- Laurene Powell
Infobox_person
name=Laurene Powell Jobs
birth_name = Laurene Powell
occupation= Co-Founder ofTerravera and serves on the board of directors ofAchieva
spouse =Steve Jobs
children=3, and a stepdaughter, LisaLaurene Powell (born
1964 ) is co-founder and President of the Board ofCollege Track and wife of Apple co-founder and CEOSteve Jobs .Powell co-founded
Terravera , anatural food s company that manufactured and delivered organic products to over 300 retailers daily throughoutNorthern California . Additionally she served on theBoard of Directors ofAchieva , an award-winning educational company that specialized in online tools to help students improve study skills and standardized test performance. Prior to business school, Powell worked for Merrill Lynch Asset Management and spent three years atGoldman Sachs as a fixed income trading strategist.Powell turned her attention to non-profit entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on education, women’s human rights, and the arts. Currently, her board affiliations include: Board of Directors:
Global Fund for Women ; KQED (PBS);EdVoice ;New America Foundation ;Stanford Schools Corporation ; and Advisory Board,Stanford Graduate School of Business .College Track is an
after-school program providing comprehensive support tohigh school students who have the desire and ability but lack the resources to attainhigher education cite web |url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/06/CMMK105DJC.DTL |title= On Track to College |author= Carolyne Zinko |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=June 8 2008 |accessdate=2008-06-08 ] .College Track provides daily academic support, leadership training, community service, internship opportunities and extracurricular involvement. Since its inception in
1997 , the organization has served over 350 students inEast Palo Alto and Oakland. All College Track graduates have been accepted tocollege Fact|date=July 2008.Personal life
Powell holds a
B.A. from theUniversity of Pennsylvania , a B.S.E. from theWharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Fact|date=July 2008 and anMBA fromStanford .Powell and
Steve Jobs married in 1991. Presiding over the wedding wasKobun Chino Otogowa , a Zen Buddhist monk.Powell lives in
Palo Alto with her husband and their four children cite web |url=http://www.parsacf.org/about/advisory-board-bios/laurene-powell-jobs |title=Laurene Powell Jobs - PARSA |publisher=PARSA Community Foundation |date=2006 |accessdate=2008-07-08 ] ,one being a stepdaughter).References
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