Board of Trustees
Dunham Academy is a California non-profit corporation with Board members serving on a voluntary basis. The Trustees have oversight responsibilities for financial management of the school and governance to meet mission.
View from Dunham Academy classrooms.
Jennifer S. Muller
Jennifer is a Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey, where she heads their Financial Advisory Services for the San Francisco Bay Area. She speaks frequently at corporate and legal symposiums on corporate finance and valuation. Her professional clients are typically boards of directors, special committees, and other fiduciaries. Jennifer is a mathematics/economics graduate from Claremont McKenna College, and has substantial experience advising all types of entities on financial and valuation issues. Jennifer has been active in community service, donating her time to the Belvedere-Tiburon Joint Recreation Committee and the Belvedere Community Foundation. Jennifer is delighted to serve on Dunham’s board of trustees, helping to position Dunham’s students for success in a world of rapidly changing economics, social and political structures, educational opportunities, and scientific discoveries.
Rainer Raab, MBA
Rainer Raab has an MBA in Computer Information Systems. He has worked as engineer in Silicon Valley for the last 20 years for variety of firms, including PeopleSoft, and several small startups, before joining Wells Fargo Bank as a senior applications engineer, supporting the Internet Online Banking system. Mr. Raab is an accomplished author and has published numerous articles for a variety of computer engineering publications. He is an open source software (OSS) proponent.
Diane Rittenhouse, MD, MPH
Diane Rittenhouse is a strong supporter of providing academically gifted students with the individualized, inquiry based learning that they receive at Dunham Academy. She is a family physician and a professor at the Phillip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UC San Francisco. Dr. Rittenhouse is Associate Director for Health Policy in the new UCSF Pathway to Discovery in Health and Society, a mentored educational track for students, residents and fellows in the UCSF schools of medicine, nursing and pharmacy. She has been a leader in the effort to develop and integrate a new required comprehensive 4-year health policy curriculum for the School of Medicine. She has received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Rittenhouse is co-investigator for 3 large national studies of physician practices funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, and The Commonwealth Fund. She is Principal Investigator for the evaluation of federal efforts to restore, expand and improve primary care services in Greater New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Rittenhouse has been invited to speak to members of the U.S. Congress on the role of the primary care in health reform. Dr. Rittenhouse holds an M.D. from the University of California, Davis, and an M.P.H. with an emphasis in Health Policy and Management from the University of California, Berkeley.
Marie Schützendorf
Marie Schützendorf received her degrees in Human Development and Psychology from the University of California at Riverside. While attending graduate school, she began working with Wells Fargo Bank as a teller and progressed quickly to Project Manager in the ATM Department. After 15 years in banking, Marie decided that time with her children is something she could never buy back so she left the bank to raise her children full time. Marie sees the importance in giving back to the community so she has volunteered with The Shanti Project, San Francisco Food Bank, San Francisco Rescue Mission, Project Open Hands, Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
Jack Strange
Jack Strange has made a career of providing exceptional learning opportunities to both the gifted as well as the economically disadvantaged within a framework of inquiry-based learning coupled with a highly integrated curriculum that stimulates students to seek to see the unseen… to be curious enough to ask questions that others don’t, and then get excited when you uncover the truth. After nearly two decades in high tech, Jack Strange followed his bliss and changed careers to teaching. He is a professional educator now in his ninth year of teaching science, mathematics and economics to middle school and high school students. Mr. Strange is also the founder and director of the Sonoma Marin Debate Society; an acclaimed and unaffiliated interscholastic debating team. For nearly twenty years prior to teaching, Strange was both an innovator and entrepreneur in computer hardware and software technology that served the engineering, scientific and medical markets. He has held positions in product marketing up to, and including, the executive levels in start-up companies, as well as in well-known global technology firms such as Xerox, Canon and Autodesk. Mr. Strange earned a B.A. in economics with a minor in physics from Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT and has pursued courses of independent continuing studies in physics, economics and education at Stanford University, CalTech and UCLA.
Victoria Talkington, JD
Victoria Talkington believes that Dunham Academy’s educational model for gifted children sets a California standard. Ms. Talkington graduated from Yale University with a degree in molecular biochemistry and biophysics, and obtained her juris doctor from Harvard University. She has clerked in Washington D.C. for the United States Tax Court, and began her legal career assisting emerging technology companies with financings, mergers and acquisitions, and stock option plans. She served as managing partner of a Marin County based law firm until her retirement from active legal practice. During that time, she also served on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of Marin, was selected by the Marin County Bar Association to serve in a statewide, year long court/community outreach initiative, and was twice named the Marin County Legal Aid Society’s volunteer of the year for her pro bono assistance of indigent families. While raising her two children, she has chaired the Site Council for a local public elementary school, led the Mill Valley Planning Commission as its chair, started a community organization rebuilding the steps and lanes system of Mill Valley, and obtained $1M grant funding for that program, among other activities. She most recently was named Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce’s 2010 Citizen of the Year for her civic work.
