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.

Current team members:

• Aileen Smith (12/11 – present): community outreach team leader
• Alyssa Ransom (9/11 – 12/11): event planning
• Ashly Collins (12/11 – present): board of directors, business development and outreach team leader
• Bernie Goldsmith, Craft Fair partner
• Beverly Lopez (4/12 – 7/12): event planning
• Curtis Smith (1/12 – present): community outreach
• Danh Tran (4/11 – 12/11): business outreach. DD information packet for businesses accepting DDs; created Business Center page of website; business outreach to convince businesses to accept DDs; created our Davis Dollars facebook group to for team members to coordinate and share information
• Edson Perez (4/12 – present): Business outreach.
• Jamie Tieng (4/11 – present): business and community outreach. Map of businesses accepting DDs (version 1.0); business solicitation card; business outreach; photographed businesses to post on our website; DD information packet for businesses accepting DDs; led Davis Dollars student organization.
• Julia Chan (4/12 – present): Design. Designed banner for Craft Fair page; cleaned up layout of Businesses page.
• Junaid Ahmed (4/12 – present): Community outreach
• Kelsey Dewaele (9/2011 – present): community outreach team leader
• Kevin Jung (1/12 – present), business outreach. Created Craft Fair vendor outreach form; contacted vendors to invite them to the Craft Fair.
• Kevin Liang (12/11 – present), website development. Created improved New Services page; created improved website footer.
• Linda Liu (4/12 – present), business administration
• Lindsay Lynch (3/12 – present), community outreach
• Lindsay Matteson (1/12 – present): community outreach
• Maria Calderon Carnica (4/12 – present): human resources
• Melissa Chin (12/11 – present): board member, marketing
• Nian Liu (9/2011 – present): business development
• Nicholas Young (9/2011 – present): board member, business development and outreach
• Saatyaki Amin (4/12 – present): business outreach
• Sonia Cheng (9/2011 – present): accounting/finance
• Vicki Lee (4/11 – present): human resources and management
• Victor Awad (5/11 – present): business outreach and development
• Yan Wong (4/12 – present): design

• 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
• Chao Yi Yang (1/11 – 3/12): videography and business development/outreach. Business outreach to convince businesses to accept DDs; community outreach at the Davis Farmers Market
• 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
• Christine Tsin (6/10 – 12/11): graphic design. Designed What Is Davis Dollars poster; designed the Favicon used by our website; designed stickers (Keep your dollars local, Let’s spend locally); designed sticker for businesses to put in their window (image is reversed so stickers can be placed inside windows); Davis Dollars At Work sign; gave presentation about Davis Dollars to her class; campus outreach; designed Muse t-shirt
• 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)
• Elaine Chow (9/11 – 3/12): Social media and marketing; community outreach. Created an email sign-up sheet for our table
• Ellison Ma (1/12 – 3/12): marketing, community outreach
• Emily Miller (9/10 – 12/10)
• Esther Wan (3/12 – 5/12): Design. Designed new Business Info flier; designed website footer; designed website header.
• 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 – 6/11): 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)
• Serena Claudio (1/12 – 3/12): community outreach. Set up community Barter Boards at N Street Cohousing and at the Experimental College Gardens
• Sheila Maniago (6/10 – 9/10)
• Shelley Wong (9/2011 – 3/12): Community and business outreach. Outreach to individuals at the farmers market.
• Shivram Srivinasan (9/09 – 11/09)
• Sowmya Murali (9/2011 – 3/12): business development. Outreach to banks and credit unions in Davis; wrote business proposals for business partnerships.
• 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)
• Wan Nurul Naszeerah (1/12 – 3/12): community outreach, design
• Yi (James) Bai (6/10 – 9/10): Community outreach at the Davis Farmers Market and on campus