Our Team
The Tiger Woods Foundation is a team of dedicated individuals who are passionate about empowering students to thrive. We are deeply committed to every student who comes through our programs, and believe that the power of education, coupled with the right resources, will ensure lifelong success.
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Executive Leadership
Rick Singer
President & CEO
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ” JFK
Katherine Bihr, Ed.D.
Vice President, Programs & Education
“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.” Socrates
Michelle S. Kim
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
“Every decision starts with the decision to try.” Unknown
Jin Thatcher
Vice President, Operations & Administration
“A woman is like a tea bag: you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” Nancy Reagan
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TGR Learning Lab
Gyla Bell
Senior Director, Programs
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
Eric Moore
Senior Director, Programs
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” Robert Bresson
Roman Gonzales
Director, Golf
“Out of control emotions can make smart people stupid.” Byron Nelson
Jason Porter
Director, TGR EDU: Create
“Nothing in life is be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie
David Tong
Director, TGR EDU: Create
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath
Barry Christy
Senior Manager, Facilities
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” Albert Einstein
Yvonne Tello
Senior Manager, Administration
“It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi
John Foster
Senior Manager, Programs
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” Groucho Marx
Nick Novak
Senior Manager, Programs
“Never for money, always for love.” David Byrne
Holly Dennard
Lead Instructor
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
Ian Esmilla
Instructor
“Attitude Reflects Leadership, Captain.” Remember The Titans
Scott Ferguson
Instructor
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
Saki Hashimoto
Instructor
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” Steve Jobs
Doug Luong
Instructor
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Confucius
Man Luong
Instructor
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” Joseph Campbell
Ashley Marinez
Instructor
“When your life is on course with its purpose, you are your most powerful.” Oprah Winfrey
Trinh Tran
Instructor
“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
Kimberly O'Toole
Programs Manager
“The things you can’t measure are often the things that give people the most success.” Aaron Rodgers
Wendy Duran
Receptionist
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” Albert Einstein
Brenda Reynoso
Receptionist
“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
Nancy Sanchez
Receptionist
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ” Walt Disney
Andrés Cuamani
Academic Support
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” Gabriel García Márquez
Monserrat Orozco
Academic Support
“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” Mahatma Gandhi
Crystal Tran
Academic Support
“Maybe our favorite quotes say more about us than the stories and people we are quoting.” John Green
Ruben Triscareno
Academic Support
“The key to success is playing the hand you were dealt like it was the hand you wanted. ” Kaitlyn Walsh
Titus Wu
Golf Coordinator
“Happiness comes from experiences, not possessions.” Anonymous
Justin Samuels
Range Attendant
“If you have a dream, don't wait. Act.” Kingdom Hearts
Hope Enyart
Volunteer Coordinator
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Earl Woods Scholar Program
Cristina Fernández
Senior Director, Programs
“In one soul, in your soul, there are resources for the world.” Emerson
Denisse Jover
Senior Manager, Programs
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Ferris Bueller
Lea Segura
Senior Manager, Programs
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” Oprah Winfrey
Alma Gutierrez
Program Coordinator
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.” Audrey Hepburn
Betsy Peña
Program Coordinator
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.” Vivian Greene
Mehrab Sarwar
Program Coordinator
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” Maya Angelou
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Finance & Administration
Kelly Cheng
Director, Finance
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, 'I'm possible'!” Audrey Hepburn
Joe Hsu
Director, IT
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
Mike Stevens
Financial Analyst Manager
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” John Wooden
Krista Hirdler
Corporate Administrator
“Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.” Alfred Adler
Ashley Bedell
Project & Administrative Associate
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” Billie Jean King
Megan Warnick
Administrative Assistant
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
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Marketing
Dana Mariotti
Director of Marketing
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
Marci Gentzkow
Senior Director, Communications & Marketing
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.” Maya Angelou
Reshma Melwani
Programs Communications & Marketing Manager
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver
Amber Fuller
Graphic Designer
“Design is so simple, that's why it's so complicated.” Paul Rand
Brian Valdez
Junior Graphic Designer
“Digital Design is like painting, except the paint never dies.” Neville Brody
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Fund Development
Jessica Carbajal
Director, Development & Community Affairs
“Do or do not, there is no try.” Yoda, Jedi Master
TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION BOARD OF GOVERNORS
- Michael McKee, HCPI, Inc., Executive Chairman
- Sandra Barry, formerly Anaheim Unified School District
- Kenneth W. Bentley, formerly Nestle, USA
- Avery Brown, Automobile Club of Southern California
- Danny Conway, Able
- Karina Hamilton, University of California, Irvine
- Christopher J. Hubman, TGR Ventures
- Dennis Kuhl, Angels Baseball
- Rob Light, CAA
- Edward W. Machir, formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Jason S. Mooneyham, AMD
- Jonathan M. Orszag, Compass Lexecon, LLC
- Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
- Sudhakar V. Shenoy, Alyx Technologies, Inc.
- Rick Singer, Tiger Woods Foundation
- Mark Steinberg, Excel Sports Management
- Todd C. Theodora, Theodora Oringher
- Leo Tucker, Northwestern Mutual
- Peter V. Ueberroth, The Contrarian Group
- Bill Woodley, formerly Deutsche Bank
- Kultida Woods, Tiger Woods Foundation
- Tiger Woods, TGR Ventures