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2018Celebrating 20 Years of Confident Girls
A Look Back 1998-2018
1998 was the year that Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated a little company called Google, Bill Clinton was impeached, Viagra was approved by the FDA, and Harry Potter was published in the United States.
It was also the year that I invited a group of friends and colleagues over to my rental on 1599 Sunset Plaza Drive.
We hatched Step Up while sitting on my living room floor; the name jumped out at us from the pages of a J. Crew catalogue – “STEP UP for spring.”
We were so young - entertainment industry professionals wanting to use our skills and access to media for something beyond ourselves.
While I am proud to have the official title of ‘founder,’ the reality is I was more of a catalyst and then subsequently the glue. The ‘founders’ of Step Up are numerous.
In the beginning, we had no idea what we were doing - but we had a really good time doing it!
Our fundraisers were varied in locale, venue and substance.
Thanks to technology, for better or for worse, our world is a radically different one than two decades ago.
But the conscious-raising movements over this last year have reminded us all something those of us gathered in my living room 20 whole years ago already knew: women who band together can indeed make a difference.
One word comes to mind when I reflect on our 20 years of service - and that word is “hope,” as we look to the next 20 years.
On behalf of the organization and especially our teens, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
— Step Up Founder Kaye Popofsky Kramer
A Look Back 1998-2018
Thank You to Our Founding Board
Adriana Alberghetti
Vanassa Alexander
Dara Cohen
Marina Glass
Paige Golberg
Amy Guenther
Lisa Hallerman
Erica Huggins
Pam Kohl
JJ Klein
Nancy Mendelson
Lisa Moiselle
Liza Anne Oestreich
Kaye Popofsky
Dawn Saltzman
Nelie Shah
Dannielle Thomas
Lori Zuker
Thank You to Our Founding Members
Laurie Arent
Rowena Arguelles
Debora Bergman
Stacey Boniello
Sara Bottfeld
Robbie Brenner
Melissa Bretz
Julia Buchwald
Stephanie Comer
Katherine Dalli
Naomi Despres
Anne Marie Donoghue
Channing Dungey
Lara Ebersole
Shana Eddy
Cornelia Frame
Jenny Fritz
Suzanne Fritz
Christine Fugatti
Amy Giangardella
Julie Guzman
Shauna Hellewell
Kristen Jones
Leslie Klotz
Danielle Knight
Jo Levi
Kristen March
Robyn Meisenger
Andrea Nelson
Nicole Pfeffer
Paula Reeve
Madeline Ryan
Erin Simon
Lainie Sorkin
Lisa Stolper
Tiffany Wagner
Julie Wixon
Heather Zeegan
Step Up’s Impact
As the organization celebrated 20 years of confident girls, we look back at Step Up teens and alumnae who confidently shared their stories.
INSPIRATION AWARDS TEEN HONOREE
Viviana, Step Up Class of 2018
“As young as 4-years-old, I had my confidence just completely shattered by someone in my family who was supposed to make me feel loved and wanted. As a result, I became so afraid to talk to people and developed this habit of wearing a mask. At a young age, we are taught that crying is weak; showing any type of emotion is weak; that we must suck it up, like a “man.” So every time I wanted to cry I would do one of two things: hide somewhere and cry, or act like I was fine. I would never talk to someone about how I truly felt.
As time went on, wearing a mask became so easy for me and it wasn’t until I was in middle school that I began to see the consequences. It started off with me crying for no reason. I would make up any story I could think of at the moment, “it’s cause my stomach hurts. I don’t feel well. I got into a fight with my best friend.” Whatever I could think of that would not make me sound crazy. I didn’t know what was going on with me. I figured it’s probably nothing; it’s just a phase, so I ignored it and brushed it off.
