Board of Directors
Co-Chair
Tracy Carmichael
Chief Operating Officer,
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County
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
Tommy Brewer, II
Senior VP of Partner Success & Innovation,
Think Together
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
Mark Taylor
Director - Govt Operations
The Boeing Company
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
