Four community members, Elizabeth Cholawsky, Erika Culwell, Sandy Seale and Ashley Parker Snider, have been elected to the Board of Directors for the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.
Cholawsky is a technology executive with expertise in product innovation, client services, marketing, and public company governance.
Currently an operating advisor with Updata Partners, she previously served as CEO of HG Insights and Support.com and is a board member for American Riviera Bank, GSI Technologies, and Wellesley Information Services.
Cholawsky holds a doctorate in political science with a concentration in econometrics from the University of Minnesota, and a bachelor’s degree from Franklin & Marshall College.
A financial services professional with more than 20 years of experience, Culwell is a financial advisor and vice president at Wealth Enhancement Group, an independent firm based in Santa Maria/Lompoc.
Previously, she served as a financial advisor at Vivid Financial Management and at Auro Wealth Management, both in Lompoc.
Culwell has volunteered with the Lompoc Education Foundation, and Empty Bowls, the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County’s annual fundraising event.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration at the University of La Verne.
Seale holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Princeton University and a master’s and a doctorate in engineering from MIT.
After accepting a postdoctoral position at UC Santa Barbara, she went on to co-manage the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation at the campus’s Earth Research Institute.
Seale has served on boards for the Montessori Center School and the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County. In 2007, she helped establish the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Foundation to support the school’s engineering program.
She currently serves as director of development at Las Cumbres Observatory.
Since 1989, Ashley Parker Snider has worked in sales and marketing at Fess Parker Winery in Los Olivos. She serves on the Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation Board and is a past board president for both the Santa Barbara County Alzheimer’s Association and Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation.
Parker Snider is also a past board member at Direct Relief and Bishop Garcia Diego High School, where she served as director of admissions and public relations, 2010-12.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in English at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
“The Scholarship Foundation Board of Directors is certain to gain from the talents of these four extraordinary women,” said Melinda Cabrera, Scholarship Foundation president/CEO.
“I continue to be impressed by the caliber of people who volunteer their time and hard-earned expertise in service to our organization. This latest group is no exception, and I very much look forward to working with each of them,” Cabrera said.
For more about the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, visit www.sbscholarship.org.