Amy Koo, Board Member

Amy Koo  was elected to the Sequoia Union High School District Board in 2022 and previously served on the Belmont-Redwood Shores School District Board from 2013 to 2022.   She was previously the CSBA Director at Large, Asian Pacific Islander and is a past member on the board of directors for the San Mateo County School Boards Association.  Outside of school board duties, she is a mother of two boys in 9th grade and 5th grade and works as an Associate Director of Hepatitis B Marketing at Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Foster City.  At Gilead, she served for three years on the leadership team of the Women at Gilead employee resource group which supports the career growth of women.  Amy is a 4th generation San Franciscan who graduated from Lowell High School and holds a BS degree from MIT and MBA/MS degrees from Stanford.  She has a passion for diversity and inclusion, ethnic studies and the inclusion of AAPI stories in curriculum, and ensuring that APIs are well represented in leadership roles both in business and politics.