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Rebecca Rolfe, Executive Director
(415) 865-5521, rebeccar@sfcenter.org
Rebecca Rolfe is a community activist who has worked on issues of social justice for over twenty-eight years. She is passionately committed to creating an environment where inequities based on gender, race, economic status, and sexual orientation are addressed effectively. She credits her commitment to community activism to her mother, who taught her the importance of commitment to community, a strong sense of justice, and the individual's power to make a difference.

Prior to her appointment as Executive Director, Rebecca served as the Center's Deputy Director for four years. Prior to her arrival at the Center, she worked at San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR) for over sixteen years, starting as a hotline counselor and ending with an eight year term as Executive Director.

Rebecca is active locally and statewide working to create public policy, programs, and coalitions that address issues of violence against women. She served on the Board of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault for eleven years, seven of them as Co-Chair of the Board. She continues to serve in leadership positions on statewide policy committees and task forces, including the Violence Against Women STOP Task Force and the State Advisory Committee of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services.

Rebecca lives in San Francisco, with Susan Mooney, her partner of fifteen years and their two dogs, Jack and Fergus. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to provide leadership in developing the vision for the Center and to serve San Francisco's diverse LGBT communities.

Clair Farley, Employment Services Specialist
(415) 865-5632, clairf@sfcenter.org
Clair is a community leader and mentor working to support transgender people as they overcome barriers in their personal and professional lives. She is dedicated creating safe and equal workplaces for all people that do not discriminate based on ones gender identity or expression. She is the star of the documentary film “Red without Blue” in which she and her family share their beautiful story of transition and change against all odds. The film provided her the opportunity to travel the world and share her inspirational story.

Prior to moving to the Bay Area, Clair attended Sarah Lawrence College, interning as a program assistant for the Greyston Foundation where she mentored high school drop-outs. Prior to her arrival at the Center, she worked at Dimensions clinic as a peer advocate for LGBT youth, starting as a participant in the LYRIC internship program. Today Clair offers a wide range programs and services through the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative (TEEI) – from providing participants with community mentors, Social support groups, referrals, and self care programs.

David Gonzalez, Children, Youth and Family Program Manager
(415) 865-5615, davidg@sfcenter.org
David's constant passion remains fighting the good fight for other marginalized folk: People of Color, Women, Trans Folk, Drug Users, Queers, the Incarcerated, Homeless, Sex Workers, Street Youth and Immigrants. He has inhabited many roles, but prefers "Subversive Extreme Radical Leftist." He tells folks that for the past 6 years he's worked developing sub-cultural theories and models to better address the psycho-social and health needs of rural Latino migrant workers. Being in HIV Prevention since he was fifteen, David is a published researcher for the NIH and national expert. When not being a smarty pants he enjoys dancing the 360°, playing a mean air guitar, spinning vinyl in his chonies, clowning his boy friend's hair, classic cars and the Homies that drive them, making your mom cry, being on the guest list, reading, writing bad poetry, and not eating his vegetables.

Leticia M. Batrez-Herrera, Kisdpace Childcare Provider
(415) 865-5639, kidspace@sfcenter.org
Leticia was born and raised in San Fra ncisco and has been working with children since 1996. She started her education in Child development at City College of San Francisco and graduated as part of the pilot program for the Safe Start program. In addition she holds a B.A. degree in Human Development from Cal State Hayward. Her experiences range from working with the SF Child Abuse Council/ TALKLINE in the children's playroom to providing respite care at the Allambie house in the children facility.   She also received training as a domestic violence advocate at the Riley Center and volunteers as a Jumpstart Americorps member working in preschools in early literacy and is an advocate for LGBT parenting as she is the daughter of two mothers. She follows the philosophy that children learn through play and activities and through KidSpace she enjoys fostering and nurturing the creativity within each child.

Laura Louie, KidSpace Childcare Provider
(415) 865-5639, kidspace@sfcenter.org
Laura was born and raised in San Francisco, and has been working with children most of her life. She is a substitute paraprofessional and a teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District. She loves the many experiences and skills gained from teaching children. Her goal is to help children explore their imagination with art, toys, games and more. At KidSpace she wants to make sure they are comfortable and know they have a place to have fun.

Mike McLeod, Director of Facilities
(415) 865-5655, mikem@sfcenter.org
Mike joined the Center staff in 2005, and has an extensive background in management and building maintenance skills to assist the team with daily operations. He began his relationship with the Center, and quickly found a passion for its work and the community it serves. He has been an active and devoted member of the community for too many years to count and volunteers a great deal of his spare time in helping to bring about a positive change. Mike is a Texas native and found a new home in San Francisco. He extends a big Texas welcome to everyone that comes across his path.

Roberto Ordeñana, Director of Development
(415) 865-5665, robertoo@sfcenter.org
Born and raised in San Francisco, Roberto has worked in community-building for over a decade. His community work began in the field of youth development through HIV prevention at the STOP AIDS Project. Through the years he has served as president of the board of directors of BAY Area Young Positives and as a member of the LGBT Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. At the Center he oversees the arts and culture program, children, youth and family services, and community and policy initiatives. Through his work, Roberto strives to shine a light on the great talent of our community's artists, helps create stronger support services for our youth, ensures that children of LGBT families build a sense of pride in their families and creates opportunities for groups of people to work together to create community change.

Mila Pavlin, Community Programs Manager
(415) 865-5649, milap@sfcenter.org
Mila has a passion for creativity and digital artist, brining her love of “New Media” and modern web design to the Center’s creative team. A graduate of the San Francisco Academy of Art University and a passionate activist, she hopes to use her creative skills to benefit the community. She began her commitment to non-profit work at Neighborhood Center of the Arts a nonprofit organization in Grass Valley CA that provides services for artists with developmentally disabilities. She has a broad background that includes business administration, computer tech support and networking, and web architecture and design. In her spare time she works on developing art for independent mobile phone video games and short films.

Mike Pembridge, Facilities Assistant
mikep@sfcenter.org
Mike comes to the Center bringing a wide variety of skills he acquired from numerous working experiences. Some of these include coffee houses, video stores and 4 years at The Greystone in Noe Valley. When not hard at work here on the facilities team, Mike enjoys good movies and bad sci-fi.

Cat Stevans, Event Coordinator
(415) 865-5656, cats@sfcenter.org
Cat Stevans has been a proud member of San Francisco for the past 10 years. Moving here after college from NY in 2001, Cat worked in and for many theatre companies. Including; Aurora Theatre, Theatre Rhino, Flux Theatre, Crowded Fire Theatre Company, Berkeley Opera; and New Conservatory Theatre where she was the resident set designer/technical director for 3 years. After her theatrical endeavors, in 2005 Cat went on to work as a facilities assistant at The SF LGBT Center, where she is currently the Events Coordinator and going on her 7th year there. In Cat's spare time she trains for archery competitions, volunteers for Meals on Wheels, goes on adventures with her girlfriend and draws tattoos.