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LEAD Participants and Alumni

LEAD Institute is an opportunity to engage with a dynamic and inspiring network of alumni in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties. 

 Activities help alumni to stay connected, continue learning, and renew energy for leadership growth. 

 Recent alumni activities include: reunions by class, professional development and peer coaching. 

2024 LEAD Institute Participants

  • A. Augusto Rivera-Gutierrez, Director of Development & Compliance, YWCA Monterey County
  • Alisa Smith, Philanthropic Services Officer, Community Foundation for Monterey County
  • Azucena Barrios, Education Lead Organizer, Building Healthy Communities of Monterey County
  • Eric Mora, President, Salinas Valley Pride Celebrations
  • Francesca Marietti, Advocate Supervisor/ Transitional Age Youth Specialist, CASA of Monterey County
  • Jamelle Jones, Program Coordinator, The Village Project Inc.
  • Kari Martorella, Home Delivered Meals Manager, Meals on Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula
  • Kayshla Lopez, Homeless Services Manager, City of Salinas
  • Marissa Serna, Program Director, Youth Arts Collective
  • Maya Sedillo, Administrator, Healing and Reconciliation Institute
  • Richelle Santoya, Executive Director, Epicenter of Monterey
  • Ritika Kumar, Founder/ CEO, Art Abilities
  • Rosa Torres, Housing Operations Manager, Interim, Inc.
  • Bertha Perez, Program Manager, Youth Alliance
  • Abby Newman, Program Manager, O’Neill Sea Odyssey
  • Evyn Robles, Director of Campus and Housing, Housing Matters
  • Marlo Botello-Aepli, Executive Director, UnChained
  • Micha Scott, Executive and Artistic Director, Tannery World Dance and Cultural Center (TWDCC)
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  • 2nd Chance Family and Youth Services (Laura Tinajero)
  • Access Support Network (Daniela Mejia & Paris De La Rosa)
  • Ag Land Trust (Virginia Jameson)
  • ALBA (Andrea Tinajero)
  • Alliance on Aging (Jody Rogers)
  • Alisal Center for the Fine Arts (Javier Tamayo, Willow Aray & Juan Carlos Gonzalez)
  • ARIEL Theatrical (Samantha Barnes)
  • Arts Council for Monterey County (Berniz House, Erin Lyman)
  • Building Healthy Communities – East Salinas (Carmen Gil)
  • California Breastfeeding Coalition (Robbie Gonzalez-Dow)
  • Camp SEA Lab (Amity Wood)
  • The Carmel Foundation (Aimee Cuda, Kimberly Willison)
  • CASA of Monterey County (Teressa Jimenez & Maria Perez-Zamora)
  • Center for Community Advocacy (Natalie Herendeen)
  • Central Coast Center for Independent Living (Maria Magaña)
  • Central Coast HIV/AIDS Services (Katie Murphy)
  • Central Coast YMCA: South County Branch (Leti Bocanegra)
  • CHISPA (Jonathan Bohorquez, Ruth Rodriguez)
  • CSUMB (Rene Casas)
  • Coalition of Homeless Services Providers (Jocelyn Brady & Genevieve Lucas-Conwell)
  • Community Foundation for Monterey County (Aurelio Salazar, Jr.)
  • Community Homeless Solutions (Priscilla Ortega)
  • Community Human Services (Jennifer Hazen, Lenina Sanchez, Rob Rapp & Valerie Catania)
  • Community Partnership for Youth (Benjamin Bruce & Jorge Torres)
  • Door to Hope (Denise Felix, Patterson Emesibe)
  • Elkhorn Slough Foundation (Taylor Honrath)
  • Environmental Justice Coalition for Water (May Nguyen & Vicente Lara)
  • Everyone’s Harvest (Iris Diana Jehle-Peppard)
  • Family Connections – MPUSD/First 5 (Jan Phillips Paulsen)
  • First 5 Monterey County (David Dobrowski)
  • First Methodist Church in Salinas (Cindy Storrs)
  • Food Bank for Monterey County (Melissa Hartman)
  • Gateway Center (Amy Wright)
  • Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast (Gina Silva)
  • Goodwill Central Coast (Richard Cheatham)
  • Greenfield Community Science Workshop (José Sánchez)
  • Hartnell College Foundation (Priscilla Amao)
  • HOPE Services (Greg Dinsmore)
  • Housing Resource Center of Monterey County (Alexa Johnson, Jennifer Rego)
  • Independent Transportation Network Monterey County (Cheryl Tsuchiura)
  • INTERIM, INC (Victoria Jimenez, Sandra Peña, Idalia Matthews, Alejandro Amezcua, Carolina Cortez, Christina Barnes, Carmen Torres, Lara Stahl, Lisa Corpuz, Judith Gonzalez, Maritza Allen & Manuel Hernandez)
  • iResult, LLC (Niña Magsaysay Rosete)
  • Legal Services for Seniors (Philip M. Geiger)
  • The Literacy Campaign for Monterey County (M. Crystal Macias-Diaz)
  • Loaves Fishes & Computers, Inc. (Elizabeth Panetta & Jacqueline Leon)
  • Lyceum (Joyce Breckenridge)
  • Mandell Gisnet Center for Conflict Management (Isabel Bjork)
  • Meals on Wheels of the Salinas Valley, Inc. (Claudia Aguilera)
  • MEarth (Juliet Pool)
  • MILPA Collective (Elias Gonzales)
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium (Karin Stratton, Ava Ferguson & Ileana Ortega Brunetti, Jennifer Rigney)
  • Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust (Melissa Mahoney)
