Leadership

Executive Team

Sam Schaeffer

Chief Executive Officer
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Samra Haider

President
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Christopher Watler

Executive Vice President
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Yuri Okumura

Chief Legal Officer
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Julia Burns

Chief Financial Officer
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Sarah Glenn-Leistikow

Deputy Executive Director, California
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Mary Bedeau

Deputy Executive Director, NYC
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Jessica Centeno

Deputy Executive Director, Upstate, NY & Midwest Regions
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Patience Lewis-Walker

Deputy Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic
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Valerie Greenhagen

Deputy Executive Director, Social Enterprise
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Amber Greenleaf

Senior Director, Employee Experience
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Pamela Lachman

Senior Director, Investment and Power Building
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Nate Garcia

Chief of Staff
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Senior Leadership Team

Courtney Adkinson

Director, Campaigns
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Leah Bacon

Director, Investment Advocacy
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Claire Brown

Director, Compliance
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Ashley Cheng

Director, Culture and Engagement
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Thailia Elcock-Bowen

Deputy Director, Legal and Compliance
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Emily Dean

Director, Strategy & Platform
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Nadra Dennis

Director, Talent Development
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Noely Drummond

Director, Learning and Impact
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Victor Ellis

Regional Director, New York State
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Hillary Facchine Williams

Director, Coverage & Coaching
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Robert Garcia

Director, Controller
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Christina Johnson-Click

Director, Program Performance (Regional)
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Caitlin Kennedy

Assistant General Counsel
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Rebecca Lang

Director, Strategic Implementation
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KaShonda Lawson

Regional Director, Northern California
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Marcus Mills

Director, Program Services
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Olu Martins

Regional Program Director, Midwest
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Maurice Motley

Director, Strategic Implementation
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Christopher Pearson

Director, Advancement and Major Gifts
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Casey Pheiffer

Director, Policy
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Simone Price

Director, Organizing
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Bill Reese

Director, Salesforce
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Brad Reesman

Director, Financial and Grants Management
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Genevieve Rimer

Senior Director, Inclusive Hiring
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Camila Rodriguez

Senior Counsel
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Matt Sutton

Director of Communications
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Ayanna Teesdale

Director, Financial Operations
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Johanna King-Vespe

Senior Director, Program Services
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Pat Viklund

Senior Director, Strategic Implementation
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Aaron Walling

Regional Director, Southern California
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Jamal Williams

Director, Program Improvement
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Dane Worthington

Director, Economic Opportunity
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Arlene Yang

Senior Counsel
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Marlene Cedeno

Director, Contracts Reporting
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James Martin

Director, IT
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Samuel Hanna

Director, Sales
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Rochelle Trujillo

Regional Director, Program Delivery
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Board

Emary Aronson

Chief Knowledge Officer and Senior Advisor to the CEO, The Robin Hood Foundation
New York, NY

Elizabeth Balfour

Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
San Diego, CA

Brandon Belford

Chief Commercial Officer, Applegreen Electric
New York, NY

Melanca Clark

President and CEO, Hudson-Webber Foundation
New York, NY

Bruce Evans

Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, Deutsche Bank
New York, NY

Ellen V. Holloman

Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
New York, NY

Abd’Allah Lateef

Senior Strategist & Racial Equity Specialist, Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
Philadelphia, PA

Kathryn Mannes

Vice President, Jobs For The Future
Washington, DC

Michael Mendoza

Director of National Advocacy, Anti-Recidivism Coalition
Los Angeles, CA

David Moskovitz

Senior Managing Director, Accenture
New York, NY

Joli Cooper

Founding Executive Director, GreenLight Fund
Atlanta, GA

Khalil Cumberbatch

Director of Engagement & Partnerships, Council on Criminal Justice
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Travis Baird

Executive Director, Maverick Capital Foundation (MCF)
New York, NY

Andrew van der Vord

Global Co-Head of Consumer Retail, Deutsche Bank
New York, NY