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President

Starsky Wilson

Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson

President and CEO

National Leadership

Gijs deLeede

Chief Financial Officer

Mamie Berry

Director of Administration/Human Resources

Kathleen King

Kathleen King

Interim Policy Director

Kristal Moore Clemons

National Director, CDF Freedom Schools®

Sheri A. Brady

Vice President, Strategy and Program

Cherisna Jean-Marie

Director, Leadership Development & Organizing

Catoya Roberts

National Director, Movement Building

National Staff

Mamie Berry

Director of Administration/Human Resources

Pamela Branch

Grants and Accounting Associate

Janet Canada

Business Office Manager, CDF Freedom Schools®

Anourack Chinyavong

Graphic Designer

Benjamin Dawson

Webmaster

Sean Dowdie

Senior Financial Analyst

Erica Fields

Data and Systems Manager, CDF Freedom Schools®

Andrew Jaime

Finance Manager

Kathleen King

Kathleen King

Interim Policy Director

David McClure

Director of Information Technology

Zarrar Mujaddidi

Facilities Manager

KC Ortiz

Development Database and Decision Support Manager

Yoonjung Park

Director of Education Research and Analysis, CDF Freedom Schools®

Lisa Robinson

Writer/Editor

John Robinson

Network Administrator

Crystal Rucker

Regional Development Director

Austin Sowa

Policy Associate, Office of the Founder

Stefanie Sprow

Director of Child Welfare Policy

Zachary Tilly

Policy Associate

Laura Trevino

Accounting Manager

Lori Washington

Foundation and Corporate Partnership Officer

Jylise Smith

Development Project Coordinator

Kristal Moore Clemons

National Director, CDF Freedom Schools®

Devonn Thomas

Executive Assistant to the President & CEO

Bob Farrace, CAE

National Director, Public Affairs

Sheri A. Brady

Vice President, Strategy and Program

Glen Vinson, Jr.

National Organizer, Faith Communities

Karissa Anderson

National Organizer, Students & Youth

Cherisna Jean-Marie

Director, Leadership Development & Organizing

Catoya Roberts

National Director, Movement Building

Office of the Founder

Marian Wright Edelman

Founder and President Emerita

Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris

Religious Affairs Advisor

Dr. Janet Wolf

Director of Public Theology and Nonviolent Organizing

Children’s Defense Fund

California Staff

Shimica Gaskins

Executive Director, CDF-CA

Cadonna Dory

Director of Communications

Angelica Salazar

Director of Education Equity

Lorena Sanchez

Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives

Saira Soto

Deputy Executive Director, Programs and Administration

Haley Farm Staff

Kenneth Libby

Business Manager

Michael Sands

Maintenance Technician

Theresa Venable

Langston Hughes Librarian

Gerald Wagner

Facilities and Security Manager

Minnesota Leadership

Bharti Wahi

Executive Director, CDF-MN

Minnesota Staff

Yvonne Lerew

Development Director

New York Leadership

Kimberley Chin

Acting Executive Director, CDF-NY

New York Staff

Benjamin Anderson

Director of Health Policy

Olga Gonzalez

Senior Manager of Administration

Ohio Leadership

Tracy Nájera

Executive Director, CDF-OH

Southern Regional Office Staff

Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald

Southern Regional Director

Rubystine Bridges

Program Development Associate, CDF Freedom Schools®

Texas Staff

Cheasty Anderson

Cheasty Anderson

Director of Immigration Policy and Advocacy

Graciela Camarena

Program Manager

Clarissa Webb

Youth Programs Coordinator

Board of Directors

Marian Wright Edelman

Founder and President Emerita

Laphonza Butler

Partner

SCRB Strategies Los Angeles, CA

DD Eisenberg

Child Advocate

Coral Gables, FL

George Gresham

President

1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Bronx, NY

Ruth-Ann Huvane, Vice-Chair

Child Advocate

Los Angeles, CA

Deborah Jewell-Sherman

Director

Urban Superintendents Program and Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

Ivanna Omeechevarria, Secretary

Child Advocate

Alexandria, VA

Martin Rodgers

Martin Rodgers, Treasurer

Senior Managing Director — US Southeast and Metro Washington, DC Office Managing Director

Accenture Washington, DC, Arlington, VA

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Actor and Child Advocate

Los Angeles, CA

Bryan Stevenson, Esq.

Founder and Executive Director

Equal Justice Initiative Montgomery, AL

Lan Bentsen

Founder

Shape Tomorrow Houston, TX

Carol Oughton Biondi

Board Member

California State Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention/ Board Member, ARC (Anti-Recidivism Coalition) Los Angeles, CA

Angela Glover Blackwell, Chair

Founder in Residence

PolicyLink Oakland, CA

Malaak Compton-Rock

Founder and Director

The Angelrock Project New York, NY

Starsky Wilson

Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson

President and CEO

Deborah Cogut

Deborah Cogut

Co-Founder and Vice Chair

The Polyphony Foundation Greenwich, CT

Leadership

Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald

Southern Regional Director

Patrick Bresette

Executive Director, CDF-TX

Shimica Gaskins

Executive Director, CDF-CA