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Kids & Art Foundation has an AMAEYZING, dedicated, and diverse team who help us stay true to our mission and provide the power of creativity and art to pediatric cancer patients and their families. These families have very specialized needs and to best support them, our team is all part-time and has very specialized experience to meet these needs.

Team Members

Debra Braun

CEO

Rachel Handsman

Programs Director

Sejal Desai

Operations Director

Caroline Girgis

Development Manager

Caroline Robins

Artist-in-Residence

Deborah Hopkins

Artist-in-Residence

Daniela Sardiello

Volunteer Coordinator

Kristine Dworkin

Writer and Editor

Lillian Ma

Grants Writer

Joshua Bernstein

Technology

Board of Directors

Purvi Shah

Founder

Dawn Linhardt, Chair

OTD, OTR/L, CLT, C/NDT

Nathalie Auber

Partner and CFO, Sofinnova

Sasha Zullo

Strategic Advisor

Bharvi Patel

Director, Head of End User Computing Testing at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)

Advisory Council

Artist Advisory

Bianca Levan – Chair
Rinat Goren
Don Ross

Research Advisory

Dawn Linhardt – Chair OTD, OTR/L, CLT, C/NDT
Priya Talreja Health Coach – Stanford Prevention Research Center

Parent Advisory

Courtney Angle Rodgers
Vidhya Navalpakkam

Health Advisory

Dr. Subha Aahlad – Pediatrician, Foster City Pediatrics Medical Group

Adrianne Angle – Yoga Instructor

Benjamin S. Braun – MD, PhD, Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

Dr. Ayelet Hirshfeld – Psychoanalyst and Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Pam Simon – Program Manager/NP Stanford Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program (AYA) at LPCH and Stanford Health Care

Merian Willis-van-Eijk – MSN, RN, CPHON Stanford Children’s Hospital

Business And Technology Advisory

Apurva Shah – CEO Duality Robotics, Adjunct Faculty at CCA

Janis Nakano Spivack  – CEO Brite Catalysts

Karan Parikh – CEO GreenRain

Trish Lindo – Too AMBITIOUS Consulting

Finance Advisory

Pratish Patel – Associate Professor of Finance at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Accounting

Kathy Joyce – Jensen & Novacic

Legal Counsel

ReedSmith 
Morrison Foerster

HR Advisory

Sangeeta Prashar

Parent of a pediatric cancer patient

Parent of a pediatric cancer patient

My three year old daughter, Laurel, is undergoing treatment at Stanford and loves going to the doctor on Thursdays because Deb from Kids & Art is there. Deb does an amazing job with Laurel who absolutely loves the experience and as a parent it makes my life much easier as well because I can work, run to the pharmac,y or take a break from parenting in between appointments.”
Parent of a pediatric cancer patient

Parent of a pediatric cancer patient

Rachel from Kids & Art and all the amazing volunteers made a life longing impact on Adeline and me as a primary care provider for Adeline. Thanks for what Kids & Art does. You guys have an amazing organization.”