Trudy Johnson is a Nursing executive with forty years of healthcare leadership experience in hospitals and networks in the public and private non-profit sector.  As a board member of the San Jose/Evergreen College Foundation she observed the well-deserved sense of pride that many foster youth feel when they are able to overcome some of the obstacles to college graduation.  Trudy has a Masters of Art degree in Nursing Administration from New York University and is a distinguished fellow of the National Academies of Practice.  She knows that a healthy next generation needs a foundation of solid education and nurturing mentorship.