The Cancer Foundation Board of Trustees is honored to announce the election of the new board officers at its annual meeting in April.
C. Michael Cooney will begin a one-year term as board chair, after serving on the Cancer Foundation Board of Trustees the past 10 years in various roles. He is currently a member of the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission and serves on the state Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and Outhwaite Foundation Board of Trustees.
Priscilla Higgins will serve as the board’s vice chair. A Santa Ynez Valley resident and philanthropist, she has been on the Cancer Foundation Board since 2016 and has chaired the outreach and stewardship and nominating committees.
Higgins’s dedication and leadership have made a lasting impact on the direction of the Cancer Foundation and its work with cancer patients and their families.
Kristen Blabey will begin her term as board secretary. A partner at Price, Postel & Parma, she specializes in estate planning, probate and trust administration. She is also the chair of the Cancer Foundation’s outreach and stewardship committee.
The role of treasurer will be held by Patricia MacFarlane, who joined the Cancer Foundation Board of Trustees in 2018 and has served as the finance chair since 2019. For the past 20 years, she has served as a community volunteer and is a former board president of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
She currently serves on the Cate School Board of Trustees, and UCSB Arts & Lectures Council.
“The Cancer Foundation looks forward to this new chapter of leadership,” said Lori Willis, Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara executive director.
“The foundation’s mission of providing excellent cancer care to all members of the community regardless of means will continue to be at the forefront of the minds of the new officers, trustees and staff,” she said.
To learn more, visit www.cfsb.org.