Staff

Moli Steinert, Executive Director          

Moli Steinert has 30 years of experience leading and managing nonprofit organizations for such issues as: global health and international development, domestic violence, AIDS, lesbian rights, breast cancer, and end-of-life care. She is a widely recognized fundraiser who has worked with numerous organizations in their nascent stage, such as the Breast Cancer Fund, Continuum HIV Day Services, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Project Sanctuary to develop organizational infrastructure and fund development and the successful completion of multimillion dollar fundraising campaigns. She has also founded and managed a for profit bike/adventure travel business in San Francisco. Moli has served as Executive Director of openhouse since 2005 and provides openhouse with seasoned and successful leadership in both the nonprofit and for profit sector.

moli@openhouse-sf.org

Trilce Santana, Administrative Assistant

Trilce comes to openhouse with over ten years of experience working in nonprofit community organizations focused on LGBT civil rights, domestic violence prevention, immigrant rights, and community arts. She has experience providing direct services, administrative support, facilitating workshops, organizing events, and fundraising.

trilce@openhouse-sf.org

Michelle Alcedo, Education and Outreach Coordinator

Michelle  brings to openhouse 7 years of experience working with educators, youth and social service providers, and community members to help increase their access to community resources that address social justice issues ranging from, gay and lesbian families, diversity and anti-bias education, to concerns facing family caregivers. Michelle has organized community-wide educational trainings across the country for professionals working with school-age children, as well as facilitated classes for caregivers throughout the Bay Area caring for an aging family member.

michelle@openhouse-sf.org

Roxie Kellam, Education and Outreach Coordinator

Roxie Kellam brings a life of activism in civil rights and grassroots community organizing. Over the past 35 years she has worked with farm workers as a VISTA volunteer, American Indians with the Tohono O’Odham tribe, woman’s health clinics and the Oakland Bubble Ordinance as an escort, her neighbors in SF’s Bernal Heights and Oakland’s Glenview crime prevention committees, and residents of residential care facilities with Alameda County Ombudsman, Inc.  She has been an elementary school teacher, tutor, developmentally disabled consultant, and a chef. Roxie has a master’s in Gerontology from San Francisco State University and worked on several aging related research projects including community mental health at UCSF’s Institute on Health and Aging and The Over Sixty Health Care Clinics in Berkeley and Oakland along with family caregivers at UC Berkeley’s Center for Advanced Study of Aging (School of Social Welfare). She has facilitated focus groups, taught women’s financial empowerment workshops, organized volunteers, and has been a  leader in her church’s process in becoming a Welcoming Congregation for LGBTIQ.

roxie@openhouse-sf.org

Board of Directors

Marcy Adelman, Ph.D., Founder

Dr. Adelman founded openhouse in 1998 with her late partner Jeanette Gurevitch. Dr. Adelman is nationally recognized expert in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender aging and senior issues. She is a clinical psychologist, writer, researcher and lecturer. Her 30 years of experience in LGBT aging provided the foundation for openhouse’s vision. In her tenure as Board President from 1998 to 2005, Dr. Adelman established partnerships within the LGBT community , as well as with service providers, government and the San Francisco housing sector. As a Board member, Dr. Adelman provides continuity in the development of openhouse’s matrix of programs and is chair of the Research and Policy Committee.

Tom Berry

Tom Berry is the Director of Sales for Sunrise Senior Living here in San Francisco.  Tom has his Master's in Gerontology, and is also the host and executive producer of The Silver Lining, a television program on KRON that focuses on Bay Area Seniors.

Nancy Brundy

As Director of External Affairs for the Institute on Aging, Nancy is responsible for the development and expansion of relationships with governmental organizations, unions and community agencies. She is the former President of the California Association for Adult Day Services and a founding member of the San Francisco Adult Day Services Network. Currently she is a member of the San Francisco Department on Aging and Adult Services, Planning for Elders in the Central City, the Coalition of Agencies Serving the Elderly, and the American Society on Aging.

Bill Denebeim, Treasurer

Bill has over 20 years experience providing financial, regulatory and operational consulting services to executive management and investors in the telecommunications and Internet infrastructure industries.  A former director at Price Waterhouse, Bill is experienced in all phases of developing and delivering professional services. Bill chairs openhouse’s Finance Committee.

Derek Gordon

Derek Gordon is a 20-year veteran in the field of marketing and is currently Vice President of Marketing for Engage.com, a social networking and dating site.  He is a specialist in viral and social marketing, corporate communications and product marketing in start-up environments.  Prior to joining Engage, Gordon worked with Technorati, Thomson/NETg, DigitalThink and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Derek chairs openhouse’s Communications Committee.

Hadley Dale Hall, Secretary

A retired CEO of the Visiting Nurses and Hospice Program in San Francisco, Hadley lead that organization in developing the 30th Street Senior Center and comprehensive programs for the elderly such as home delivered meals, congregate meals and home care.  He also created Coming Home Hospice, a residential hospice program providing care and support for clients and their families facing terminal illness. He has an expertise in senior issues and comprehensive knowledge of senior service providers in San Francisco. Since his retirement in 1986 has been an active volunteer most specifically with On Lok and openhouse.

Alexander J. Hines

Alexander brings extensive experience in the fields of social services and healthcare. Currently Director of Admissions and Eligibility for San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, he previously served as the Business Office Manager for Oakland and Richmond Medical Centers/Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Alexander is also a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the California Association of Healthcare Admissions Management, and the Society for Nonprofit Organizations. As an active member of the LGBT community, Alexander provides a wealth of expertise to openhouse.

