Board Members
Aria Sa’id
Founder and the Executive Director of the Transgender District
Aria Sa’id is a transgender advocate and award winning political strategist based in San Francisco Bay Area. She is a founder and the Executive Director of the Transgender District – the world’s first transgender district, celebrating the resilience, culture, and …
C.M. Samala
Partner, JourneyOne Ventures
Samala is a creative leader focused on building new paradigms for early stage investing in companies founded by teams of people from spectacular, unconventional and unprecedented backgrounds. Samala embodies multitudes — a believer and weaver of strong social fabric, a …
Diane Manuel
Financial Advisor, Urban Wealth Management
Diane Manuel is a Financial Advisor with Urban Wealth Management. She joined Urban Wealth Management after a successful career with Merrill Lynch, the California Endowment, and The J. Paul Getty Museum. She has published articles on Investopedia.com, Nasdaq.com and on the …
Dion Aroner
Former State Assemblywoman, AJE Partners
Dion Aroner is deeply rooted in California government. After six years as a State Assemblywoman and 25 years as Chief of Staff to her predecessor, Tom Bates, she knows how to get things done in state government. She is an …
Elizabeth Escamilla
Director of Education, The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Elizabeth Escamilla, is currently Assistant Director for Education and Public Programming for the J. Paul Getty Museum. Previously she served as the Director of Education at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. She has held various positions in the Education …
Elmy Bermejo
Regional Director of Northern California for the Office of the Governor
Elmy Bermejo is an experienced government and civic leader with a passion for building, connecting and strengthening relationships to assist people and organizations achieve their goals. She has been a senior government official with more than 25 years of experience …
Eunisses Hernandez
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, La Defensa
Eunisses Hernandez is a policy advocate and campaign strategist with over 5 years of experience in working with local and state legislators, system actors, and communities most devastated by criminalization, the war on drugs, and mass incarceration. As a native …
Fabiola DeCaratachea
Director, Richard Heath & Associates, Inc.
Fabiola DeCaratachea is a Director at Richard Heath & Associates, Inc based in Fresno. She provides leadership and oversight to the development and execution of outreach and education efforts in support of multiple programs, especially around access to healthcare for …
Jennifer Chou
Attorney, The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
Jennifer Chou is a Reproductive Justice & Gender Equity Attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. Her current work focuses on expanding and protecting access to reproductive health care in the Central Valley. She also leads the ACLU-NC’s efforts to …
Karen Jordan
Chief Financial Officer, CFO Systems, LLC
Karen Jordan currently serves as the CFO of CFO Systems LLC. She is a a performance-focused finance professional, offering extensive experience and broad set of skills in cash flow analysis, variance analysis, cost tracking, financial model development, reporting, and budgeting. …
Kim Carter
Founder/Ambassador, Time for Change Foundation
Kim Carter is the Founder/Ambassador of Time for Change Foundation. Certified in accounting with an emphasis on non-profit organizations, Kim was inspired to leave the corporate world in 2002 to start Time for Change Foundation. Motivated by her own experiences …
Lora O’Connor
Strategist, Producer, and Social Entrepreneur
Lora O’Connor is a producer, social entrepreneur and strategic catalyst, specializing in high impact partnership and resource development and cultivation, working across sectors towards the goal of a world that works for all of us. Areas of high Impact include …
Marlene Garcia
Executive Director, California Student Aid Commission
Marlene Garcia
Executive Director, California Student Aid Commission
Marlene Garcia is Executive Director of the California Student Aid Commission, the largest state financial aid system in the country serving close to half a million low-income students in the state. She has 25 years of experience working on educational …
Norma Alvarez
Philanthropist
Norma Alvarez
Philanthropist
Norma was born in Mexico City and came to California in 1994. She worked for over 10 years in research institutions in Mexico. She was part of the research team at the Demographic and Urban Development Center at El Colegio …
Quency L. Phillips
Community Partnerships/Development Engagement Manager, Google Development Ventures
Quency L. Phillips
Community Partnerships/Development Engagement Manager, Google Development Ventures
Quency L. Phillips is a proud Chicagoan and Northwestern University alumnus, currently based in Morgan Hill, CA. He is an entrepreneur, public-speaker, writer and influencer with extensive experience in marketing and the management of professional athletes, artists and entertainers. Also …
Sandra R. Flores
Sandra Flores was previously served as the first program director of the Fresno County Preterm Birth Collective Impact Initiative, a collaborative effort to reduce the number of babies born prematurely in Fresno County. The Fresno County Preterm Birth Initiative is …
Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell
California State Senator (D-30, Los Angeles)
Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell
California State Senator (D-30, Los Angeles)
A third-generation native Angeleno, Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell is the proud daughter of career public servants and the protégé of community leaders who instilled in her a passion for service. She continued her family legacy of “firsts” when she was …
Susan Pritzker
Philanthropist
Susan Pritzker
Philanthropist
Susan has spent the better part of the last 45 years involved with community activities, politics, volunteer work and philanthropy, both locally and globally. Her primary focus has been in the area of women’s issues, particularly reproductive rights, but she …
Tess Bridgeman
Attorney
Tess Bridgeman
Attorney
Tess Bridgeman served as Special Assistant to President Obama, Associate Counsel to the President, and Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council (NSC), where she covered the full range of issues relating to the national security and foreign policy of the …
Will Guerra
Head of Culture Innovation & Strategy at tEQuitable
Will Guerra
Head of Culture Innovation & Strategy at tEQuitable
Business leader who brings strategic thinking, creative insight and operational rigor to establish enduring impact to organizations and the balance sheet. Entrepreneur by default, with 20+ years of experience working across Fortune 100 and 500 companies, strategy consultancies, and design …