Biographies
MABLE YEE
Mable Yee is a technologist, entrepreneur, filmmaker and activist. She spent 27 years in the tech industry launching and managing global brands for Fortune 1000 corporations like Xerox Corporation, Ashton-Tate and Network General. She has been CEO and co-founder of several start-ups in the networking, internet and consumer marketing industries. She is fascinated by the intersection of New Media technologies, online activism and the opportunities to build new content and distribution models. She believes our society is all about attracting and connecting socially networked and mobile audiences around common issues and interests. As a filmmaker, she co-produced the documentary, “Engage Her: Getting Minority Women to Lead and Vote” which was viewed and distributed across the nation. In 2008, Mable launched a new social movement and start up: EngageHer.org. It is an online organization that educates and activates multicultural women and communities to step up to leadership and participate about issues they care about. Mable has sat on many boards and actively advises technology start ups and non-profit organizations. She is a member of the Women’s Media Center, Shesource.org and as a public speaker has appeared at many conferences and engagements. She has won numerous awards including California Assembly District Fourteen “Woman of the Year Award in 2010″, NAAAP 100 of Prominent Asian American Professionals, 10 Women Award for Building Bridges.
TAMEEKA KELLEY
Tameeka Kelley is the Director of Programs for Engage Her. She is responsible for managing the programs and communications within the organization. Prior to joining Engage Her, Tameeka was a manager in several financial services organizations. She was involved with managing the operations and ensuring that all the products and services were delivered in a timely manner. After graduating from high school with honors, she had to sacrifice her college opportunity to take a job and provide financial assistance to her family. She understands the struggles and hardships many young women face in multicultural communities and has risen to meet the challenges. She is a dedicated mother of three young children who has found her true passion and voice when she joined the Engage Her organization. Having joined the organization from its early inception, she recognizes that this opportunity of engaging with multicultural women is a gift.
SYLVIA PAULL
Sylvia Paull (www.sylviapaull.com) specializes in publicity, strategic marketing and business development services for high-tech businesses, such as CNET, Ask, Vidoop, and AirSet, as well as for advocacy organizations, such as the Sierra Club, ShesGeeky, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Free Software Foundation. She was also founder and director of Gracenet (www.gracenet.net), a networking and advocacy organization for women in high-tech women. She was formerly marketing director for Software Ventures; board member of BMUG; co-producer of “Science Editor,” a radio show distributed by CBS; and a freelance writer for Wired magazine.
KRISTINE TSUNG
Kristine Tsung is the Social Marketing Program Manager for Engage Her. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is responsible for managing the social marketing programs and outreach for Engage Her working with our partners and alliances. She is managing programs such as our Youth Voter campaign and the upcoming Fast & Healthy program. She also manages the content for our New Media channels like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. She graduated from UC Berkeley with High Honors in 2003 where she majored in architecture. In 2005, she started her own web-based business at BuzzingBOTS.com. BuzzingBOTS directs people’s attention to good things like helping non-profit groups. In 2009, she was interviewed on CBS Eye on the Bay for her product-line. In 2010, she joined EngageHer as a Social Marketing Associate. Today she continues to build her business and activities to helping to make the world a better place to live.
BRIANA TURKEL
Briana Turkel helps direct the social media and marketing at Engage Her. Briana graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 with a B.A. in Psychology. She has a passion for traveling, photography, and snowboarding. In 2008, she traveled around the world, visiting Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. Briana is currently involved in marketing and event promotions, and is working towards a career in the advertising industry. She is thrilled to be a part of a multi-cultural organization dedicated to getting women active and involved in social change. Briana is very proud of her Swedish heritage, and would love to see Engage Her active in Scandinavia!
STEVE YAMAGUMA
Steve Yamaguma is the Marketing Director for the Engage Her organization. As president of Design2Market (www.design2marketinc.com). Steve has provided marketing and design services to a wide variety of industries including technology, medtech, government, environment, education and community-based nonprofit organizations. Design2Market was part of the original Intel Inside team and has helped many technology companies with their branding initiatives. Steve was also a member of the delegation for the American Airlines San Jose to Tokyo inaugural flight to support building bridges between the US and Japanese companies. Committed to community building, Steve has served on numerous boards including the Silicon Valley Charity Ball Foundation, Contemporary Asian Theater Scene, Japanese American Chamber of Commerce, Euphrat Museum of Art and the Arts Council Silicon Valley.
ERIKO YAMATO
Eriko Yamato is the Media Director for Engage Her and responsible for producing media content. Eriko is a professional video producer with over a decade of experience. While at Asahi Broadcasting Corporation in Osaka, Japan she produced live entertainment shows, sports news, documentaries, and radio shows. She has also worked as a freelance reporter for KQED. After earning her Master of Arts degree in Documentary Film Production at Stanford University in 2002, Eriko has been producing marketing, trade show, educational, and fundraising videos. She is hands on and can shoot and edit with her strength in directing and producing. She also has experience in sales and marketing in the high tech industry, which enables her to deliver compelling content to target audience. As owner of rhythmus (www.rhythmus.com) Eriko continues to make films on topics that she cares about. Her dream is to launch an Engage Her chapter in Japan. Eriko spent her childhood years in San Francisco and is fluent both in English and Japanese.
LESLIE MERCADO
Leslie Mercado is the Web Editor for Engage Her, assisting with the day-to-day management of Engage Her’s online content and newsletter. Leslie graduated from Stanford University in 2009, with a B.A. in Communication and a minor in Political Science. She is currently working full-time in advertising/sales for Google and helps with her family’s small business (www.advancedultravision.com). Leslie is passionate about working with multicultural communities and was Co-President of the Pilipino American Student Union at Stanford during her senior year. She is originally from Southern California and travels there frequently to watch her brother’s baseball and track competitions. Leslie is a former member of Stanford’s Track and Crew teams, and volunteers as an assistant hurdle coach at Sequoia High School in Redwood City.
GABRIELA MELANO
Dr. Gabriela Melano has 25+ years of professional experience in the fields of Education and Social Development. Nationally and internationally, Dr. Melano has been a bilingual schoolteacher, a human rights researcher, cross-cultural educator as well as conflict resolution trainer and curriculum developer. She has lived and worked in Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the United States. Since 1997, she has been providing training and consulting services in Organizational Development. Her areas of expertise are collaborative strategic planning, team building, communication and conflict management across cultures and participatory research. An avid systemic thinker, she is also fully proficient in English and Spanish and is a graphic recorder.
ELAINE YU
Elaine Yu was born and raised in Hong Kong and immigrated to the US when she was 12. She spent her formative years growing up in the South Bronx witnessing one of the worst urban decline of any neighborhood in the U.S, and watched her parents toil away in Chinatown factories. Recognizing that education was perhaps the only way out of poverty, she focused on studying and graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University with a BA in Economics; and then an MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. For 15 years she worked in Wall Street in Institutional Equities Sales, adivising clients both in Asia and the US on Asian stock investments . She was an Executive Director and Vice President with Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and New York until 2002; and a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank until July of 2007. Elaine has volunteered at orphanage, hospital, educational and cultural organizations.
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