Karen Dreyfus. Elected to the board: June, 2019

Karen is a member of the board’s WASC subcommittee and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee.

Karen joined the Maybeck community in 2015, when her son Rory (Class of 2018) transferred to Maybeck as a sophomore. As a Maybeck parent, Karen was active in the Maybeck Parents Association and played a lead role in a number of Maybeck’s cherished traditions, including the annual fundraising gala for parents and faculty and the post-graduation potluck reception. She and Rory are still debating the exact place in their Berkeley yard to plant his graduation coast redwood seedling, another 40+ year Maybeck tradition.

In her professional life, Karen is a corporate attorney, representing millennial entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 companies in public and private offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. Karen has advised boards of directors at hundreds of meetings over her career and has been recognized for Corporate Governance in The Best Lawyers in America. Karen has also been actively engaged with many non-profit organizations, including helping organize SafeSpace, a non-profit addressing youth mental health and wellness, serving on the Kenyon College Parent Advisory Board, and serving as a director of the Silicon Valley Campaign for Legal Services. Through her three children, Karen has experienced first hand a multitude of educational environments and philosophies: public elementary and high schools; parochial elementary schools; independent college prep high schools; and independent personalized one-on-one high school classes. In her spare time, Karen enjoys the company of her husband Michael and children Adrienne, Clare and Rory, and chasing her three chickens around the yard and a little white ball around the golf course.