Meet Maika Llorens Gulati
Maika Llorens Gulati serves as the first elected Hispanic Council Member for the City of San Rafael, District 1. She currently chairs the City of San Rafael CCAP (Climate Action Plan) committee and it’s liaison to BPAC Committee, Police Advisory Committee, Pikleweed comission, Safe Routes to Schools and the Parking special task force.
Passionate about equity, education and the environment, Maika joined Slide Ranch in 2017 as Executive Director. Prior to that, she served as the Executive Director for HeadsUp – San Rafael Public Education foundation for 6 years.
Maika was a co-founder and co-owner of a small business in downtown San Rafael for 5 years—Sabor of Spain—, and received the Best Small Business of the Year Award and Best Customer Service Award.
Maika has over 20+ years international marketing and communications experience working with Fortune 500, midsize and entrepreneurial companies in both technology and service’s sectors.
She is also a Board member of MCE. Previously, she served as Board member for the San Rafael Downtown Improvement District (BID), the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce, SchoolsRule (co-founder and VP Fundraising), Marin Promise, Voces de Marin planning committee and the San Rafael Chamber Education Committee. Maika was also part of the committee for Measures A & B parcel tax campaign and a member of the City of San Rafael Climate Change Action Plan Green Ribbon Initiative - Purchasing and Recycling Team.
In 2017 Maika received the Hector Cortés Community Service Award by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Marin for her passion as a strong advocate for high-quality education and as the first elected Hispanic Board Trustee for the San Rafael City Schools Board of Education.
Maika and her husband Ashwin have resided in San Rafael for 26 years and are proud parents of two recently college graduates whom attended Sun Valley, Davidson and San Rafael HS. Maika received her B.S. in Marketing and Business Administration from ESIC (Spain) and she is biliterate and biculture in English and Spanish.