• Trustee Compensation

    Election Procedures

     

Trustees

  • Rachel Litwack - Board President
    Trustee.litwack@rossvalleyschools.org
    Sworn-In: December 15, 2020

    Term expires: December 2024    

    About Trustee Litwack:

    Rachel is the proud mom of two students (one in RVSD and one at AWHS). She has over 21 years of experience working at CPA firms dealing with audits of governmental and nonprofit agencies, and is the Administrative Director for her current firm. Prior to Rachel's career in the financial sector, she was a market research consultant specializing in customer and employee satisfaction.

    As a School Board Trustee Rachel simply wants what is best for ALL of our children. A few examples of what that looks like for her is:

    • Every student having access to a high-quality, well-rounded educational experience
    • Everyone at our schools is safe, warm and dry
    • Our students and teachers are centered in decision-making, and that includes teacher pay
    • Timely, transparent communication between the district and schools, families, students, and the community 

    Chris Landles-Cobb - Board Clerk
    Trustee.landlescobb@rossvalleyschools.org
    Sworn-In: December 14, 2022
    Term expires: December 2026    

    About Trustee Landles-Cobb:

    Chris is a San Anselmo resident with two children attending schools in the Ross Valley School District. She is a regulator with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency at the US Treasury Department where she oversees compliance risk management functions at national banks. She holds an undergraduate degree from New York University and a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. Chris' priorities for the district include, but are not limited to, ensuring that our schools continue to provide superior award-winning education to all students and that our teachers receive competitive compensation.

     

    Daniel Cassidy
    Trustee.cassidy@rossvalleyschools.org
    Sworn-In: February 13, 2023
    Term expires: December 2024  

    About Trustee Cassidy:

    Education is Daniel's ‘true north’.  Daniel earned his Bachelor's degree in K-12 Health Education and his Master’s degree in College Administration. He continues to teach locally as an adjunct faculty member at Dominican University in San Rafael and leads an educational consulting business helping high school students navigate the college application and selection process.

    Daniel is fortunate to have a wonderful and supportive family. Carrie, his wife, has been active on the YES! Board. His two daughters attend Brookside Elementary (5th and 2nd grade) where Daniel volunteers frequently in the classroom and yard duty - every school needs more volunteers ;-). He is also an active coach with San Anselmo Recreation for soccer and  basketball. You’ll see him at the Redhill fields every weekend this fall!

    Shelley Hamilton
    Trustee.hamilton@rossvalleyschools.org
    Sworn-In: December 15, 2020
    Term expires: December 2024

    About Shelley:

    Shelley has 30+ years of both practical nonprofit management and consulting expertise and works at designing and facilitating collaboration, communications, and special projects at Marin Promise Partnership. She has worked with United Ways, the Marin Community Foundation, Fort Mason Center, The Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Performing Stars of Marin, and the Aging Action Initiative. Shelley has been an Affiliate Researcher with the Institute for the Future, a founding board member of the national Nonprofit Centers Network, a town Planning Commissioner and a School Board President. She has a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an M.A. in Organizational Design from Fielding Graduate University.

    Shelley is the daughter of four social justice warriors - a union organizer, a preschool director, and arts educator, and a Mexican-American college professor. She is committed to living her values of compassion, equity, integrity and justice in all aspects of her life. When she's not working to support collaborative equity and social justice movements, you’ll find her in the mountains, sailing or paddling in the ocean, crocheting or traveling with her family to visit relatives in Mexico.

       

    Ryan O'Neil 
    Trustee.oneil@rossvalleyschools.org 
    Sworn-In: December 14, 2022
    Term expires: December 2026

    Previous Term

    • 12/18-12/22

    Superintendent

    Tyler Graff
    P (415) 451-4060
    F (415) 454-6840
    tgraff@rossvalleyschools.org

    Executive Assistant

    Teresa Machado 
    P (415) 451-4060
    F (415) 454-6840
    E tmachado@rossvalleyschools.org