Board of Directors

Lance Reynolds

Lance Reynolds, Board President, is a native of England who came to the U.S. in 1966. Since his retirement as an industrial chemist, he has devoted much of his time to two areas—organizational performance excellence and elder advocacy. In the former he has served as a Senior Examiner and Judge for the Baldrige based California Awards for Performance Excellence and is currently a Master Examiner for the American Health Care Association Quality Awards. He helped found Egypt’s National Quality Award program in 2006 and 2007. As an elder advocate he has served as a California Long Term Care Ombudsman in San Mateo and Alameda counties. He was a founding Board member and President of Ombudsman Services of San Mateo County, a Board Member of Ombudsman Inc., and the California Culture Change Coalition on whose Advisory Council he now serves. He has taught workshops at the Pioneer National Conferences on the relationships between the Baldrige Criteria and Person-Centered elder care. He spends most Wednesday afternoons at ASEB’s Berkeley center enjoying the company of its wonderfully brave and delightful clients.

Jim Brencic

Jim Brencic was born in San Jose, California in 1970. He attended public High School in Fremont before moving on to San Jose State and eventually Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where he completed a Bachelors Degree program in Architecture. Following a Senior thesis project focusing on Childrens’ Health Care Architecture, Jim worked in a firm designing hospitals and clinics in the greater Los Angeles area. Upon moving to northern California Jim employed his design skills in care-giver environments such as senior living homes, family housing, and residences for people in transition. After being introduced to Alzheimers Services of the East Bay by his father-in-law and Past Board President Jim Devitt, Jim joined the Board and was himself Board President from 2008 to 2010. Jim is a member of Rotary Club international, and is married with two young sons. Jim is committed to improving the life of elders and other disadvantages persons in the Bay Area through service and advocacy.

Tess Chandler

Tess Chandler has worked as a fundraiser for more than decade with the University of California, where earned extensive experience cultivating relationships with individuals, corporations, and nonprofit entities. She currently directs fundraising efforts in the Advancement and External Relations Office at UC Berkeley where she is responsible for soliciting donations for such programs as the Early Childhood Education Program, CalSo, and Summer Bridge. Previously, she worked at UC Davis as Director of Development & Parent Programs for the Cal Aggie Alumni Association. She was also Project Manager for the McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center and Director of Business Development for the UC system.

Tess graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Political Science. She is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Council for Dependent Care on the UC Berkeley campus, and a member for the Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE). She has three grown sons, two daughter-in-laws, and one grandson.

Anastacia Corsé

Debrenia Madison

Debrenia Madison has lived most of her life in the Oakland Bay Area. She and her family migrated to the Golden State from Alabama when she was six months old. Debrenia attended primary and secondary schools in Alameda and Contra Costa County. Thereafter, she attended undergraduate school at the University of California in Los Angeles obtaining her Bachelors of Arts Degree and Georgetown University Law Center for her Juris Doctorate Degree. Debrenia has been a practicing public interest attorney for over two decades. She worked for the Oakland Board of Education as In-House Counsel for several years and subsequently as Assistant Legal Counsel / Managing Attorney for the San Francisco Housing Authority. In 1997 Debrenia became the Dean of New College of California School of Law in San Francisco, a public interest law school, where she was responsible for the administrative operations of the Law School for approximately eleven years. Since leaving New College in 2008 Debrenia has volunteered on several Bay Area Non Profit Boards and maintains a legal and mediation practice in Emeryville, California advising clients on contract and intellectual property issues. Debrenia and her siblings were care givers of their parents during the last years of their lives. Her father suffered dementia during the last stages of his life. Because of this experience Debrenia became an advocate for person centered elder care and comprehensive assistance for care givers.

David Nolan

David Nolan is Principal of the long-term care consulting firm of Chi Partners. He assists a variety of long-term care providers in business and strategic planning and financial analysis and is currently working with nursing homes in California, Hawaii, Alaska, and New York. He is currently serving as development consultant for a 110-acre affordable senior community in upstate New York and a 100-unit Green House for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Corporation. He is creating a training program for small care homes in Hawaii, working on the replication of Green House in California, and has recently completed strategic planning for Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland. He has been very involved in providing technical assistance to organizations wishing to transition to the Green House model and has just completed a national staffing study for the Green House Replication Initiative and an analysis of the challenges to Green House replication in California.

David was the National Program Director for the Coming Home Program, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded effort to create affordable assisted living in nine states. He has worked with 15 states on affordable assisted living public policy and led a team that created the Assisted Living Waiver Pilot Program for the California Department of Health Services. David also worked for On Lok (PACE) for six years.

David is currently the Board President for the California Culture Change Coalition, Board Treasurer for Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay, and a board member of Charity Tuesday in Vietnam.

Micheal Pope

Micheal Pope joined ASEB in 1997. She served as Program Director and Director of Development before becoming Executive Director in 2008. With a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from New Hampshire College and course work in City Planning and Urban Affairs at Boston University, Micheal has more than 20 years experience in health care management, with an emphasis in marketing. She is a board member of the California Culture Change Coalition Steering Council and a past member of the Long Term Care Steering Committee and the Service Review Advisory Committee/East Bay Paratransit. She has served on the board of Ombudsman, Inc., Alameda ,and is the past-president of the Board of the Contra Costa Child Care Council. In addition to her work at ASEB, she is Lay Leader at the Concord United Methodist Church. She also provides counseling and support to youth in foster care programs.

Micheal believes that everyone must contribute if change is to come about. Serving on the board and staff of ASEB is one of the greatest highlights of her life, an honor that brings meaning to her every day. Her two children, Milton and Jade, provide her with laughter, joy and growth from within. They are the source of her energy.

Reverend Sharon Stalkfleet

Reverend Sharon Stalkfleet joined the board of ASEB in the spring of 2010. She brings the knowledge and experience of leading an outreach ministry to 4 east bay nursing homes from local Lutheran congregations for six and a half years as well as sixteen years of practice as a registered nurse. Sharon has a special place in her heart for the elderly and disabled. She promotes the reality that the elderly and differently abled have much to share and keep us grounded in our humanity.

Sharon has a Master’s of Divinity from the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, and a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from Iowa Wesleyan College. She has worked with survivors of domestic violence, people with AIDS, advocated for the rights of gay, lesbian and bisexual persons. She currently is working with the Racial Ethnic Ministry Group in her church. She and her partner Larell live in Alameda.

Wanda Wallis

Wanda Wallis is a realtor whose experience includes 25 years of outside and inside sales, including employment with several Fortune 500 companies. A deep concern for the welfare of seniors led her to become one of the few licensed realtors to earn the designation of Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES) from the National Association of Realtors. Her understanding of the mature market enables her to educate and advise seniors on a wide range of housing options, and to aid them in making choices that will enhance their quality of life. Remax Accord honored Wanda as one of their top producers for 2008, 2009, and 2010. She is a member of the National Association of Realtors, Contra Costa Association of Realtors, and the Bay East Association of Realtors. She provides outstanding real estate and related services in Contra Costa, Alameda, and Solano Counties.

Wanda holds a BA in Communications and Business from Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California. She is very active in the Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce , where she has served as Chairperson of the Ambassador Committee for the last seven years. She and her husband Larry Willies enjoy golfing, traveling, and simply enjoying quality time together. Their son, Diallo, recently joined Wanda in her business.