The Board
Jennifer Rainin brings a variety of experience in the non-profit world to her work with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. As a founding member of the San Francisco Ballet’s Encore Group, she worked to expand interest in the ballet to a younger audience. She created a community outreach program and helped coordinate an annual fundraising gala as a board member of The Parents’ Association at the Renaissance School. She worked as a teacher and literacy specialist for over 10 years, earning her doctorate along the way. She used her education background to supervise student teachers as they worked toward earning their teaching credentials, and to volunteer as a literacy consultant for Habitot Children’s Museum in Berkeley, California. Diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 1997, a disease that also afflicted her father, Jennifer helped establish and provide ongoing support to the Center for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease at UC San Francisco. She is also a member of the Cleveland Clinic Digestive Disease Institute’s Leadership Board. A working actress, Jen has volunteered in the production department of the San Francisco International Film Festival. Additionally, Jen has participated in numerous fundraising efforts to benefit research for HIV/AIDS, Fragile X, Multiple Sclerosis and Cystic Fibrosis.
Eric Rodenbeck is the founder and creative director of Stamen Design, a design and technology studio with a reputation for beautiful and sophisticated projects in a diverse range of commercial and cultural settings. Stamen works with a range of collaborators in both the for-profit and non-profit worlds: news media, financial institutions, artists and architects, car manufacturers, design agencies, museums, technology firms, political action committees and universities. Eric is a 10-year veteran of the interactive design field, and has spent this time working to extend the boundaries of online media and live information visualization.
Eric led the interactive storytelling and data-driven narrative effort at Quokka Sports, illustrated and designed at Wired and Wired Books, and was a co-founder of the design collective Umwow. He has lectured and spoken at Yale University, the University of Southern California, numerous O’Reilly technology conferences, Esther Dyson’s PC Forum, and South by Southwest, among others. Eric studied architecture at Cooper Union in New York City and received a B.A. in the History and Philosophy of Technology from The New School for Social Research.
