Dr. Misty Davies is a research engineer and a project manager with expertise in safety and in the behavior of complex systems. Her graduate degrees are from Stanford University, where she earned a Ph.D. in computational mechanics and an M.S. in aerospace and astrospace engineering. She is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and serves on several technical and standards committees. 

Dr. Davies has a long history of community service. She served on the executive board of the Ames Federal Employees Union from 2010 through 2022. She is known as an active mentor for engineering student interns, and frequently acts as a guest speaker for organizations that promote a more diverse engineering pipeline.  In our school community, Dr. Davies served for nine years in PTA leadership roles across the Saratoga schools, and she earned the 2018 Saratoga Union School District Volunteer of the Year Award. During her time in the Saratoga Union School District, she served on several district-level committees. She helped to pilot the Foothill Elementary Makerspace. She has also been an active coach for local school math teams and robotics clubs, and for AYSO teams. 

Dr. Davies has lived in Saratoga for 16 years with her husband, and they currently share their lives with two children and a very athletic cat. Her oldest child is at Saratoga High School and her youngest is at Redwood Middle School. 

After graduating from Stanford with an electrical engineering degree, I spent the first 30 years of my career as a sales and marketing executive in tech. In 2015, I decided that what I really wanted to do was teach, so I pivoted and enrolled in Santa Clara University to get my masters degree in education. Since then, I've taught mathematics at Los Gatos High until recently retiring in June 2022.

I've lived in downtown Los Gatos since 1993 with my wife Randi. We are fortunate to have raised our three grown children in a terrific school system (Daves, Fisher and LGHS) and a wonderful community. I am serving as a Board Trustee because I care passionately about public education. I believe Saratoga and Los Gatos High schools are an essential part of what makes our community special and why many of us choose to live here.