Director

During his first full career as a high school teacher and administrator, Craig helped encourage many students to participate in AMIGOS, and, watching the positive effect the program had on their lives, it was always his hope that his daughter would have the experience.  The plan was to take her with him for a home-stay study of Spanish in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, hooking her in the summer before her AMIGOS eligibility. 

He often jokes that it was his first and only parental plan that ever worked.  Tessa McGarvey was a two-time AMIGOS Volunteer with the East Bay Chapter, on whose local board Craig served for several years before he was elected to the International Board in 2003.  Proud to join a board on which three former students were already members, he serves on several committees, currently chairing the Program Committee. 

Craig holds degrees in Engineering and English from Brown University.  Before and after his teaching years at Harvard School in Los Angeles and San Francisco University High School, he was, respectively, a mechanical engineer with Westinghouse Electric Company, and Associate Director/Vice President for Programs at the San Francisco Education Fund. 

Craig then worked for a decade with The James Irvine Foundation, a California-wide private philanthropy, where, in 2001, he received the Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Philanthropy from the Council on Foundations.  Living happily in San Francisco with his wife of thirty years, Janet, Craig currently has his own business consulting with philanthropies around the country.