Each month we feature one of our spectacular Mentors and how they are lighting up the lives of their Scholar and supporting the East Bay College Fund community.

The Spotlight is On:  Susan Erickson Keiter

Susan Erickson Keiter is a co-founder of East Bay College Fund, and former manager of Meritus College Fund, the San Francisco-based non-profit after which East Bay College Fund is modeled.  She has taught and counseled young people in K-12 schools and on university campuses since 1986, specializing in college financial aid and scholarship programs.  Susan graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelors of Music from the University of Southern California and received a MS in Counseling from San Francisco State University.  Susan has two wonderful children. On top of being EBCF’s College Counselor, Susan also teaches piano and singing to children and adults.  Susan mentored Katie Jay, who graduated from San Jose State in 2009.
“Helping Oakland and Emeryville students get their college degrees is immensely satisfying – they’re changing their lives and their community, one degree at a time.  I am privileged the Scholars choose to let me help them navigate the ups and downs of their college experience.  Being a part of Katie Jay’s life is amazing, inspiring and humbling.  She’s the best!”

You can reach Susan at susan@eastbaycollegefund.org.

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Keep reading to meet Mentors previously in the Spotlight!

Mentor Spotlight - Boun Khamnouane

Boun Khamnouane has been a dedicated mentor since 2007.  After he graduated from UC Berkeley with a major in South & Southeast Asian Studies, he joined the non-profit world and is currently an Associate Director at the East Bay Consortium, an organization with “premiere resource(s) for college information and financial aid.”  Besides mentoring with EBCF, Boun enjoys playing basketball, keeping fresh & saltwater aquariums, and cooking 3-4 course meals for his family and friends.  Boun is one of best mentor recruiters as he has referred several family members and friends to join our ranks.  He is happily married and has a 16-month old daughter and a new bundle of joy arriving in October!

Boun mentors Daren Sanders, who graduated from Castlemont CBITS and is a junior at UC Santa Barbara.  Boun can be reached at boun@eastbayconsortium.org.

Mentor Spotlight – George Tribble

George Tribble has been a Mortgage Broker for over 24 years.  He has served as the President of California Association of Mortgage Brokers (CAMB) & Tribble Mortgage Company, Inc. and was on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Mortgage Brokers California Association of Mortgage Brokers.  He is a current board member of the Utah State University Foundation and IMANI Community Church in Oakland, CA.
George was selected as a member of San Bernardino County Black Athletics Hall of Fame and still loves football, baseball, basketball, tennis and golf.  George is married to fellow EBCF Mentor, Valerie Miles-Tribble, and has a son, Timothy, who is a sophomore at Morehouse College.
George is one of our most dedicated mentors.  George first mentors Angel Macedon, from Life Academy High School who is soon to graduate from University of San Francisco. George then decided to mentor a new scholar, Tyrone Radford, who recently graduated from Castlemont and is an incoming freshman at University of Oregon.  George can be reached at gdtribble@yahoo.com.

Mentor Spotlight – Maude Pervere

After Maude Pervere graduated from Stanford University, she attended UC Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall).  With her degree, Maude worked as a public defender in Alameda County for six years and then as a law professor at Hastings and Boalt. Maude spent her last 12 years teaching as the Director of Stanford Law’s Gould Center for Dispute Resolution Programs, where she taught negotiation, mediation, and dispute resolution systems design. Retired after 25 years of teaching, she keeps her hand in education by volunteering in the Piedmont and Oakland Schools. She pursues her second passion, photography, with her own fine art work and helping with an ongoing documentary film series focused on issues of diversity.  Maude and her husband, Sam, have two sons: Eli, a former singer-songwriter for a rock band who is now a 1L at Stanford Law, and Nathaniel, a second year teacher with Teach for America in the Rio Grande Valley.

Maude joined as a general volunteer last year, then became a mentor, and later gathered a group of friends to form a donor group to fund a scholarship.  Maude Pervere mentors Clarresha Slay, who graduated from Castlemont Leadership Prep and is a freshman interested in a career in fashion at Cal State East Bay.  Maude can be reached at maudepervere@yahoo.com.

Mentor Spotlight – Jim Saavedra

After Jim Saavedra graduated from Regis University, he moved to the Bay Area and made it his home.  Here, Jim spent his career in Financial Services with an Operations and Technology focus.  When he retired as Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo and Union Bank of California, he helped start One California Bank, a community development bank in downtown Oakland.

Jim has been married for 41 years and has 3 children and 2 grandchildren.  Jim had so much fun as a mentor, he decided to serve a second term.  After Jim mentored Sam Becerra, who graduated from Pomona College in 2008, Jim continued his mentorship to Hilario Garcia-Moron, a graduate of Oakland High and a current freshman at UC Davis.

To hear more on how Jim connects with his scholar, you can reach him at jimsaavedra@yahoo.com.

Mentor Spotlight – Terry Satterfield

Terrence “Terry” Satterfield is an Oakland native.  After he graduated from Bishop O’Dowd High School, Terry majored in Human Biology at Stanford University and received his Ph.D. in
Genetics at the University of Washington.  For the past year at BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Terry has been a Project Leader for an early stage effort to develop a therapy for serious life-threatening diseases. In the future, he will spend his time to sourcing new ideas for strong candidate projects, which may develop into actual therapies. As Project Leader, Terry will continue to spend time in the laboratory performing “proof-of-concept” experiments to rapidly determine if any of these projects is worth investing significant resources to take forward through the development.
If your scholar is interested in science and would like to hear about a career such as Terry’s, have him/her contact Terry at tfs1911@mac.com.  Terry mentors Solomon Cooper, a first year at San Jose State.