Board Members
Linda Sanders – Founder/Board Chair
Linda Sanders has spent a lifetime as an advocate and supporter of community nonprofits. She has worked to help save animals; find foster homes for children and ensure that orphanages in other countries have the supplies they need. Hope So Bright is a result of Linda’s desire to help children in a variety of programs in her community.
Dima Efros
Since 1993, Dima has been the President of Parquet By Dian. The company has grown to being a leader in most of the world’s LEED projects and work with the USGBC andLEED to manage the world’s forests in a more sustainable manner. He has also worked with Pitt and his Make IT Right Foundation by donating time and materials for rebuild of sites that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina. He has also given a great deal of time to the USGBC and the AIA to educate architects and designers on environmentally friendly practices.
Kimberly Csabai
Kimberly has been involved in with numerous nonprofit and community support groups for over a decade. During that time she also served as an appointed Administrative Assistant to the CA State board of Equalization, Elected Member Claude Parrish. She also served as Business Tax Representative and Tax Representative for the State Board of Equalization from 1997 – 2006.
Kim Ryan
Kim is a PMP Certified, Information Technology professional with in-depth experience in the areas of Project Management, Business Analysis and Process Re-engineering. I am well versed in business issues faced by these areas and recognized for successful implementation. My broad range of experience includes all phases of the systems development lifecycle from business requirement analysis through testing, delivery and maintenance.
Lucien Lucasse
Since 2001 Lucien has been the President of Castaway Studios, one of the first commercial casting agencies to specialize in children. In this capacity he has worked with hundreds of children from all walks of life and family types. This work has guided him to become more involved with children in need in our community.