Contacts

• M.F.A., University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast

Patricia Smith is the author of six books of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, chronicling the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and one of NPR’s top five books of 2008; and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection.  Her latest is Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Tin House and both Best American Poetry 2011 and Best American Essays 2011. She is also the author of Africans In America, the companion book to the groundbreaking PBS series, the children’s book Janna and the Kings and the editor of the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir. She is a 2012 fellow at both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, a two-time Pushcart Prize winner and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history.  She is a professor at the City University of New York/College of Staten Island, and is on the faculty of the new low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.

• B.S., University of Wisconsin
• M.A., Grand Canyon University, Phoenix

• M.A., University of Phoenix

Jim Steinmann

Jim was raised in rural Wisconsin farm country, graduate of Purdue University with degrees in Engineering and Industrial Management in 1967, resident of Beverly Hills, California for 22 years, and relocated to the Brockway area on the North Shore of lake Tahoe with wife, Jan in 1990.

Employed by North American Aviation and Computer Science Corporation to plan and develop facilities for the military and space program systems including B-1, F-111, and Apollo and seven data centers around the world prior to starting his Facility Planning and Development Consulting firm in 1973. Recent projects include Convention Centers, Public Libraries, U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, Courts in Kuwait, and buildings for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Military Intelligence Agencies, and a number of state and local government/office buildings.

Jim guided the design and construction of the Prim Library and The Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences. He is now semi-retired with projects in San Diego and occasionally overseas. Jim and Jan enjoy skiing, the social life of the North Shore, and travel extensively.
 

M.A., University of Nevada, Reno

Elbridge H. Stuart III

Elbridge H. Stuart III was the Director of Alternative Assets and Research and a Principal at Coldstream Capital Management, Inc. a high net worth asset management firm with over 1 billion in assets based in Bellevue Washington He joined the firm in 2003 and resigned in 2009 after the death of his father to run several taxable and non-taxable family enterprises. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Stuart worked for several investment firms in the areas of investment banking, but side equity research, and both institutional and high net worth portfolio management. After earning his degree, Mr. Stuart was in the computer industry from 1970 to 1985, working in the areas of hardware, large system software design, and software product management and marketing. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1970.

Non Profit Activities (Current) – Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA) Audit Committee 2009- present and Investment Committee 1994 – 2008; Loyola Marymount University ( Los Angeles) Board of Trustees and Finance Committee 2004- present; Seattle University Endowment Committee 2009 – present; Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Board of Directors 2011 – present, investment committee 2010 – present; Camp Korey at Carnation Farm (Carnation, WA) Board of Directors, Executive, Construction and Finance Committees 2007 – present. Camp Korey is a member of the Paul Newman Hole in the Wall Camps; Elbridge and Debra Stuart Family Foundation Founder and Trustee of the and Board; Elbridge Amos Stuart Foundation (dba Stuart Foundation of San Francisco) Vice Chairman/Treasurer and member of the investment committee 1982 – present. Mr. Stuart is also currently the owner and managing partner of Carnation Farms LLC, a non-profit entity that controls Carnation Farms.

Memberships – CFA Society of Seattle, Foundation Financial Officers Group (FFOG), Philanthropy Northwest, Northern California Grantmakers, and Seattle Yacht Club

M.A. University of Nevada, Reno