Mary joined the Women's Fund in early 2019. She grew up in an Air Force family, moving frequently until settling in central Illinois. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Champagne Urbana, Mary has a BFA in Painting. During her 40-year career in communications, Mary worked in a variety of industries, including small ad agencies, not-for-profit homes for the aging, not-for-profit publishing, engineering services, as well as Southern California Edison and Beckman Coulter, a subsidiary of Danaher. She was also active in the International Association of Business Communicators, serving on local, regional and global boards. Mary and husband Curt moved to Santa Barbara in 2018 when they retired. Since then, she has also served as VP Communications for the local chapter of Newcomers.

Sabina joined both the Women's Fund and the Research Committee in 2014. She was the founding director of the Health and Wellness Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In this capacity she was an academic lecturer and department head from 1977–2012. She has also taught Resiliency Education and Social Emotional Skill Development at Antioch University from 2000 until 2019. Since retirement, she has been active as a board member for the Mental Wellness Center and Sanctuary Center, both of Santa Barbara and teaches Mental Health First Aid.

Sarah has been a member of the Women's Fund since 2005. She grew up in Iowa and graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in journalism. During her 30-year career at AT&T, she served as President of the AT&T Foundation—the company's philanthropic arm—and as Chief Operating Officer for AT&T's 300-person global public relations division. She served on national nonprofit boards including the Advertising Council and the Council on Foundations. Since retiring and moving to Santa Barbara in 2000, Sarah has chaired several Women’s Fund committees: Research, Communications, Membership, Grantee Liaison as well as serving as the Chair of the Steering Committee for more than two years. She was a docent at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and is a sustainer of the Assistance League of Santa Barbara where she served on the board and headed several committees. In 2010, the Junior League of Santa Barbara named her their Woman of the Year.

After years In the toy industry, including her own packaging design firm in NYC, Susan Matsumoto partnered with her husband Mel Kennedy to invent and license inventions for the toy, housewares, hair appliances and accessories industries. The move to Santa Barbara in 2012 was a life-long dream for both of them, and she is now very happy to be involved in the Women’s Fund. 

Tracy Jenkins joined the Women’s Fund in 2016.  She most recently became mailings manager on top of starting her own Women’s Fund Group. Tracy was born and raised on the East Coast living in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.  A 1985 graduate of Principia College in Illinois with a BA in Business and Photography, she began her career as an entrepreneur starting a desktop publishing business in 1987 from her apartment in Newport Beach.  Her career expanded into PR, Marketing and sales as she spent more than 10 years as an independent sales reps for brands like Teva, Etonic, In*Sport, Josef Seibel and more. Since moving to Santa Barbara in 2010 she has become active in philanthropy and volunteerism. In addition to her connections with the Women’s Fund, she is Board President for Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara and a walk-on Cross Country & Track coach at San Marcos High School