Innocent Voices Board
Our Board of Directors
Tess Johnson
Executive Director
It has been Tess’ passion and her calling to be in a position to be of support for our children in our community. As a result, she has been in the field of education during her entire professional career. She has been an elementary, middle school and high school Teacher Assistant Principal, middle school and elementary school Principal, and the Director of Student Services in the Dublin Unified School District. She is currently an educational consultant and leadership coach. Through her work in the education field, she is aware that the work to support our most innocent voices must be done through a global lens. It is an honor and a privilege for Tess to be the Executive Director for this outstanding program, which gives voice and support to our most vulnerable children.
Ginny Frohmberg
Founder and Member-at-Large
Ginny has over 30 years of analytic and consulting experience at Kaiser Permanente. She has traveled in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Eastern Europe. Her experience with children includes tutoring in low income urban settings, working with children from homeless families in Oakland and working in a children’s home in India.
John Chou
Chairman
John has worked as a manager/certified radiation therapist/certified medical dosimetrist for over 40 years in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Eden Medical Center, located in Castro Valley, California. Additionally, he also served as a facilitator of “Patients Quest” cancer patients support group at Eden for 15 years as well as serving as Vice President and Acting President for three year at the East Bay Cancer Support Group. John also serves in the Missions Department and served for 6 years as an elder at his home church in Castro Valley. John and his wife, Deanna, have three grown daughters and three grandchildren. In his retirement, he serves as a patient advocate, a mentor for young adults, and a teacher in an international Sunday school class.
Alice Yothers
Secretary and Communications Coordinator
Alice spent 15 years with Shaklee Corporation as a Quality Assurance Documentation Coordinator and currently serves as recording secretary for the board of a local corporation. She has always had a burden for children and missions, and feels blessed to serve on our team. She and her husband Steve have two grown children and five grandchildren, and reside in Valley Springs, CA.
Carol Kumar
Comptroller
Carol currently works at a nonprofit in Oakland as an Accounting Manager. She believes in helping the next generation to know and love God and His Word. For the past 12 years, Carol has taught children in her church and at the school program at Bible Study Fellowship. She is also active in care ministries, serving those experiencing life difficulties in her church and in the community. “Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 (NRSV)
Marty Krake
Monthly Meeting Leader/ Liaison to Partner Organizations
Marty Krake is a graduate of Baylor University, BA and Golden Gate Seminary, MRE. She is now a retired teacher. She currently substitutes to share her experience of meeting Martin Luther King, Jr., and the motivation behind what and why he did what he did. She is a mentor mom with Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) and leads small Bible groups of young women.Her parents instilled in her God’s heart for the nations, especially to poor and underprivileged. Serving children through Innocent Voices fills her heart with joy! She also host Innocent Voices Monthly meetings at her house and facilitates the meetings.
Jeannette Monroe
Prayer Coordinator
Jeannette worked and lived in Germany and Switzerland for three years and traveled extensively as a young person. She worked in various positions at two different Universities in the US over a fifty-year period while completing her BA in Human Development and MS in Counseling. During this time, she also raised two daughters as a single Mom. At a church, she helped to lead a group of Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families. She taught Sunday school at three different churches over a thirty-year period.
In her retirement she is enjoying sharing leadership of a women’s Bible Study as well as spending time with friends and family. Her family has grown to nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
She counts it a privilege to be part of Innocent Voices where she can be a blessing to children in the Bay Area as well as children throughout the world who are in crisis situations and need care, healing and mentoring to learn to survive in this world with God’s help.
Our Community Coordinators
Linda Palmer
Community Coordinator
Linda worked 31 years in Telecommunications “helping businesses communicate with each other and with their customers using technology” until the 2008 downturn in the economy. Because of her years of volunteering at Redwood Chapel with the Seniors and their events, she was hired at a senior living community in Fremont to help families determine if that community was a good fit for their loved one. Supporting people who help those in need feels really great. Innocent Voices assists ministries who help children. These children, with our help, can know safety and joy, perhaps for the first time.
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