Our Team

Nicholas Barry, founder and executive director

I started Davis Dollars because I believe that as strong a community as Davis already is, it can be much stronger. I hope to see a Davis where people know their neighbors, work together to solve local problems, share meals, and know they can rely on strangers to help them fix a bike flat or find a lost cat. I would love to see more groups like the Bike Collective, to help people learn skills that will benefit them, but which will also encourage them to share those skills with others. Davis Dollars can help create that sort of community by bringing people together, and I’ll work hard to make sure that vision becomes a reality.

Aileen Smith (12/11 – present): community outreach team leader

Alyssa Ransom (9/11 – present): business outreach

Ashly Collins (12/11 – present): board of directors, business development and outreach team leader

Chao Yi Yang (1/11 – present): videography and business development/outreach

Portfolio of accomplishments:

  • Business outreach to convince businesses to accept DDs
  • Community outreach at the Davis Farmers Market

Christine Tsin (6/10 – present): Graphic Design

Portfolio of accomplishments:

Curtis Smith (1/12 – present): community outreach

Danh Tran (4/11 – present): business outreach

Elaine Chow (9/11 – present): Social media and marketing

  • Created an email sign-up sheet for our table

Ellison Ma (1/12 – present): marketing, community outreach

Jamie Tieng (4/11 – present): business and community outreach

Portfolio of accomplishments:

Kelsey Dewaele (9/2011 – present): community outreach team leader

Kevin Jung (1/12 – present), business outreach

Kevin Liang (12/11 – present), website development

Lindsay Matteson (1/12 – present): community outreach

Melissa Chin (12/11 – present): board member, marketing

Michael Liou (1/12 – present): business development and outreach

Nian Liu (9/2011 – present): business development

Nicholas Young (9/2011 – present): board member, business development and outreach

Serena Claudio (1/12 – present): community outreach team leader

Shelley Wong (9/2011 – present): Community and business outreach

Sonia Cheng (9/2011 – present): accounting/finance

Sowmya Murali (9/2011 – present): business development

Wan Nurul Naszeerah (1/12 – present): community outreach

Former team members

  • Ann Barzman (9/2011 – 12/2011): community outreach and business development; created business proposal to farmers market vendors; updated our Daviswiki article, and linked to it from other relevant pages. Skills learned: editing Daviswiki and other Wikispot wikis
  • Anthea Wong (1/10 – 3/10)
  • Bailey Wong (9/09 – 6/10)
  • Bryan Elliott (9/10 – 3/11): Campus outreach; secured a campus locker; formulated our business outreach strategy; coordinated campus outreach sessions
  • Chathurika Peiris (6/10 – 9/10)
  • Chris Horsting (6/09 – 12/09): Built the first version of our website
  • Christina Robinson (4/11 – 6/11): Introductory presentation about Davis Dollars, Envisioned stickers (Keep your dollars local, Let’s spend locally) (final drafts produced by Christine Tsin); Skills learned: Prezi presentation software
  • Chu Jun He (6/10 – 10/11): marketing, management, business and community outreach. Led business outreach team to convince businesses to accept DDs (set dates, coordinated intern schedules, trained interns to do effective outreach); recruited one intern; coordinated campus outreach sessions; social media marketing; solicited donations from Davis businesses; Gave speech about Davis Dollars to her class
  • Claudia Bustamante (6/10 – 11/10): Community outreach on campus
  • Constance Cheung (6/10 – 9/10): Designed posters (Services poster, Connections poster)
  • Corrina Uyeda (9/11 – 12/11): community outreach
  • Denise Lipiansky (9/09 – 3/10): Designed our Davis Dollars currency imagery
  • Dennis Nguyen (6/10 – 9/10)
  • Diane Lo (6/09 – 9/09)
  • Donna Kang (9/09 – 12/09)
  • Eileen Lu (9/09 – 12/09)
  • Emily Miller (9/10 – 12/10)
  • Hou Kot (6/09 – 9/09): Built the first version of our website; set up the new version of our website (using WordPress)
  • Ian Shein (6/10 – 9/10): Community outreach at the Davis Farmers Market and on campus
  • Jatin Malhotra (1/10 – 6/10): Coordinated a Davis Dollars presentation in front of the MBA club on campus
  • Jiyeon Yang (6/09 – 9/09)
  • Johnathon Stanford-Carey (1/11 – present): Promotional video of Bike Forth, Script for our The Office video
  • Kevin Fabian (6/09 – 12/09): Coordinated a meeting with Dr. Benner, an expert and professor of Community and Regional Development
  • Kody Simpson (9/2011 – 10/2011), community and business outreach
  • Kristen Read (9/09 – 6/10)
  • Kristen Rulifson (9/10 – 3/11): Community outreach at the Davis Farmers Market and on campus; coordinated campus outreach sessions; created DD presentation binder
  • Lauren Cockrell (1/10 – 6/10)
  • Maria Pena (9/10 – 3/11): Community outreach at the Davis Farmers Market and on campus; coordinated campus outreach sessions
  • Michelle Lee (1/11 – 12/2011): management, social media, videography and business development/outreach. Managed videography team (set deadlines, follow up on progress, reviewed videos); Watermelon Music promotional video; Coordinated our team participation in the Great Davis Race (we won the race for our category); formulated our first social media strategy; carried out social media marketing; business outreach to convince businesses to accept DDs; recruited three other interns (Johnathon Stanford-Carey, Chao Yi Yang, Ray Chow); community outreach at the Davis Farmers Market. Skills learned: Prezi presentation software
  • Nick To (4/10 – 12/10)
  • Nuseng Cha (9/09 – 3/10): business outreach
  • Patty Vu (9/09 – 12/09)
  • Ray Chow (4/11 – 10/11): Envisioned stickers (Keep your dollars local, Let’s spend locally) (final drafts produced by Christine Tsin), collected physical maps for our map of businesses accepting DDs, created content for our What Is Davis Dollars poster, created survey for people to take at our table.
  • Sage Nakagawa (6/09 – 9/09)
  • Sheila Maniago (6/10 – 9/10)
  • Shivram Srivinasan (9/09 – 11/09)
  • Stefanie Parsels (9/09 – 3/10)
  • Sue Deng (4/10 – 6/10)
  • Suzanna Chan (6/10 – 9/10): Design fliers (Definition flier, Wordle flier)
  • Swathi Venkatesh (9/09 – 12/09)
  • Tiffany Trinh (9/10 – 11/10; 9/11 – 10/11): Redesigned our website theme; posted the Favicon used by our website; Davis Dollars currency symbol; updated the website header; updated to WordPress 3. Skills learned: Editing a WordPress site; installing plug-ins; changing themes
  • Tyler Clemens (6/09 – 9/09): Built the first version of our website; oversaw and managed the web design team
  • Valerie Francisco (8/11 – 12/11): media outreach, social media marketing, videography (LinkedIn profile): Recruited one intern; community outreach at the farmers market; filmed and edited ”Davis Dollars ‘Office’ Parody“
  • Vivienne Huang (10/11 – 12/11): Website
  • Virginia Li (9/10 – 6/11)
  • Yi (James) Bai (6/10 – 9/10): Community outreach at the Davis Farmers Market and on campus

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