Our Team
Staff
Nancy Lewson Kurz
Chief Executive Officer
Amy Kolz
Chief Schools Officer
Geraldeen Licurse
Chief Financial Officer
Tamara Tucker
Chief Development Officer
Jennella Young
Chief Program Officer
Esosa Ogbahon
Managing Director of Teaching and Learning
Raffaello Brown
Assistant Director of High School and College Success
Tariq Dorville
Purchasing Associate
Andrea Hill
Director of Grants and Research
Sasha Miller
Assistant Director of High School and College Success
Renato Muguercia
Technology Support Specialist
Sonia Ortiz-Gulardo
Director of Parent Engagement and Community Outreach
Joseph Sanders
Director of Data Systems
Wendy Silva
Human Resources Manager
Brian Stemmer
Director of Finance
Greg Whitten
Senior Director of External and Legal Affairs
Board
Nancy Lewson Kurz
Board Chair and CEO
Beginning with Children
Michelle Brooks
Senior Director, Treasurer
Chobani
Chris Gaulin
HealthCor Management, L.P.
Portfolio Manager
Deborah Goldfarb
Managing Director
Barclays Capital
Mychal Harrison
Managing Director
Huron Consulting Group
Eric Hoffman
Principal
Centerbridge Partners, L.P.
Kofi N. Kankam
Co-Founder and CEO
Admit.me
Marshall King
Partner
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Justin Nowell
Associate
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Carol F. Reich, Ph.D (1935-2019)
Co-Founder
Beginning with Children
Joseph H. Reich
Emeritus Board Member, Co-Founder
Beginning with Children
Founders Joe and Carol Reich
The principles we were building our school on, presented something potentially huge in education reform. These principles-parental choice, freedom to operate in a manner consistent with the needs of specific children, parent involvement, longer school days and a longer school year, merit compensation for teachers-could be a game changer for children of poverty. It was the growing sense of this possibility that re-energized us and gave us the strength to push on, for as long as necessary.
We both shared a common and basic belief: families of means can afford to send their children to private schools or relocate to an affluent neighborhood where public schools have greater resources. The poor cannot. We recoiled against this injustice. We made it our own struggle.
