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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