Ali has been involved with Planned Parenthood for much of her life. Her parents both participated in the formation of Planned Parenthood Monterey County and she had her first internship there before heading off to college in 1991. From that experience, she understood the importance of Planned Parenthood in our community. In her career, she is an artist and a teacher. Her work experience with non-profits includes teaching in New York City’s public schools with The National Dance Institute, choreographing and teaching with City at Peace Los Angeles, and working as the Arts and Culture Editor at The Women’s International Perspective. Currently, she is a lead teacher with Tandy Beal and Company’s Dance Around the World program, bringing dance to elementary schools in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. She owns and operates Monterey Bay Contrology, a classical Pilates studio in Carmel, California.

Azadeh (“Azy”) Maboudi Hariri was born in Tehran, Iran. At age 12, she set out to England for grade school and high school. She earned her BA in political science at the American College of Switzerland and her MBA at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Upon her return to Tehran in 1974, Azy served as an economic analyst at the Iranian Ministry of Commerce. Thereafter, she was named COO of the Tehran-based Starlite Textile Manufacturing Company. In 1978, she moved to California where she turned her attention to the export/import business. In 1981, she and Farzam Hariri founded Pacific Groservice Inc (PGI) & Pitco foods, a food wholesale distributor. The enterprise steadily grew to become the second largest company of its kind in Northern California. In 1994, Azy was selected to be a member of the Dean’s Council at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She is the founder and chairperson of the Iranian Scholarship Foundation (ISF) which provides financial assistance to outstanding college and graduate students with financial need. She is a member of the Make a Wish Foundation and Saint Jude’s Children Research Hospital. She serves on the Board of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Denise Phillips joins the CTSRH board with a long-held passion for community organizing and decades of experience with nonprofits in social work, education, and environmental activism. Denise chaired boards for The Heal Project, Cabrillo Unified School District’s Spanish Immersion Program, and Crystal Springs Uplands school’s annual fundraising gala, as well as worked with San Francisco’s Project Open Hand, San Mateo County Library’s Project Read, and the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. From 1995 to 1996, her volunteer work for the Devil’s Slide Tunnel Campaign helped successfully change county plans for a freeway bypass with the passing of Measure T, and in 2021, her contributions to Mid-Peninsula Open Space Preserve’s La Honda Public Access Working Group helped the committee win a public outreach award of excellence from the American Planning Association. Since 2018, Denise has held her San Francisco Master Food Preserver certification and regularly contributes to UC San Mateo County’s continuing education programming. She also currently serves on the board of San Mateo County’s Resource Conservation District. Originally from St. Louis, Denise earned her degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and then studied restaurant management at The Restaurant School in Philadelphia. She’s lived on the San Mateo County Coast for over 30 years where she and her husband have raised both of their children.

Andie is the founder and head stylist of Andie Sobrato, LLC, a personal styling business focused on helping people in the Bay Area feel more confident in their clothing. After 10 years in a variety of marketing roles at tech companies in the Silicon Valley, Andie pivoted to pursue entrepreneurship and philanthropy full time. In their joint philanthropic work, Andie and her husband, John, are focused on providing opportunities for the most vulnerable in our communities. While the giving spans education, economic mobility, and reproductive health – all work is approached with the lens of gender and racial justice. Reproductive justice is Andie’s passion, and for the last six years, she has done work to tailor her giving strategy to help those most in-need. What started as a state and direct-service focused strategy in the U.S. south, has evolved into an approach spanning advocacy, policy, and emerging direct-service opportunities across the U.S. She sees Planned Parenthood and its affiliates as playing a pivotal role in the fight for abortion access and she looks forward to getting more engaged through board service.

Kim Surratt became a lawyer in 2002, founded her own firm in 2007, and is licensed in both Nevada and California. She had her first surrogacy case in 2004. Kim is a distinguished ART Fellow and member of the Board of Trustees for the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA).  She is the chair of the State of Nevada Child Support Commission and has been the chair of the State Bar of Nevada Family Law Section and president of the Nevada Justice Association. She has been a pro bono lobbyist since 2003 with the Nevada Justice Association, through which she has significantly impacted reproductive parentage law and LGBTQ+ family law. Her advocacy has facilitated numerous legislative achievements, including the Nevada Domestic Partnership law, numerous modifications to adoption law, comprehensive revisions to pro-LGBTQ+ family law statutes, establishment of the first voluntary acknowledgment of parentage (instead of just paternity) statute, gender-neutral revisions across all Nevada statutes, changes in adoption, comprehensive pro-family statutes for surrogacy and egg/embryo/sperm donation that are marriage and gender neutral, and a surrogacy insurance mandate in Nevada. The surrogacy insurance law was the first of its kind in the United States and is the model for future advocacy.  Kim’s dedication to justice has been recognized with several awards, including the Nevada Legal Services Champion of Justice Award, the Washoe Legal Services Children’s Attorney Pro Bono Award, the Nevada Supreme Court Access to Justice Pro Bono Services Award, and AAAA’s President’s Award.  In 2024 alone, she received the AAAA Unsung Hero Award, the Planned Parenthood Votes Nevada Reproductive Freedom Award, the National LGBT Bar Association Family Law Practitioner of the Year Award, and the State Bar of Nevada Family Law Section Pillar Award. In addition, her law firm is a six-time recipient of the Nevada Legal Services Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year award. A pioneer in her field, Kim’s work in reproductive law has taken her to international stages and media, where she has educated thousands of attorneys, policy leaders, and politicians on parentage through reproductive technology and surrogacy. Kim has helped thousands of surrogacy clients and family formation clients both in the United States and all over the world with many baby pictures to prove it! She is proud of each photo and family she has helped along their journey to parentage.