Cynthia Tsuchida, President
Cynthia has lived in the Sunnyvale/Cupertino community for over 30 years and attended Cherry Chase Elementary, Sunnyvale Junior High and Fremont High School. As a math graduate of UC Berkeley, she works full time as a Pension Actuary.
Cynthia currently has a 5th grader and 9th grader. She loves working with children and has been on the PTA executive board in various roles since 2016. This is her second year as PTA President. Cynthia looks forward to working with the Lincoln Community to continue to enhance the student experience at Lincoln.
Rochelle Chu, Executive Vice President
Rochelle has a third grader and an 11th grader now at Monta Vista High School.
She is excited to return to Lincoln, where she previously spent 6 years on the PTA Board and held numerous volunteer roles inside and outside the classroom, including Lincoln school lead of the “Their Future is Now” (TFIN) campaign in 2010, which united our community to raise more than $2 millionin 8 weeks to save teacher jobs and preserve small class sizes.
Rochelle is also on the PTA Board at Monta Vista High School, and was most recently Vice President on the Board of Directors at Cupertino Co-op Nursery School. She has a degree in Computer Science Engineering and previously worked in hi-tech for many years doing Technical Marketing / Program Management / Business Development.
Siri Silawatcharapol, Treasurer
Siri has masters degree in managerial accounting and information systems and runs her own business software consulting company in Silicon Valley over the past 10 years. She has 2 children attending Lincoln elementary school and she is willing to help the Lincoln community and support all activities to help Lincoln move forward. She believes that raising a child will take an entire community of people to help support each other. Siri will do her part to contribute the best to Lincoln school
Hui (Whitney) Yang, Financial Secretary
This is Hui’s 5th year in Lincoln. She has two children: her daughter is in 5th grade and her son is attending MIT. She has volunteered in her children’s schools for many years.
In Lincoln she enjoys volunteering in the classroom, yard-duty in the school regularly and many PTA and school events. She also serves as a financial assistant in LEEF organization.
Hui works part-time as a Chinese teacher in Shuangshuang Chinese School.
Namrita Rajesh, Historian
Namrita has one daughter, a fifth grader in Lincoln Elementary. She has done a lot of volunteer work in the past five years and it’s been such a pleasure. She was the Historian on the PTA board last year and was in Project Cornerstone.
This year she signed up to be a PTA member and serve as the historian. She is also in Project Cornerstone.
Namrita got herself trained as a florist from City College of San Francisco and runs ‘REIGNING FLOWERS’. As the saying goes you never grow old learning so she is still getting trained with IKEBANA the Japanese form of flower designing, and looking to master and teach at some point.
Joanne Bugarin, Recording Secretary
Joanne has been a part of the Lincoln community for 7 years. She has 3 kids, a 7th grader and 6th grader and Kennedy Middle, and a 4th grader at Lincoln Elementary. A native of Seattle, WA (go Hawks!) and a graduate of University of Washington (go Huskies!), Joanne loves cooking, crafting, travelling, and spending time with family. She worked as a support engineer and a technical recruiter before moving on to her most favorite job – full-time mommy to her 3 kids. Joanne has been involved at Lincoln as a room parent, Project Cornerstone reader, book fair volunteer, and LEEF board member. She’s looking forward to working alongside the amazing PTA board and having another wonderful year at Lincoln.
Parliamentarian – TBD
Auditor – TBD
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