Bill Mueller, CEO and Managing Partner
Kristine Mazzei, Managing Partner
Dale Ainsworth, Managing Partne
Julia Burrows , Managing Partner
Chris Aguirre, Relations Manager
Robyn Krock, Project Manager
Suzanne Mayes Linville, Project Manager
Tara Thronson , Project Manager
Julia Sway, Office Manager & Project Associate
Emily Dransfield, Green Capital Alliance Intern
Joanna Kaufman, Intern
Bill Mueller, CEO and Managing Partner
 Bill joined Valley Vision as a Managing Partner in 2005 and became CEO in 2008. He is responsible for the day-to-day management and direction of the organization in partnership with the Board of Directors and fellow Managing Partners and consults with staff and volunteers on the many regional change projects Valley Vision has underway. He directly managed the Hmong Health Collaborative helping newly arriving refuges find success in America, imagined and designed an innovative online “health map” technology to spotlight where health care improvements are necessary in our region, and imagined and designed “CareerGPS.com” that matches a sophisticated regional jobs forecast to job seekers with real-time access to training and education openings. He currently manages the nationally-acclaimed Cleaner Air Partnership and oversees the Regional Food System Collaborative whose community partners are working to improve food access and Ag sustainability. Prior to Valley Vision, Bill was a global business manager for Intel Corporation based in Folsom, CA, the Vice President for Public Policy for the Sacramento Metro Chamber, and a policy consultant to federal and state office holders here and in Washington, D.C. He has worked in the Sacramento Region for the past 20 years. He is a Sacramento State graduate and a graduate of Class XII of the American Leadership Forum.
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Kristine Mazzei, Managing Partner
Kristine joined Valley Vision in 2004 as the project manager for Partnership for Prosperity, a unique collaboration that united 34 economic development organizations to create a regional economic development strategy. She currently manages the Green Capital Alliance, an outgrowth of Partnership for Prosperity that focuses on making the Sacramento region a leader in sustainable energy and clean technology. Kristine also manages the Valley Vision work on the region’s Rural Urban Connections Strategy, led by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. In the past Kristine has managed the Open Space Project, the Valuing Agriculture Initiative and the Port of Sacramento Master Planning Project. Prior to her work for Valley Vision, she served as project manager for the Tri-Valley Business Council in Livermore and as a researcher and analyst for several private foundations that focused on increasing and evaluating land-conservation efforts in California. Kristine received her BS in Biology from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania in 1997 and her MS in Ecology from UC Davis in 2000.
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Dale Ainsworth, Managing Partner
Dale has worked in a variety of industries in leadership and consultant roles focused on transition and change planning, implementation, and management. He is an accomplished team builder and group facilitator with experiences in a variety of cultural settings; including working with Katrina refugees in refining rebuilding strategies for the City of New Orleans, a government owned utility in Shenyeng, China, and leadership teams across the United States. He has also served in leadership roles where he was involved in direct hands-on management of the transitions of several critically challenge organizations. He holds a Master of Science degree from Pepperdine University in Organization Development, and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree focused on large-scale transitions in a variety of organizational settings. He serves as an adjunct faculty member at a local university. Dale is currently managing the Youth Development Project and the Community Needs Assessment.
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Julia Burrows, Managing Partner
 Julia joined the Valley Vision team in May 2010. She has worked for the City of Roseville for the past 22 years, most recently as Deputy City Manager and Economic Development Manager. Julia’s economic development efforts included a focus on sustainability at the local and regional levels and she was a charter member of the Green Capital Alliance when it first formed years ago. She has jointly led the Sacramento Metro Chamber’s “Clean Green Team” delegation to Washington, D.C. for four years running. She is an expert in local climate action planning and multi-hazard mitigation. Julia supervised the City’s media team and government access channel for many years and was the catalyst behind Roseville’s award-winning entry in the 2009 Rose Parade, celebrating Roseville’s Centennial. In 2000, Julia was named one of the Sacramento Business Journal’s “40 under 40 Young Professionals” and a year later was selected as one of five Sacramento area “Women Who Mean Business” by the Business Journal. In 2007, Julia received the Athena Award from the Roseville Chamber of Commerce, the highest award bestowed annually to a woman in the community. She received her Bachelor’s in Environmental Policy Analysis & Planning from UC Davis. Julia is a Class XII graduate of the American Leadership Forum, President of the St. Albans Country Day School Executive Board, and Secretary of the Placer Breast Cancer Endowment.
