Our Board
Board Member & Chair, Governance Committee, CEO Support and Evaluation Committee
Managing Partner, EleventoOne
Tyler Bell is the Managing Partner of EleventoOne, a creative social-impact consulting firm that provides entrepreneurs and organizations with the tools, resources and strategies needed to bring their vision to life. With over 10 years of experience living and serving at the intersection of People Operations, Education, Policy, and Technology, Tyler uniquely understands how to build community while creating sustainable change. He is an advocate, advisor, and active volunteer for several local & global social impact organizations. Additionally, Tyler enjoys spending time with loved ones, practicing mindfulness, traveling, sports, and finding the best food in every neighborhood.
Board Member & Vice Chair, Resource Development Committee Chair
Managing Director of Operations, Zinc Collective | DigiDems | Blue Leadership Collaborative.Prior to working on campaign talent development and retention in Democratic politics, Deepa spent more than 15 years specializing in business operations in the media and entertainment industry at WWE, Miramax Films, The Weinstein Company. Deepa holds an MBA and an MS in Information Systems from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Board Member & Secretary, Resource Development Committee
ConsultantPrabhu Reddy
Board Member & Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair, CEO Support and Evaluation Committee
Operator in Residence, Charter School Growth FundPrabhu Reddy is an Operator in Residence at the Charter School Growth Fund, a nonprofit that identifies the country’s best public charter schools, funds their expansion, and helps to increase their impact. At CSGF, Prabhu spends his time solving challenges related to building and financing school facilities. Before joining CSGF, Prabhu was Chief Financial Officer of KIPP Bay Area Public Schools, a network of high-achieving public charter schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he helped lead the organization’s growth from seven to fifteen schools. In his role, he was responsible for developing a best-in-class finance team, financial strategy and planning, financial stewardship, and real estate financial strategy. Prior to his role at KIPP Bay Area Public Schools, Prabhu was Director of Finance and Operations with KIPP San Diego. Prabhu began his career as a member of the Investment Team at Pantheon Ventures. He earned a BS in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Alyssa Santino is the Program Officer of the Joseph Drown Foundation, a private foundation that distributes approximately $4,000,000 annually to nonprofits in the Los Angeles area. The primary focus of the Foundation is education, with a particular interest in supporting strong K-12 public schools and college access programs. The Foundation believes that equity and opportunity are best addressed through quality public education and supports programs that work toward solutions for the myriad of existing problems in Los Angeles area schools. She has been at the Foundation for twelve years. Alyssa is a native of Colorado and a graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with a major in Dance and a minor in Comparative Religious Studies. She previously toured internationally with a modern dance company and constructed educational curriculum for the organization to bring dance into schools that connected movement to core subjects. With a background in dance performance and education, it is a deep curiosity, desire to connect to others and dedication to continuing to learn that have remained common threads throughout her work.
Board Member, Audit Committee Chair, Academic Committee, CEO Support and Evaluation Committee Chair
Attorney, Christie, Parker, Hale, LLCAs a patent and trademark attorney, Mr. Bajracharya counsels clients with respect to their intellectual property assets and helps them manage and grow their portfolio. He has worked extensively with domestic and international companies specializing in various areas of technology, including medical devices, consumer electronics, sporting equipment, and apparel. Mr. Bajracharya works at Christie, Parker & Hale, a Pasadena law firm specializing in intellectual property, and in his spare time he enjoys playing soccer and cooking. Mr. Bajracharya received a BS in Mechanical (Biomedical) Engineering from Cornell University and a JD from Tulane Law School.
Board Member, Resource Development Committee
Director of Social Impact, EndeavorBoard Member, Academic Accountability Committee
Global Philanthropy Program Manager, Snap Inc.Outside of Snap, Heisser is an active advisor to LA-based startups and mentors women and entrepreneurs of color. She is also a co-founder of nonprofit, We Are Enough, a member of TuesdayNights, a pitch coach for Women Founders Network and contributor to the US of Women Summit all supporting the education and economic mobility for women.
Finance Committee
Founder, Cranky Flier LLCMr. Snyder is the founder of Cranky Flier LLC, a company focused on assisting air travelers via its Cranky Concierge (crankyconcierge.com) air travel assistance service and CrankyFlier.com website. He has an extensive background with the travel industry, having worked for USAir, America West, Eos, and United in the areas of revenue management, marketing, sales, and strategy. Prior to founding his own company, Mr. Snyder worked for PriceGrabber.com, a comparison shopping site with more than 24 million unique users per month, where he built and managed the travel site in addition to managing new products for the site and community efforts. In his younger days, he was the youngest known travel agent in the United States at the age of 12. Mr. Snyder has a BA in Marketing and Tourism Studies from The George Washington University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Partner, School Design Services, Transcend Education
Carmina Osuna is a local of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, and attended college at UC San Diego and Loyola Marymount University. Carmina began her career in education as a founding Spanish teacher with Alliance College-Ready Public Charter Schools. She later helped open Camino Nuevo Charter Academy’s second high school where she served as a teacher, Dean, and Assistant Principal. Carmina joined Thrive Public Schools' innovative team as the founding Director of its secondary school. Carmina has over 10 years experience in education and 7 planning and leading professional development and building strong teams with Council at the core. Carmina is currently working on her doctoral degree at the University of Southern California.
