Board of Directors
Dewey Rosetti, Founder
Ms. Rosetti resides in San Francisco with her husband Bill, and two daughters who both have learning disabilities and ADD. She has been a tireless advocate for her daughters and others with learning and attention difficulties for over fifteen years. Ms. Rosetti retired from Levis Strauss as Merchandise Manager responsible for 125 million dollar business. Prior to Levis, she was a Research Analyst at McKensey & Co.
Ms. Rosetti is President and co-founder of the Parents Education Network, and the founder of the Parent Support Group at Katherine Delmar Burkes School. She is currently a Trustee of the Charles Armstrong School, and past Board member of Burkes School and California Pacific Medical Center. She was also past President of the Little Sisters of the Poor Auxiliary.
Ms. Rosetti received her M.B.A. from University of California at Berkeley, and B.A. from the University of Florida.
Sandy Otellini, Chair
Ms. Otellini resides in San Francisco with her husband, Paul, and daughter who is dyslexic. She retired from Intel Corporation in 1995 where she held several legal and management positions. Prior to joining Intel, Ms. Otellini was an associate with the legal firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker where she represented Fortune 500 companies in all aspects of employment law.
Currently Ms. Otellini is co-founder and Vice President of the Parents Education Network. She also is a Trustee of the Charles Armstrong School, and Director of the Exploratorium. Ms. Otellini served on the Steering Committee of the Hearts in San Francisco Project, a project benefiting the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.
Ms. Otellini received her law degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and a B.A. in political science and psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Martha Gregg, Secretary
Ms. Gregg lives in San Francisco with her husband, Jim, and is the mother of two dyslexic daughters who attend an independent school. She is an Interior Designer with clients throughout the Bay Area. Ms. Gregg has also been a film editor and florist. She currently is a Board member of the Blauvelt-Demerest Foundation which supports wildlife conservation and education.
Dennis Aftergut
Dennis Aftergut is the father of two young adults with learning challenges. Dennis was a founder and Board Chair of Oak Hill School in Marin County, which serves children with developmental differences. He is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of North Country School and Camp Treetops in Lake Placid, New York, where his daughter attended. He is also the Secretary Treasurer of the Three Guineas Fund in San Francisco, a foundation promoting economic opportunities for women and girls and other issues of social justice.
In a prior life, Dennis was a federal prosecutor and the Chief Assistant City Attorney in San Francisco. Dennis has argued cases of constitutional significance in the California and United States Supreme Courts. In 1998, he was named one of California’s 20 “lawyers of the year” for his successful defense of suits brought by Pat Robertson’s legal foundation and United Airlines challenging San Francisco’s nondiscrimination law protecting the economic rights of domestic partners.
Dennis is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, and was a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard in 1996.
Calla Fleischer
Ms. Fleischer resides in San Francisco with her husband, Spencer, and four children. Born and educated in South Africa, she has lived in several countries and has been actively involved in schools in London, Hong Kong and San Francisco. Her interest in this field stems from her own education, in which learning differences were ignored, and also from the needs of her children. Ms. Fleischer has been a long time champion of schools around the world addressing the needs of children with learning and attention difficulties around the world.
Directly after high school, Ms. Fleischer spent two self-supported years traveling alone and working in Europe and North America, an experience to which she credits a pragmatic and organized approach to life. She attended Burnham Business College and then founded and ran her own company, "Organization Unlimited", which managed events in catering and sports promotion in South Africa. Ms. Fleischer has also worked as sales director for Lorton Publications. She was a member of the fund raising board of "Action on Addition", a London-based charity providing drug-related treatment and rehabilitation. She currently represents an African safari company, "Passage to Africa" in the U.S.
Millicent Lalanne
Ms. Lalanne resides in San Francisco with her husband Bob and their two daughters one of whom has ADHD. She has been actively involved with the Parents Education Network for the last three years.
Ms. Lalanne worked in the computer industry as a salesperson for Sperry Univac and a software consultant for a west coast correspondent banking division of Citicorp. Following that she was an account manager for both technology and consumer product accounts at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample and Foote Cone Belding advertising agencies. She then formed her own company representing and marketing photographers to advertising and design agencies.
She served on the Board of Directors of St. Vincent Day Home in West Oakland and has been a Food Bank/Food Pantry coordinator for the last three years in San Francisco. Ms. Lalanne attended UC Davis majoring in international relations and Spanish.
Laura Maloney, Executive Director
Ms. Maloney resides in Pacifica with her husband, John, and two children. Her daughter is a wonderfully talented writer and a dyslexic learner. Ms. Maloney is herself a dyslexic learner, and is a dedicated advocate for her children.
Ms. Maloney has worked in the restaurant and hospitality industry and also spent time working as an escrow officer in the field of real estate. She is also one of the founding members of the Parent Group on LD at Presidio Hill School and the Summer Resource Fair for LD Kids. Ms. Maloney was very involved in the 100% volunteer effort to build a wonderful new playground in Pacifica. She was also one of the founding members of the Parent and Teacher Association at Lamping Elementary in Nevada. She is currently training to run the Honolulu Marathon in support of the San Francisco Aids Foundation.
Ms. Maloney attended the University Nevada Las Vegas majoring in hotel restaurant administration. She also attended Mount St Mary's College in Brentwood, CA majoring in business.
Ellice Sperber
Ellice is a retired American Sign Language Interpreter for the Deaf and the Deaf-Blind with more than thirty-five years of experience dedicated to working in the disabilities and disability rights community. Currently, Ellice is a Trustee at Gateway Public Schools and on the Advisory Board of Northern California Branch, International Dyslexia Association; she is a former Director for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, N. CA. Ellice has two daughters and lives in San Francisco with her partner, Dale.
Julie Traun
Ms. Traun resides in San Francisco with her husband Tony Tamburello, and daughter who is dyslexic. She has been active in starting a parent support group at Presidio Hill School.
Ms. Traun has been an attorney in private practice since 1979. Currently she is a sole practitioner and employed part time by the Bar Association of San Francisco as an administrator in the Indigent Defense Program. Ms. Traun has taught as an adjunct professor of law at Golden Gate University Law School and USF Law School, and New College of California School of Law. Ms. Traun is a long time member of the Conflicts Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco, the National Lawyers' Guild, Women Defenders, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and the California Criminal Trial Lawyers' Association. She has been honored by the Bar Association of San Francisco and Women Defenders as an "Outstanding Criminal Defense Attorney."
Ms. Traun received her law degree at the New College School of Law, and B.A. from the University of Minnesota.
