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Our Team

We are a team of former foster youth, case workers, foster-adopt parents, funders, and child welfare career veterans from across the US, committed to changing the way child welfare shapes the lives of children and families.

Sixto

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Chief Executive Officer + Founder

Jess

Skylar

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Managing Partner

Liz

Mills

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Vice President, Operations

Darrell

Booker

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Senior Consultant, Technology

Jodie

Austin

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Senior Director, Programs

Puja

Balachander

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Senior Consultant, Product Management

Natalie

Bergstrasser

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Manager, Copywriting + Editing

Jacquelyn

Blake

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Director, Development

Katie

Buxton

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Senior Associate, Operations

Courtney

Canova

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Manager, UX Research + Design

Morgan

Cole

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Senior Director, Government Integration

Emmy

DeFigueiredo

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Interim Chief of Staff

Chidera

Emeto

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Community Responder

Sarah

Fathallah

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Vice President, Research + Design, Interim Head of the Center for Lived Experience

Shay

Fields

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Community Responder

Sabra

Guzmán

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Community Responder

Jamie

Helberg

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Senior Associate, Marketing Specialist

Pauline

Hill

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Senior Manager, People + Culture

Justin

Kidder

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Community Responder

Jesse

Noonan

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Vice President, Direct Impact

Jonathan

Nuñez

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Community Responder

Steven

Olender

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Senior Director, Strategic Policy Initiatives

Hong

Phan

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Community Responder

Yajaira

Pérez-Lascurain

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Community Responder

Whitney

Robertson

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Director, Programs

Eshontee'

Rowe

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Community Responder

Shantell

Steve

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Manager of Youth and Lived Experience

Susmita

Sukla

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Community Responder Manager

Sarah

Sullivan

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Senior Director, Programs

Bobbi

Taylor

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Consultant, Program + Project Research

Anthony

Tuccitto

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Technical Project Manager + Hacker

Taylor

Vitello

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Director, Proximate Policy

Ryen

Watkins

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Executive Assistant to the CEO

Emma

Webb

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Senior Director, Creative Communications