Board of Directors

Kate Morley is the COO at Toiyabe Indian Health Project, a 3-site Tribal health clinic in the Eastern Sierra.  She is a former Executive Director of IMACA and has also worked for the Mono County Public Health Department, the Eastern Sierra Council of Governments, and Amigos de las Americas, a youth-focused international development NGO.  She serves as the Inyo County Planning Commissioner for District 2 and is a CASA Volunteer through Wild Iris Family Counseling and Crisis Center.  She has a BA in Sociology from Grinnell College and an MSc in Health, Community, and Development from the LSE.  She enjoys hiking, yoga, and ice skating, and has taken up knitting in retaliation against chilly mountain winters.  Her spirited cat Mango frequently undermines her progress.

Valarie Goodwin has been on the IMACA Board of Directors since November 2016. She often volunteers for IMACA’s Food Assistance program by helping pack food that gets distributed to each county.

She is a Bishop Paiute Tribe member. She participates in the tribe’s government events and loves their cultural activities. She loves the community! In her free time, she enjoys outdoor adventures like fishing and walking, and reading about history and political science.

Carolyn was raised in Wisconsin and came to California in 1964 after graduating from nursing school. She worked in hospitals down south for 32 years and came to Mono County Public Health Department in 1994 after her three children were grown and gone. She soon learned that IMACA was her place to go for assisting families with their needs. She joined the Board in 2011 and is grateful to have been helping people in Inyo and Mono counties with IMACA through all these years.

Marshall retired in 2021 after serving over 25 years as a County Counsel in the Eastern Sierra: first as Mono County Counsel (1996-2015) and then as Inyo County Counsel (2016-2021). County Counsels are appointed by county boards of supervisors and serve as the county’s chief in-house attorney, providing a wide variety of legal services to county departments, commissions, and officials. As a department head, Marshall managed other attorneys and support staff and administered his department budget. Upon request, his office also provided legal services to local schools and special districts outside of county government. Marshall was active in the County Counsels Association of California and served in many Association positions including president. He was the longest serving County Counsel in California at the time of his retirement.

Marshall lives in Mono County and is married to Grace Rudolph. They have two adult children with special needs who grew up here, including attending IMACA’s Head Start/preschool programs.

Marshall has also been an active member of Rotary clubs in both Mono and Inyo counties. He is a past President of the Mammoth Lakes Rotary Club and the current President-elect of the Bishop Sunrise Rotary Club as well as an assistant governor. Over the years, Marshall has also provided legal assistance to other nonprofit entities, including the June Lake Loop Historical Society.

Through his many years of living and working in Inyo and Mono counties, Marshall has gained valuable experience and familiarity with the means through which public services are provided by governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as the issues and challenges facing residents and service providers in both counties.

Jose Garcia, CD, CHI, is the Language Access Services Manager for Northern Inyo Healthcare District (NIHD) in Bishop, California, and a Bishop City Council Member, serving as the 2023 Mayor Pro Tem.

Jose was born in Mexico City where he completed his studies and graduated as Cirujano Dentista (Doctor of Dental Surgery) from “Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México” in 1985. Jose emigrated to the United States and has lived in Bishop since October 1989. Jose has over 20 years of experience in medical interpreting and translating and has been at NIHD for over 16 years. Prior to his employment at NIHD, Jose worked for Mammoth Hospital where he developed and implemented the first healthcare interpreter services program in the Eastern Sierra.

Jose has sewn deep seeds in this community over the past 33 years by volunteering for and serving on various organizations including: Commissioner for the City of Bishop Planning Commission (2013-2020), advisor for the BUHS Latino Club, and serving on the Board of Directors for Inyo Council for the Arts, and the Bishop Area Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Jose has been a Board Member for the California Healthcare Interpreting Association since 2007, served as President from 2013-2018, and Chairperson of the Board during the 2019-2021 term. Jose is passionate about serving the community by utilizing his bilingual and advocacy skills, education, and professional expertise.

Jennifer Kreitz has long dedicated her time and energy to the people living in the Eastern Sierra. Beginning as a Mammoth Lakes Library volunteer in 1999, to today where she serves on the Mono County Board of Supervisors, Jennifer actively works toward lifting up the voices and needs of others. She currently serves on the California Coalition for Rural Housing Board of directors, the Eastern Sierra Continuum of Care and many other local boards, committees and commissions. Jennifer seeks to ensure that IMACA programs and services are equitably shared with Mono County residents.

Having grown up in Los Angeles and Mammoth Lakes, Isaura has lived experience of the affordable housing brackets in the State of California. She attended CSU Dominguez Hills as a Premed/Bio-Chem major with a minor in Chicano/a Studies. As she’s gotten older, she has found ways to better serve the communities she lives in.  Although her field of studies focused on medicine, she finds her time best served reaching out and helping her community thrive. Being bilingual helped her jumped right in to be a liaison to the Hispanic community by working for Mammoth Lakes Housing, Inc. She helps find housing solutions for the workforce in all of the Eastern Sierras.