Board of Trustees & Accreditation
Board of Trustees
Deep Springs College is managed by the Deep Springs Corporation, a 501(c)(3) California non-profit public benefit charitable corporation. The Board of Directors delegates day-to-day administration of the College to the Deep Springs President, along with the Student Body, the Academic Dean, and the Director of Operations. The Student Body President and Labor Commissioner meet regularly with staff to prioritize work, plan college functions, and resolve issues that arise for the entire College community.
The Student Body has always been represented on its governing board. Every six months, the Student Body selects one of its members to serve for a one-year term, so that there are always two students on the board staggered by half a year. Student Board members are full participants with full voting rights, attendance, correspondence, and decision-making. One or both of the student board members is on every Board committee. Usually one student sits on each major standing committee: Budget & Operations and Academic Affairs. A student also serves on the Agenda and Succession Executive Committee.
Non-student members of the Deep Springs Board serve rotating four-year terms. Members typically come from a variety of disciplines including education, business, non-profit administration, law, and the sciences. On average, half the members are alumni. The Board meets twice a year on campus and is responsible for fiscal and policy oversight. Current board members are listed below.
L.L. Nunn established a trust upon his death in 1925 for the benefit of the students of Deep Springs. In 1966 the Deep Springs Trustees established the charitable non-profit corporation that operates the College for the benefit of the student body.
Current Board
Dan Fulwiler, DS85
Chair CEO, Esperanza Health Centers (Chicago, IL)
Dan Fulwiler, DS85, TASP ’84, is Chair of the Board and Chair of the Development Committee. He is CEO of Esperanza Health Centers Chicago. He was chair of the Application Committee during his time at Deep Springs. Prior to his work in the nonprofit sector, he studied English at Haverford College and received a degree in Public Health from Columbia.
Rebecca Carter
Head of Data Science, Gusto (San Francisco, CA)
Data Science and Analytics leader combining experience applying analytics, critical thinking, and statistical know how to problems in academia (biology), management consulting, e-commerce, fintech, and non-profits.
Jeremy Choy, DS24
Jeremy Choy is the Academic Affairs Student Trustee. Originally from Hong Kong, he is also a Student Nurse and serves on the Outreach and Curriculum Committees. Currently, his primary academic interests are the history of Chinese bureaucracy, folk religion, and the Hellenistic period.
Jefferson Cowie
James G. Stahlman Professor of History, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
Jefferson Cowie is a former visiting faculty member at DS and Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee. His academic interests include labor history and the impact of class inequality on American politics and culture.
Marcella David
Marcella David is a member of the Academic Affairs Committee. She has served in several academic leadership roles, most recently as Provost and Senior Vice-President of Columbia College Chicago (2019-2025). She is a lawyer, law and business professor. As an academic, her research interests include the use of economic and other sanctions, international criminal law, and questions related to international organizations.
John “Dewey” Deweese, DS07
Addictions Nurse Practitioner MGH (Boston, MA)
Jonathan “Dewey” Deweese, DS07, is the most recent alum on TDS, and the Board Secretary. He is a psychotherapist and psychiatric nurse practitioner. He left the University of Chicago to attend Deep Springs and, upon returning, became heavily involved in the Catholic Worker Movement. During his time at Deep Springs he was Reinvitation Committee chair and Student Body chair, and has worked for the college as Boarding House Manager and Fish Lake Cowboy.
Aron Fischer, DS95
Partner, Patterson Belknap LLP (New York, NY)
Aron Fischer, DS95, is the Chair of the TDS Legal Committee and Audit Committee. After Deep Springs he went to law school, and is now an attorney in New York practicing corporate litigation. He has pursued white-collar crime as a “Wall Street sheriff” under New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, and currently does pro bono work on civil rights cases with the ACLU and other organizations.
Lynn Huntsinger
Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Russell Rustici Chair in Rangeland Management, UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Lynn Huntsinger is Russell L. Rustici Chair of Rangeland Management and former Associate Dean of Instruction and Student Affairs at UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources. Her research is focused on the ecology and management of rangeland ecosystems, particularly the co-production of environmental benefits and agricultural goods through working landscapes. Studying Chinese modern history for her undergraduate degree at UC San Diego, she got to know Deep Springs and range management by working summers as a cowhand and USFS volunteer on the Bar 99 allotment in the white mountains.
Adnan Husain, DS87
Associate Professor, Department of History, and Director, School of Religion at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
Adnan Husain is a historian of the Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic Worlds, focusing on the inter-religious and cross-cultural encounters among Christians, Muslims and Jews from the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries. He also is a host of two podcasts, Guerrilla History and The Majlis. He also sits on the board of Rahima International Foundation, a charity focusing on food and financial support to refugees and others in need in the South Bay Area in California and beyond.
Ada King, DS24
Ada is a current student at Deep Springs and Budget and Operations Trustee. Before arriving in California she went to boarding school in New England. Despite this coastal education she is from the notably inland North Idaho. She enjoys snowboarding, sailing, shooting, springboard diving and other seasonal sports starting with an ‘s’.
Mark Taylor, DS72
Senior Consultant and Past President, SynTerra Corporation (Greenville, SC)
Mark Taylor, DS72, is Chair of the Safety Committee and Co-Chair of the Boarding House Construction Committee. After Deep Springs he played football at Harvard. He is now Principal of SynTerra Corporation, an engineering and science consulting firm with a focus on sustainability. He is very knowledgeable about agriculture and has researched coal geology, ore geochemistry, mineralogy, and solid waste management as a professional geologist.
Theresa Tensuan
Associate Dean of Student Success, Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
Theresa Tensuan is Associate Dean of Haverford College. She collaborates with other members of the Dean’s Office in supporting Haverford students in their processes of discernment over the course of their intellectual development at the college, and in the context of our collective commitment to a community based on trust, concern, and respect. She has a particular commitment to working with community members on restorative and transformative justice processes that can work to address interpersonal conflicts as well as structural inequities.
Communications for the board may be directed to Jonathan “Dewey” DeWeese, TDS Secretary at TDS_Secretary@deepsprings.edu.