Bio

• Proven non-profit chief executive with high emotional intelligence and empathy, lived-experience, commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, direct-service experience, and with strong business acumen including leading start-ups, turnarounds, realignments and success sustaining situations • Successful fundraiser and highly responsible steward and manager of financial resources • Demonstrated dynamic leadership in advancing a mission-driven and collaborative culture, professionally developing people, attracting/recruiting talent and nurturing cohesive teams • Visionary and strategic leader skilled at building capacity, creating and implementing innovative programs, managing growth and executing for results • Data-driven, outcomes-oriented social entrepreneur with commitment to quality and impact • Skillful at engaging and cultivating collaborative partnerships and networks for movement-building for collective impact—strong relationship builder at Board and stakeholder levels • Lifelong learner, former college professor and co-founder of two higher education non-profits • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, fluency in Spanish and extensive public speaking experience including keynoting at graduations and National conferences and interviews on television and in print