Our Leaders

Impact Team Leadership

Impact Team Chairs & Leads

Lorenzo Chavez | Education Team Chair | Postsecondary Access Lead | Institute Class 40

Joyceline Elliot | Child Well-Being Chair | Child Welfare System Lead | Institute Class 41

Melanie Burm | Workforce Development Co-Lead | Institute Class 31

Stephen Flaaen | Chronic Absenteeism Lead | | Early Literacy | Family Support | Institute Class 41

Koran Hardimon | Racial Justice Chair | Racial Justice Lead | Institute Class 37

Clint Houston | Family Support Lead | Institute Class 41

Mary Foote | Jobs & Economy Chair | Workforce Development Co-Lead | Institute Class 36

Sarah Shambrook | Housing & Healthy Neighborhoods | Catalyze Class 1

McCady Findley | Tree Equity Score | Catalyze Class 2

Ginger Sykes Torres | Environment Chair | Ready Together

Dr. Nick Vasquez | Health Chair | Institute Class 33

Paige Soucie | Opioid Stigma Reduction Lead | Catalyze Class 1

Impact Team Members

Child Well-Being

Ashley Oakley | Child Welfare System | Catalyze Class 1

Lauren Grucky | Child Welfare System | Catalyze Class 1

Leslie Barakat | Family Support | VL Institute Class 34

Matthew Stewart | Child Welfare System | Catalyze Class 1

Molly Peterson | Child Welfare System | Ready Together

Roger Lurie | Child Welfare System | Ready Together

Stephen Flaaen | Chronic Absenteeism Lead | | Early Literacy | Family Support | Institute Class 41

Virginia Bezerra de Menezes | Child Welfare System | Catalyze Class 2

Ashely Dickerson | Child Welfare System | Catalyze Class 2

Simone Tavassoli | Child Welfare System | Catalyze Class 2

Leslie Beatty | Family Support | Catalyze Class 2

Education

David Scott | Early Literacy | Catalyze Class 1

Heather Kivatinos | Early Literacy & Chronic Absenteeism | Institute Class 39

Kent Wilson | Early Literacy | Ready Together

Paula Hutchinson | Postsecondary Access | Catalyze Class 1

Shereka Jackson | Postsecondary Access | Institute Class 39

Makayla Jackson | Postsecondary Access | Catalyze Class 2

Dawn Gerundo | Chronic Absenteeism | Valley of the Sun United Way

Laura Pearl | Early Literacy | Catalyze Class 2

Javier Torres | Postsecondary Access | Ready Together

Melissa Boydston | Postsecondary Access | Vally of the Sun United Way

Julie Heineking | Early Literacy | Catalyze Class 2

Environmental Sustainability

Jaimey Bly | Tree Equity Score | Catalyze Class 1

Tammy Bosse | Tree Equity Score | Institute Class 15

Eric Candela | Tree Equity Score | American Forests

Lora Martens | Tree Equity Score | City of Phoenix Office of Heat Response and Mitigation

Patricia Ewanski | Tree Equity Score | Institute Class 41

Josh Loughman | Tree Equity Score | Catalyze Class 2

Chris Graves | ROSE Group | Catalyze Class 2

Jake Simon | Tree Equity Score | Catalyze Class 3

Health

Amy Schwabenlender | Housing & Healthy Neighborhoods | Institute Class 34

Ash Uss | Housing & Healthy Neighborhoods | Catalyze Class 1

Debra Stevens | Opioid Stigma Reduction | Institute Class 22

Christine Bracamonte Wiggs | Opioid Stigma Reduction | Institute Class 41

Kristina Crane | Opioid Stigma Reduction | Accelerate 2018

Ora Napoleon | Housing & Healthy Neighborhoods | Catalyze Class 2

Maya Galvan | Housing & Healthy Neighborhoods | Catalyze Class 2

Jason Boatman | Housing & Healthy Neighborhoods | Catalyze Class 1

Thomas Kelly | Housing & Healthy Neighborhoods | Community Champion

Tari Thomas | Housing & Healthy Neighborhoods | Institute Class 41

Charles Lucking | Housing & Healthy Neighborhoods | Institute Class 41

Jobs & Economy

Racial Justice

Contributors

Aaron Bare
Abby Wilkymacky
Adam Fielding
Amy Schwabenlender
Anne Landers
Barbara Trapido-Lurie
Candice Gimbel
Charles Lucking
Christian Osmeña
Clint Houston
Devina Williams

Diana Herrera
Isaiah Lopez
Jasmine Figueroa
Jennifer Holsman Tetreault
Justin Brandt
Karla Robles
Leslie Barakat
Leslie Benner
Lisa Beohm
Melissa Boydston

Molly Peterson
Nick Willis
Nina Targovnik
Peggy Peixoto
Roger Lurie
Roy Tatem
Sakina Pasha
Salvador Bretts
Samuel Lowry
Suzanne Reed
Wyatt Buchanan