Mike Fox

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Mike "Fox" Fox is an executive specializing in marketing with experience at Google, Verizon and Apple. Mike graduated Leadership San Jose in 2006 and served on the San Jose Leadership Council board of directors from 2009-2013. His two children attended science camp at Walden West and Mike likes to hike, camp and play pickleball.

Jennifer Campbell

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Jennifer “Dragonfly” Campbell is an audit partner at KPMG LLP, a global network of professional firms around the world providing audit, tax and advisory services. Jennifer's three daughters have attended Walden West for almost 10 years from science camp to summer camps and counselors. When Jennifer isn't crunching numbers, she enjoys entertaining in her backyard, visiting wineries and traveling.

Marie Bacher

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Marie “Pineapple” Bacher is Director of Environmental Education at Walden West. Her last assignment was Educator-on-Loan to the Alameda County Office of Education in Hayward for Integrated Middle School Science Partnership, which was a $12 million dollar NSF-funded grant working with middle school science teachers all over the Bay Area. In her 22 years as a teacher for Santa Clara Unified School District, Marie has taught 2nd through 8th grade. Marie started her teaching career at Walden West and to this day believes the best way for everyone to learn is through engaging hands-on, minds-on experiences in nature. Marie has two beautiful children, Kate and Rick. When not at Walden West, Marie can be found spending time with her family, surfing, hiking, camping, playing her ukulele, or dancing the hula. She has a Masters of Education in Administration and Supervision from San Jose State University and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Humboldt State University.

Dr. Jessica Bonduris

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Dr. Jessica "Willow" Bonduris serves as Assistant-Superintendent of Educational Services for Santa Clara County Office of Education. Dr. Bonduris has 22 years of experience in public education as a teacher, principal, Director of Principals with San Francisco Unified, and Senior Director of Personnel Services with San Leandro Unified. She earned a B.A. in Sociology and English from the University of Wisconsin, a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction from Saint Mary’s and a Doctorate of Educational Leadership from Mills College.

Linda Caplinger

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Linda “Fish” Caplinger grew up in a family that loved to camp and has been involved with girl scouts, teaching both K-12 and community college engineering students, and has a background in science.

Linda attended the University of California, Irvine majoring in Anthropology and Economics. She has worked as a laboratory archaeologist on numerous archaeological digs in Southern California and also in UCI’s radiocarbon laboratory. She currently works at NVIDIA as head of global integrated search marketing.

She loves the outdoors, and you can find Linda and her husband camping, kayaking, hiking, foraging for mushrooms and native plants, or tending to their flock of hens. Her two step children attended Walden West Camp and it remains as one of their fondest memories.