Board Member Bios
Lowry Fenton is the parent of three graduates of Alameda Community Learning Center. He brings extensive financial experience and a long-standing commitment to education to the new school. He co-founded the finance committee of ACLC in 2001, and is currently a governing board member. Lowry is currently a Director of Business Planning and Organizational Development for Oracle Corporation, and began his career with KPMG as a CPA in the audit division. He has co-chaired ‘Startup U’ for the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, and worked with Alameda youth in Soccer and Scouting.
Hugh Morgan has a wealth of enterprise sales and business development experience in the technology space and is responsible for building out a French business intelligence start up's North American sales effort and retooling its go-to-market strategy. At Corrigo, a mobile software company, Hugh negotiated strategic partnerships to grow the company and extend its technology, then was responsible for building a team to handle enterprise sales and then handled the firm's business development efforts, in particular its relationship with wireless carriers. Prior to working with Corrigo, Hugh Morgan spent 10 years working in the finance and real estate industries and started his business career in investment banking. Hugh is active with non profits and has sat on or led the boards of the Alameda Food Bank, St. Barnabas School and Canterbury Investment Counsel.
Paul Bentz serves as the CEO / Development Director for Community Learning Center Schools, Inc. He brings extensive educational experience (22 years as a science teacher) and a long standing commitment to education. He is a founding facilitator of the Alameda Community Learning Center (1995) and has served as the school’s Lead Facilitator for three years. As the CEO / Development Director for CLCS, he has managed the $1.6 million ACLC budget and has secured and implemented three federal grants from the Public Charter Schools Grant Program totaling $450,000.
Lora Lewis is the past Lead Facilitator for ACLC and served in that capacity for three years. She has been a humanities facilitator at ACLC for seven years. She has a secondary administrative credential and is currently working on her college counseling certification. She chairs the ACLC Personnel Committee. She has served on the ACLC Governing Board.
Maafi Gueye has been an ACLC facilitator for eight years. She has chaired the ACLC Curriculum and Standards Committed for several years. She has served the ACLC as Assistant Lead Facilitator and currently runs the school’s Judicial Committee. She has served on the ACLC Governing Board. She has been a science teacher for 22 years. She is the Lead Petitioner for the Nea Community Learning Center charter petition and will be NCLC’s first Lead Facilitator.
Susanne Gallagher has provided her financial expertise to the ACLC for over ten years, serving on the ACLC Governing Board and Finance Committee. Susanne works as an officer for a commercial properties firm, and has received an MBA from Cal State East Bay, and a Bachelor’s degree from Copenhagen School of Business.
John Gallagher has been involved with ACLC for over ten years, serving on the Governing Board and various committees. He works as a statistician in the securities brokerage industry and has an MBA from Cal State East Bay and a Bachelor’s degree from Trinity University.
Lynn Kameny is the current Lead Facilitator of ACLC and is one of ACLC’s founding facilitators. She has been a facilitator at ACLC for the past 13 years and an educator for 24 years. In her years at ACLC, Lynn has served as the Assistant Lead Facilitator, chaired the ACLC Program Evaluation Committee, the Personnel Committee, the Judicial Committee and has been a member of the ACLC Financial Committee.
Judy Blank is a parent of two students, one, a pioneer graduate of the Alameda Community Learning Center and the other a former student of ACLC. She is an avid supporter of alternative learning environments. For 17 years she has been active in the Alameda Education Foundation, a community based non-profit that supports the Alameda Unified School District and also been involved in supporting public schools for 21 years. Her passion is helping to make available performing arts enrichment opportunities for students. She brings to CLCS board her long involvement in the Alameda community. She graduated with a BS in Dental Hygiene from the University of Michigan and a MPA with a focus in Marketing from Golden Gate University.