Renee Gonzalez is a Senior Advisory Board Member and was the Director of North American Communications for About The Kids Foundation. Renee grew up in Santa Cruz, California and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of San Francisco in 2011. During her last semester, she interned at Entercom Communications Corporation as a programming assistant for 95.7 The Wolf. She also interned with Friends of the Urban Forest to raise support for the non-profit organization in the Central Richmond district of San Francisco and presented her work for the organization at the 82nd Annual Convention for The Western States Communication Association (WSCA). Throughout her studies, Renee was a student caller who received the awards for spending the largest amount of minutes raising funds for the University, and raising the most amount for Business and Professional Studies in the Spring of 2011. In addition to raising funds, she was an active member of the University's Ad Club in 2010, which participated in the American Advertising Federation's National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) in 2010 to create an ad campaign for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. Furthermore, Renee received an overall GPA of 3.6 and was honored numerous times on the dean's lists in 2010-2011. In her spare time, she performs as a vocalist in a rock/pop band that plays regularly at The Catalyst Club in Santa Cruz and trains annually for the Nike Women's Half Marathon in San Francisco and the Wharf to Wharf race in Capitola, California.