Pily Macuil

Pily Macuil has turned her house into the bilingual daycare/preschool, Tikiland. She moved to California twenty years ago from Mexico, where she was a preschool teacher. At 57, She has 5 daughters, and she lives in Palo Alto with her husband and several pets - a dog, 2 bunnies, 5 doves, and 3 parakeets.











https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lh5DJKnqy5knFH-C0x-NYHnb4hT_fFUny2i24pt2OR8/edit?usp=sharing

Dave Howell

Dave Howell

I profiled Dave Howell, senior minister at the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto (right down Embarcadero). This is a picture of him acting with Clarence the Camel, his puppet, to tell the children's story on Sunday's service. Dave loves to work with youth and people in general, loves art history, music, theatre, the guitar, movies, basketball (his broken leg is featured). He met his wife playing her husband in a high school production, and they now have two daughters, one pursuing theatre, the other a marine biologist that plays basketball. 

Video of Dave

Quick clip of Clarence

Jamilla Rages

Jamilla Rages is an employee at Books Inc, avid reader, and Muay Thai fighter. She grew up in East Palo Alto and has lived here for most of her life. She loves working with books because they open up new worlds and perspectives to herself and others.

Here is the link to my photo essay.

Sasha Atefi

Sasha is the creator and owner of Sasha Salon in San Carlos, CA. He was born in Iran, but has lived all over the world, some of those places being Italy, Greece and Canada. Sasha intended to become a pharmacist and has biochemistry major from the University of Toronto, however, he decided to abandon this career-path to become a hairstylist. With over twenty years of experience, Sasha has accumulated over six-hundred clients that call his salon their hair-home.
Photo Essay

Michael Granville

Michael Granville is a bootcamp instructor and a Paly cross country and track coach. He was a high school track star, breaking American records from 8th grade through 12th grade, ending with an American high school record in the 800 meters that is still standing today. He lives in Redwood City, and he now leads four bootcamp classes a day at the Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto. He is married and has two sons, and he loves to draw, write, and do push-ups in his spare time.

Podcast here

Professor Margot Gerritsen

Professor Margot Gerritsen is a pioneer in the rapidly growing (and currently predominantly male) field of data science and analytics. Since joining the Stanford ICME faculty, Professor Gerritsen has doubled the number of women in the program; however, significant challenges remain before women will be proportionally represented in the lucrative “big math” marketplace.

Podcast here.

Tennisha Vines

Tennisha Vines is the Group Exercise Manager and a ZUMBA Instructor at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. She also works for ZUMBA as a Jammer or teacher of aspiring instructors. She is married and has two sons: a freshman in college and an 18-month-old. Tennisha is currently pursuing a career in real estate and is taking her exam next month. It's no doubt that Tennisha dances to the beat of her own drum in every aspect of her life.