OUSD Board Member

Board of Education Experience:

Board of Education member since 1994

Board of Education President 1997-98, 2000-01, 2003-04, 2006-07

Attended California School Board Association conferences and workshops

Participant in Ojai Unified School District committees:

            Anti-Bullying/Harassment

            Ojai Performing Arts Theater

            Proposition A-5

            Diversity/Conflict Resolution Mentors

            Resource Development

            Common Ground

Community Experience:

         Anti-Defamation League, Ventura County Advisory Board

         Ojai Valley Library Friends and Foundation Board

         National Women’s Political Caucus, Ventura County Board

         Member/Attendee Ojai Chamber of Commerce, 
         Ojai Valley Land Conservancy

Biographical Information:

Born in New York and attended public school in Spring Valley, New York from kindergarten through high school.  Spring Valley was then a town not unlike Ojai.

 

Moved west through Chicago and made it to Ojai in 1991.  Married Rudy Petersdorf and their  daughter, Barbara, was born in 1993.  Barbara attended Topa Topa Elementary School from kindergarten through 6^th grades and is now a student at Matilija Junior High School.

Education:

MBA, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1980

Masters in Library Science, State University of New York at Albany, 1974

Bachelors of Arts, State University of New York 
          at Albany, 1971

 

Professional Experience:

Founder and President, Medical Claims Management

Medical School Librarian, University of Illinois and Northwestern University Medical Schools

Marketing Director, Recycled Paper Products

 

Contact:  rikkihorne.schoolboard@yahoo.com