Board and Advisory Council

Board of Directors

Vickie Allen

Chief Impact Officer

The Dallas Foundation

Lindsay Billingsley

Founder

LAB Strategies

Jon Dahlander

Chief of Partnerships and Intergovernmental Relations

Dallas ISD

Margaret J. Hirsch

President

The Hirsch Family Foundation

Ben Leal, Chair

President

The Addy Foundation

Pamela Lear, Ed.D.

Deputy Superintendent of Staff & Accountability

Dallas ISD

Laura Leathers, Ed.D.

Eugene McDermott Head of School

The Hockaday School

Angelica Leveroni Gomez

Senior Program Officer, Education

Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies

Whitney Fogle Lewis, Vice Chair

Chief Legal Officer: U.S. and Head of Legal, Compliance, & Risk for the U.S.

AlTi Global

Renda Mathew

Dallas Market President

Truist Bank

Drexell Owusu

Chief Learning Officer

Perot Museum of Nature and Science

Karen Pollock

Community Volunteer

Philanthropist

Paige Pettit Richey

Managing Director

Goldman Sachs

Alex Sharma

Principal

Red Fort LLC

Jarrad Toussant

Senior Vice President

Dallas Regional Chamber

James Walton

Partner

Ernst & Young

Maurice West

External Affairs Manager & Dean of Men

Paul Quinn College

Laura Whitley, Secretary

Partner

Haynes and Boone, LLP

Advisory Council

Nancy Bernardino, Ed.D.

Regional Superintendent

Dallas ISD

Victoria Brown

Principal

Elemental Advisors

Douglas Burak

Cigarroa Elementary Principal

Dallas ISD

Ruth Burke

Associate Head of School

The Episcopal School of Dallas

Juan Cordoba

Executive Director

Dallas ISD

Laura Day

Director of Innovation & Collaboration

The Hockaday School

Renza DePirro Diaz

Liaison

United to Learn

Kelsey Dudney

Senior Manager

EY

Laura Garza

Regional Superintendent

Dallas ISD

Carol Goglia

President & CEO

Catch up & Read

Susan Harris

Public Affairs Manager

Atmos Energy

Betsy Healy

Vice President of Grants

Harold Simmons Foundation

Morris Herman

Private Wealth Advisor

Goldman Sachs

Macario Hernandez, Ph.D.

President, Mountain View Campus

Dallas College

Salem Hussain

Regional Superintendent

Dallas ISD

Chelsea Jeffery

Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Commit Partnership

Ashwina Kirpalani-Vasanjee

Vice President of Inisghts and Analytics

StriveTogether

Jeff Kitner

President and CEO

North Dallas Chamber of Commerce

Jennifer Staub Lind

AVP, Corporate Social Responsibility

Vizient, Inc.

Erica Matsil

Director of Social Justice and Young Adult Engagement

Temple Emanu-El

Anna Laura Maturino

Project Manager

Goldman Sachs

Tanya McDonald

Co-Founder

It's Lonely at the Top!

Karen Natividad

Tax Senior Manager

Internal Tax Operations

Chara Pace

Clinton P. Russell Elementary Principal

Dallas ISD

Joni Palmer

Director of Special Projects, Associate Director of Accreditation

Independent School Association of the Southwest

Kaitlin Prieur

Realtor

Compass Park Cities

D'Ann Riemer

International Officer Inclusion Specialist, Region 6

Pi Beta Phi Fraternity

Noriangelis Romero

Student Leader

United to Learn

Byron Sanders

CEO

Arete Health

Emily Sanford

Chief Marketing Officer

Sunny

Tanya Shelton, Ed.D.

Associate Superintendent

Dallas ISD

Nicole Small

CEO & President

LH Capital, Inc. & Lyda Philanthropies

Dottie Smith

Founder

Crowded Table Consulting

Lisa Stewart

Community Volunteer

Dawne Tribolet

Liaison

United to Learn

Lorena Tule-Romain, Ed.D.

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer

ImmSchools

Debbie Wilson

Owner

Cambridge Companies, Inc.

Ryan Zysk

Regional Superintendent

Dallas ISD