Joanna Belcher
Academic Committee
Chief External Impact Officer, KIPP SoCal Public Schools,Originally from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Joanna Belcher received her BA in psychology and Justice and Peace Studies from Georgetown University in 2003. After graduating, Joanna joined Teach For America as part of the San Jose, California corps. She then taught fourth grade and served on the leadership team at Ralph Bunche Elementary School, the first California Distinguished School in Compton, California. After witnessing the impact of school leadership at Bunche, Joanna went on to earn her M.Ed. & Principal Licensure from Harvard University in 2008 and then completed KIPP’s Fisher Fellowship. In 2009, Joanna became the founding principal of SPARK Academy, KIPP’s first elementary school in Newark, New Jersey. From 2014 to 2018, Joanna served as the Chief Academic Officer for KIPP New Jersey schools, developing a K-12 instructional program, managing school leaders, and driving significant academic gains for students. From 2018-2021, Joanna was the Executive Director of KIPP Newark, serving over currently serves as the Chief External Impact Officer for KIPP SoCal Public Schools, where she oversees advocacy and politics, development, marketing and communications, and family and community engagement. Joanna also serves as an advisory board member for the Pivotal Network at Georgetown University, an organization dedicated to forging connections among educators to support first generation college students.
Moises Gomez
Governance Committee
Program Manager, Byzantine-Latino Quarter Pico BIDMoises Gomez is Program Manager of the Byzantine-Latino Quarter Pico Business Improvement District (BID). Guided by the BID’s mission to keep the area’s business corridor a clean, safe, and attractive environment where people work, shop, and conduct business, Moises works closely with the BID Board of Directors, business owners, property owners, residents, and other community groups to improve the BID each and every day. Moises has expertise in workforce development, community organization, economic development, and small business entrepreneurship.
Committee Member
Ray McKenzie
Resource Development Committee
Founder and CEO, StartingPoint
Founder and Managing Director, Red Beach Advisors
Raymond (Ray) McKenzie is the Founder and CEO of StartingPoint and Founder and Managing Director of Red Beach Advisors. With more than 20 years of experience as a senior business executive and consultant leading global organizations ranging from small businesses, startups, and large enterprises. Ray has held various senior executive positions with companies such as Verisign, Neustar, State Farm Insurance, TeleSign, UltraDNS and has served in an advisory role for several start-up companies in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. Ray McKenzie completed his studies in Management Information Systems from San Diego State University in 2001 and is a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF). Mr. McKenzie is also a certified Lean Six Sigma sensei (CLSSS) practitioner from Villanova University, is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) from Scrum Alliance. Mr. McKenzie currently sits on the is the Board Chair for Resolute Academy Charter School in Watts, CA, on the board of directors for My Friend’s House, Inc. based in Los Angeles, CA and Students With Aspiring Goals based in Merced, CA and regularly speaks to groups of children and youth regarding entrepreneurship, leadership, and achievement.
Committee Member
Roshad Lewis
Finance committee
Associate Director of Finance, KIPP Northern California
Roshad Lewis is the Associate Director of Finance at KIPP Northern California. He has been working at KIPP for over eight years. He began at KIPP as an Accounting Assistant and grew into the Assistant Controller. He then transitioned to the finance team to expand his knowledge and grow his career.He is also an alum of a KIPP school. After KIPP, he received a BA from UC Riverside. Currently, he is pursuing an MBA at St. Mary's College.
Committee Member
Tom Hollenberg
Finance committee
Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Capital Group
Tom Hollenberg is a fixed income portfolio manager at Capital Group. As a fixed income investment analyst, he covers interest rates and options. Prior to joining Capital, Tom worked for Goldman Sachs in London, trading interest rate options. Before that, Tom was a trader for Deutsche Bank. He holds an MBA in finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor's degree in economics from Boston College. Tom is based in Los Angeles.
Outside of work, Tom enjoys spending time with his wife and two elementary-aged children. He is passionate about increasing student awareness about the value of quality education.
Committee Member
Manuel Cuté-Ramos
Resource Development committee
Director Compensation - Performance Management, Alliance College-Ready Public Schools
I grew up a poor, undocumented refugee, but through sheer luck--or perhaps fate—was gifted
with access to a high quality education changed my life, opening the door to college and positions at
multiple Fortune 500 companies. It was once I joined the white-collar workforce that I learned how rare it is to meet first-generation college, low-income Latine folks like me in these spaces. I do not believe
that a child’s opportunities should be left up to chance. The same educational opportunities I was
afforded should be accessible to every child, regardless of where they live, what their parents do for a
living, or if they have different learning needs. I want to help re-balance the scales of access, change
perceptions in the workplace, and cultivate a more equitable educational environment for others. For these reasons and more, I am thrilled to help Equitas provide lasting change in high-need communities. streams. Equitas' aim to help kids who are overlooked that come from underserved backgrounds succeed is my life story and I look forward to playing my part in pushing this mission forward.
Committee Member
Aditi Verma
Finance committee
Senior Manager, Business Insights & Operations, Intuit
Aditi Verma is a seasoned business finance and operations strategy professional. She is currently working as Senior Manager, Business Insights & Operations at Intuit. Before joining Intuit, she worked as a finance and operations transformation consultant for Grant Thornton. She has over ten years of professional services experience helping financial services and multinational technology clients, optimize their business performance and achieve operational goals. Her experience includes leading operational change efforts, financial planning and analysis, performance measurement, efforts prioritization, and GTM strategy.
In her spare time, she loves traveling, swimming, playing Tennis, and exploring different cuisines and restaurants around LA.
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