Sophomore year of high school, I began getting panic and anxiety attacks in school, making it difficult to fully focus in class. The thought of being at home, left with my thoughts and feelings made me depressed. I felt imprisoned like a caged bird, like I was drowning and I couldn’t breathe. In addition to not feeling emotionally safe, I didn’t feel physically safe at home. I remember helping my next door neighbor, Israel, with his math homework when all of a sudden we hear gunshots being fired. However, the gunshots were not what threw us off, considering the fact that we hear those all the time, It was how loud the gunshots sounded, as if they were right outside my door. I got up and peeked through the blinds of my window, and I see this semi-bald man wearing a white muscle shirt, black pants, walking right outside the fence on the sidewalk with a gun in his hands. My friend comes to check, and I push him to the ground, telling him “duck, he has a gun.” I asked Israel, “What do we do?” He replied, “Call the police!” I rushed to the phone, and I called 911.
The blind in my room is still missing, and I remember how I was afraid to do my homework at my desk by the window. I thought that the
gang members were going to be searching for me since I was the one who called the police. I remember how I would get a panic attack in bed when I heard fireworks go off because the sound reminded me so much of that day.
And then one day this amazing organization for girls called Step Up came to my school. I decided that enough was enough, so I took a leap of faith and joined. And let me tell you, it was one of the best decisions of my entire life.
Sophomore year, as a person who felt alone, Step Up provided a safe place for me to open up, talk about what I was feeling and not have to worry about being judged by others. It was a like our own little support group in which I was finally able to build the confidence to reach out for help from family and professionals. During junior year of high school, because the same girls were still in Step Up, we grew closer and closer, learning more about each other, telling each other stuff we wouldn’t share outside of Step Up about our struggles, what we’ve gone through, and how we’ve dealt with it. Step Up has provided me with people I can turn to when I felt lost, people I can turn to for advice whether a mentor, facilitator, or my very own Step Up sisters. Step Up provided me with a family, something I felt was I was losing at home.
However, I began to get extremely busy with school and made the huge mistake of not going to my therapy sessions anymore. My depression and anxiety came back stronger than ever. It got to the point where I would pray every night that I would not wake up the next morning. The only thing keeping me alive at this point was the fear of God. One day, I was given the opportunity to go to a Step Up event that would include a mystery special guest. I knew in my heart that
it would be someone who would a lot to me. On March 23, 2017, for the first time in a while, I was excited to wake up and prepare for the day I had been waiting for my entire life, the day I met Selena Gomez. The moment Selena, my all-time hero, walked in the room, I cried because I regained hope and realized that I didn’t want to die any time soon, but I wanted to live to change someone’s life for the better, the way Selena did mine.
Now as a Step Up senior in the Young Luminaries program and as a Step Up ambassador, I’ve gotten the pleasure to help our sophomore girls throughout their journey every week. I am able to take what my mentors have taught me over the years and pass it down to my sophomore girls. When I look at them, I see myself when I was their age, going through what I’ve gone through. It makes me happy knowing that I get to be that sisterly figure they turn to when they need advice.
In this way, Step Up has helped me learn to help other people, and is preparing me for my future. This fall, I will be attending UC Riverside, and in 20 years I hope to be a clinical psychologist. Throughout my journey, I’ve learned that being strong doesn’t mean putting on a façade but allowing yourself to be vulnerable. As a result, I came to the conclusion that I wanted to help others on their journey who may be struggling with their own mental health. I want people to realize that it’s okay not being okay; that they are not alone and there are millions of other people going through the same thing.
Sometimes us teenagers feel like our whole world is falling apart, but all it takes are amazing and powerful woman like you to give us a hand and make us feel like we got this. Thank you.”
SHINE & DINE ALUMNA HONOREE
English, Step Up Class of 2014
“As a teen, I was involved in Step Up during my entire high school career, 2010 through 2014. Recently, I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I reflect on how we often use moments like graduation to compare our success and failures to others. I thought I was only confident when I was winning, and I could post my success story on social media or talk about it with my peers. However, I realize that my confidence is much more than the successes in my life, it’s my ultimate survival technique.
