Members
Member Composition:
Seven members appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Two members shall be nominated by the Mark West Area Chamber of Commerce; one member shall be nominated by the Mark West Union School District Board of Trustees; one member shall be nominated by the 4th District Supervisor from the Fulton area; and three members shall be nominated by the 4th District Supervisor to serve "at large." All members must reside within the referral area.
Membership Term:
Compensation:
Karen Fies
Karen Fies, Chair
Representing: At-Large Member
Term: 10/17/2023-10/17/2025
Karen Fies serves as the At-Large representative on the Council. Karen has over 35 years in the field of social services and retired in October 2020 as the Director for the Sonoma County Human Services Department. As director, Karen managed over 900 employees and an annual budget of approximately $325 million.
Karen originally moved to the Mark West area in 1986. She and her husband, Brian, a writer and cartoonist, lost their home in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. They have rebuilt and moved back to the neighborhood where they raised their now adult twin daughters.
In her retirement, Karen enjoys volunteering for the community, gardening, reading, and walking her dog, Riley. In addition to her work with the MWCAC, she is on the boards of the United Way of the Wine Country and the Family Justice Center of Sonoma County. Karen has been a volunteer for the Girl Scouts of Northern California for over 25 years, chairing the Gold Award Committee for the North Coast region for the last 15 years. She looks forward to more adventures when the pandemic ends.
Ronald Calloway
Ronald Calloway
Representing: School Board
Term: 02/06/2024-02/06/2026
My name is Ron Calloway, and it's my honor to serve the Mark West community. My family has resided in the Wikiup area since 2003. My employment background is in education.
During my three decades in education, I have served as a classroom teacher in Rincon Valley, a principal at San Miguel Elementary School in Mark West. Finally, I took the role of superintendent of the Mark West Union School District in 2011 and retired from the position in June of 2022.
My wife and I met as teachers in the Rincon Valley School District. Suzanne is now a reading specialist in the Mark West District at San Miguel Elementary. We have two adult sons who went through the Mark West District and graduated from Santa Rosa High School. Roland went to UC Davis and is now a biomedical engineer for Medtronic in Santa Rosa. Christopher completed his Master’s Degree at Stanford in electrical engineering, and works for Meta in Seattle.
I am thrilled to be part of this amazing team!
Heidi Would
Heidi Would
Representing: Chamber of Commerce Member
Term: 02/06/2024-02/06/2026
Heidi Would serves as one of the two Mark West Area Chamber of Commerce representatives on the Council. Born and raised locally, Heidi grew up in Sebastopol and graduated from Analy High School. She has a long relationship with Sonoma County, which includes a family heritage dating back to 1938. She and her family moved to the Wikiup area in 2007.
Heidi joined Corcoran Global Living (formerly Terra Firma Global Partners) in 2018 after making a commitment to follow her life-long interest in real estate. She left a twenty-five-year career in graphic design, project management and business ownership. She loves working with people and has a kind and considerate approach and is intuitive and understanding.
After her parents lost their home in the Tubbs Fire in 2017, she dedicated herself to helping them rebuild and get more involved in the Mark West area community. Interested in housing and urban development, she became a member of the Mark West Chamber of Commerce to support local business and become more involved in community development. She is involved with several local organizations, most recently serving as a board member for Goodwill Industries of the Redwood Empire and an ambassador for the Council on Aging. She has been an active participant in the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women committee since 2005.
Stephanie Bisordi
Stephanie Bisordi
Representing: Fulton Member
Term: 02/06/2024-02/06/2026
Stephanie Bisordi serves on the Council as the representative from Fulton. Stephanie grew up in Healdsburg and graduated in 1991 from Healdsburg HS. She worked for the Mark West School District for over 20 years and is now retired. Her husband, Rob Bisordi (who grew up in Fulton) serves as a Battalion Chief with Sonoma County Fire. They married in 1993. Their children are the fifth generation to farm the certified sustainable Bisordi Ranch and Vineyards in Fulton. Eugenio Bisordi purchased the ranch in 1898 and his great, great grandchildren continue to farm the ranch with their grandfather and father today.
Stephanie and Rob received the Sonoma County Economic Development Board’s 20th Annual Spirit of Sonoma Award and the July 2020 PD North Bay Spirit Award for their “Lunches for Lifesavers” program that was a response to the increasing cases of the Coronavirus in our community. They started the program in March of 2020, providing meals and snacks three times per week to all the emergency room workers at Sutter Hospital of Santa Rosa. The food was either donated by local restaurants, or bought by local citizens and businesses, and then delivered to the hospital.
Bisordi Ranch & Vineyards is a member of the Mark West Chamber of Commerce and the Sonoma County Farm Bureau. For the past 9 years Stephanie and her entire family (Including grandpa Bisordi) have helped clean up the Fulton Cemetery at the annual Fulton Founders Day event—one of the many “helping hands” she and her family lend to their community and neighbors. In retirement she helps run their 20-acre ranch of vineyards, walnut and olive trees, goats and chickens. She is also a volunteer with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.
Haley Skerrett
Haley Skerrett
Representing: Chamber of Commerce Member
Term: 02/06/2024-02/06/2026
As an involved member of her community, Haley jumped right in after the fires to help her neighborhood rebuild. Along with a handful of others. Haley joined Supervisor Gore and his team for weekly Block Captain meetings to address concerns from neighbors and get direct answers.
Haley has been involved in various committees over the years such as a founding member of the Patient Advisory Committee for Kaiser Permanente, John B. Riebli PTA, Pacific Union Community Fund. Haley was also a member of the Larkfield Resilience Fund which committed to helping the community by fundraising to replace trees lost in the Tubbs Fire in 2017.
Haley was raised in Bishop, CA and graduated from Cal Poly SLO with a degree in Business Finance. She has been a local estate agent in Sonoma County for the last 18 years. Her husband and two young boys enjoy living in Larkfield while they are not enjoying time away in Lake Almanor.
Becky Menzel
Becky Menzel
Representing: At-Large
Term: 02/06/2024-02/06/2026
Becky Menzel serves as an At-Large council member. She is a retired medical device sales representative who now works as a substitute teacher at John B. Riebli Elementary School in the Mark West Union School District. Becky has also served on the Executive Board of the Riebli PTA for three years. At Riebli, she runs the yearly Book Exchange program which provides gently-used books to all Riebli students at no cost to the families.
Becky originally moved to the Mark West area when she and her husband Dmitri bought their home in 2009. They lived in Windsor for two years while they rebuilt their Berry Brook home after the Tubbs Fire and moved back in November of 2019. Dmitri retired from Novato Fire District as the Deputy Chief in 2021. They have one child together, Madelyn, who has attended Riebli Elementary since Kindergarten and will start Rincon Valley Middle School in 2024.
In their off time, the Menzels enjoy hiking and kayaking. They volunteer as a foster kitten family with the Sonoma County Humane Society and as puppy petters at Bergin College of Canine Studies in Penngrove. Dmitri is president of the Berry Brook HOA and a board Member of the Mark West Area Community Fund. Madelyn is an avid, year-round softball player which keeps this famiy active and on the move most weekends.