Impact100 adds four new board members

Impact100 Sonoma’s board of directors recently elected four new board members, Wendy Hoffman, Debby Kweller, Hope Nisson and Diana Sanson.

Hoffman will oversee membership for Impact100. Her career has included more than 25 years as a public relations executive for leading technology companies and global agencies. More recently, she has spent the last seven years writing extensively on women’s health topics for online publications. Hoffman serves on the program committee of the Sonoma Valley Education Foundation board and is a board member of the Vera C. Hendry Foundation.

She joined Impact 100 upon moving to Sonoma in 2012 and served on the grant review committees for the $100,000 Impact Grant for two consecutive years.

Kweller will serve as secretary for Impact100. Kweller recently retired as CEO of Innovative Care Systems located in southern California. During her career in the insurance industry and financial management, she was also a health and productivity management consultant for Watson Wyatt, executive vice president of workers’ compensation for one of the largest nonprofit healthcare network systems, and executive vice president and co-founder of a publicly held California specialty workers’ compensation insurance carrier. She is currently a board member of the Sonoma Valley Teen Services and has served on a variety of Impact100 committees since joining in 2011.

Nisson will serve as events chair. A California native and seasoned veteran of the air travel and customer service industry, Nisson has been deeply involved in Sonoma’s nonprofit world for many years. She was instrumental in bringing Hospice of Marin to Sonoma Valley and has volunteered on countless projects for the Boys & Girls Club, the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Vintage House, the Sonoma Overlook Trail, and various other local groups. Now retired, Nisson is a founding member of Impact100 Sonoma and over the past five years has served on numerous Impact100 committees.

Sanson will chair community grants. After 12 years in telecommunications product management, Sanson left the corporate world to become a fundraising professional in environmental and social justice organizations. She helped co-found and directed Field Trip Foundation, an environmental education organization focused on getting urban, socio-economically disadvantaged third- and fourth-graders out into nature. She is a founding member of Impact100 and has served on a grant review committee for the last five years.

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