The Bountiful Garden Foundation Board Of Directors

Frank Huguenard

(Executive Director/Founder) holds a BS/CS from Purdue University (1982) in Computer Science and has a distinguished silicon valley engineering career.  He is a local activist in the burgeoning sustainable permaculture movement, an author, singer/songwriter, athlete, philanthropist, gourmet chef and visionary.

Among his other pursuits are the implementation of a technology he invented called Universal Telecommunications which he claims does for telephony what browsers did for the internet.  He dabbled in restauranteurism at his Sunnyvale restaurant Crazy Frank's Desi Pizza (unfortunately now closed).

Kathleen Danzey Cohen

Cohen, a bay area school teacher for the past 37 years, has been selected as Cupertino Union School District's "Teacher of the Year" for her service as a drama, resource and core teacher. In the sixth, seventh and eighth grade, a core teacher integrates language, arts and social studies in a class for two periods. Cohen was selected from nominees in each of the 24 schools in the CUSD by letters submitted from her colleagues and Principal Michael Gallagher of Miller Middle School, human resources coordinator of the school district Pat McCrery explains. To help students with special needs, Cohen serves as department chair for Miller's Special Education program. She said she has also served on the Middle School Plan Committee, the Social Studies Adoption Committee, and the Retention/Promotion Committee. She has also served as Principal during the Summer School program on campus.  A nineteen-year veteran of Cupertino's Miller Middle School, her colleagues describe Cohen as "an innovative teacher and education advocate."

Kathleen has been a long standing advocate of integration of sustainable permaculture into the school system as a way of not only teaching kids about the importance of nutrition and organic gardening but also about the benefits of community service as well as the therapeutic benefits of spending activity time involved with plant cultivation.  She's been involved with numerous grants and has successfully been able to raise the funds to create a sustainable garden at Miller School that included hundreds of kids involved in various 'taste off's' with the various edibles and recognizes the impact that this sort of program has on our future generations.

Board of Advisors

Conchita Franco Serri

A management consultant specializing in employment practices. She has over eighteen years of Human Resources experience in employee and labor relations, human resources management, AB 1825 sexual harassment prevention training, management training. organizational development and diversity consulting and training. Conchita is President of Serri Compliance Training. In her capacity as consultant, trainer and coach, she partners with business executives seeking solutions to complex issues of gender, race, ethics and leadership in the workplace. In her investigative capacity, she successfully investigated over two hundred charges of unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation which resulted in no litigation. 

Conchita is a mediator of employment disputes and provides HR support to start-ups and small businesses in all areas of HR policy development. She works with counsel in investigations of discrimination and harassment. She is the former Director of Affirmative Action and disabilities compliance officer at Santa Clara University for 15 years where she was the principal investigator and mediator of civil rights violations and officer for disabilities compliance, reasonable accommodations and disability policy development. Conchita is a graduate of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education where she obtained her master's degree and Boston College Law School.  Her most recent peer-reviewed article is entitled: “Self-Compassion and the Dynamics of Investigating Sexual Harassment”, which was published in the Business Communication Quarterly, December 2006. She is a public speaker and presenter. She is a published author and the recipient of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, 1997 for “Notable Latino Americans: A Biographical Dictionary”, a Greenwood Press publication. She enjoys reading poetry, dancing Argentine tango and watching foreign films.