SF-Krakow Sister Cities Association

Th ThB BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tad Taube, Chairman

Honorary Consul, Republic of Poland (San Francisco)

Taube Philanthropies (Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture)

Shana Penn, Vice-Chair

Visiting Scholar, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California

Executive Director, Taube Foundation

Deputy Honorary Consul (San Francisco)

John Henry Fullen, President

Former Executive Director, Sister Cities Program, Toledo, Ohio

Financial Controller, California Long-Term Care Insurance Services, Inc.

Mary Kay Stuvland, Secretary

Artistic Director and Choreographer

Elżbieta Zienczuk, Treasurer

ADVISORY BOARD

Shana Penn, Chair

Visiting Scholar, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California

Executive Director, Taube Foundation

Christopher Kerosky, Co-Chair

Honorary Consul, Republic of Poland (Northern California)

Jeffrey Farber

Chief Executive Officer, Koret Foundation

Anita Friedman

President, Jewish Family & Children Services

Franklin "Pitch" Johnson

Venture capitalist

Chairman of the Board, San Francisco Opera

Asset Management Company

Linda Law

Partner, Law & Associates, Atherton

Piotr Moncarz

Chairman, US Polish Trade Council

Consulting Professor, Stanford

Rabbi Stephen Pearce

Senior Rabbi, Temple Emanuel, San Francisco

George Shultz

Former Secretary of State

Tomasz Ulatowski

Businessman, Warsaw

Emerging Ventures Limited, Poland

The programs and activities that the San Francisco-Kraków Sister Cities Association conducts to accomplish its specific purposes include:

Organizing educational exhibits and cultural events that promote Polish culture, specifically those related to Krakow, in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area
Enhancing cooperation and exchanges between the universities in and around the partner cities, in particular Jagiellonian University (UJ) with the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and Stanford University
Promoting development in the area of tourism between the City of San Francisco and the City of Kraków
Providing support to develop exchanges in the area of science, biotech and medicine between the cities, in particular between the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF), the San Francisco Biotech community, and corresponding institutions in Kraków
Promoting trade in Advanced Technologies and Information Technology (IT) between Kraków and Silicon Valley and the Bay Area IT community, in particular through business conferences and delegations, and promoting related business exchanges throughout the year
Supporting the development of commercial cooperation between the two cities
Organizing and promoting joint events to promote San Francisco and Kraków as important cultural centers including classical music concerts, opera, ballet, dance performances, and folk art exchanges