Board of Directors
Co-Chair
Mark Taylor
Director of CA State & Local Government Operations,
The Boeing Company
Co-Chair
Laurie Petersen
Founder,
EDUCATE and Un Mundo de Amigos Preschool
James Ahumada
Senior VP & Deputy CEO,
Downtown LB Alliance
Cindy Bater
Former Sr. Director,
Linked Learning Alliance
Tracy Carmichael
Chief Operating Officer,
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County
Celina Luna
Government Relations Mgr,
SoCal Edison
Christopher Reese
Associate VP of University Relations,
CalState Long Beach
Melanie Ronen Partner, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young
Ron Stone
Owner,
Strategic Government Affairs.
Janet Molina Watt
Founder & CEO,
Little Owl School
Honorary Board
Bob Foster
Former Long Beach Mayor,
Robert Garcia
Former Long Beach Mayor
U.S. Congressman
Julia Huang
Renzei Holdings
Intertrend Comms.
Skip Keesal
Keesal, Young & Logan
Nina Richardson
LB City College
In Memoriam
Alma Salazar, Ed.D.
Founding Board Chair
Rosi Pedersen
