Ryan Schofield was born in Hawaii and raised in Bellevue. He graduated from the Bush School during the grunge era and attended Bucknell University. He is the founder/principal of Aedifex, Inc., a boutique real-estate development and construction firm. Ryan was co-chair of the 2015–2016 SCDS Annual Fund and coached his daughters’ SCDS basketball teams from 2012–2019. His daughters, Emma ’18, and Maddie ’21, now attend the Bush School. When not working or volunteering at SCDS, Ryan can be found golfing, skiing, or attempting to keep up with his wife and girls.

Sandra Jerez received her B.A. in American history from Columbia University and an M.S. in health policy and management from Harvard University. She’s also served for nine years as chief strategy officer of MDLinx, a DC-based internet healthcare company that was acquired in 2006 by M3 USA, a publicly traded e-healthcare company. Over the past 10 years, Sandra has focused on raising her children and volunteering at their schools. She chaired three benefit auctions and volunteered as PTA vice president at her children’s schools in Boston. She also served as the parent council president at SCDS for two years. She lives in Queen Anne with her husband, Patrick, and their three children (’18, ’20, and ’24), all of whom attend(ed) SCDS.

Danna Redmond is a start-up advisor and strategy consultant with Mohair Consulting. Danna is an entrepreneur at heart, having started multiple companies after a 17-year career at Microsoft that spanned a variety of leadership roles in online advertising, customer services and support, information technology, and human resources. Danna is mom to an SCDS alumnus, Cole ’20. She has been active in the SCDS community as chair of the 2017 “World of Pure Imagination” Auction, as a parent grade representative, as a member of the leadership council for the Annual Fund, and as chair of the Book Swap. She also coached FLL (First Lego League) teams for two years. Danna’s nonprofit involvement includes serving as board chair and board secretary for Home Step, now part of Compass Housing, and serving on a Children’s Hospital guild. Danna currently serves on the board of trustees for Chi Omega Foundation, is on the national alumnae connections team for Chi Omega and is an advisor to the collegiate chapter at the University of Washington. She holds a bachelor’s degree in human resource management from Utah State University and an MBA from Seattle University.

Catherine Burns Humbert ’91 is an alumna of SCDS and Lakeside School. She received a B.A. in Economics from Pomona College. While studying abroad in Strasbourg, France, she attended the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and met her husband, Olivier. They are the parents of two SCDS students (’22 and ’26). Together, Catherine and Olivier chaired the SCDS Annual Fund in 2018–2019. Catherine has been a longtime member of the investment committee for the Seattle/King County YWCA and several advisory boards for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Catherine is vice president at Goldman Sachs Personal Financial Management. She holds the designations of chartered financial analyst and certified financial planner.

Sue Belcher is the founding head of The Downtown School: A Lakeside School. She led the research and development of this innovative high school that uniquely equips students to ask important questions, generate creative solutions, and act from a sense of agency to implement their ideas — all key skills to attaining goals in education and in life. With a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, Sue has teaching and administrative leadership experience in independent, public, and international schools. Originally from the Midwest, Sue holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s in library and information science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She lives in West Seattle with her husband, Joe, and her two elementary-aged children, Brody, and Charlie.

Brent Binge is general counsel and chief compliance officer at Steelhead Partners, LLC, an investment adviser and private fund manager. Prior to joining Steelhead, he was a director in the legal department of BlackRock, Inc. (formerly Quellos Group LLC), where he started as an associate general counsel in 2004. He began his legal career at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he focused on securities and investment adviser regulatory advice, private placements, and corporate legal matters. Brent graduated from the University of Puget Sound and received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. For SCDS, he co-chaired the school’s carnival in 2017 and 2018. He lives in the Eastlake neighborhood in Seattle with his wife, Tara, and their son, Henry ’22.