  • Monterey County Office of Education (Jennifer Suttie; Head Start and Early Head Start Isabel Valtierra)
  • Monterey County Rape Crisis Center (Nicole Irigoyen, Nina Alcaraz)
  • Monterey Peninsula Foundation (Hana Kong)
  • Natividad Foundation (Lisa Rico)
  • Osio Theater (Tommy Pieper, Brandi Lamb)
  • Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History (Ann Wasser)
  • The Parenting Connection of Monterey County (Jaimee De Pompeo)
  • Parents’ Place, Pacific Grove Adult School, PGUSD (Elizabeth Olney)
  • Partnership for Children (Jennifer Ramirez)
  • Peacock Acres (Nathan Jones)
  • Point Lobos Foundation (Anna Patterson)
  • Rancho Cielo Youth Campus, Inc. (Cecilia Romero, Trish Alcocer & Elizabeth Jimenez)
  • The Read to Me Project (Kirstin van Gend)
  • Restorative Justice Partners, Inc. (Jennie Burciaga)
  • Return of the Natives Restoration and Education Project (Emily Howard)
  • Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation (Sheri Massolo)
  • The Salvation Army, Service Extension (Amelia Gomez)
  • Shelter Outreach Plus (Leticia Bejarano)
  • Sol Treasures (Jeff Hinderscheid)
  • Soledad Unified School District (Cristina Sotelo)
  • Special Kids Crusade (Laura Harris)
  • Sun Street Centers (Chris Graveline, John Bokanovich, Marciano Huerta & Eddie Hathcock)
  • Turning Point of Central California (Pearl Sanchez)
  • United Way Monterey County (Clare Margason, Kate Mitchell Mehle & Mayra Perez)
  • Ventana Wilderness Alliance (Mike Chamberlain)
  • Veterans Transition Center of California (Tessa Wise)
  • The Village Project, Inc. (Stacie Andrews)
  • Volunteer Center (Gilda Estrada)
  • Youth Arts Collective (Jesse Juarez)
  • Youth Music Monterey County (Vanisha Evans Douvon)
  • Youth Orchestra Salinas (Michael Gomez)
  • YWCA Monterey County (Germaine Esquivel)
  • BenitoLink (Laura Romero)
  • CASA of San Benito County (Esther Curtice)
  • Chamberlain’s Children Center, Inc. (Krystal Jones, Gracie Lucatero & Patrick Ellis)
  • Community Foundation for San Benito County (Salina Chacon & Raul Ceja)
  • Community Solutions (Vanessa Garcia)
  • Community Vision San Benito Co. (Colleen Johnson)
  • Emmaus House (Mary Lou Coffelt)
  • Live Like Geno Foundation (Tenille Ramirez)
  • Pinnacles Partnership (Rochelle Fischer)
  • San Benito County Farm Bureau (Mindy Sotelo)
  • United Way of San Benito (Vicki Fortino)
  • Youth Alliance (Rodrigo Jimenez, Zenedith Espinoza & Anthony Lopez)
  • Arts Council Santa Cruz County (Megan Searcy & Nabil Ghachem)
  • Break Away College Access Project (Carol Schimke)
  • Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Jessica Frye)
  • Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County Inc. (Juan Luis Romero & Mireya Gomez-Contreras)
  • Community Restoration Project (Javier Diaz)
  • The Shelter Project (Norma Sanchez)
  • Community Alliance with Family Farmers (Kathryn Spencer)
  • Community Bridges
  • Beach Flats Community Center (Reyna Ruiz)
  • La Manzana Community Resources (­­­Gabriela López Chávez)
  • Creative Muse Collective (Terri Steinmann)
  • The Diversity Center for Santa Cruz County (Emilio Barajas)
  • Easter Seals Central California (Stephanie Flores & Stella Lauerman)
  • El Pajaro CDC (Amy Mascareñas)ç
  • Encompass Community Services (Maria Sanchez & Leigh Guerrero)
  • Habitat for Humanity Monterey Bay (Beth Bowman)
  • Health Improvement Partnership (Haley Mears)
  • Homeless Garden Project (Darrie Ganzhorn)
  • Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services (Alexandra Dami)
  • Mesa Verde Gardens (Ana Rasmussen)
  • Monarch Services (Maria Barranco)
  • Museo Eduardo Carillo (Betsy Andersen)
  • Pajaro Valley Arts (Norma Villaron & Brianna Flores)
  • Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance, Inc. (Silvia Diaz)
  • Positive Discipline Community Resources (Stephanie Baron Lu)
  • Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County (Lea Haratani)
  • Salud Para La Gente (Laura Cuadros, Raphael Cendejas, Iliana Cuadros, Dail Vannerus, Michelle De Anda, Rosalba Contreras, Rachel Sandobal & Theresa Merendon)
  • Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (Helen Aldana, Diana Kapsner)
  • Save Our Shores (Ginaia Kelly)
  • Tandy Beal & Company (Jennifer Radakovich)
  • Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County
  • Community Connection (Ivan Meza, Maribel Alvarez, Mark Vasquez, Jodie Wells, Salina Nevarez & Uriel Mendoza)
  • Watsonville Film Festival (Consuelo Alba-Speyer)
  • Watsonville Science Workshop (Darren Gertler)
  • The Watsonville Law Center (Adriana Melgoza, Monica Pereira & Henry Martin)
  • Watsonville Volunteer Center (Blanca Carrillo)
  • Watsonville Wetlands Watch (Jonathan Pilch)
  • Women’s Crisis Support – Defensa de Mujeres (Lucila Sanchez)
  • YWCA of Watsonville (Kimberly Garcia Contreras, Emelia Leon)

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