La Cocina’s Board of Directors are community residents and business and civic leaders.
Lindsay Hower, Board Chair
Deputy Director of Development & Director of Campaigns; The Nature Conservancy
Katie Colendich, Secretary
Head of Corporate, Employment + Equity, Legal; Asana, Inc.
Kim Alter
Chef + Owner, Nightbird and Linden Room
Ruth Bender
Director, Donor Advised Funds; Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma
Jamie Brown
Partner and General Counsel, Associate Capital
Alina Hua
Principal, Legato Privacy Associates
Dilsa Lugo
Chef + Owner, Los Cilantros
La Cocina Graduate
Rafael Morales
Senior Manager, Development, Policy and Impact; Self-Help
Nicole Nelson
Manager of Marketing and Communications; The Justice Collective
Huong Nguyen-Yap
VP of Equity and Justice, Northern California Grantmakers
Laura Sagues Barr
Senior Vice President, CBRE Group
Nubia Solomon
Group Marketing Manager, LinkedIn
Linda Xu
Chief Commercial Officer, Skipify
Miki Yamamoto
Senior Vice President and Head of Regulatory Affairs at ArriVent Biopharma
