| Camilla Barry, Founder and President | ||
| Camilla Barry has taught hands-on science for over twenty years. She leads teacher training workshops for
the University of California at Berkeley, California Science Teachers Association, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (USA and Canada) and the Governments of Ghazhi, Kabul and Bamyan. She is also the President of Barry Scientific. She has been teaching hands-on science and teacher training classes on annual visits to Afghanistan since 2003. In 2007 she founded Classrooms Across Cultures, whose mission is to teach critical thinking through hands-on science, with a focus on Afghanistan, where the educational system was virtually destroyed following thirty years of war. |
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| Ginna Fleming, Secretary | ||
| Ginna Fleming’s interest in people and cultures around the world began more than 40 years ago in Peace Corps/Nigeria. After retirement from a career managing public and private programs to improve the futures of children in the District of Columbia, she has traveled extensively photographing people and events in Asia, Africa, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. In 2008 she accompanied Camilla Barry to Afghanistan and documented her work there as well as that of several other nonprofit organizations serving women and children there. Her photo book of that journey, “Another Afghanistan,” is available on her website: www.ginnafleming.com. Proceeds from the sale of that book support the work of Classrooms Across Cultures. ginna@classroomsacrosscultures.org |
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| Carrie Burroughs, Treasurer | ||
| Carrie Burroughs, a graduate of UC Berkeley, was a part-time librarian at
the California Academy of Sciences managing a database of plant and animal
digital images for twelve years. She also worked for Andersen Consulting
in San Francisco as a research librarian. Prior to this, she worked for
eight years in major donor fundraising at KCET Public Television in Los
Angeles.
She is active with two school age sons and various volunteer activities at
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Hospice By The Bay, Tidalwaves Swimteam
and SPARK, the Larkspur Schools Foundation. carrie@classroomsacrosscultures.org |
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| Beverly Lambert, Marketing | ||
| After spending seventeen years in marketing management with IBM, Beverly Lambert spent two years as the President of Interactive Marketing for DFI International, based in Washington, D.C. before founding and managing xStream Corporation, a developer of Internet-based sales tools in Sausalito, California, for ten years. With an M.S. in Music Education, she is currently the Chief Executive Officer for Orchestra Nova San Diego, combining her music education with her marketing experience for the first time in her career. |
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| Nicholas Barry | ||
| Nicholas Barry, a graduate of UC Davis, is a district representative for State Senator and President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg in Sacramento, California.
He is also working toward a Masters of Public Administration at USC on the Sacramento campus. He has created Davis Dollars, a community currency in Davis to strengthen the community and the local economy. |
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