Greg Holt : President
Greg Holt : President
Greg Holt grew up in Auburn and attended AUSD schools. After high school, Greg enlisted in the Marine Corps and served in Iraq (2008), Afghanistan (2010), and Germany (2013-15). Among his duties in Iraq and Afghanistan, Greg coordinated the reconstruction, maintenance, and security of schools with coalition forces, local government authorities, tribal leadership, and contractors.
After leaving the Marine Corps as a Gunnery Sergeant, Greg returned to Auburn and attended Sierra College and CSU Sacramento, graduating in 2019 with a BA in History and a minor in Middle East and Islamic Studies. Greg is currently the Constituent Services Director for Congressman Tom McClintock.
Greg and his wife, Amanda, live in Auburn with their two children.
Renee Grigsby: Clerk
Renee Grigsby: Clerk
Renee grew up on the Georgetown Divide and knew early on that she loved the Auburn area. While working at a local supermarket, she grew to love the community and its members. Renee moved to Auburn shortly after and worked locally at other well-known stores and restaurants. Simultaneously working multiple jobs and going to Sierra College for marketing, Renee spent many years building a loving connection with Auburn, and its members. After becoming a mother, Renee knew there was a need for more education and went back to school for business management. Renee spent a couple more years working in the Auburn area while raising her growing daughter, but Renee and her family had a business opportunity in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Ann Arbor, she not only grew her work experience by working in multiple management positions, and a publishing company, but grew her family by having her second child also. Ann Arbor and the school system were amazing, but they were not Auburn, California and she decided to move back to the community and families that they love and missed.
Upon returning to the Auburn Area, Renee found a position with a non-profit retirement community and worked hard to improve her and her family's lives regularly. Returning to Sierra College yet again to pursue Accounting while simultaneously overseeing her children's at-home education, took Renee into an era of seeing the issues with the school, and the break in the system that parents needed to be more involved in. Now that Renee is working at her second non-profit and serving the community daily, she realized that the schools and the education of our community needed her to be involved.
Jayson Wedge: Trustee
Jayson Wedge: Trustee
Jayson Wedge was elected as a Trustee in 2022. He's a hard working family man with four children ranging in ages from toddler to adult and two grandchildren. While raising a family, he and his wife manage to find time to be actively involved in many aspects of our community. Jayson understands that we are all connected and it is through this connection that children receive the best education.
Jayson has a heart for service and has served on mission trips to Asia, mostly in the Philippines. Having lived in the Auburn area for over 20 years, Jayson especially enjoys the rich history and cultural contributions that Auburn offers. In his professional life, he is an electrical project foreman, managing many employees and multi-million dollar projects.
He believes that the quality of education provided to our children is the result and responsibility of all stakeholders including, but not limited to parents, teachers, administrators, and the community at large. Developed through his own journey of volunteerism, leadership and parenthood, Jayson embraces and encourages creative participation and partnership with other schools, local government, libraries, museums, law enforcement, and not-for-profit organizations.
Amber Pool: Trustee
Amber Pool: Trustee
Amber Pool grew up in Big Bear Lake, CA and holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, as well as a master’s degree in special education and applied behavior analysis. She is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst with 20 years of experience in the education field. She is married to her high school sweetheart, and together they have two children who attend Skyridge School. In her free time, she enjoys trail running and reading. She loves the close-knit community of Auburn and is excited about the growth and opportunities that are shaping the area. Amber believes that we define our culture by educating our children and teaching them to be critical thinkers. She is honored to serve the community as a board trustee.
Emily Travis: Trustee
Emily Travis: Trustee
Emily is the oldest daughter of a homemaker and a military pilot. This gave her the opportunity to live in places across the country ranging from Alabama to Alaska, seeing different ways of life along the way.
As an adult, Emily chose to follow in her mother’s footsteps and made her career inside the home as a mother and homemaker. She raised her son and three daughters in Orangevale and sent them to a K-8 school, where they thrived. As a mom of school-aged children, she was very involved in their schools, working as a volunteer inside classrooms, with the PTA, and in drama clubs and sports teams. Although her children are now adults, Emily's passion for making schools a positive place of learning remains strong as she serves the Auburn Union community.
Emily lives in Auburn with her husband, Mark.
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