Tara Hernandez, Membership Director

Eleen Kamas enjoys homeschooling her three school-aged children while the younger two come along for the ride. In a previous life, she worked in libraries, earned a doctorate in psychology and taught at the college level.  She has done research on memory and cognition, including a look at what trick questions can tell us about how we recall information.

Stephanie Hood, Charter/ISP Advisor

Stephanie Hood homeschooled her two children through middle school and high school. She now teaches math classes to homeschoolers and runs Bay Area Homeschool Field Trips (BAHFT). Ms. Hood has worked as a district GATE administrator and a classroom teacher in both public and Christian schools. She has also served on the Boards of California Association for the Gifted (CAG) and Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF).

Kim Taylor, Youth Editor

Kim Taylor is an aspiring novelist and poet. She attended public school until the age of nine, at which point her parents made the choice to homeschool her and her two younger brothers.  An avid environmentalist, she has been volunteering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium for almost two years. She enjoys adventuring in nature, playing with her lizards, learning new things, reading, and writing. She is currently serving as Youth Editor for GHF's Kids and Teens page.

 

Madeline Goodwin, Presentation Assistant

Madeline Goodwin has been homeschooled all of her life. She enjoys writing and is currently working on two different science fiction novels. Miss Goodwin spent the past year as an intern for Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), with a special interest in environmental policy, and she will begin a new project with the Josephine County Renewable Energy Task Force shortly. She also recently completed Junior Volunteer training at Wildlife Images, a rescue and rehabilitation facility for wild animals of all kinds. She has traveled to many gifted and homeschool conferences as an assistant, and has just begun giving her own presentations.

 

GHF also reaps enormous benefits from the efforts of others, including:
Jen Atwood and Andrew Rutajit -- Graphic Design (brochure)
Sarah Garrison -- E-List Moderator
and, of course, the wonderful technical folks at Solertium, without whom GHF would be entirely on paper!