Thinking about my journey to Step Up, it all started in my high school’s journalism room. The other Schurz HS Step Up teens and I were eating pizza when a teen program facilitator, Shannon Matesky, came into the room and started spittin’
bars. My first experience seeing someone do spoken word live was what made me commit to not only Step Up, but my undying love for poetry and words. Poetry gave me a reason to want to be great at something. Accompanied with my mom and family’s support, I realized that I wanted to commit to excellence and be a person with purpose. It was then when I recognized that I had the confidence to get through high school. Let’s be real, high school for some is not easy. Many people I graduated with were the first in their families to graduate high school. Many students from my high school, myself included, were also the first to go to college. I think having the mindset of being driven and confident in spaces where it is not common for people like me, being a woman of color, to excel, is an act of survival. You have to be the best at what you do in all aspects to get your chance at a life of comfort. My journey to success is powered by confidence.
However, I do realize that you should not tie your self-worth to success in general. There is a lot of personal growth that made me feel worthy in times where I did not do well or when I was not as successful. Most of it was academic, because I have been in school majority of my life. I realized that it is not all about being smart. Sometimes I found myself being confident and brave in spaces that were created to keep me inferior. Especially when I started college, because as a young Black woman, I learned quickly to work twice as hard and not shy away from something because no one in that space looks like me. On top of the school work and extracurricular activities, I had to reaffirm (to others mostly) that I was qualified to be there. My survival technique, confidence, allowed me to excel despite the turbulence in art and creativity. In accepting mentorship and guidance, I felt unwaveringly independent.
College for me wasn’t all about sleepless nights in the undergraduate library, the freshman 15, 9AM classes and 11:59PM deadlines. College for me was performing at open mic nights and WORD concerts, helping my residents through some of the most difficult times in their lives, and making friends and mistakes that I will remember and cherish for a lifetime. Most of all, college was a defining moment for me and my personal definition of confidence. I learned the art of being confident by being one of the only Black women in my minor classes, by having honest conversations about femininity and being a womanist with my best friend (who studied gender and women studies and agrees that we should never argue with men for free), and by dissecting my notions of the world one conversation and experience at a time.
I felt more confident when I walked back into a class after I failed an econ exam. I knew that this class was not going to define me in the future. (I also knew I had no interest in the exciting life of being an economist.) I walked back into that class, eager to learn how to be better. Because of that, I felt more confident walking into a class I was struggling in than I did when I walked into a class I received high marks from because I knew I had to work hard to survive it. I felt more confident when I got denial letters from on-campus organizations and job offers. After every “no,” I evaluated what my true passion was and sought to accomplish it in other ways. Whether that means applying my abilities to a different positions to get what I want, at the end of the day, every “no” gave me more room and opportunity to pursue my future “yes’s” and “congratulations!” I felt more confident with my personal journal, where I got express myself without filtering it for public consumption, than
I did when I performed something out loud in front of an audience. I learned that my confidence was not always exclusive to when my life is comfortable. My confidence, however, is always tied to my ability to get through hard times that often prompted insecurity and self-doubt.
When I was a Step Up teen, I was confident and college-bound. Today, I am confident and degreed from one of the best universities in the nation. Whenever there is a day I feel uninspired and down, I know that my confidence has many forms, and I am anticipating a burst of it soon. My mom, my sisters, my best friends and organizations like Step Up each aided in my ability to feel confident enough every day. They taught patience by being survivors and courageous in times of trouble. Most of all, they taught me how to be sisterly because we are always leaning on one another when we need that boost of confidence (with an occasional “yassss”).
Even though I graduated from Step Up over four years ago, the lessons I learned about confidence and resilience, and the support I received and continue to receive from Step Up mentors, aided me in my journey. To think it all started in my high school’s journalism room, then an internship through Step Up at Diversity MBA my junior year of high school. My confidence got me my degree and my internships. One day, my confidence will push me to enroll in law school and practice family law. My confidence will give me more real world experiences that will fuel my passion for people, public service, and creating a change in the communities where I grew up. If there is one thing I am sure of, more than anything, it is that both triumphs and challenges have given me 22,
almost 23 years of confidence!”
