Our Team
Staff
Nancy Lewson Kurz
Chief Executive Officer
Amy Kolz
Chief Schools Officer
Esosa Ogbahon
Superintendent
Geraldeen Licurse
Chief Financial Officer
Jennella Young
Chief Program Officer
Keisha Rattray
Managing Director of Teaching and Learning
Pascale Artamin
Senior Director of Operations and Compliance
Andrea Hill
Director of Grants and Research
Sonia Ortiz-Gulardo
Director of Parent Engagement and Community Outreach
Brian Stemmer
Director of Finance
Wendy Silva
Human Resources Manager
Tariq Dorville
Purchasing Associate
Sasha Miller
Assistant Director of High School and College Success
Daisy Guzmán
Program Manager
Bria Baptiste
Data and Program Coordinator
Renato Muguercia
Technology Support Specialist
DeAllen Oakley
Facilities Manager
Board
Nancy Lewson Kurz, Chair
Beginning with Children Foundation
Travis Baird
Maverick Capital Foundation
Michelle Brooks
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners
Chris Gaulin
Ashler Capital
Deborah Goldfarb
Barclays Capital
Eric Hoffman
Centerbridge Partners
Kofi N. Kankam
TRANSFRVR
Marshall King
Gibson Dunn
Erasmo Montalvan
Microsoft
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.
