Strauss Family Reflections
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
SALLY STEPHENS REEDER - CHAIR
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Graduate of UCLA
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Former Admissions Testing Consultant for Campbell Hall School, North Hollywood, CA
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Board Member, Rock 1 Kidney (www.rock1kidney.org) an online website that promotes organ donation
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Award winning Quilter
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Lifelong friend of the Strauss family.
DAVID FANNING
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Graduate of University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Executive Producer and creator, FRONTLINE, the PBS documentary series since 1983
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2004 Columbia University Journalism Award
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AFS student living with Don Strauss' sister, Marjorie Anderson and family, 1964/65
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Don and Dorothy Strauss gave the seed funding for his first major documentary in 1974
DUNCAN STRAUSS
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Graduate of UC Davis
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Former journalist/critic for the Los Angeles Times
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Co-owner of Strauss-McGarr Entertainment - manages comedians, operates a comedy club
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Hosts Talking Animals, an NPR radio show about animals and animal issues
GORDON STRAUSS, M.D.
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Graduate of Stanford University and NYU Medical School
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Formerly on psychiatry faculty at UCLA Medical School
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Currently practices and teaches psychiatry at University of Louisville
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Swims for exercise; indulges taste for gourmet food to overcome the beneficial effects of swimming
MATTHEW STRAUSS
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Graduate of Vassar College and California Western School of Law
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Attorney practicing in San Diego
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Son of Gordon Strauss and eldest grandson of Don and Dorothy Strauss
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Inherited Don and Dorothy’s love of playing in the ocean
NANCY STRAUSS TIETGE
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Graduate of UC Santa Barbara
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M.P.H. from San Diego State University
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Trying to become proficient in Spanish
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Has the Strauss love of travel
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ANKUR LUTHRA
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Graduate of Berkeley (University Medalist), Harvard Business School (Soros Fellow), and Oxford (Rhodes Scholar)
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CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Finchwood Capital, an investment firm in San Francisco
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Board of Directors of Ceiba Public Schools and Omprakash.org
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Strauss Scholar 2002; the award funded his project "Bridging the Digital Divide" focused on getting underprivileged youth computers and a computer education
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Selected as one of the first Strauss Scholars to serve on the Board of Trustees
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TRACY TIETGE SCHREINER
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Graduate UC Berkeley
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Auditor with Ernst & Young
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Jazzercise Instructor
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Daughter of Nancy Strauss Tietge and Granddaughter of Don and Dorothy Strauss
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Inherited an appreciation for phenomenal desserts, crosswords, naps, great stories, travel, and an intolerance for poor grammar
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ARAM NADJARIAN
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Graduate of Loyola Marymount University (Summa Cum Laude) and University of Sussex (Rotary Scholar)
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Former Chief of Staff to California EPA Secretary & Senior Policy Advisor to Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Managing Partner of Mozaic Media & Communications, a national Public Relations & Advocacy Firm
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2005 Strauss Scholar - Project focused on Bringing Education & Career Opportunities to Juvenile Hall Youth in LA County (2005 National Telly Award Recipient for Documentary Aram produced on his journey)
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Selected as one of the first Strauss Scholars to serve on the Board of Trustees
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G. JENNIFER WILSON, PH.D.
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UCLA Professor in the Honors Program for 35 years; recently retired
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Held leadership positions and received awards for teaching, advocacy of writing in the curriculum, and contributions to the special series of courses called the Honors Collegium
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Believes that commitment to the public good very much includes discovering what it means to live a significant life
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As the campus representative for the Strauss Scholarship, launched all 25 of the UCLA Strauss Scholars in the first 20 years of the Foundation.
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TESS BRIDGEMAN
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Graduate of Stanford, DPhil Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), NYU Law
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Senior Editor Just Security
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Senior Fellow & Visiting Scholar , NYU School of Law; Lecturer, U C Berkeley Schools of Law; Lecturer & Affiliate, Center for International Security & Cooperation, Stanford University.
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Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council, Department of State, and Special Assistant to the President & Assoc. White House Counsel in President Obama's administration.
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2002 Strauss Scholar from Stanford. "Building Bridges to Community Health in Underserved Areas" . She co-founded a non-profit, which promoted the cultivation of the high protein grain, Amaranth, which is also high in Folic Acid. They also worked to create a sustainable market for it. It still exists today, https://www.facebook.com/Puentemexico/ ,