Board of Directors

Alison Goh is the current President of the League of Women Voters of San Francisco. Prior to her role as President, she served as vice president of Voter Services and Pros & Cons Guide chair. Alison is passionate about voter education, voting rights, and women's representation in elected offices, and her career has been dedicated to political campaigns and social justice issues. She graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a B.A. in political science and international relations. In her spare time, Alison enjoys running through Golden Gate Park, trying local craft beers, and eating the diverse cuisines in the Richmond District where she lives. 

Executive Board

Danielle Deibler is the co-founder and CEO of MarvelousAI, a natural language technology startup to expose bias and misinformation in online media. She started at the League of Women Voters of San Francisco as a volunteer on the Pros & Cons Guide, and values the guide for making voting decisions. Danielle has worked at League voter registration events and on the Speakers Bureau. Danielle leads threat intelligence at global nonprofit Quad9 and she has decades in internet security, networking, software engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence technologies. She was CEO and co-founder of leading reg-tech company Compliance.ai, CTO at internet gaming company KIXEYE, and entrepreneur in residence at Trinity Ventures. Danielle has held senior leadership positions in engineering, business, and product management.  

Executive Board

 Christine Powell currently works as a deputy managing attorney at Earthjustice, a public interest law firm, where she advocates for laws and regulations that will transition the U.S. energy mix to 100% clean energy. Prior to that, she served as an administrative law judge and chief of staff for two commissioners at the California Public Utilities Commission. Christine has also served as an energy attorney at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Christine received her undergraduate degree from Howard University, masters in administrative studies from Boston College, and juris doctor from Santa Clara University. 

Executive Board

 Born and raised in San Francisco, Jenny Tse has been a member of the League of Women Voters of San Francisco since 2016 and a director on the LWVSF board since 2017. She currently serves as LWVSF’s Advocacy Committee Chair. She has a background in nonprofit, labor, and social justice work and currently works for UNITE HERE! Local 2. Jenny was a founding member of the LWV of California Criminal Justice Task Force in 2018 and helped to develop the criminal justice position that was adopted by LWV of California in 2019 and adopted by LWV of the United States in 2022. Jenny also serves as LWV of California’s Criminal Justice Committee Co-Chair and legislative analyst. She is an avid open-water swimmer, swimming year-round in the San Francisco Bay. 

 Sarah Shectman is a senior editor with The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She has a PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and has worked as an academic editor for over ten years. She grew up in Southern California and spent twelve years in Boston before moving to San Francisco in 2004. She has worked with the state League as a voting-rights legislative analyst, writing up ballot measures for Voters Edge, and serving as one of the League's representatives in the California Anti-Death Penalty Coalition. She likes to spend her weekends working in her tiny garden. 

Emilia De Luz is a Bay Area native who officially became a San Francisco resident more than a decade ago. For nearly 15 years she has worked as a professional fundraiser for various nonprofit organizations in the city, working on capital campaigns, as well as major and annual giving. She currently works for Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center as an individual giving officer focused on strategic and priority hospital programs. Emilia holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Elections and voter enfranchisement are long held areas of interest. When not focused on grant writing or other advancement work of the Development Committee, Emilia’s favorite thing about being a member of LWVSF is volunteering at voter registration events. 

Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Cheryl Harris moved to the Bay Area 17 years ago and has worked in the accounting departments at several top law firms. She currently works as a billing specialist for Window Works. She has served on LWVSF’s board as treasurer, co-treasurer, membership co-chair, and is now a Director at Large, assisting the treasurer and other areas of the League. She has supported Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly, an organization which engages the community where she lives, providing her with a greater sense of family. Although she remains close with her large family in Chicago, she prefers California weather and the San Francisco environment, which is more conducive to her spiritual studies with Soka Gakkai International-USA, a Buddhist organization  

Ann Merrill joined the League of Women Voters of San Francisco to honor the hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the League’s commitment to empowering voters for more than a century. Over the past decade, Ann has been a leader in Bay Area grassroots organizations working to increase national voter participation and has volunteered on multiple political campaigns. She brings a data-driven approach to these efforts from her 30-year career in the technology industry and financial sector. Ann has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. in anthropology from University of California, Berkeley. Her favorite way to recharge is by hiking long-distance paths in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.