Leadership

Meet our Executive team and Board of Governors.

Executive & Senior Leadership

Liz Schoenfeld, Ph.D.  

Chief Executive Officer

Mulu Ferede

Chief Administrative Officer

Amie Ortiz

Chief People Officer

Kelly Pearsall

Chief Financial Officer

William Rivas-Rivas

Chief Mission Officer

Courtney Seals

Chief Program Officer

Daniela Daniel
Executive Assistant

Veronica Delgado - Savage Vice President, Mental Health & Well-Being

Elizabeth Estrada
Vice President, Admin & Risk

Krystan Farnish, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research & Evaluation

Andrew Fike
Vice President, Housing & Basic Needs

Andrew Gansky
Vice President, Institutional Giving

Krissy Perez
Vice President, Education & Workforce

Miranda Spiro
Vice President, Compliance

Sumi Sripatham
Vice President, Finance & Accounting

Bree Torres
Vice President, Asset & Facilities Management

Grace Acuña
Director, Philanthropy

Shawndi Johnson
Director, Evidence-based Programming

Reeanna Jones
Director, Marketing & Communications

Preston Petty
Director, Implementation & Innovation

Richard Williams
Director, Facilities & Maintenence

Board of governors

Trey Salinas - Chair
Founder & Principal, 3 Point Partners 

Kaye Knox - Vice Chair
President, Knox Resources, Inc. 

Lisa Richardson - Immediate Past Chair
Community Volunteer

Alan Hansford - Co-Treasurer
Founder & CEO, Virginia Executives

Kelly McDonald - Secretary
Attorney 

Melinda Twomey - Assistant Secretary
Community Volunteer

Christopher Aguilar - Co-Treasurer
Corporate VP of Finance, AMD 

Kyle Ali
Lead Sr. Program Manager,
Code Next, Google 

Crystal Barone
Founder & CEO, Amore Properties 

Eddie Blackwell, Jr.
Community Volunteer 

Sara Canaday
Owner/Leadership Strategist,
Sara Canaday & Associates

Mario Albert Castro
Finance Manager, City of Austin

C.K. Chin
Founder, Chintertainment

Kacie Crowe
Community Volunteer

Lisa Dow
Community Volunteer

Mary beth jester
Community Volunteer

David Kirchhoff
CEO, WorldStrides 

Kerri Lang
Budget Director, City of Austin 

Katrina Austria Marrero
Customer Success Manager, Quest Software

Glenn Neland
Community Volunteer

Sarah Prescott
Client Strategy Partner, eliseAI

Angela Pringle
Community Volunteer

Llyas Salahud-din
Founder, GrantAppli

Lea Sims
Community Volunteer

Ashley Thomas
Founder and Managing Partner, Ashley Thomas & Associates, PC

Ana Moreno VanDiver
Senior Manager, Global Alumni Community Engagement, Stanford Alumni Association

Greg Varnell
Senior Solutions Architect, Hapax