POWER HOUR ALUMNA HONOREE
Chanel, Step Up Class of 2018
“The Chanel today is nothing like the 9th grader who started coming to Step Up four years ago. That Chanel had been in The Young Women’s Leadership School of the Bronx since the 6th grade, and thought she had everything figured out. Her main focus was having a good laugh with her friends. She wasn’t really into trying new things, was a little judgmental and sometimes could be known for her attitude. I still don’t know what the attitude was all about, but it was definitely there.
I’m grateful to Step Up for growing with me in the past four years. Step Up has exposed me to people, experiences and opportunities I probably would not have had if they had not supported me and seen my potential.
One of my favorite Step Up field trips was when we got to visit to Coach’s headquarters in the 10th grade. I walked into that building, and I was amazed. I had no idea that Coach had their headquarters in New York City and that the company had such a long history. While we were there, we got to talk with lots of different women who worked there. I felt really special to be sitting across from people who actually designed the bags that I’d see in magazines and in stores. Later, I spoke with someone on the finance team, and later someone in marketing. All these different people, with very different jobs, worked for this brand. Toward the end of the visit, we had to choose a bag and create a pitch for it. It was a lot of fun, and I never knew that pitching was a job, or that you could work in fashion even if you were not a designer. It was there that I first got interested in marketing.
Last year, was probably one of my favorite years at Step Up. There were so many corporate field trips, and I
met so many great people. In May, 11th-graders were invited to a Saturday session that focused on preparing us to interview for summer internships and take professional headshots. While waiting to get my makeup done for my headshots, I met a bunch of girls who went to Step Up at different schools and everyone was so nice. I really did feel like I was part of a sisterhood, even though we all went to different schools, we were all getting this experience together. Earlier in the year, I went on a college tour to Sienna College and really liked it. During the Step Up session, I was paired with a mentor who actually attended Sienna. I got to ask her tons of questions about the school, and her answers really solidified me wanting to go. Right now, Sienna is pretty high on my list of colleges—so please, keep your fingers crossed for me.
There were so many cool companies I had the chance to visit, but meeting the mentors was always the best part. I just remember always leaving those trips thinking, “Wow. That job sounds pretty cool.” I feel like I’d leave one trip, and be completely decided on a career and then go another, and realize I actually want to do something totally different.
But that’s one of the best things about
Step Up. I’ve realized that there are so
many different journeys that can lead
to success. You just need to believe in
yourself, and show up for yourself and
you’ll get there.
So I told you a little about 9th grade
Chanel. The Chanel in front you,
actually loves meeting new people
and finding out what they do. I also
love trying new foods, which I can
thank Step Up for, too. Actually, at
this very event last year, I tried tomato
basil mozzarella bruschetta for the
first time. It’s delicious, where has this
combo been my whole life? But back
to Chanel. Clearly, I love trying new
foods. But I also know how to ask for
help to solve problems, and I’m not
afraid of getting things wrong on my
first try. Right now, I’m super interested
in economics, and learning about
how social systems work, but I feel
like a career in media could be in my
future. Whichever way, I know that I’ll
be successful, and I’ll be able to thank
these past four years for much of it.
Thank you Step Up, for showing me
what it looks like to show up for myself,
and believing in me.”