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Chris Aguirre, Relations Manager
Chris joined Valley Vision in Jan 2006 and recently completed his master’s degree in community development from the University of California, Davis. His fields of study were economic development, affordable housing, urban design, community participation, labor and nonprofit organizations. Chris previously completed his BA in ethnic studies from Sacramento State University. He worked previously as a firefighter and squad boss for the US Forest Service, a graphic arts assistant, a guest teacher and a financial services associate for E*Trade Financial. Chris also completed internships with the Senate Office of Research and the California Legislature’s Select Committee on Economic Development. Chris supports the many facets of the Youth Development Project, the Community Needs Assessment, and manages fundraising and stakeholder outreach projects.
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Robyn Krock, Project Manager
Robyn joined Valley Vision in 2006 as a consultant to the Open Space Project and currently manages the Sacramento Region Food System Collaborative, a diverse coalition focused on connecting the economic viability of local agriculture with increasing access to healthy foods in underserved communities in our region. She is also supporting the Cleaner Air Partnership as well as a strategic planning effort for UC Davis’s student run clinics. Previously she supported Valley Vision’s partnership with SACOG on the Rural Urban Connections Strategy (RUCS) by conducting stakeholder interviews for a Local Market Assessment of the Sacramento Region. She provided logistical and technical coordination for the Hmong Health Collaborative and has played roles on several other projects. Before joining Valley Vision, Robyn worked as a Research Assistant in the Pacific Regional Humanities Center at UC Davis, where she managed an oral history project with multi-generational landowner families in the Sutter Buttes. She also worked in the public school system --where she helped create an innovative school-home study hybrid—and coordinated multi-million dollar contracts for a U.S. EPA contractor. Robyn earned a master's and bachelor's degree from UC Davis in cultural anthropology with graduate coursework in community development.
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Suzanne Mayes Linville, Project Manager
 Suzanne Mayes Linville has over 10 years experience in the nonprofit sector with an emphasis in youth development and philanthropy. She joined the Valley Vision staff in 2008 as a consultant to the Youth project, in addition to consulting for several nonprofits in the region. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Humboldt State University in 1999, Suzanne served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer in the Los Angeles Unified School District. A Sacramento native, Suzanne returned to the area in 2001 and served for six years as a Program Officer at the Sacramento Region Community Foundation managing their youth philanthropy and scholarship programs. Suzanne enjoys lending her talents to projects that strive to improve the quality of life throughout our region, such as the Green Capital Alliance.
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Tara Thronson, Project Manager
 Tara joined Valley Vision in March 2009 and is supporting the Cleaner Air Partnership as well as future project opportunities in development. She joins Valley Vision after spending eight years in the high-tech industry at Freescale Semiconductor and Motorola in Austin, Texas. Tara received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University in 2000, and began her career as a process engineer. She later served in project management roles and led problem-solving teams as a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. After moving to Sacramento in late 2008, she pursued a change in careers to apply her project management and leadership skills in a setting which has a more direct positive impact on her surrounding community.
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Julia Sway, Office Manager & Project Associate
 Julia joined Valley Vision in March 2010 as office manager and project associate. She came from a Bay Area employee benefits brokerage that provided health insurance to non-profits throughout California. Julia previously worked as a student conservation volunteer in national parks, interned at a youth development organization in Peru and studied nonprofit efficiency in Thailand. She also worked for the UC Davis Coffee House, the largest student-run nonprofit organization in the country, where she marketed the message that the organization is devoted to providing local and organic food. She graduated from UC Davis in 2008 with a major in religious studies and a minor in global and international studies.
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Emily Dransfield, Green Capital Alliance Intern
 Emily joined Valley Vision in March 2010 as the Green Capital Alliance intern. She is Sacramento native and recent graduated from UC Irvine where she received her BA in Global Cultures. With an initial concentration in business management and finance, her study interests shifted when she studied abroad in Paris in 2006. She subsequently entered the Global Cultures program, which focused on the process and effects of globalization. Emily also took part in UC Irvine's newly developed Civic and Community Engagement program. She has worked alongside organizations such as the Free Wheelchair Mission and the Humanities Out There youth program in Orange County.
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Joanna Kaufman, Intern
 Joanna Kaufman is a senior in the Community and Regional Development department in UC Davis and is thrilled to put her education to the test as an intern at Valley Vision. Growing up in the Inland Empire, she wants to learn new techniques on rectifying social, economic, and environmental impacts caused by sprawl development and auto dependency. Prior to moving to Davis, Joanna helped start a free to low-cost bicycle repair shop in Santa Barbara. Her study interests include bicycle and pedestrian planning and policy, regional planning, and anything to do with sustainable development.
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