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The University of California, Berkeley
Serena Beeks has held independent school leadership positions since 1982. She now serves as Executive Director of the Commission on Schools for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, providing consulting support to the 40 Episcopal early childhood, elementary, and secondary schools in the greater Los Angeles area. She was founding Head of Middle School at the Alexander Dawson School in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her first administrative appointment was as founding Head of St. Mark's Episcopal School, Upland, California where she served for 16 years. She has also held interim administrative and chaplain positions. Her professional activities have included nine years on the Governing Board of the National Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES), three of them on the Executive Committee. She also co-chaired two national Episcopal Schools conferences during that time. Prior to her appointment to the diocesan staff, she served as a member of and chaired the Diocesan Commission on Schools. She has served on and chaired accreditation teams for the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) and the Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools (PNAIS), and she serves on the board of the California Association of Private Schools Organizations (CAPSO), a lobbying group for independent education in California. She and a friend were the first two women asked to join the Upland, California, Rotary Club when Rotary began admitting women in 1987, and she held offices and served on the board during her years in Upland. She has presented numerous workshops at local, regional, and national independent school conferences. She is actively involved in church work, serving as a volunteer in her own parish and also helping to coordinate relationships between Episcopal schools and churches in the U.S. and Haiti. A complete resume and reference list are available upon request.
Education Kenyon College
Professional Experience Stephen Bowers has served as Head of School in permanent and interim positions since 1987. From 1972-1987 he served as Dean of Students and as a division head. Schools served include elementary and secondary, secular and religiously-affiliated. In his interim positions, he has brought growth and stability to schools which had experienced challenges and tumult. From 1999-2005 he served as Founding Head of The Alexander Dawson School in Las Vegas, Nevada, building it from its opening in 2000 to a highly successful school of 500 students, Early Childhood through Eighth Grade, in five years. His most recent appointment was as Head of School, St. James' Episcopal School, an academically challenging and highly diverse urban school in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles, California, where he served for five years. Before his career as a teacher and administrator, he served as an intelligence specialist in Viet Nam, earning the Bronze Star. He has served on numerous boards, including the UNLV College of Liberal Arts Advisory Board, the Diocesan Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada, the Commission on Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, and the New Jersey Prep B Athletic League. He currently serves as the Chair of the Commission on Schools for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. He has presented workshops and retreats on a variety of subjects, particularly focusing on the clarification of a school’s vision, mission, and message. As an active lay leader in the Episcopal Church, he has served in a variety of capacities, including at a small church in Las Vegas where in three years on the Vestry, one of them as Senior Warden, he led the church through an ambitious building program and the hiring of its first full-time clergy. A complete resume and reference list are available upon request. |
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SERENA
EVANS BEEKS
STEPHEN
L. BOWERS
