Patricia Marcus Curtis has served on the Board of the Santa Fe Community Foundation for two years, this past year as Board Secretary and Co-Chair of the Governance Committee. She is an ongoing member of the Executive Committee, current Chair of the Governance Committee, member of the Ends and Nominating Committees, ad hoc CEO-Search Committee, and the Transition Task Force. Referencing best practices observed in corporate environments as one of the first executive coaches in the SF Bay Area, Patricia enjoys engaging in nonprofits with a collaborative orientation toward organizational process and development, board governance, and community outreach. Prior to launching a successful independent consulting practice in Silicon Valley, she discovered a niche for services centered on organizational development, senior executive leadership, and intra-corporate communications in her work as a Vice President and Senior Consultant in the San Jose office of Drake Beam Morin. Formerly, she was Director of Research with ORI, Inc., a retainer based executive search firm in Boston, MA.
Patricia is a member of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Advisory Council and past member of their Board of Directors, Executive, and Governance Committees. She has served on the Board of Trustees of Desert Academy as Chair of the Outreach Program, Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Board of Directors, Chair of the Programs and Policies Committee, for A Better Way, in Oakland, CA. Patricia holds a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University, and Ed.M. in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University. She is an Associate Member of the American Psychological Association, and the APA Society for Humanistic Psychology. She also enjoys a studio practice for painting, printmaking, drawing, hand-made books, and photography, creating multi-media series of related images referencing nature. Her study of art has included a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, painting intensives at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, and workshops at the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of Art, and UC Berkeley.