Carrie Gaudio
President
A SAIL Alum, class of 2006, Carrie Gaudio has been motivated by her experiences at SAIL to be a life-long learner both personally and professionally. Carrie graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Sociology from Florida State University, and currently works as the Executive Director for Neighbor to Neighbor in the Nenes, a nonprofit working to help elders age in place. She previously worked at the Agency for Health Care Administration as the Policy Coordinator for Health Information Technology overseeing statewide health information exchange initiatives. Carrie has maintained a commitment to education, assisting with many SAIL drama and Southern Shakespeare Company set designs and productions, to Grassroots Free School fundraising efforts, and to Colorful Talks, a nonprofit supporting diversity education. Carrie lives in Tallahassee, Florida with an incredible partner and their remarkable child who loves books and puzzles.
Sierra Service
Vice President
Sierra Service is a SAIL Alumna, class of 2005. As a student at SAIL, Sierra was able to build upon her love of theater and began to discover her voice as a director, with the guidance of her amazing theater teacher Trish Stapleton. Sierra graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Theater Education from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. The universe must have wanted her to teach at SAIL because just as she attained her degree, the drama position opened up at her favorite school and she has been teaching Theater at SAIL High School since graduation. She has been teaching at SAIL for ten years now. Sierra is passionate about theater at SAIL, as well in the Tallahassee community, and has worked with Southern Shakespeare Company acting in productions, as an educator, and as a costumer for their young company, The Bardlings.
Liane Giroux
Secretary
Liane Giroux is a program coordinator with the Florida Institute of Government at Florida State University. She is a Tallahassee native and a graduate of FSU. She has two children who are SAIL graduates and served on the SAIL School Advisory Council from 2018-2022. Liane is a Certified Association Executive and has more than 25 years of experience in nonprofit association management. She has served in a volunteer capacity with many community organizations including the Monticello Opera House, Theatre Tallahassee, the Tally Shorts Film Festival, the Florida Society of Association Executives, the Community Human Service Partnership, and the United Way. She is active in community theater and several music ensembles.
Jim Davis
Treasurer
Jim Davis operates a part-time certified public accounting firm with his daughter, Monica, providing auditing and accounting services for nonprofits and small governmental units. Additionally, he currently serves at the part-time Director of Legacy Giving for the Advent Christian Village in Dowling Park Florida. Jim’s past experience includes operating a full service certified public accounting firm and serving as a chief financial officer in both the nonprofit and for-profit sector and Executive Director of a nonprofit.
Jim Davis and his wife Wendy, a recently retired elementary school guidance counselor, have resided in the Big Bend area since 1975 and proudly have 2 daughters, one son-in law, and 2 young grandsons.
Jim is a graduate of the University of Florida with a concentration in economics and Florida State University with a degree in accounting.
Some of the Boards Jim currently serves on include the Boards of the Southern Scholarship Foundation, Keep Wakulla Beautiful, the Tallahassee Senior Center Foundation, Elder Care of the Big Bend and the Village Square in Tallahassee.
Jim enjoys life, people and spending time with family. He appreciates challenges, especially when someone says “it cannot be done”.
Anna Avery-Vaughn
Board Member
Anna is a 1996 SAIL Alumna. Some of the best times of her life were spent at SAIL, she often says SAIL was the best thing that happened to me.” SAIL educators and support staff helped her gain confidence and encouraged her to be creative and follow that dream. Anna is a National Sewing and Embroidery Educator in which she has used the creative style of teaching modeled after her favorite SAIL educators.
Anna and her husband, Jason are lifelong residents of their beloved Tallahassee and together they have one adorable four legged child, Lacie Blue.
Powell Kay Kreis
Board Member
Born and raised in Tallahassee, Powell graduated from SAIL in 2009. She adored her time at SAIL, and loved having her mother (Rosanne Wood) as her principal!
Powell attended University of North Florida and received her BFA in Fine Art, Painting, Drawing and Printmaking.
She then went on to be a fashion accessory and jewelry designer at Chico’s FAS headquarters for 6 years, doing freelance work and selling original creations as well.
Powell moved back to Tallahassee in 2019; she loves the Tallahassee community and is glad to be closer to her family.
Powell is now the LeMoyne Arts Programming Director, in charge of Exhibits, Chain of Parks Art Festival, Art & Soul Celebration, and the Holiday Show.
SAIL was an extremely influential and positive place for Powell, she considers herself a devoted alumni, hoping to keep the spirit of SAIL alive!
Evan Marty
Board Member
Evan Marty is a lifelong Tallahasseean and a member of the SAIL High School class of 2022. Mr. Marty served as SAIL Student Body President 2021-2022 after holding many student leadership positions in the SAIL student body and National Honor Society chapter. He chaired the Leon County Schools Student District Advisory Council in 2021-2022. He is a member of Youth Leadership Tallahassee Class 17 and is a founding member of the Tallahassee Police Department Youth Citizens Advisory Council. As part of his lifelong commitment to the dramatic arts and particularly technical theatre, he has been active in the SAIL Drama Club and curricular drama, as well as being a member of the Young Actors Theatre (YAT) Company and a founding member of the YAT TECH group. Mr. Marty will attend Florida State University.
Jodi Wilkof
Board Member
Jodi is the proud mother of a recent SAIL alum. Although she heard friends singing SAIL’s praises for many years, she fell in love with the school while managing Rosanne Wood’s campaign for School Board. Being on the campaign trail with Rosanne, Jodi met hundreds of SAIL students, teachers, and parents. The stories she heard about how SAIL changed – and at times saved – students’ lives endeared her to the school’s mission and she has been grateful to be a member of the SAIL community ever since.
Jodi received her undergraduate degree from Florida State University and her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. She has been a staff attorney to the judges of Florida’s 18th Judicial Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Pariente. Currently, Jodi serves as Chief of Staff to Leon County Commissioner Rick Minor.
Rosanne Wood
Board Member
Rosanne Wood has been recognized as one of Florida’s pioneer educational innovators. After graduating from FSU with a Master’s Degree in Social Studies Education, Rosanne served as a founding teacher of SAIL. Three years later, she became the principal of SAIL. Rosanne served as the SAIL principal for 32 years, until her retirement in 2010, which makes her both the youngest person in the state to be a principal, as well as the longest-serving principal at the same school.
Under her leadership, SAIL received national and state recognition for groundbreaking work with students whose interests and talents were not met in traditional public schools. In 2010, the College Board recognized SAIL as one of 6 best schools in the nation for “Innovation in the Arts”.
Rosanne continues to be a strong advocate for full funding of public schools, less standardized testing and emphasis on school grades, more magnet programs to help with innovation and desegregation, required recess for all elementary students, no D or F grades for our youngest children, more career-technical programs with internships for high school students, better pre-k programs and sustainable energy practices in Leon County Schools. Rosanne regularly speaks out against top-down Legislative proposals that weaken public schools.
In 2016, Rosanne was elected to the Leon County School Board, and she was unopposed for her 2020 re-election. In addition to being a school board member, Rosanne currently serves on the board for the Foundation for Leon County Schools, the advisory board for the South City Foundation and as Past President and board member for the Council on Cultural Arts (COCA).
Rosanne has been married to Pete Kreis for 30 years and has one daughter (Powell Kreis – also on the SAIL Foundation Board). She also has two step-sons and is grandmother of their five children.