Arthur Hurwith

A retired schoolteacher and principal, Arthur is a longtime activist for LGBT senior housing in San Francisco. Arthur is a former president of GALEXY (Gay and Lesbian Accommodations for the EXperienced in Years), and has served as a delegate to numerous national conventions for senior gay men. He has been a member of the Independent Housing Advisory Board, Gay and Lesbian Outreach to Elders Advisory Board, Steering committee for G40+, and a twelve-year member of the Council on Aging Advisory Council. Arthur's diverse expertise includes such areas as fiscal accountability, board development, and community outreach.

Daniel Johnson

Daniel is a Certified Public Accountant in private practice in San Francisco following over 16 years of accounting and auditing  positions with three leading Bay Area firms. He has expertise in systems and accounting, corporate accounting, personal income tax, and internal auditing functions. He is also a tenured faculty member of City College in San Francisco.  Daniel is Treasurer on the Board of Directors of Project Open Hand in San Francisco.

Marty Low

Marty has 20 years of management and financial experience in the nonprofit sector. His experience spans small community-based organizations to large government funded agencies, as well as local and Federal government entities. Currently, Marty is the Deputy Executive Director, Finance & Administration for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. He has specialized experience in health care, mental health/substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and residential treatment/long-term housing. He has served on many community boards and governmental agency committees.

Pat Martel

Pat’s over 27 year career in city government includes executive management positions with several California municipalities, including Inglewood, South San Francisco, and currently Daly City where she is the City Manager.  She also served as General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and with the City of Hayward as a redevelopment consultant and project manager.  She has served on numerous nonprofit board of directors, among them the Family Service Agency and United Way. She has a long history of leadership and activism in the LGBT community, including serving on the founding board of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center.   In 2003, she was recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the 100 Most Influential Business Women in the Bay Area.

Saralie Pennington, MSW, LCSW

Saralie is a professor at San Francisco State University and a psychotherapist with a private practice. She is a community development specialist and worked at Operation Concern, now New Leaf, for 20 years.  As a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the National Association of Geriatric Service Providers and Educators, Saralie brings a wide range of experience in mental health, community organization, senior service delivery, program development, and fundraising events.

Matile Rothschild, Ph.D., Founding Board Member

Matile is a retired clinical social worker. Along with her clinical work at Kaiser, she developed programs for seniors, AIDS and cancer patients. She has for many years been involved in the development of programs for LGBT seniors. In the early 1980's she was instrumental in creating the first needs assessment that opened the door for the funding of GLBT senior programs in San Francisco. She has also been a volunteer for many non-profits including New Leaf, the AIDS Health Project, GALAXY and Options for Women Over Forty. In 2002 she received the Senior Leadership Award from U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health and the California Wellness Foundation. She brings tremendous knowledge in LGBT aging, senior services, outreach and board development.

Arthur Santos

Arthur serves as Vice President of Client Accounts and a Business Deposit consultant for Wells Fargo Bank.  He is also an active member of Out and Equal.  Arthur’s extensive background in financial management and marketing helps to ensure openhouse is positively and responsibly positioned for success.

Neil Sims, President

Neil is presently Managing Director of the Global Technology Practice at Boyden, an executive search firm.  With over 15 years of matching thought leaders with targeted skills to start up pioneering companies, he has worked closely with founders and venture investors focused on early strategies for creating strong leadership teams.  Neil has served as a member of the National Board of Governors for the Human Rights Campaign as well as co-chair of its local Steering Committee and continues to lend his time to the candidates and political initiatives that affect the LGBT community. His organizational, finance, management and leadership skills have been instrumental in providing openhouse’s nonprofit vision with a strong entrepreneurial foundation

Martin Skea

Martin Skea is Senior Vice President and head of marketing for Wells Fargo Wealth Management Group (WMG). Mr. Skea oversees a team responsible for marketing to clients of Wells Fargo Private Bank and Private Client Services as well as communicating with all WMG business lines, National Sales, corporate, executive and administrative groups.

Mr. Skea has been in the financial services industry for 15 years.Immediately before joining Wells Fargo in 2005, Mr. Skea was the global head of marketing for FileNet’s financial services industry group. Prior to that, he was a management consultant at BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting), where he worked in the U.S. and Europe to deliver strategy and business-change consulting services in the wealth management arena. Mr. Skea began his career in financial services at Charles Schwab in 1992. Prior to his financial services career, Mr. Skea worked for the New York City Department of City Planning where he focused on environmental impact planning and review.

Jim Tom

Jim has a commercial real estate consulting and appraisal practice involved with land use, market analysis and valuation issues. He had been involved with Gay Asian Pacific Alliance and had served as its Rap Coordinator for discussion topics related to gay Asians. Jim also has active care-giving experience with seniors.  He brings an analytical background in commercial as well as residential real estate.  Jim chairs openhouse’s Site Development Committee.

Sonni Zambino, Vice-President

Sonni is the Chief Information Officer for two privately-held companies: Dentistat, Inc. and go2dental.com, Inc.  She has been a LGBT activist for over 30 years and was a board member of National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and Lesbian Visual Artists.  Sonni brings extensive fund development experience to openhouse having led annual major gift campaigns for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

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