Rob Duncan
Jennifer is a Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey, where she heads their Financial Advisory Services for the San Francisco Bay Area. She speaks frequently at corporate and legal symposiums on corporate finance and valuation. Her professional clients are typically boards of directors, special committees, and other fiduciaries. Jennifer is a mathematics/economics graduate from Claremont McKenna College, and has substantial experience advising all types of entities on financial and valuation issues. Jennifer has been active in community service, donating her time to the Belvedere-Tiburon Joint Recreation Committee and the Belvedere Community Foundation. Jennifer is delighted to serve on Dunham’s board of trustees, helping to position Dunham’s students for success in a world of rapidly changing economics, social and political structures, educational opportunities, and scientific discoveries.
Rainer Raab, MBA
Rainer Raab has an MBA in Computer Information Systems. He has worked as engineer in Silicon Valley for the last 20 years for variety of firms, including PeopleSoft, and several small startups, before joining Wells Fargo Bank as a senior applications engineer, supporting the Internet Online Banking system. Mr. Raab is an accomplished author and has published numerous articles for a variety of computer engineering publications. He is an open source software (OSS) proponent.
Diane Rittenhouse, MD, MPH
Diane Rittenhouse is a strong supporter of providing academically gifted students with the individualized, inquiry based learning that they receive at Dunham Academy. She is a family physician and a professor at the Phillip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UC San Francisco. Dr. Rittenhouse is Associate Director for Health Policy in the new UCSF Pathway to Discovery in Health and Society, a mentored educational track for students, residents and fellows in the UCSF schools of medicine, nursing and pharmacy. She has been a leader in the effort to develop and integrate a new required comprehensive 4-year health policy curriculum for the School of Medicine. She has received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Rittenhouse is co-investigator for 3 large national studies of physician practices funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, and The Commonwealth Fund. She is Principal Investigator for the evaluation of federal efforts to restore, expand and improve primary care services in Greater New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Rittenhouse has been invited to speak to members of the U.S. Congress on the role of the primary care in health reform. Dr. Rittenhouse holds an M.D. from the University of California, Davis, and an M.P.H. with an emphasis in Health Policy and Management from the University of California, Berkeley.
Marie Schützendorf
Marie Schützendorf received her degrees in Human Development and Psychology from the University of California at Riverside. While attending graduate school, she began working with Wells Fargo Bank as a teller and progressed quickly to Project Manager in the ATM Department. After 15 years in banking, Marie decided that time with her children is something she could never buy back so she left the bank to raise her children full time. Marie sees the importance in giving back to the community so she has volunteered with The Shanti Project, San Francisco Food Bank, San Francisco Rescue Mission, Project Open Hands, Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
Jack Strange
Jack Strange has made a career of providing exceptional learning opportunities to both the gifted as well as the economically disadvantaged within a framework of inquiry-based learning coupled with a highly integrated curriculum that stimulates students to seek to see the unseen… to be curious enough to ask questions that others don’t, and then get excited when you uncover the truth. After nearly two decades in high tech, Jack Strange followed his bliss and changed careers to teaching. He is a professional educator now in his ninth year of teaching science, mathematics and economics to middle school and high school students. Mr. Strange is also the founder and director of the Sonoma Marin Debate Society; an acclaimed and unaffiliated interscholastic debating team. For nearly twenty years prior to teaching, Strange was both an innovator and entrepreneur in computer hardware and software technology that served the engineering, scientific and medical markets. He has held positions in product marketing up to, and including, the executive levels in start-up companies, as well as in well-known global technology firms such as Xerox, Canon and Autodesk. Mr. Strange earned a B.A. in economics with a minor in physics from Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT and has pursued courses of independent continuing studies in physics, economics and education at Stanford University, CalTech and UCLA.
Victoria Talkington, JD
Victoria Talkington believes that Dunham Academy’s educational model for gifted children sets a California standard. Ms. Talkington graduated from Yale University with a degree in molecular biochemistry and biophysics, and obtained her juris doctor from Harvard University. She has clerked in Washington D.C. for the United States Tax Court, and began her legal career assisting emerging technology companies with financings, mergers and acquisitions, and stock option plans. She served as managing partner of a Marin County based law firm until her retirement from active legal practice. During that time, she also served on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of Marin, was selected by the Marin County Bar Association to serve in a statewide, year long court/community outreach initiative, and was twice named the Marin County Legal Aid Society’s volunteer of the year for her pro bono assistance of indigent families. While raising her two children, she has chaired the Site Council for a local public elementary school, led the Mill Valley Planning Commission as its chair, started a community organization rebuilding the steps and lanes system of Mill Valley, and obtained $1M grant funding for that program, among other activities. She most recently was named Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce’s 2010 Citizen of the Year for her civic work.
Rob Duncan
