• 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
President and Chief Executive Officer at YouthBuild USA
Master's, Professional Studies