Step Up’s Impact
2018 BY THE NUMBERS
3307 number of hours of Step Up programming offered during 2018
3045 number of hours of Step Up after-school programming offered
1950 teens enrolled in Step Up
728 number of girls paired with mentors at one of Step Up’s mentorship conferences
128 number of seniors in the Step Up Class of 2018
126 number of hours of Step Up Young Luminaries programming offered to Step Up seniors
93 number of Step Up programs held this year
76 percent of teens who report feeling more career-focused after a year of Step Up
73 percent of teens who report feeling more confident after a year of Step Up
71 percent of teens who report feeling better prepared for college after a year of Step Up
70 number of hours of mentorship offered at Step Up mentorship conferences
66 number of hours of career exploration mentorship offered on Step Up’s Pathways to Professions corporate field trips
33 number of Pathways to Professions corporate field trips
29 number of Step Up partner high schools
17 number of seniors placed in summer internships through Step Up
14 number of Step Up-hosted mentorship conferences
PARTNERS
$1,000,000+Coach Foundation
$200,000+Benefit Cosmetics
Oath Foundation
$100,000+Anonymous Donor
$50,000+ArcelorMittal
JCPenney Communities Foundation
NBCUniversal
Plum Spring Foundation
$25,000+Allstate Insurance Company
American Airlines
Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation
Ernst & Young LLP
Eva Longoria Foundation
Exelon
Good American
Ketchum
KPMG
MJK Family Foundation
Pepsico
The Container Store
Trunk Club
ULTA Beauty
US Bank
Young Women’s Leadership Network
$10,000+
24 Seven Talent
Accenture
Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP
Cali’flour Foods
C’est Moi
Cinema Giants
CSP Foundation
Disney/ABC Television Group
Finkelstein Foundation
First Data
Frog Crossing Foundation Inc.
GE
Group M
Hulu
IT Cosmetics
Kendra Scott
Lockton
Marketo
Media Monks
Media Temple
PARTNERS
Michael Stars, Inc.
Neutrogena
Northern Trust
Omnicom
Protiviti
PwC
Southwest Airlines
Tarte Cosmetics
The Fossil Group
The Hoglund Foundation
The John Buck Company
The Walt Disney Company Foundation
Too Faced Cosmetics
$5,000+
20th Century Fox
Aerotropolis Atlanta
AIG
Angelo Family Charitable Foundation
Aon
Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
Bill Bass Foundation
Bluestone Lane
BMO Financial Group
Boston Consulting Group
Byline Bank
Capital Group Companies
Chicago Trading Company
ComEd
Comerica Bank
Concord Music
Epsilon
Euromonitor International
Foot Locker, Inc.
Fossil Foundation
Group SJR LLC
GrubHub
Howard Hughes Corporation
ICM
IRI
Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises
Marie Keese Lelash Foundation
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
OpenSlate
Panda Restaurant Group Inc.
Prinz Law Firm
Refinery 29
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Skylar Body
Southern California Edison
Stampede
Standard Motor Products, Inc.
StartEngine
PARTNERSCONTINUED
Stout Risius Ross, Inc.
T Kendall Hunt Family Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation
The Forest Fund Inc.
The Palitz Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
The Terri & Verne Holoubek Family Foundation
TJ Maxx
Trina Turk
TrueBlue
United Talent Agency
Vedder Price
Weber Shandwick
Wells Fargo Foundation
White Horse Productions
WME
WSM Foundation
Yext
$2,500+Adina Reytor
American Express
Arbonne Charitable Foundation
Ariel Investments
At Home Group
Bandier
Billingsley Company
Brown Advisory
CAA
E! Entertainment
First Citizens Bank
Fox Rothschild LLP
HBO
Hexagon Analytics & Strategy
Holland & Knight
Jones Lang Lasalle
Lifeway Foods Inc.
McGuireWoods LLP
Mosse Foundation
New City Church
Nine-Eighteen Fine Jewelry
NiSource Inc.
Publicis Groupe
Revolutions Per Minute
Sewell BMW of Grapevine
Showpad
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity
Spotify
SPR Consulting
The American Gem Trade Association
The Benevity Community Impact Fund
U.S. Bank Foundation
Universal Pictures
Ziffren Brittenham LLP
PARTNERSCONTINUED
LEADERSHIP
NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORSCHAIR Barri Rafferty, CEO North America and partner, Ketchum
Marnie Kain Cacossa - EVP, Grey GroupTamika Chambers
Margaret Coady, executive director, Coach Foundation and Corporate Social Responsibility, Coach, Inc.Erin Collins, managing director, KPMG LLP
Leslie DeHoff, partner, EYAngela Elbert, partner, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, LLP
Heather Foster, VP, Finn PartnersDiane Holland, global chief financial officer, POSSIBLE
Sara Holoubek, CEO, Luminary LabsTodd Kahn, president and chief administrative officer, Coach Inc.
