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Leadership

Founder

Austin Beutner

Board of Directors

Virginia Beutner
Chair, Vision To Learn

Mickey Kantor
Co-Chair, Vision To Learn
Partner, Mayer Brown

Glenville March Jr., MD
Former President and CEO, March Vision Care

Renee McColl
Co-founder of Vision To Learn Charlotte

Steve Shafran
Senior Advisor, Centerbridge Partners

Cynthia Watts
Vice Chairman, Vision To Learn
Partner, Blue Waters Research

Denita Willoughby
VP, Southern California Gas Company

Jake Winebaum
Founder, Blue Waters Research

Ann Hollister
Ex Officio

Executive Staff

Ann Hollister
President

Damian Carroll
National Director/Chief of Staff

John Kim
Chief Operating Officer

Joan Chu Reese
Executive Director

Jaya Shetty
Chief Financial Officer

Katherine Silver
Chief Human Relations Officer

California Advisory Board

Steven Abraham
Executive-in-Residence,
Matrix Capital Management LP

Don Attore
Principal, Attore & Associates, LLC

Glenna Avila
Wallis Annenberg Director,
CalArts Community Arts Partnership

Arnie Berghoff
President, Arnie Berghoff & Associates

Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J.
Founder, Homeboy Industries

Patrick Butler
Assistant Chief, Los Angeles Fire Department

Jack Z. Chen
‎Chairman & CEO, Transworld Capital Group

Ned Colletti Jr.
Senior Advisor to the President,
Los Angeles Dodgers

Lemuel Daniels
VP Client Advisor, Morgan Stanley

David Fleming
Partner, Latham & Watkins

Stephanie Graves
President & CEO, Lee Andrews Group

Eric C. Heins
President, California Teachers’ Association

Antonia Hernández
President and CEO,
California Community Foundation

Heidi Hertel
Licensed Attorney and Former Political Consultant

Reginald Love
Partner, Transatlantic Holdings

Kerman Maddox
Managing Partner, Dakota Communications

Veronica Melvin
President and CEO, LA’s Promise

Molly Munger
Director, Advancement Project California

Timothy Noonan
CEO, Lockton Insurance

Octavio Pescador
Professor, UCLA

Richard Riordan
Former Mayor of Los Angeles

Ellen Schwarzman
Attorney

Matt Siegler
Senior Consultant,
Kaiser Permanente

Michael S. Sitrick
Founder, Chairman, and CEO,
Sitrick And Company

Jan Sobel
Consultant

Tom Soto
Managing Partner / Co-Founder
Craton Equity Partners

Brian M. Wall
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, StoneCalibre

Greg Wells
Musician, Record Producer, Songwriter

Delaware Advisory Board

Robert Abel, Jr. M.D., Chair
Delaware Ophthalmology Consultants

LaWanda Burgoyne
Supervisor, Student Services, Capital School District

Sally Gore
Retired, W.L. Gore

Matthew Gotthold, M.D.
Delaware Pediatrics

Aimee Hastings RN, MSN, NCSN 
School Nurse, Appoquinimink School District

Dr. Dennis Mirra
Retired, Halpern Eye Care

Fred Sears
Former Director, Delaware Community Foundation

Bernardo Tiburcio
CIO, DuPont Sustainable Solutions

Dr. Jamie Wohlhagen
Delaware Ophthalmology Consultants

Hawaiʻi Advisory Board

Kenton Eldridge, Chair
Managing Director, Sennet Capital

Mel Jackson
Philanthropist

Tyrie Jenkins, M.D.
Ophthalmologist and Eye Surgeon, Jenkins Eye Care

Lauren Nahme
Vice President, Kamehameha Schools

Emily Reber Porter
Chief Operating Officer, The MacNaughton Group

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