Max is a former Board Chair, and is currently serving his tenth year on the Board. He and his family have been a part of the Waverly commu­nity for nearly four­teen years. Outside of Waverly, Max is the Chair­man of an insti­tu­tional invest­ment firm serving the needs of teach­ers, fire­fight­ers, public employ­ees, and others by manag­ing money for large pension funds, sover­eign wealth funds, foun­da­tions, endow­ments, and family offices. During his nearly thirty year career there he has served as both the Chief Invest­ment Officer and Chief Exec­u­tive Officer. Max and his wife, Lindsay, have devel­oped a deep, personal commit­ment to regen­er­a­tive, ecolog­i­cal food and agri­cul­tural prac­tices that combine Indige­nous wisdom with modern scien­tific insights from micro­bi­ol­ogy. Max also volun­teers with a non-profit that aims to make profound change on all that food and agri­cul­ture touches – human health and equity, biodi­ver­sity, and the health of the planet itself.

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.

Pat has been on the Board since 2008. He serves as Secre­tary and as a member of the Trustee Affairs commit­tee. Pat is a systems analyst for the City of Los Angeles. Pat and his wife, Aye Chat­nakrob, and their daugh­ter Alyssa ​‘20, have been part of the Waverly commu­nity for over 14 years.

Susan has been a Board member since 2015. She serves as Co-Chair of Trustee Affairs and as a member of the Facil­i­ties Commit­tee. Susan is a Marriage and Family Ther­a­pist with a specialty in Trauma Studies. She has expe­ri­ence in both commu­nity mental health and private prac­tice settings working with teens, parents, and indi­vid­u­als strug­gling with PTSD, anxiety, and depres­sion. Susan and her family (Anton Floquet, Ryan ​‘23, and Luke ​‘20) feel very fortu­nate to have been a part of the Waverly commu­nity since 2010 and will miss it greatly when their youngest graduates.

Jingbo’s current Board service began in 2019. He serves as Co-Chair of the Facil­i­ties Commit­tee and as a member of the Strate­gic Plan­ning and Advance­ment Commit­tee. Jingbo is a Cali­for­nia licensed archi­tect, general contrac­tor, busi­ness owner, and real estate devel­oper whose work focuses on historic preser­va­tion, afford­able housing, and urban infill devel­op­ment. He also serves as Vice Chair of the City of San Gabriel Plan­ning Commis­sion and as a member of the Los Angeles Conser­vancy Board of Direc­tors. One of Jingbo’s most cher­ished projects was design­ing and build­ing Waverly’s high school and middle school campuses. Jingbo, his wife Maki, and their son Anton ​‘20 have been thriv­ing members of the Waverly commu­nity since 2007.

Noah joined the Board in 2016 and has served as Chair­man since fall 2019. Noah’s three chil­dren are all students at Waverly. His oldest child, Lucy ​‘28, has been at the school since she started in the preschool in 2012. Noah earned an MBA and MA in Inter­na­tional Studies from the Univer­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia. He is a Port­fo­lio Manager at Hotchkis & Wiley, an invest­ment manage­ment firm, and serves on the Board’s Finance committee.

Vijay Natraj joined the Board in 2020. He is on the Board’s DEI and Devel­op­ment commit­tees. Vijay is a Research Scien­tist at the Jet Propul­sion Labo­ra­tory working on the remote sensing of Earth and plan­e­tary atmos­pheres. His research inter­ests extend from study­ing climate change and air pollu­tion to looking for biosig­na­tures on planets outside our solar system (exoplan­ets). Vijay, his wife Sowmya, and their chil­dren, Avan­tika and Siddarth (Sidd), have enjoyed being a part of the Waverly commu­nity since 2018.

Rick has been on the Board since 2014 and serves on the Finance and Facil­i­ties commit­tees. From 2017 to 2019, Rick served as the Chair of the Board. Rick is an attor­ney with the Alter­nate Public Defender’s office and has been prac­tic­ing crim­i­nal defense for 34 years. He currently coor­di­nates all the capital cases that are assigned to his office. Rick’s partner, Juli, is a systems analyst for ATT. Emma, their daugh­ter, attended Waverly from preschool until the 8th 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.