Silicon Valley Democratic Club (SVDC)™
formerly known as the Santa Clara County Democratic Club (SCCDC)
About The ClubEstablished in 1981, Silicon Valley Democratic Club (SVDC) is a progressive organization dedicated to informing voters, encouraging citizen involvement in the political process, and promoting Democratic Party values and candidates. We draw our membership from all over Santa Clara County and it includes many current and former elected officials. | General MeetingsWe hold General Meetings via Zoom periodically, which are open to the public and typically feature a guest speaker. Visit our EVENTS page for more information about our next meeting. We look forward to seeing you there! |
The SVDC Executive Board
The SVDC Executive Board, elected by the membership annually for a one year term, includes Club Officers and Members at Large. The Executive Board meets monthly (see our EVENTS page) and meetings are open only to SVDC members. To contact an individual board member, simply click on their name in the listing below.
2025 Executive Board
| Mariam Ghazvini • At-Large Board Member She is a Professional Mentor very passionate about the achievement and status of women. For many years she has been involved in helping women succeed in many areas of their lives including Women’s Penitentiaries and WIC (Women in Community). In addition, she has been an activist with voter registration and part of Indivisibles since 2017. Prior to that she phone banked for Obama and other candidates. Recently, she has been very active in 2018 election and 2020 election by card-writing and phone banking. Diya Tahiliani • At Large Board Member
In addition to her role as System Administrator for SVDC, LezLi is also the Lead Administrator of Action Together Bay Area, a private Facebook group covering the greater San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley with over 14,000 members and hosting the Bay Area Progressive Action Calendar (www.ActionTogetherBayArea.org). Jennie Hutchinson • At Large Board Member 
RETURNING AFTER HIATUS - Jennie Hutchinson is a fierce advocate for social justice
with a focus on ending gender-based violence. She served as a board member of Women’s Marc
h Bay Area, lead organizer of the Silicon Valley March for Science, and led many other protest movements that brought together tens of thousands of people. Jennie co-chaired and ran the field operations for the Committee to Recall Judge Persky, the first judicial recall in California in over 80 years. She co-founded Enough is Enough Voter Project, a political action committee that was dedicated to addressing violence against women through electoral politics. Her efforts have helped pass local gender equity ordinances and initiatives that invest millions of dollars in sexual violence prevention. She also championed AB 17111, a law that closed the spousal rape loophole in California, as well as other major successes both inside and outside of California. Jennie earned her Ph.D. in Biomolecular Engineering by developing novel HIV vaccine candidates. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, she worked on the frontlines, partnering with the CDPH Equity Task Force to launch testing and vaccination sites throughout the state in the hardest to reach communities. She is currently a Clinical Genome Scientist where she is working with others to build the most diverse health databases in history as part of the National Institute of Health's All of Us Research Program. She also serves as an officer for the National Women's Political Caucus California.
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RETURNING - Vinod is a Semiconductor Industry Executive, who is serving as the Executive Vice-President Engineering at a Santa Clara-based global semiconductor company. He volunteers every weekend, as an inspirational mentor to empower jobseekers and entrepreneurs. He joined SVDC in December 2016, served on the SVDC Executive Board as an At-large member during 2018, and as the SVDC Secretary since January 2019. He has walked precincts in Sunnyvale neighborhoods for now Congressman Ro Khanna and has held various elected Student Government roles.
NEW - Bill Roth is a life long Democrat who has worked on campaigns since the late 1980s. This includes the campaigns of Ada Deer, Tammy Baldwin, Russ Feingold, Howard Dean, and Josh Harder. He is also former union member of both AFT and AFSCME. He has a background at budgeting at Silicon Valley companies like Sun, BEA and VMware, and has been treasurer at Sacred Heart Community Service, and is currently the Audit Committee chair of the largest community clinic in San Jose, Gardner Family health..jpg)
RETURNING - Dr. Mariam Ghazvini holds an Ed.D degree from USC, a Master’s degree in Counseling from Santa Clara University, and a Master’s degree in Education from San Jose State University. She is a Professional Mentor, Coach, and Distinguished Toastmaster. Her favorite areas of research and teaching include Successful Approaches to Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Management Tactics, and Human Resources Management. Her experience includes retail, high tech and non-profits. A proud immigrant, Dr. Ghazvini wants to contribute to her community specifically to women's and immigrant’s issues by giving them the best opportunity to succeed through her own experiences and education.
RETURNING - Diya Tahiliani is a data scientist in Silicon Valley with more than a decade in the technology industry. Their experience includes Data Analytics for local political campaigns and organizations, Big Data marketing, and low cost domestic sourcing, economic development and secondary education specializing in classroom technology integration. Diya volunteers her free time as a crisis intervention specialist with the Silicon Valley Golden Gate Bridge YWCA, Diya is an in person advocate and counselor for Sexual Assault survivors, as well as those fleeing from gender based violence, domestic violence and human trafficking. Diya holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from UC Davis, and is a champion for the intersection of women, LGBTQ, and marginalized communities and the environment.
RETURNING - As a long-time volunteer and advocate for youth, LezLi has held leadership positions on the boards of several parent organizations, and co-founded the local citizen’s group We Support Los Gatos which successfully helped win the Los Gatos Economic Development and Jobs Retention Initiative in 2014. Through these efforts, LezLi has coordinated hundreds of volunteers and helped to dramatically increase fundraising and local tax revenues for local school districts, all while supporting and amplifying the work of Project Cornerstone to help local youth to thrive. As a co-chair for the successful and historic campaign to recall Judge Aaron Persky in Santa Clara County and former member of the board of directors for the Enough is Enough Voter Project, LezLi has worked to end gender based violence. LezLi has coordinated social media, organized GOTV postcards to voters, designed collateral and websites, along with the coordination of text-banking about 125,000 local voters, volunteers, and donors from across the nation.Previous Executive Board Members
We sincerely appreciate the service of our former board members, and wish them the best in their ongoing efforts to serve our community.
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BylawsThe SVDC Bylaws is the foundational document of the Silicon Valley Democratic Club--the rules and regulations enacted by our club to provide a framework for the operation and management of SVDC. Our bylaws also include our club Credo and Code of Conduct. | Policies & ProceduresThe SVDC Policies & Procedures report is intended to document policies approved by the E-Board which do not modify the Bylaws and remain in effect until superseded by a more recent policy. This report is always a work in progress.
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