Kirsten Camp has served in almost every independent school role — from teacher, to administrator, to student, to parent, to volunteer — and she continues to synthesize her prior experience and apply it to SCDS. Kirsten spent her K–12 school years in two independent schools. She graduated from Brown University with a dual concentration in educational studies and philosophy. She holds an M.Ed. in early childhood and elementary education from Bank Street College of Education in New York and a permanent New York State Teacher Certification for preschool through 6th grade. Kirsten worked at her alma mater, The Chapin School, as an assistant kindergarten teacher (three years) and later as a head kindergarten teacher (four years). While at Chapin, she also spent two years as director of lower school admissions. She is currently the managing director of Harvard Avenue School (a local preschool), where she has worked since July 2007. Kirsten has been an active SCDS parent volunteer for the past 11 years. In addition to volunteering often at the classroom level, she chaired the new family committee for several years and was Parent Council president for two years. Kirsten was the board vice president for the 2017–2018 school year, chaired the advancement committee for two years and co-chaired the head of school search committee. Kirsten’s daughters are members of SCDS’s Class of 2019 and Class of 2021.

A native of Seattle, Washington, and current resident of Queen Anne, John Cerqui majored in business at Pepperdine University before obtaining a law degree from Fordham University and a master’s in Tax Law (an LL.M.) from New York University. After clerking for a judge and working in the private sector at a Seattle law firm, he joined the in-house legal department at Seattle Public Schools in 1997. In his role as deputy general counsel, he is responsible for advising the school board, superintendent, and administrative staff on a range of educational and administrative issues, including budget, curriculum adoption, department reviews, employment matters, student discipline, facilities and operations, contracts, and litigation management. He has also been elected to other nonprofit boards, most recently the Network for Excellence in Washington Schools’ board, the group that coordinated the landmark lawsuit against the State of Washington for underfunding public education. John is the parent of an SCDS graduate (Andrew ’17) and served as the chair and co-chair of the SCDS Adopt-a-Street Committee for three years.

Andrew Hwangbo received his M.S. in civil engineering and his MBA from the University of Washington and Seattle University, respectively. Andrew spent the last 17 years with the Microsoft Corporation and currently leads a technical PM team in Azure. He has served, with his wife Yoo-Lee, as class representatives for the school’s Annual Fund for multiple years. The Hwangbo family lives in Madison Park with their children AJ, ’21 and Alex, ’25. 

Bharathi Jagadeesh is a neuroscientist by training. She completed her undergraduate education at Caltech, earning a B.S. in biology, and then went on to complete a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Northwestern University, where her research topic was the neural basis of visual processing. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the NIMH, in Bethesda, Maryland, she headed her own laboratory at the University of Washington, studying the brain circuits that underlie visual decision-making and memory. Since leaving the university, Bharathi has served on the Seattle Public Schools’ textbook advisory committee, and she has served on the most recent strategic planning initiative and on the advisory group for the endowment feasibility study at SCDS. She has managed Destination Imagination teams and led Girl Scouts for her children. Recently, she has developed an interest in what our growing knowledge of the brain can tell us about how we learn and how this research can enhance education. Bharathi has been part of the SCDS community since her first child entered SCDS in kindergarten. Both her children attended SCDS through the 8th grade, graduating in 2018 and 2015. Bharathi’s own educational horizons were expanded by attending high school at an independent school, Columbus School for Girls, in Columbus, Ohio.

Michael Lapin is a Seattle native but grew up in Tacoma. He spent 14 years at Charles Wright Academy (preschool through 12th grade) and has been a donor for over 30 years. Michael graduated from Williams College (Williams has the oldest alumni association in the world, and Michael has been donating to Williams for over 25 years) in 1993 with a degree in philosophy. Michael graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1996 and also holds an LLM in taxation from the University of Washington, where he met his wife, Karri. He worked for a couple of years at Arthur Andersen in Seattle; then at Graham & Dunn; followed by Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland, where he practiced a mix of tax and business law. In January 2005, Michael joined Philips and has been working with them in Bothell ever since. Michael and Karri’s son Ethan ’19 started at SCDS in kindergarten, as did their daughter, Willa ’21. Michael coached Ethan’s soccer team from K–2 and Willa’s from 1–8. Michael has also coached the Ultimate team in grades 3 and 4 for Ethan and 3–6 for Willa, as well as a couple of SCDS Spring Jam teams. Michael and Karri served as Annual Fund chairs (2016–17), setting records for both dollars raised as well as participation. Michael previously served on the leadership council for the Annual Fund and helped start and run the SCDS Book Swap. He and Karri are also devoted auction attendees — never having missed one!

