Board Members
Barry Kielsmeier
Barry Kielsmeier is a 34 year resident of Huntington Beach. He is a graduate of USC and UC Berkeley and the former head of the Department of Harbor, Business and Transit for the City of Redondo Beach. Barry has been active in non profit causes and has been on the Board of Directors of Circulo De Amigas and Congregation B’nai Tzedek.
Carol Sneary
Carol Sneary has lived most of her life in southern California, graduating from UC Santa Barbara in 1956, and marrying Richard Sneary. In that time, she has been a caregiver (her children, grandchildren, and her aging parents), a teacher and a volunteer in her church and community. In 1990, she began volunteering with ESA, a prior organization of Beach Cities Interfaith Services, and assisted with the founding of BCIS in 2005.
Linda Rose
Linda Rose is a retired HS chemistry/anatomy physiology teacher. She became a member of the BCIS Board in 2014. She has been collecting and distributing mail for those without permanent housing since 2018, in cooperation with St Peters by the Sea Presbyterian Church.
Lupe Alfarez
Barbara Robinson
Barbara K Robinson earned an MS in Psychology/Counseling from California State University at Fullerton. After a 40+ year career in the California’s service delivery system for individuals with a developmental disability, she has retired to a life of volunteer work: as President of the Board for HOPE-Homes in Long Beach and as Secretary for the Board of Literacy Volunteers of Huntington Valley, and works with Heifer International. She is committed to the BCIS mission of preventing homelessness. In her spare time, she enjoys leisure time with her husband of 43 years, their children and grandchildren plus their one dog and two cats, and has published seven novels in the last eight years.
Galen Pickett
Dr. Galen Pickett has been a member of the physics faculty at CSU Long Beach since 1999 and has been a resident of Huntington Beach since 2010. He is an active volunteer with Homeless United Huntington Beach, and serves the homeless community in the Shower Ministry of the Community United Methodist Church here in Huntington Beach, and has been a member of the Board since 2020.
John Heeren
John Heeren is retired professor from the California State University. With a PhD from Duke University, he taught Sociology for 36 years. Since retiring he has been active in various nonprofit and charitable organizations.