Office of Education Santa Clara County Board of Education Trustee Grace H. Mah

Grace Mah has served on the Board of Education for more than a decade. She represents Area 1, which spans Palo Alto Unified, Los Altos, Mountain View Whisman, Mountain View-Los Altos Union High school districts, and a majority portion of Sunnyvale school district and the corresponding portions of Fremont Union High School district.

Mah has a long history of community engagement as a parent volunteer at Palo Alto public schools. Her previous committee work includes the Head Start Policy Council and Policy Development Subcommittee, and she is a board member of Stevenson House, a low-income senior housing program, and the Palo Alto Family YMCA.

First elected: 2007

Day job: 18 years of experience in the high-tech industry, including project management and sales experience

Alma maters: UC Berkeley (master’s degree, electrical engineering and computer science); California Institute of Technology (bachelor’s degree, engineering and applied science)

Committee assignments:
Silicon Valley Reads Advisory Committee