Board of Directors
Pi Ra
Board President
His career spans roles such as Volunteer Coordinator and Counselor at SF Suicide Prevention (1981–1985), Manager of Service Compliance for SF Paratransit (1985–2000), and leadership positions with Paratransit Inc., Medsam, and Walk SF. From 2005 to 2022, he served as the Transit Justice Program Manager and Director of the Senior Disability University at Senior and Disability Action.
Pi's civic engagement includes seats on multiple city advisory committees—Pedestrian Safety, Bicycle, and Better Streets—as well as service on the SF County Transportation Authority’s Sales Tax Advisory Committees for Props B, K, and L. He’s also participated in the California AIDS Ride (1999–2001) and is a familiar face in SF Critical Mass and Mini Mass rides over the last two decades.
Pi Ra embodies a life of collective action, mutual care, and deep community roots.
A proud Appalachian Mennonite by heritage and a self-described Christian-influenced Pagan, Pi Ra brings a rich blend of spiritual, cultural, and political identities—including being a Pisces born in the Year of the Wooden Horse and a registered Democrat. A senior living with disabilities, Pi is a dedicated father and grandfather, an avid bicyclist, and a lifelong community advocate.
Since immigrating from Upstate New York to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1976, Pi has been deeply involved in intentional communities and grassroots activism. From his early days with the Kerista Village and Stardance communities (1977–1986) to decades of public service, he has remained committed to justice, accessibility, and transportation equity.
Betty Traynor
Betty Traynor became a member of Senior Action Network in 2000 and a Board member in 2008. She has been active in San Francisco as coordinator of the Friends of Boeddeker Park in the Tenderloin, is a board member of OWL (Older Women’s League), and a connector for her co-op with the Community Living Campaign. She is also a core group member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom-San Francisco branch. Betty played a lead role in the merger of Senior Action Network and Planning for Elders to become Senior and Disability Action in August 2012. You may contact her at btraynor@att.net.
Bruce Marcus
Bruce Marcus has worked in the nonprofit sector as a volunteer, direct service staff, program manager, director of programs/services and board of directors member since 1972.
He has worked with organizations that provided residential services, substance abuse prevention, juvenile justice, homeless youth projects, school based social work services, after school programs, family resource centers, senior and disability advocacy and criminal justice re-entry projects.
In 2010 Bruce founded Third Sector Solutions, a consulting, training and educational services firm providing technical assistance, workshops, coaching, organizational and professional development services to nonprofit organizations, boards of directos, staff and universities.
Cora McCoy
George Turner
George R. Turner is the founder and Executive Director of Phatt Chance Community Services, Inc. (PCCS), a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization providing safe, clean & sober housing and reintegration services to formerly incarcerated men, veterans, and individuals with co-occurring disorders without alternative housing or support. Mr. Turner has 18 years of experience in all aspects of reintegration and supportive housing service delivery, staff management, and residential property management. Under his leadership, PCCS has grown from one to three residences, serving a total of 22 clients at one time.
Overall, Mr. Turner brings more than 25 years of experience in intensive wrap-around case management, conflict resolution, violence prevention, cognitive-behavioral training, group facilitation and substance-use disorder counseling. In addition to community social service and addiction specialist certifications, he holds a B.A. in sociology and an M.A. in social work/gerontology from San Francisco State University. His lived experiences paired with his education and advocacy skills, allow him to effectively work with diverse residents and staff, including those with significant trauma histories.
Juthaporn Chaloeicheep
Juthaporn Chaloeicheep serves as a board member for Senior and Disability Action and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Health at San Francisco State University. She is raising her 10-year-old son and is deeply focused on being the best mother she can be. Stable housing and sustained sobriety have been key to her success, allowing her to turn lived experience into purpose. Drawing from lived experience, she uses her voice to advocate for seniors with disabilities and to remind others that with determination and support, change is always possible.
Karen Fishkin
Karen was born in Berkeley over 80 years ago. She has lived her life in the Bay Area, and wouldn’t have it any other way. Karen was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for most of her professional life, worked with seniors, and used what she had learned to assist her parents through their declining years. She is married and divorced, has 2 children and 2 grandchildren. Now happily retired, Karen divides her activist life between SDA, and her neighborhood group, HANC, the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council. Maybe she’ll get a dog.
Lolita Kintanar
Lolita Kintanar has devoted her life to supporting the Filipino community and all seniors and people with disabilities. She worked for many years as Director of Canon Kip Senior Center, a program of the Episcopal Community Services, a nonprofit organization which provides food, jobs, and other services for seniors, people with disabilities, and unhoused people. Lolita technically retired but is active with the Felton Institute and serves on the boards of the Pilipino Senior Resource Center and API Legal Outreach. She was named one of the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the US by the Filipina Women’s Network, and her birthday is on International Women’s Day.
Sonya Rio-Glick
Sonya is a queer and disabled disability justice practitioner and policy nerd who lives in Oakland with her partner, Tess. She brings over 10 years of disability-related experience across accessibility planning and training, policy, non-profit leadership and the arts. Currently, Sonya works as a Policy Associate at New Disabled South, lead organizer of Cycling in Solidarity, and is a graduate student studying Global Development at Harvard University. Learn more about Cycling in Solidarity on instagram @Cycling.in.solidarity.