Six Members Added to JFSSD’s Board of Directors

Amy Corton is a retired development professional, former practicing attorney and currently the vice chair of the board of directors of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. With an extensive fundraising and nonprofit governance background, she was previously director of donor relations at ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties and director of planned giving at Project Concern International.
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Meryl Maneker retired last year and was previously a partner with Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP – heading the firm’s class action practice group. Active professionally and in the community, she chaired the lawyer representative committee to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California and was president of the San Diego chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Additionally, she serves on the board of the Jewish Federation of San Diego.
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Jon Nachison, Ph.D., is a U.S. Army veteran, and founder and former volunteer director of National Stand Down for veterans and their families experiencing homelessness. The program has now been replicated in over 170 American cities annually. For more than 25 years, he was the chief of psychology for Bayview Psychiatric and Paradise Valley Hospitals. A retired, board-certified diplomate in psychology, he has received numerous national awards, including a National Leadership Award by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans.
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Agnes Wong Nickerson is the vice president for business and financial affairs and chief financial officer for San Diego State University (SDSU). A certified public accountant, she was previously San Francisco State University’s associate vice president for fiscal affairs. She serves on multiple boards and committees, including the audit committees for the San Diego Regional Airport Authority and SANDAG, as well as the boards of Aztec Shops and the SDSU Research Foundation.
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Marceline Sciuto is the senior director of operations support for the San Diego Unified School District and has worked in education since 1986 as a teacher, project resource teacher, peer coach, vice principal, principal, department director and division head. A member of the California Association of Latino Superintendents and Administrators, she serves on the board for the Community Hands Network and is a volunteer team leader with the ALS Association Greater San Diego Chapter.
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Joel Shaps was previously vice president for the Silicon Valley office of Goldman Sachs Personal Financial Management, managing director for United Capital Financial Advisers, and vice president at Neiman Marcus. Now retired, He founded and operated ShapsGroup, a corporate strategy consulting firm, and ran Bedrock Capital Management, an investment management firm, for 15 years as president and CEO before it became part of United Capital.