Kaye Popofsky Kramer, founder, Step UpKeli Lee, EVP, talent and casting, ABC Entertainment Group
Sara Link, head of Citizen AOL, president, AOL Charitable FoundationMolly Luetkemeyer, principal, M. Design Interiors
Jenni Luke, CEO, Step UpKelley Schadt, director of marketing, The Container Store
Cindy SobelWendi Sturgis, EVP, Sales and Service, Yext
Marcy Twete, director, ArcelorMittal FoundationMaria Walker, global lead partner, private equity, KPMG
SUPPORTERS$5,000+
Alex Meneses
Andrya Smith
Anonymous Donor
Anonymous Donor
Channing Dungey
Chris Rock
Christy DeMott
Cindy Sobel
Courtney Kivowitz
Danielle Sanchez-Witzel
Diane Holland
Eniko Hart
Gretchen Wolf
Jessica Goodman
Leila Shin
Margie Moreno
Maria Walker
Mark & Lynda Coffman
Megan Wolfe
Molly Luetkemeyer
Nicole Townsend
Steve Idoux
Todd Kahn
$2,500+
Angela Elbert
Annette Lilly
Ashley Forman
Beth Spurgeon
Blair Rich
Carolyn Rumer
Cecelia Largura
Dana Hall
Diane Reichenberger
Donna Brickell
Erica Messer
Erin Collins
Gina Judge
Jennifer Traff
Jessica McLaughlin
Jill Simonson Luciano
Joan Kupersmith Larkin
Karen French
Kathy Ford
Kaye Popofsky Kramer
Kelly Hanker
Lauren Klein
Maggie Neuwald
Marcy Twete
Maria Salcedo
Melissa Mann
Michelle Aragon
Nancy Carell
Nicole Durham
Peg Rowe
Piyush Chaudhari
Sara Holoubek
Stephanie Kensicki
Susanna Felleman
Tara Crimin
Tara Simon
$1,000+
Adriana Alberghetti
Alethea Hannemann
Alison Deyette
Amie Luke
Ana Perez
Andi Ohl Garten
Andrea Carter
Angela Wright
Anna Tom
Anne Sissel
Annette Moore
Argelia Velasco
Arla Lach
Baaba Holland
Barbara Allen-Watkins
Barri Rafferty
Bernard Judge
Beth Cofsky
Beth Perry
Brittany Hveem
Bruce Slovin
Catherine Mayone
Chaqueva Robinson
Christine Palkovic
Clare and Warren Dern
Danielle Barrett
Danielle Garcia
David Rafferty
Dawn Jackson Blatner
Deborah Mack
Diane Mizota
Eileen Dordek
Ela Choina
Elizabeth Malone
Elizabeth McCune
Elizabeth Naftali
Elizabeth Watters Roberts
Emily Milman
Engrid Pitts-Smith
Eowyn Ford
Erin Crawford
Erin Mandel
Frans Vermeulen
Gabriela Neves
Garnesha Ezediaro
Gauri Chawla
Gillian Bar
Gina Kiefer
Hilary Smith
Imani Daniel
Jackie Smith
Jaclyn Bivins
Jamie Kogan
SUPPORTERS
Jan Coonley
Jana Augsberger
Jane McCart
Janet Marzett
Jared Hall
Jazmine Gonzalez
Jeanne Elfant Festa
Jenna Karadbil
Jennifer Blair
Jennifer Cavanuagh
Jennifer Romans
JoAnna Foyle
Joe Lucas
Judith Meguire
Julie Darmody
Julieta LaMalfa
Karl and Laura Slovin
Kate Baxter
Kate Burian
Kathi Seifert
Kathryn Brtko
Kathy Morris
Katie Rak
Katie Smith
Katrina Craigwell
Keith Granet
Kim Burgan
Kimberly AuBuchon
Kira Copperman
Kiran Pinto
Kristen Prinz
Lacey Chabert
Lee Rierson and Hadley Rierson
Linda Sweet
Lindsey Padgett
Lisa Karp
Liz O’Connor
Liz Rank
