Staff + Board of Directors

Executive Staff

  • Alba Rodriguez

    CEO

  • Nayira Polanco

    Senior Director of Programs

  • Michael Yerdon

    Senior Director of Communications and Development

HQ and Senior After School Staff

Joelle Santos | Development Officer

Danielle Pointdujour | HR Manager

Olivia deMontmorency | Development and Communications Associate

Renee Smith | Elementary School Multi-Site Director

Angelique Sherwood | Middle School Multi-Site Director

Programs

After-School Program

PS90 Edna Cohen School | Program Director, Pierre Irvin 

PS188 The Island School | Program Director, Katherine Gomez

PS298 Dr. Betty Shabazz | Program Coordinator, Brandon Jackson

PS329 The Surfside School | Program Director, Ariel Mack

Brooklyn Collaborative Studies MS | Program Director, Danielle Midgette

New Design Middle School | Program Director, Angel Viloria

Eagle Academy of Harlem | Program Director, Quantiniqua (Miss Q) Ferguson

Urban Assembly for Future Leaders | Program Director, Jason Crowell

Board of Directors

Board Officers

Alison Martier Schweizer | Chair | Chair of Nominating Committee

Ayisha A. Saul | Vice Chair | Co-Chair, Strategic Planning Committee | Global Lead HR Business Partner | Blackrock

Lorryn Mai | Secretary | Partner, Ernst & Young

Paige L. Rabalais | Treasurer & Co-Chair of Finance and Investment Committee | Managing Director, Commonfund

Board Members

Alen Amini | Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group

Lina Bracero | Principal, True North Strategies

Barbara Denham | Senior Economist, Cities and Regions, Oxford Economics

Linda Derrick 

Kathleen Dumes| Vice President, Senior Investment Strategist, Bernstein Private Wealth Management

Maggie Gregg | Co-Chair, Fundraising & Communications Committee | Chief People Officer, Nutrafol

Mary Crawford

Sunsy Hong | Managing Director, Head of Planning & Experience, J.P. Morgan Wealth Management

Natasha Robertson | Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

Diane Sinti | Co-Chair of Fundraising & Communications Committee | Global Work re-Architected Leader & Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting

Karina Val | Asset Management and Value Creation, Green Investments Group, Macquarie

Natalie R. Williams | Chair of Audit Committee | Managing Director & Deputy General Counsel, Consumer & Community Banking & General Counsel, Card & Strategic Transactions, JPMorgan Chase

Girls Initiatives

Hansol Choi | Girls Initiatives Director

AJ Jacobs | Girls Initiatives Program Coordinator