IBNA Board of Directors

	Michael Hamman – Chair Michael Hamman left North Carolina for San Francisco in the Summer of Love and has loved it here ever since. After hanging his hat in the Haight, Ingleside, and Daly City, he discovered a true home in friendly India Basin in 1997. A general contractor and officer of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI), he has been active in city land use issues for over 20 years. On the local scene he is Treasurer of both IBNA and the BVHP PAC and our representative to the Southern Waterfront Advisory Committee (SWAC). A country boy at heart, Michael is much admired for growing giant sunflowers and also makes a great pot of chili.
	Sue Ellen Smith – Secretary Sue Ellen first came to the Bay Area from SoCal to attend UC Berkeley. Smitten by the area’s beauty, great food, and interesting people, she declared this glorious region home since then (with the exception of a brief stay at UC Davis for her law degree). Living in San Francisco and looking for an affordable neighborhood led her to India Basin, where she has owned a home since 1998. She loves the neighborhood’s sunny weather, eclectic mix of people, art and dog-friendly attitudes, and the opportunity for making a great neighborhood into a destination location through implementation of IBNA’s Community Vision. Sue Ellen loves to walk in the neighborhood, and looks forward to the day we will be able to walk along the waterfront from The Shipyard all the way to the Giants ballpark and beyond.
	Michael Cocagne – Treasurer Michael was born and raised in Visalia, California, deep in the hot San Joaquin Valley. He comes from a family of craftsmen, and, like his grandfather and father before him, is a General Contractor. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. When Michael first moved to the Sunset District of San Francisco, he wore a puffy jacket through summer and believed all of San Francisco was chilly. Then, in 2004 he discovered the sunny side of the City in India Basin, where he has celebrated the perfect weather by wearing shorts ever since. He is a Giants fan, and enjoys bike riding and action movies. Bazinga!
	Brian Stott – Membership Brian moved to India Basin in 1996. A California native, Brian currently works for Job Corp on Treasure Island. His vision for the neighborhood is a user-friendly community with activities abounding for all ages. As an avid supporter of India Basin’s maritime history, he hopes to see our vision of the Maritime Recreational Center realized soon.
	Allen Frazier Bio coming soon!
	Jill Fox When Jill Fox moved to India Basin in 1992, what are now Heron’s Head and India Basin Shoreline Parks were junk yards where people and dogs lived in cars, and plans were being made to put a power plant on the flats off of Fitch Street. Then, the neighbors started getting together to create a common goal for a better neighborhood. Community activism has already made ours a more livable neighborhood and can continue to assure responsible development. Jill is a founding member of the India Basin Neighborhood Association and has represented the neighborhood on the RAB, PROSAC and Blue Greenway Task Force. She is also a wife, mom, PTA officer, and an employee of the San Francisco Department of Elections where she performs outreach and encourages voter registration in under-represented communities.
	Sean Karlin Born in Los Angeles, raised in Tel Aviv, Sean moved to San Francisco in 2005 after spending two years with Greenpeace traveling around the world and doing good work. Now, he lives with his wife Orli in India Basin, and makes films, commercials and television with Beyond Pix Studios. He joined IBNA as a general member in 2005, and in 2012 decided to increase his activity by becoming an IBNA Board member after he and his wife bought their first home on Innes Avenue.
	Steve LaPlante Steve La Plante is the EMS Administrator with the EMS Agency in the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management. He previously served as Chief of the Institutional Police in the Health Department from 1994-98, based at San Francisco General Hospital. During the 1980’s, Steve was a criminal justice project manager and the City’s Homeless Coordinator under Mayor Dianne Feinstein. He then became the Director of San Francisco Juvenile Hall. After college at USF and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, Steve worked in the Sheriff’s Department in the 1970’s as the Jail Ombudsman and was the founder/team leader of their first Crisis/Hostage Negotiation Team. During the first term of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton (1978- 1981), La Plante was an agent for the parties in the litigation before the U.S. District Court in Little Rock over the state prison system. He has extensive experience in training and teaching college since 1973 in corrections, police work, crisis and hostage negotiation, disaster response, sociology and criminology. He is currently an Instructor in Sociology and Criminology at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. He is also the Executive Officer for the Bay Area’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team (CA-6) with the United States Department of Health & Human Services. Steve has lived on Hunter’s Point Hill since 1995 in the Mariners’ Village complex.
	Richard Laufman Richard Laufman has lived in San Francisco for 30 years and in Hunters Point for the last 10. He grew up in Lakewood, Ohio and went to Ohio University. He received an MBA from San Francisco State, but decided to teach instead. He has been a 5th grade teacher at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco for 20+ years and is one of the newest members of the CAC (Citizens Advisory Committee) for the Hunters Point Shipyard.