Sarah Leung ’90 is an alumna of SCDS, a parent of an SCDS student ’26 and an SCDS alumnus ’21, and is beginning her third term as a trustee at SCDS. She chairs the board trusteeship committee, and previously served on the board strategic planning update committee and the head of school search committee. She is also a member of the SCDS Alumni Council. Previously, Sarah served for eight years on the board of directors of the Denise Louie Education Center, a multicultural early learning and family support organization for low-income families. She is general counsel for Wyze Labs, having earned her J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 2001 and her B.A. in American studies from Williams College in 1998.

A Seattle native, Jane Mills serves as the finance advisor to the board of Tillamook County Creamery and the chair of its finance and audit committee.  After she received a B.A. in history from Whitman College and an MBA in finance/accounting from the University of Chicago, Jane worked for HJ Heinz and PepsiCo and returned to Seattle, where she spent 20 years as the CFO for the Starbucks/Pepsi joint venture. She and her husband, Dan, live in the Green Lake neighborhood with their daughter, Katie (SCDS ’18). Jane has served on various community boards, including the audit committee at the Seattle Foundation and on the board of the Seattle Shakespeare Company; she also volunteers as a math tutor at Seattle World School. 

Ed Petersen, SCDS Class of 1985, is a parent of two SCDS students, ’21 and ’22. He is the co-founder and CEO of Wrench, Inc. and is a classic serial entrepreneur, having founded multiple companies. Both he and his wife, Jennifer, have been involved with the school in a variety of capacities, including the Parent Council, chairing the Annual Fund, and chairing the school’s carnival. Ed also has served on the board of trustees for Whittier College, and he and Jennifer sponsor a scholarship that funds undergrad students over the summer months, allowing them to participate in unpaid internships in international studies. Ed graduated from Whittier College, with degrees in business administration and history.

Tsering Yuthok Short received her B.A. in English literature from the University of Washington and a J.D. and certificate in dispute resolution from Willamette University College of Law. For over 20 years, she has been a practicing attorney as well as a women’s lacrosse referee for NCAA/college and high school games. She is also actively involved in school and community issues, including PTSA and her children’s Tibetan Language and Culture School. Before she had children, Tsering was a deputy prosecuting attorney for Pierce County’s felony division. She has served on the boards of the Tibetan Association of Washington (TAW) and the Washington Women’s Lacrosse Officials Association (WWLOA), and within organizations such as the Mercer Island Food Revolution, Scouts BSA, and a Scouts for Equality Pack of Cub Scouts. Additionally, she enjoys assisting individuals within the Tibetan community and nonprofit organizations with pro bono legal services. She currently serves on the WWLOA board as chair. Tsering and her husband, Floyd, also an attorney, have one child in the Class of 2022 at SCDS. Their two older children are proud SCDS alums.

Zahlen Titcomb ’96 is an SCDS alumnus and possesses degrees from the University of Chicago in economics, Italian literature, and international studies. After a brief stint in finance and healthcare consulting in Beijing, he and his siblings founded Five Ultimate, a sports apparel company serving the Ultimate frisbee community. The siblings later started several other businesses in the Ultimate sphere, including the All-Star Ultimate Tour, the Seattle Cascades, and ARIA Discs. Zahlen serves as CEO of Regenerated Textiles, building distributed technology for clothing recycling. He has served on the board of several foundations and has completed studies at THNK.org, the Amsterdam School for Creative Leadership. 

For seven years, Ms. Kimberly Zaidberg served as head of school at Rockland Country Day School, a pre-K–12 school in the Hudson Valley of New York. Her many accomplishments include the launch of a gifted and talented program; the introduction of project-based learning; completion of a curriculum alignment process; and the construction of a campus STEAM Lab. Prior to Rockland Country Day, Ms. Zaidberg was the principal of two middle schools for girls in New York City. Her early career was spent leading after-school programs with a focus on educational enrichment, remediation, and social-emotional development. With over 25 years in education, she began her career as an educator teaching English and history at St. Joseph High School, her alma mater, on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She received her B.A. in sociology from Oberlin College and her Ed.M. in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University. Ms. Zaidberg brings her passion for program development and educating children to Seattle Country Day School.