Our Team
At TGR Foundation, we are champions for youth. Our team is passionate about empowering students through education. We are deeply committed to every student who comes through our programs, and believe that the power of education, coupled with resources and support, will learn, grow and thrive.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS
- Avery Brown, Automobile Club of Southern California
- Dennis Kuhl, Angels Baseball
- Jason S. Mooneyham, AMD
- Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D., California State University, Dominguez Hills
- Sudhakar V. Shenoy, Alyx Technologies, Inc.
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Executive Leadership
Cyndi Court
CEO
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
Christina Friend
Chief Development Officer
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” Rosalynn Carter
Jin Thatcher
Chief Operating Officer
“Every cloud has a silver lining, find hope in every bad situation. Silver line it!” John Milton
Michelle Bemis
President, TGR Live
“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT YOUR FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Hrag Hamalian
President, TGR Learning Labs and National Programs
“Impossible is just a word thrown around by men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is potential. ” Muhammad Ali
John Lee
Senior Vice President, Programs & Education
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Jackie Robinson
Dan Scali
Vice President, Marketing & Communications
“Life is very short, there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends. ” John Lennon
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TGR Learning Lab
Gyla Bell
Vice President, Programs, TGR Learning Lab
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
Eric Moore
Vice President, Programs
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” Robert Bresson
Meredith Foote
Executive Director, TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia
“We have the opportunity to create the future and decide what that's like.” Mae Jemison
Holly Dennard
Director, Professional Learning
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
Rebecca Lehr
Director, Programs and Professional Learning, TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
Doug Luong
Director, Programs, TGR Learning Lab
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Confucius
Maria Stroup
Director, Early Education and Community Engagement, TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. ” Desmond Tutu
Hope Enyart
Senior Manager, Programs, TGR Learning Lab
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trinh Tran
Senior Manager, Programs, TGR Learning Lab
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ” Viktor Frankl
Joshua Chaney
Manager, Community Outreach, TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia
“It's For The Kids!” Eddie Chaney
Breanne Hanzel
Professional Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” Dolly Parton
Man Luong
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” Joseph Campbell
Crystal Tran
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop
Asya Wilbon
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out.” Jermaine L. Cole
Don Bell
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Lao Tzu
Kristen Shiraki
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor Frankl
Natalie Thach
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” Brian Herbert
Madison Ballew
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible.” Audrey Hepburn
Marco Gonzalez
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Dr. Jane Goodall
Stefan Amzaroiu
Facilities Manager
“If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” Roman Price
Katherine Pham
Manager, Student Outreach and Support
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” Henry David Thoreau
Carmen Gonzalez
Manager, Administrative
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky
Noemi Franco
Receptionist
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
Christine Perez
Coordinator, Golf and Recreation
“Having fun is the best way to learn." ” Albert Einstein
Ashley Cortez
Volunteer Coordinator
“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” A.A. Milne
Kevin Tran
Academic & Front Desk Support
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi
Gabriela Ruiz
Academic & Front Desk Support
“Live with no excuses and love with no regrets. Laugh a lot and leave this life with nothing left unsaid.” Dan Dean
Ethan Chen
Academic & Front Desk Support
“The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.” Thucydides
Andrick Sauno
Academic & Front Desk Support
“You’re suffering from self-doubt while others are intimidated by your full potential. If you’re past self could see where you’re at today think about how impressed they would be.” Anonymous
Alexis Medina
Receptionist
“As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.” Vin Scully
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Earl Woods Scholar Program
Cristina Fernández
Vice President, Programs
“In one soul, in your soul, there are resources for the world.” Emerson
Alma Gutierrez
Director, Programs
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” Audrey Hepburn
Juan Carlos Villanueva
Senior Manager, Programs
“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” Kobe Bryant
Andres Cuamani
Program Coordinator
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” Gabriel García Márquez
Izabel Dallal
Program Coordinator
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” Mother Teresa
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Finance & Administration
Joe Hsu
Senior Director, IT
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
Mike Stevens
Senior Director, Financial Analyst
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” John Wooden
Yvonne Tello
Director, Human Resources
“It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi
Vanessa Topete
Business Administration Coordinator
“The problems we face today eventually turn into blessings in the rearview mirror of life. In time, yesterday’s red light leads us to a greenlight.” Matthew McConaughey
Norma Partida
Administrative Assistant
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” Maya Angelou
Brandon Medina
IT Support Specialist
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” Tommy Lasorda
Andrew Katnic
Operations Manager
“Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.” Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Michelle Stablow
Bookkeeper
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new” Socrates
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Development
Logan Lamson
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
“As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him...we need not wait to see what others do.” Mahatma Gandhi
Elizabeth Hopkins
Account Director, Development
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
Shahana Shah
Senior Director, Development
“If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.” Kobe Bryant
Katie Vazquez
Manager, Development
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
Ida Tirimba
Development Research Coordinator
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” Norman Vinvent Peale
Ivy Craft
Development Writer and Adminsitrator
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members” Coretta Scott King
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Marketing
Christy Ortiz
Director, Marketing
“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.” Coco Chanel
Amber Fuller
Art Director
“Design is so simple, that's why it's so complicated.” Paul Rand
Jasmine C. Tate
Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications
“Work hard, pray hard and when the door opens walk through it.” Dr. John E. Forde
Duy Mai
Graphic Designer
“I found that I could say things with color and shapes, that I couldn't say in any other way—things that I had no words for.” Georgia O'Keeffe
Madeline Moreen
Digital Marketing Coordinator
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” Amelia Earhart
Roget Geoffroy
Website Developer
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?” George Carlin
