Jessica joined the Board in 2019 and serves as the Board Vice Chair, Chair of the Devel­op­ment Commit­tee, and as a member of the DEI and Strate­gic Plan­ning Commit­tees. Jessica has been in the music and enter­tain­ment indus­tries for over twenty years. She is an E‑Commerce exec­u­tive who special­izes in build­ing out, launch­ing, and scaling E‑Commerce busi­nesses. Jessica, her husband Steve, and their two chil­dren, Devin (8th grade) and Everett (5th grade), have been part of the Waverly commu­nity since Devin started kinder­garten. Jessica is honored to serve on the Board and work with the Waverly community.

Ellen has been on the Waverly Board for almost 20 years and was the first Board Chair. She currently serves as Chair of the Audit commit­tee. Ellen is a private inves­ti­ga­tor. She is also an attor­ney who has prac­ticed labor and employ­ment law, repre­sent­ing public and private sector unions. She serves on the boards of the ACLU South­ern Cali­for­nia and ACLU South­ern Cali­for­nia Foun­da­tion and is a past Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Asso­ci­a­tion Labor and Employ­ment Law Section. Ellen’s daugh­ter, Dory, grad­u­ated from Waverly in 2012 and was a ​“lifer,” start­ing at Waverly when she was 18 months old, when Waverly had infant care. The chick­ens on the Waverly Farm were Dory’s senior project.

Eliz­a­beth ​“Biz” Lawrence became a trustee in 2021, when she also became WPO Pres­i­dent. She and her family joined the Waverly commu­nity when her oldest, Raiden ​’27 (formally known as Katy Belle) trans­ferred in the 4th grade. Raiden is joined by their younger sibling, Ellis ​’32. Biz and her husband, Stefan, jumped feet first into the Waverly Halloween Haunted House and continue to enjoy a good scare. Stefan works in Pasadena with The Hettema Group as Creative Direc­tor. Biz is the creator and host of the comedy podcast about parent­ing, One Bad Mother.

Debbie has been a Board member for about 18 years. She serves on the Trustee Affairs, Devel­op­ment, and DEI Commit­tees. Debbie worked for 35 years for LAUSD in a variety of posi­tions – her most reward­ing being her time in an elemen­tary school class­room. Currently, she is a Dual Language Learner Special­ist and part-time faculty at the Center for Equity for English Learn­ers at Loyola Mary­mount Univer­sity. Debbie, Lester, and Megan ​‘11 came to Waverly when Megan was in Young Kinder­garten (now called preschool) and continue to appre­ci­ate the gift of progres­sive educa­tion and the endur­ing friend­ships formed with the Waverly community.

Wendy has been on the Board since 2012 and serves as Co-Chair of Trustee Affairs and as a member of the Finance and Strate­gic Plan­ning and Advance­ment commit­tees. Wendy is a licensed clin­i­cal social worker in private prac­tice, special­iz­ing in depres­sion, anxiety, sexual trauma, and eating disor­ders. She has worked at USC and Caltech and contin­ues to work with college and grad­u­ate students in her private prac­tice. Wendy, her husband Bradley, and their two boys, Nolan and Murray, have been part of the Waverly commu­nity since Nolan was in preschool.

Keseh Morgan joined the Board in 2020 and currently serves on the Devel­op­ment and DEI commit­tees. While she has been an active WPO parent for many years, she is excited to dig in and make some mean­ing­ful change through Board service. She is a Produc­tion Designer, working in film and tele­vi­sion. Keseh and her daugh­ter Asha ​‘24 have been a part of the Waverly commu­nity for ten years.

Steve joined the Board in 2021. In more than two decades of leading nonprofit arts orga­ni­za­tions, he has been CEO of the Center Theatre Group, from which he retired in 2018; the Music Center of Los Angeles County; and the Los Angeles Opera, as well as the chief oper­at­ing officer of the Getty Trust. Steve currently also serves as chair of the Occi­den­tal College Board of Trustees, as a trustee of The Ahman­son Foun­da­tion, and is a trustee of Children’s Hospi­tal of Los Angeles. He and his wife, Carol, reside in Sierra Madre and are active in the lives of their two daugh­ters and five grand­chil­dren, all Pasadena-area resi­dents. Grand­son Charlie Arredondo ​’23 has been a proud Waverly raven since the 4^th grade.

Joanne Toll has served on the Board of Trustees since 2010. She has served as the Board Trea­surer and co-chair of the Finance Commit­tee since 2015, and served as Board Secre­tary for three years prior to serving as Trea­surer. Joanne is a tele­vi­sion producer, mostly in come­dies, includ­ing Better Things for Fx, Grace and Frankie for Netflix, Atyp­i­cal for Netflix, Enlight­ened for HBO, and the occa­sional drama, such as In Treat­ment for HBO. Joanne and her wife, Gloria, have a son, Jamie ​‘22. Jamie is a ​‘Waverly lifer’ who started in Young Kinder­garten (now called preschool) with Marina and Cheenu. She consid­ers herself a ​‘Waverly lifer’ too, and is honored to serve on the Board of Trustees.