Anthony joined the Board in 2021. He and his wife, Desiree Carva­jal, and their daugh­ters, Francesca ​‘26 and Zoe (currently attend­ing a Meher Montes­sori School) joined the Waverly commu­nity in 2020. Anthony serves as Board Secre­tary and as a member of the Devel­op­ment, DEI, and Finance commit­tees. He is a licensed clin­i­cal social worker with expe­ri­ence in commu­nity mental health, serving people with severe and persis­tent mental illnesses. In the past 27 years, Anthony has held direct service and manage­r­ial roles and is currently a Program Manager with Los Angeles County Depart­ment of Mental Health Contract Manage­ment and Monitoring Division. 

Lorne began his Board member­ship in 2021 and serves as a member of the Devel­op­ment, DEI, Facil­i­ties, and Strate­gic Plan­ning and Advance­ment commit­tees. Lorne has a back­ground in educa­tion, ethnic and Africana studies, as well as being an actor for over 20 years. His work centers on race and the role of Black excel­lence in educa­tion. He has expe­ri­ence in Los Angeles schools and is currently devel­op­ing an African Amer­i­can heritage school for chil­dren. Lorne and his wife Rachel have two chil­dren at Waverly, Bennett ​’33 and Ceciliana ​’35.

Debbie has been a Board member for about 18 years. She serves on the Trustee Affairs, Devel­op­ment, DEI, and Strate­gic Plan­ning and Advance­ment 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.

Noah joined the Board in 2016 and served as Chair­man from 2019 to 2021. 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 is Co-Chair of the Board’s Finance commit­tee and Chair of Strate­gic Plan­ning and Advance­ment. Noah also serves as a member of the Exec­u­tive, Compen­sa­tion, and Audit committees.

Vijay joined the Board in 2020. He is Co-Chair of Devel­op­ment and serves as a member of the Exec­u­tive, Finance, and Trustee Affairs 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 ​’31 and Siddarth (Sidd) ​’33, have enjoyed being a part of the Waverly commu­nity since 2018.

Michael joined the Board in 2022. He is a co-chair of the Facil­i­ties Commit­tee and a member of the DEIJ and Devel­op­ment Commit­tees. Michael is a prac­tic­ing archi­tect and educa­tor. He is Direc­tor of Design and Inno­va­tion at NAC Archi­tec­ture and has taught at the South­ern Cali­for­nia Insti­tute of Archi­tec­ture. Michael special­izes in design for educa­tion and has created spaces for early educa­tion to univer­sity programs but has been involved in civic work of all types. Recently he has been leading projects to address home­less­ness. Michael and his wife, Juli­ette, love being Waverly parents!

Nadine’s Board service began in 2018. She co-chairs the Board’s Trustee Affair’s commit­tee and also serves on the Audit, Compen­sa­tion, DEIJ and Exec­u­tive commit­tees. Nadine earned her Ph.D. in Educa­tion from UCLA in 2020 and is a researcher with UC Irvine’s EcoGov­Lab. Nadine and her family have been part of the Waverly commu­nity for over 13 years.

Carl joined the Board in 2022. He is an East Coast trans­plant, though has lived in Cali­for­nia since 2008. Carl earned his medical degree from the Univer­sity of Connecti­cut and attended Vassar College for his B.A. As a full-time, primary-care physi­cian with Cedars-Sinai Medical Group, he has weath­ered the chal­lenges of the COVID pandemic. He has a special inter­est in LGBTQ health, partic­u­larly gender affirm­ing care. He and his husband, Gil, a profes­sor of reli­gious studies at Loyola Mary­mount Univer­sity, live in beau­ti­ful Altadena. Their daugh­ter, Amalia, started preschool at Waverly in the fall of 2020.

Serita has been on the Board since 2017 and serves as the Board Chair, a Co-Chair of the DEI Commit­tee, and as a member of the Exec­u­tive, Compen­sa­tion, Trustee Affairs, and Facil­i­ties commit­tees. Serita is an attor­ney and repre­sents public agen­cies in a wide range of govern­men­tal issues. Serita, her husband Brian, and their two sons, Riley ​’28 and Aaron ​’29, have been a part of the Waverly commu­nity for over five years.