Mary Beth Riley ’84 and Joanne Pasternack J.D. ’99 made the Silicon Valley Business Journal‘s Women of Influence list for 2013.

 

As executive director of the San Francisco 49ers Foundation, Pasternack heads an organization that has donated more than $20 million to support nonprofit programs for preventing violence and youth leadership. Pasternack has stayed busy in the last few years by adding the role of Director of Community Relations for the 49ers to her already full agenda.

                                         

Santa Clara resident Riley leads the oldest private secondary school for girls in California. She joined Notre Dame in 1985 as a French teacher. Riley also served as the director of admissions from 1998 through 2006, where she established a unique program that helped increase enrollment. She has served on the Catholic School Advisory Board at the SCU Dept. of Education, Counseling and Psychology.