President

​​My name is Antonia Garza. I am the new incoming President. I am a former Park Side and Brook Haven student and graduated from Analy. I have two kids Isaac in 4th grade at Park Side and Maya in preschool. I have been on and off participating with SEF since my son was in TK at Park Side and have now been a board member for 3 years. I love helping the schools. I coach volleyball at Brook Haven and have started the Park Side Folklorico. I am self-employed as a paralegal and have been working in law for almost 20 years and am currently finishing my first year of law school.

Vice President

My name is Melina Izzarelli the Vice President of SEF. My family and I have been part of SUSD since 2011 when my oldest entered Kindergarten. As a Library Media Specialist I am lucky enough work with our students every day, inspiring a love of books and helping students navigate their digital world. 

I have enjoyed being a member our SEF board for the last 8 years, supporting our school community through fundraisers such as Read-a-Thon. In my new role as Vice President of SEF, I plan to work with our board members, parents and school community, at finding fun, creative new ways to help support our students, families and teachers through a challenging year. 

In my spare time you will find me… reading, cooking, listening to podcasts and spending time with friends and family. 

Secretary 

Hello!  My name is Gina Alvarado and I am happy to serve as your SEF secretary. 

​My daughter Mabel is in second grade at Parkside and my identical twins Max and Will will be kindergarteners in Fall 2022.  I find them very easy to tell apart, but people keep telling me that is crazy talk.  Here's a hint!  Max has two freckles on his right cheek and Will often speaks in a Baltimore accent.  No, we're not from Baltimore.  It's totally random.  I am a former college theater professor and my husband Auti works for a major utility company that starts a lot of fires, but I promise we are pretty cool people.  Since giving up academia to pursue my true calling of picking random stuff up off the floor and controlling the chaos at Casa de Donelson-Alvarado, I feel very strongly that pitching in as much as I can to make all of our kids' school experiences as great and fun and community oriented as they can be is just a really important thing to do.  Looking forward to a great year.