Directors, Goldwater Institute

Shannon Goldwater
Founder, Board Chair, Feeding Matters

Lynn O’Rourke Hayes
Owner, FamilyTravel.com; Syndicated Travel Columnist, Tribune Content Agency

Christine Kovach
Former Chair, McDowell Mountain Land Trust; First Woman President, The McDowell Sonoran Conservancy; Board Chair, Desert Discovery Center Scottsdale; Philanthropist

Tricia Loscher
Assistant Museum Director – Collections, Exhibitions, & Research at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West

Beth McRae
President, The McRae Agency; Philathropist

Jill Krigsten Riley
Media Consultant, Cox Media; Member of the Board, Make A Wish Arizona; Member of the Board, Maricopa Health Foundation

Bea Rocklin
Government Relations and Lobbyist, Dorn Policy Group; Committee Member for American Heart Association Heart Ball, TGen Runway for Research Breakfast & Fashion Show, and Childhelp Drive the Dream Gala.

Mike Roswell
President, Roswell Bookbinding

Carlotta Soares
VP of Marketing, The Phoenix Symphony

Diana Smith
Advisory Board Member, Scottsdale Historical League; Historymakers Recognition Program Chair, Historical League, Inc.

Gay Firestone Wray
President, Roger S. Firestone Foundation; Co-Founder and Immediate Past Co-Chair of the Board, The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute; Philanthropist

Maryanne Wray
Philanthropist