Company Bios

Amys first experience with the Joe Goode Performance Group was as a participant in the Embodied Leader workshop. Joes invitation to participants to explore and unveil the meaning of the movement experience for themselves, rather than to unpack and explain it for them drew her in. As a consultant, Amy provided information, analysis, and insights to philanthropic foundations. She has assisted foundations striving to create change around a wide range of issues including international intellectual property rights, digital media and children, food security, human rights, citizen journalism, healthcare technology, living wages, broadband access, youth development, economic justice, and community philanthropy. Amy holds a Masters degree from Harvard University and a B.A. from Indiana University. She is delighted to have the chance to share her professional expertise and personal passion for the arts, especially dance, with JGPG.

Bobbie Fisch is a Principal at TEF Architecture + Interior Design. Her focus is large-scale interior design projects, including libraries for the City of San Francisco, offices for local and regional agencies and medical clinics for UCSF and Stanford. She is excited to return to the Board in her second term and is proud to have been part of the realization of the Joe Goode Annex. A former dancer and long time dance aficionado, she is always delighted and inspired by Joe’s choreography and awed by the beauty and strength of the dancers. One of her favorite memories is of sitting under a blanket outside in the courtyard of the Old Mint, watching Traveling Light. Bobbie’s husband, Bill Johnston, is a furniture executive and a long time supporter and fan.

Chris comes to the board as a long-term fan of the JGPG. Chris has attended many of the group’s performances over the last 15 years and has also participated in Joe’sStart Simpleworkshop as well as theMovement for Humansseries. Chris is a believer in the transformative nature of Joe’s work and practices many of the principles of JGPG in his work as VP for Staff Development and Culture at HopeLab, creating a narrative for HopeLab’s culture that includes the nurturing of connection, compassion, improvisation, storytelling, and play. In addition to his creative work at HopeLab, Chris brings 16 years of board member experience to JGPG, having supported the missions of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Child-Flower (a Belgium NGO dedicated to the wellbeing and resilience of children facing vulnerable situations), and the Earlham College Alumni Association. Chris is also an avid baker, bricoleur, personal writer, dancer, and lover of tea and cafe conversation.

Dan first experienced the Joe Goode Performance Group at the Old Mint in San Francisco, at the Company’s Traveling Light show. He and his husband haven’t missed a performance since. Dan joined the Board in 2012 and became Board President. Dan is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Harvard Law School. Most of Dan’s twenty-plus year legal career has been as in house counsel at technology companies, including as General Counsel of the Search and Media Division of IAC/InteractiveCorp, Quin Street, Inc., and Voxer, Inc. Dan currently works for Invuity, Inc., a medical device company in Potrero Hill. In addition to his work with JGPG, Dan volunteers as a Peer Support Counselor with Shanti.

Diana Sunshine has over 20 years experience in senior positions at performing arts and volunteers organizations. She is currently the Director of Marketing and Communications at Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies. Prior to that, Diana was the Director of Marketing at San Francisco Opera and has also worked for AT Kearney, Jacob’s Pillow, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Ballet Pacifica and the Orange County Performing Arts Center. In addition to JGPG, she volunteers for the Castilleja School, Las Lomitas Elementary School District, Students Matter, Peninsula Skating Club and Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. Diana has an MBA in Arts Management from The Anderson School at UCLA. Diana is married to Bill Onderdonk and lives in Portola Valley with her two daughters, Zoe and Hannah, and their adorably large dog, Pi.

Elizabeth is a practicing artist, an oil painter, and exhibits work at a gallery in Park City, Utah, and in juried exhibitions nationally. She worked for 15 years at San Francisco Opera in a variety of positions — from marketing to the artistic staff. For the last five years of her time there she served as the assistant to the General Director. She was a founding Board member of Muttville, San Francisco’s amazing senior dog rescue organization. Her husband, Stephen McClellan, is a retired Wall Street analyst. She is thrilled to have the chance to try to fulfill some of Joe’s vision, desires and dreams!

MaryAnn Walter McDonald served as the Managing Director of Walter McDonald & Associates, LLC, a firm that she founded. The firm was dedicated to providing senior level executive search and executive coaching across business functions in all sectors. MaryAnn brings over 30 years of business experience to her clients, garnered from both management experience and her 20 years as an executive search consultant and coach. Prior to founding Walter McDonald & Associates, MaryAnn served as a consultant in the San Francisco office of Spencer Stuart, the countrys third largest search firm. Before joining Spencer Stuart in 1994, MaryAnn co-founded Emmott-Walter and Associates (later known as Health Direction), a consulting and executive search firm focused on the healthcare industry. MaryAnn holds an undergraduate degree from Duquesne University and a Masters degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She is married and lives in Redwood City, California.

Mitchell Yawitz is a Principal Product Designer at MarkLogic, responsible for all product UX design. He brings over two decades of experience to MarkLogic, having worked on digital media software and devices for companies such as Apple, Adobe and Roxio. More recently, he was the interaction designer for Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader. He joined MarkLogic from Nokia, where he led the mobile messaging product design team and was a member of the Advanced UX design team (working on design innovation for mobile devices). Mitchell earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University. As for outside interests, Mitch has been active in the Bay Area arts scene, having collaborated with local artists and performers who incorporate technology in their work. He is currently on the board of Other Minds (a San Francisco-based arts organization).

Sarah Savage is an Educational Consultant who taught middle school English for 9 years. She now specializes in training teachers and school administrators in data analysis to inform curricular decisions. This is her first time serving on a board of directors, but Sarah is no stranger to non-profit organizations, having spent 6 years as a triathlon coach, training captain, and mentor for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training. Sarah comes from a theater arts and modern dance background and has been a fan of Joe Goode since college, when she took his summer dance intensive at the tender age of 19. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to support Joe’s artistic and philosophical vision in a new capacity.