Lizabeth Kohler
Lois Buwalda
Lori Kozak
Louisa Shipnuck
Lucy Billingsley
Lynette Jones
Madeline Loef
Margaret Coady
Maria Vermeulen
Marietta Daniel
Marina Cohn
Mark Harrison
Marnie Kain Cacossa
Marnie Owens
Marquel Reddish
Maureen Lippe
Max Carmona
Maya Brenner
Meghan Sporleder
Melanie Barr-Levey
Melissa Hartman
Melody Rose
Meredith Hampton
Merle Dandridge
Michelle Weiss
Mike & John August
Mitch Smelkinson
Naana Grant-Acquah
Nami Choe
Nancy Rizzuto
Nicole Wetzell
Patricia Neuwirth
Paul Nelson
Philline Parlan Zitin
Prama Bhatt
Rachel Begun
Rebecca Bacon
Rebecca Weigman
Rob Flaherty
Robin Faerber
Roger French
Rose Ann Abraham
Sally Lou Loveman
Serena Cervantes
Shay Bahramirad
Shayna Cook
Shelby Parnes
Shelly DeMott
Soma Gupta
Stacee Hasenbalg
Stacy Wabeke
Sunnnie Givens
Susan Genco
Susan Healy
Susie Shaw-Hammesfahr
Suzanne Lerner
Suzanne O’Donnell
Tara Kaesebier
Thomas South
Torrey Littlejohn
Tracy DeFreitas
Tracy Preston
Vanessa Colman
Vanessa Martinez
Vanessa Salinas Beckstrom
Walter Z. Falconer
Wendi Sturgis
William French
Yotam Ariav
Zenola Campbell
CONTINUED
STAFF
Jenni Luke, chief executive officer
Nickie Acero, manager, data strategy, teen programs
Jane Baron, teen programs facilitator
Kate Baxter, executive director
Nya Brooks, teen programs facilitator
Benita Brown, teen programs facilitator
Jenny Camacho, teen programs facilitator
Jessica Champness, VP, development
Leslie Cortez, teen programs facilitator
Briana Crowe, teen programs facilitator
Tiera Diaz, teen programs manager
Amanda Flores, development and events manager
Hollis Heath, senior manager, teen programs
Jennifer Hernandez, teen programs facilitator
Lubna Hindi, manager, individual giving
Margaret Humphries, teen programs facilitator
Jamie Kogan, director of development
Allison Leanos, senior manager, communications
Sofia Lilly, teen programs manager
Venus Devnani McClelland, chief operating officer
Mara Meyers, teen programs facilitator
Kendal Phelps, teen programs facilitator
Stephanie Ponce, teen programs facilitator
Jessica Smith, development and events manager
Katherine Sutton, organizational services coordinator
Cordelia Tullous, executive director
Kia Whitney, senior manager, teen programs
Erica Wynn, teen programs facilitator
Alissa Zito, VP, communications
FINANCIALS
Programs
79%($3,157,760)
Fundraising & Development
10%($415,275)
Administrative
11% ($442,267)
EXPENSES $4,015,302
Donations
36%($1,558,979)
Special Events
23%($1,003,110)
Grants
40%($1,747,516)
Interest & Dividends
1%($18,838)
INCOME $4,328,443
Inspiration Awards
14%($35,919)
Power Hour
7%($17,500)
Shine & Dine
14%($35,700)
Other
64%($159,734)
IN KIND $248,853
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