San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Area Heinz/MISM/MSIT Alumni Chapter
Listed below are members of the Heinz School, MISM and MSIT Bay Area Alumni Chapter Executive Committee. If you would like to become involved, please contact an alumni representative or Martina Jacobs, Director of Alumni Relations.
Executive Committee
Martha Chavez, MS 1995
Liaison to South
Bay Region
Martha is currently Senior Director of Programs for the Hispanic
Scholarship Fund (HSF), the national leading organization supporting
Hispanic higher education. At HSF, she leads one of four divisions
including Scholarship Programs and Community and Scholar Relations,
and is responsible for creating, executing, and ensuring the success
of national scholarship and outreach programs. Prior to HSF, Martha
served for two years as Director of the MSPPM Program at the Heinz
School. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from
the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 and Heinz School MSPPM
degree in 1995. Martha is a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship recipient of
the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Program, and she
previously served as a Presidential Management Intern at the U.S.
Department of Education working on national education policy issues.
Devin Drew, MISM 2004
IT
Coordinator
Devin is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry and Biochemistry
at the University of California, San Diego. He grew up in Sonoma
County and has long term plans to employ himself on the IT side of
Science in the Bay Area. At the Electronic Frontier Foundation
in San Francisco’s
Mission District, he developed documentation for email cryptography
during his MISM internship. Devin is proud to represent the
large number of MISM alumni through his recent appointment to the
Heinz Alumni Association Board. He is also proud to be a Spanish speaker
from the part of the world where the mountain bike was born.
Elisa Echeverria, MS 2004
Chapter
Events Coordinator
Elisa is a California native, raised in Sacramento.
Elisa resided for five-years in the Bay Area while she attended UC
Berkeley from 1996-2000 and worked 1 year in San Francisco. Elisa
recently returned to the Bay Area to begin a management fellowship
with City of San Jose. The one-year program involves four rotations
through different departments in the City. Elisa aspires to be a
Peace Corps volunteer in Latin America and expects to depart early
next year.
Allyson Halpern, MPM 1997
Allyson is an executive
consultant with Ketchum, the country's oldest fundraising consulting
firm, where she is charged with developing and serving West Coast
clients in all areas of the non-profit sector. She has 15 years of
non-profit management, strategic planning, program development, and
fund raising experience for large and small organizations, both start-up
and established, with a special focus on and love for arts organizations.
Allyson is a frequent speaker on topics of development and fundraising
in local and regional conferences; has also served as a panelist
for the Cultural Funding Panel of the Oakland Craft and Cultural
Arts Department; is on the Education Committee of the Association
of Fundraising Professionals, Golden Gate Chapter; and is the Vice
President of the Board of Public Glass in San Francisco. Allyson's
Carnegie Mellon roots run deep - in addition to her MPM she has an
undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon in Technical Writing, worked
for the university in Development for 8 years and was an instructor
in the Masters of Arts Management program. She and her husband Dan
Cohen (E'86) relocated from Pittsburgh to the SF Bay Area in October
of 2002.
Mike Niemeyer, MS3 2003
Co-Chair
Mike works for Deloitte as a Consultant, with a current
engagement at the Genetic Disease Branch of the State of California
implementing a screening information system. Previous to this experience,
he had served as a manager of telecommunications analysts in a database
publishing company, taught English in Thailand, and served in a support
role in a public health consulting firm studying the health effects
of wireless technology. Mike graduated from the Heinz school in the
first MS3 (3 semester class) in August 2003.
Louie Martirez,
MS 1995
Chair
Louie is a California native, raised in the East Bay. Louie
is a Senior Management Information Systems Analyst at Santa Clara Valley
Health and Hospital Systems, Santa Clara, CA. Louie lives in Oakland
and volunteers on the West Oakland Redevelopment Project Area Committee.
He is also a member of the Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association Board,
serving on both the Regional and Chapters committees.
Micaela Ochoa, MS 1995
Micaela is the Assistant Superintendent of Business Services for Alum
Rock Union Elementary School District in San Jose. In this position,
Micaela oversees an approximate $110 million budget and over 100
staff, Fiscal Services, Purchasing, Payroll, Child Nutrition Services,
Facilities Maintenance and Operations, Transportation Services, and
Warehouse Operations.
Heinz/MISM/MSIT Alumni Chapter Events
For information about upcoming events, visit the Heinz School Alumni Events Calendar.
Carnegie Mellon San Francisco Bay Area Alumni Chapter
Jonathan Goldick, MCS 1988, CIT 1989, San Francisco Carnegie Mellon Alumni Chapter President