Board of Directors

Lourdes Avenier

Lourdes moved to the area with her husband and their two children from the Bay Area in 2017. After graduating as an Industrial Engineer, Lourdes became a certified Master Project Manager and held multiple roles for General Electric for over 17 years. Lourdes used her language skills to volunteer for organizations such as Stanford Children’s Health where she was instrumental in bringing awareness through fitness programs to their Hispanic community.  She decided to pursue her passion of teaching and after completing over 25 years of ballet training under the British-based Royal Academy of Dancing, she is now a certified ballet and barre instructor in Incline Village.

Lourdes also serves at the Hispanic Liaison for Incline High School’s Boosters. In 2023, she launched an initiative called HOPA (Hispanic Outreach Personalized Approach) to promote mentoring opportunities among the professional community and underserved Hispanic students at IHS. In conjunction with her husband, Lourdes has also served on committees and Boards of non-profits such as Larkin Street Youth Services, where for the past decade they have empowered young people to move beyond homelessness.

Nancy Mayrose – Treasurer

Nancy Mayrose and her family migrated from part-time to full-time residents in Incline Village from the Bay Area around 2012 so that her two sons could attend Incline High School. The smaller class size and the outstanding reputation of the high school is what attracted her family to join this community.

Professionally, Nancy serves as Chief of Staff at Vialto Partners, a global firm focusing on taxation of expatriates and immigration matters.  Prior to that she spent the majority of her career at PwC focusing on leadership development and advancement, executive matters including compensation, admission, talent management, and multiple strategic priorities of the firm.     

Nancy has served on several non-profit boards including Incline High School Boosters, Hillsborough Schools Foundation and Make-A-Wish – Orange County.  She has taught financial literacy at Incline High School and has served as a volunteer for the Voluntary Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) in Incline for the past seven years.

She is a CPA and has a B.S. in Accounting from DePaul University in Chicago and a M.S. in Taxation from the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Scott Stranzl – Vice Chair

Scott and his family moved to Incline in 2006 from the Bay Area. He provides a broad spectrum of leadership to IEF. Scott began his career at Basin Street Properties over 24 years ago. He started as a project manager, going onto become leasing director, which lead to his current positions of Vice President and now Chief Portfolio Officer. Scott has built long-term relationships with his clients and his community.

Scott earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with an emphasis in Environment from San Diego State University. He is a former member of Leadership Napa and was the recipient of the Forty Under 40 award in the North Bay. 

A strong belief in community involvement and truly committed to his family, Scott contributes time and resources to the Parasol Fund, Lake Tahoe School and the Food Bank of Northern Nevada. Through the years he has coached youth baseball, basketball and soccer and served on the board of the Novato Little League as well as the Sonoma Education Foundation. As a passionate year-round outdoorsman he can be found mountain biking, backpacking, fishing, sailing and skiing.

Michaela Tonking – Education Funding Advisor

A highly respected school finance analyst, Michaela Tonking rejoined Denver-based public education consulting firm Augenblick, Palaich & Associates in March 2020, having previously worked there from 2016-2018.

At APA, Michaela primarily focuses on reviewing/creating school finance formulas and analyzing educational resources, including supporting resource adequacy studies conducted for 10 different states.

Michaela’s past work includes posts as a research assistant for Rhode Island’s School Funding Formula Working Group, as a school finance expert for Nevada Educate Now and as an auditor for Big Four accounting firm Deloitte.  At Educate Nevada Now she advocated to change Nevada’s labyrinth, antiquated school funding formula and advises school districts and state legislators on the impact of school funding across the state.

Michaela holds a M.S. in urban education policy from Brown University and both M.S. and B.S. degrees in accounting from the University of Colorado, Boulder.