Our Community Advisors are a group of young people, parents, educators, non-profit leaders and community members that provide strategic input and guidance to the Foundation on its grantmaking approach.
2021/2020 Community Advisors
• Grace Valenzuela, Portland Public Schools, Maine
• Ina Tall, Women Encouraging Empowerment (WEE), Massachusetts
• Olga Tacure, Women Encouraging Empowerment (WEE), Massachusetts
• Manuel Fernandez, Cambridge Public Schools, Massachusetts
• Mario Florez, Holyoke Public Schools, Massachusetts
• Marquis Victor, Elevated Thought, Massachusetts
• Michele Holt-Shannon, Everyday Democracy, New Hampshire
• Ashley Amaka Okwuazi, Manchester Public Schools, Connecticut
• Tauheeda Jackson, Institute for Educational Leadership, Connecticut
• Chanda Womack, ARISE, Rhode Island
• Karla Vigil, Equity Institute, Rhode Island
• Christine Nold, Tuttle Middle School, Vermont
• Infinite Culcleasure, Voices for Vermont’s Children, Vermont
• Judy Dow, Gedakina, Vermont and Maine
• Jean-Luc Pierite, North American Indian Center of Boston, Massachusetts
• Micaela Arena, Manchester Public Schools, Connecticut
• Davyon Clark, Manchester Public Schools, Connecticut
• Naomi Felix Monanci, ARISE, Rhode Island
• Gabrielle Oulette, ARISE, Rhode Island
• Khaiya Proeung, ARISE, Rhode Island
• Dara Song, Manchester Public Schools, Connecticut