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Kate Boyd designs scenery and lighting in the Bay Area. Recent productions include Long Christmas Ride Home at Magic Theatre; Splittin' the Raft at Marin Theater; Blue Orange at Aurora Theater, Nickle and Dimed for Theaterworks and BRAVA! and Marriage of Figaro for Center Rep. At Harbor Theater she has designed scenery for Taming of the Shrew and The Importance of Being Earnest. Ms. Boyd teaches design and was a recipient of the Gerbode Design Fellowship with the Working Women Festival.

Terry Pimsleur is one of the "pioneers" in the Festival industry, Ms. Pimsleur spent 30 years creating, producing and marketing hundreds of major free public festivals. As president of Terry Pimsleur & Company, Inc., an advertising and public relations firm, she created the genre of the modern day Street Fair and Festival with award winning graphics and posters and including fine art & crafts, music, dancing in the street, contests and mid-street cafés serving food and drink. Her network of annual events, from 1972-2002, were designed as marketing tools for her nonprofit clients and attracted up to a million fairgoers annually.

A founder, former president and current board member of CalFest, the professional organization that represents special events and festivals in California and Nevada, she is one of fewer than 200 Certified Festival & Event Executives worldwide. Now with partner Dana Harrison as Clear Day, she consults and continues to produce. She is a member of the International Festivals & Special Events Association.

Her background includes radio and television - as a disc jockey and writer and director of original radio and television dramas, host of her own show "Fun Farm", a live TV children's program, theatre playing leading and supporting roles in productions in Ohio as well working on scenery production in school and as prop manager for The Mad Anthony Players, newspapers writing society and club columns for The Blade before moving to California where she worked in public relations and advertising. A passion for historic preservation led to volunteer work for the Johnston House Foundation, Inc. and historic research on San Francisco's Miranda Grant property.

Regina Schaffer is primarily a teacher and musician. She performs piano recitals annually and also performs often as an accompanist. She has been teaching piano privately for the past 10 years to students of all ages and levels. Her own music study began at age 4 but music and music education became her career with the decisions to complete a teacher training course and begin teaching (in 1997) and also to attend the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (2001-2005) where she earned her Bachelor's degree is piano performance. Her studies will continue this Fall at Mills College where she will be pursuing a Master's Degree in piano performance.

In addition to performance and music education Ms. Schaffer has been an activist in every community she has lived in. She has done extensive volunteer work to help non-profits supporting the arts, animal rights and social change.

Elizabeth Allen, co-founder of Metis Capital Management LLC, a San Francisco-based investment advisory firm, has been a supporter of the Arts community in the Bay Area for many years. She has been a volunteer photographer for Woman's Will since its inception in 1998, and in the last year volunteered her audio, camera, and other technical skills to producers at Access SF, Channel 29 - San Francisco's local public access television station. Recently she has been producing and directing her own regularly broadcast program, "The Collection Agency," which focuses on local musical talent and gives special consideration to female musicians underrepreresented in mainstream media. She admires very much all artists in the Bay Area who persevere in expressing their view of the world despite many obstacles they face in our culture, and is thrilled to be a member of the Board of Directors of Woman's Will.

Tracy Fraas has an undergraduate Finance degree and a MBA in Accounting from Cal State Hayward. She has always worked in the social justice arena and is currently the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for Lutheran Social Services of Northern California. Proud to be a feminist, Tracy loves to hike, read and cook. Serving on the board of Woman's Will enables Tracy to combine her volunteer skills and admiration of Theatre Arts to ensure a wider audience for this wonderful art form is reached.