Bios

Neal Zimmerman and his wife Monica (pictured with him in full photo) purchased their home in 2002 in Harbour Towne, the development overlooking the famous Lighthouse Building in the Glen Cove Marina.  They love their view of the water and all of the activity along the Carquinez Straits.  Monica and Neal sold advertising for most of their career, and handle the advertising sales for the GCCA’s quarterly newsletter. Neal joined the Glen Cove Community Association Board of Directors in 2012 after receiving help from the GCCA Board with a difficult neighborhood issue.  He was impressed by the community commitment of the Board members. Neal led an effort to publish a resource guide for Glen Cove residents called “Connections Magazine” in July, 2018.  This effort, which included surveying residents about their top community concerns helped shape several of the GCCA’s top priorities: (1) reopening Glen Cove Fire Station 26, (2) addressing the critical LMD maintenance issues our community faced and, (3) focused attention on safety issues affecting all Glen Cove residents such as fire concerns and unsafe driving throughout Glen Cove. Neal is completing his two-year term as President of the GCCA in January 2022.  He has emphasized recruiting smart and passionate residents to become Board Members.  He feels the GCCA is in good hands. Neal and Monica have three children and the five most beautiful and smartest grandchildren in the entire world. 

Dina Morrison is a Bay Area native, but relatively new to Glen Cove, moving into the neighborhood in 2017. Dina is not only a resident but also has two businesses in Glen Cove. She is the Doctor/owner of Performance Chiropractic and Broker/owner of Morrison Real Estate.  When she has free time, a round of golf tops her list.  As the rep for The Ridge, she is well known for her daily dog walks.

Jim Sotiros is the representative for The Estates development. He joined the GCCA board in 2021 and has lived in Glen Cove with his six rescue cockatiels since 2009.  Jim is on the board of Proof School, a 6-12 grade school in San Francisco for kids who love math, and is chair of the fundraising committee to bring a new hybrid organ to the Castro Theatre.  Jim retired from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley where he served as a chief development officer. He also held university relations appointments at the University of San Diego, Dominican University of California, and Touro University of California  He is a former President of the Solano Sunset Rotary Club, Vallejo. (Full Photo Caption:  Jim with partner Arthur Ong)

Ralph Mariscal became Vice-President of GCCA in January 2022. He has lived in Glen Cove for over 30 years. He and his wife raised their family here. Two of their children also bought homes here in Glen Cove. Ralph and his wife have 7 granddaughters and 4 of them live within 5 minutes of them. What a blessing to have them close. Ralph and his wife both retired from Chevron in 2011 and have greatly enjoyed traveling, but there was something missing. Giving back to the community became Ralph’s passion. Ralph got involved with GCCA when speaking to City officials about reopening our fire station. Ralph was given a flat “no,” but Ralph doesn’t take no for an answer, so he got involved and waged a 2-year campaign. It has been reopened! Ralph will continue to work for the safety of our residents here in Glen Cove.

Andrea Sorce and her husband Slater met as Peace Corps volunteers in Honduras and purchased their first home in Glen Cove in 2018, in Harbour Towne. Their cats regularly join them and their dog for walks near Glen Cove Marina. Andrea grew up in North Carolina and moved to the Bay Area after college, where she started her career in K-12 education. After earning an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, she pivoted into community college teaching and is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. Passionate about economic and social justice, she volunteers in support of Central American asylum seekers and survivors of domestic violence. She is a founding co-chair of the Solano County Chapter of the ACLU, which launched in Fall 2021.

Kristen Hannum Gregory has been a resident of Glen Cove since 1989, being the original purchaser of her home in Waterview Terrace.  She enjoys walking the trails and neighborhoods of our beautiful setting, playing the piano, sharing the exhilaration of flying an airplane with kids and adults, skiing and hiking in Tahoe, reading/listening to history and biographies, brushing up on my German and French, and serving our community. 

Ward Stewart has been the representative for The Pointe development since 1998 having moved to Glen Cove in that year. His activities on the board include Membership, Landscape Maintenance District and Audit committees, writing articles for the newsletter, volunteering at the GC food pantry, and, as they say, other duties as needed. Ward retired from U.C. Davis where he taught mathematics and eventually became director of his department that provides academic assistance to students with an emphasis on those who are first-generation and low-income. He is currently chair of the Solano Community College District’s Citizen Bond Oversight Committee where members monitor the expenditure of Measure Q’s $348 million bond. After retirement in 2011 Ward enrolled in the Master Gardener Program and volunteers at the Vallejo Farmers’ Market in that capacity. He is also a member of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum’s Garden Tour Committee. He met his wife, Elissa, when they both taught in the Upward Bound Program at the University of Maryland. After he finished graduate school in 1977, they moved to California. They have two adult children and two grandchildren.

Joseph Hayden became President of GCCA in January 2022. He is one of two representatives for Headlands development, having joined the GCCA board in June 2021, shortly after moving to Glen Cove. Coincidentally, the previous owner of the house was also on the GCCA board! Joseph has enjoyed undertaking a revamp of the website for GCCA, as well as speaking at Vallejo City Council regularly, including once with fellow board members to ensure reopening of Fire Station 26, facilitated by a widely distributed email campaign. Writing for the newsletter is also one of the ways he likes to contribute. Joseph is also a director at the Humane Society of the North Bay and has worked to fight Big Tobacco since the early 1990’s. For years Joseph was also on the board of FamilyEquality.org, which advocates for queer (LGBTQ+) parenting rights. While from California originally, Joseph grew up in Sardinia and Calabria, Italy, Catalonia, Spain, and New York City, but mostly in Hayward. After attending high school in the East Bay, Joseph attended college and law school in New York. His daughter alternates between living on the East Coast and the Bay Area. Joseph is a business owner and works as a Technical Program Manager in the healthcare industry. This is Joseph’s personal blog and this is Joseph’s Linkedin profile. Feel free to connect!