Ethics San Mateo realized early in our formation that it will take a cross-section of our community to help guide us in evaluating compliance to the high level of ethical standards the residents of San Mateo deserve. To that end, we established an Advisory Council. The Advisory Council will provide crucial input to the Board of Directors in the pursuit of our mission.

The Council has a goal to include in its membership recognized leaders who are eminently qualified from the faith, academic, legal, business, government, and social service communities.

Advisory Council members possess qualities that are valued by our diverse San Mateo community as having the wisdom to provide insight and guidance regarding ethical standards and conduct.

The Advisory Council, under the guiding hand of its first member, Reverend Lorrie Carter Owens, will be reaching out to the leadership of the communities listed above to find others to become members of the council.

 

Advisory Council Members

Rev. Lorrie Carter Owens

Rev. Owens is the president of the San Mateo Branch of the NAACP and has been a member of the civil rights organization most of her adult life. In her secular profession, she is an educational technologist. She is the first female and still the only African American in the state of California to serve as a Chief Technology Officer for the type of agency at which she currently serves. Rev. Owens regularly speaks at the state and national convenings on issues of digital equity and transformational leadership. Rev. Owens and her husband, Rev. Dr. Robert Owens, lead a small, non-denominational congregation in the Bay Area and are parents, grandparents, soon to be great-grandparents and unlikely but devoted cat parents.