ADVISORY BOARD

Ruth Tebbetts Brousseau, Ph.D., is a philanthropy consultant formerly with The California Wellness Foundation, where she served as the Director of Evaluation and Organizational Learning.

Daniel A. Farber, J.D., is the Sho Sato Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law Program at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law – Boalt Hall.

Anthony Iton, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., is the Director and Health Officer for the Alameda County Public Health Department.

Robert Spear , Ph.D., is a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health, University of California - Berkeley.

STAFF

Brenda Jackson Drake, JD
Director, Public Health Trust

Brenda Jackson Drake brings a broad range of experience to the Public Health Trust. A graduate of Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, Drake has worked as a lawyer, foundation executive, and community activist.

Drake practiced corporate law for 16 years before becoming a foundation executive with the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund. In her 11 years at the Goldman Fund, she developed and implemented grantmaking programs in population, reproductive health and rights, services for the elderly, low-income community organizing activities, and social justice for incarcerated men, women, and youth.

Drake has also served as a director or trustee of organizations focused on education, international health, finance, civil rights and the arts. Prior to joining the Public Health Trust, she served as interim executive director for the new Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.

Mary Dalsin
Program Administrator, Public Health Trust

Mary Dalsin has extensive experience in grants administration and program administration. She earned a BA in International Relations, with a minor in Economics, at University of Pacific and an MS in International Agricultural Development, with a focus on Community Nutrition, from UC Davis. Before starting her graduate program, she lived in Russia and Uzbekistan for several years, working on environmental and health issues with non governmental organizations and activists. While at UC Davis, she worked with a research team looking at agricultural development after privatization in the Central Asian countries of the former Soviet Union. Her research specifically studied the nutritional status of rural livestock owning families in Kazakhstan and their food resources.

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