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Board of Directors
Director – Development-Schools: Lori Buecheler
For the past 20 years, Lori Buecheler has been involved with the education of children in a variety of capacities.
She started with tutoring school-age kids from the Projects in Chicago. She then moved to Seattle and served as a board member for Child Care Resources, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of early childhood education.
Living in Palo Alto with her family since 2003, Lori has spent several hours as a volunteer in the classroom and has served as the PiE representative at Walter Hays, where she and her team raised the school's participation rate from 50% to 74% in two years. Lori is also actively involved in addressing the educational disparity in underserved areas such as East Palo Alto, East Menlo Park, and East San Jose.
Lori has a BA in Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She formerly worked in marketing management for a variety of start-up companies, including an educational DVD-game company. Lori and her husband, Kurt, have two children at Walter Hays Elementary.
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