Our Alumni Board

Teri Graf-Pulvino

Board Alumni

Teri is a former software industry sales/marketing executive (Apple, HP & startups) with strong ties to her South American network of community and business leaders which she nurtured over several decades starting in 1970. After retiring from her Silicon Valley consulting projects she has focused her energy on geotourism development as a means of enabling indigenous and local communities to implement sustainable ecology-minded tourism.  Co-founder of the John Muir Geotourism Center, she served on the BOD as Vice President and marketing coordinator for 3 years;  As advisor, funder and volunteer for efforts to preserve island species of bird colonies nesting on Isla Chiloé and the Los Lagos region of Southern Chile, she has become deeply involved in understanding and working to halt the invasive species and activities threatening island habitats in South America and central California. Teri earned a BA from Covell College and the University of  the Pacific in Stockton for Latin American studies (taught exclusively in Spanish) and an MBA in Marketing from Santa Clara University.