Our Team
The TGR Foundation is a team of dedicated individuals who are passionate about empowering students to thrive. We are deeply committed to every student who comes through our programs, and believe that the power of education, coupled with the right resources, will ensure lifelong success.
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Executive Leadership
Rick Singer
President & CEO
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ” JFK
Katherine Bihr, Ed.D.
Vice President, Programs & Education
“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.” Socrates
Michelle S. Kim
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
“Every decision starts with the decision to try.” Unknown
Janine Ingram Koeneke
Vice President, Donor Partnerships
“Begin doing what you want to do now…we have only this moment sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.” Marie Beynon Ray
Jin Thatcher
Vice President, Operations & Administration
“A woman is like a tea bag: you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” Nancy Reagan
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TGR Learning Lab
Gyla Bell
Senior Director, Programs
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
Eric Moore
Senior Director, Programs
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” Robert Bresson
Roman Gonzales
Director, Golf
“Out of control emotions can make smart people stupid.” Byron Nelson
Jason Porter
Director, TGR EDU: Create
“Nothing in life is be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie
David Tong
Director, TGR EDU: Create
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath
Barry Christy
Senior Manager, Facilities
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” Albert Einstein
Yvonne Tello
Senior Manager, Administration
“It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi
John Foster
Senior Manager, Programs
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” Groucho Marx
Jessica Kesler
Professional Development Facilitator
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X
Holly Dennard
Lead Instructor
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
Hope Enyart
Instructor
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scott Ferguson
Instructor
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
Saki Hashimoto
Instructor
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” Steve Jobs
Doug Luong
Instructor
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Confucius
Man Luong
Instructor
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” Joseph Campbell
Ashley Sutherland
Instructor
“When your life is on course with its purpose, you are your most powerful.” Oprah Winfrey
Christian Pinedo
Instructor
“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.” Walt Disney
Trinh Tran
Instructor
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ” Viktor Frankl
Wendy Duran
Receptionist
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” Albert Einstein
Brenda Reynoso
Receptionist
“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
Nancy Sanchez
Receptionist
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ” Walt Disney
Andrés Cuamani
Academic Support
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” Gabriel García Márquez
Bryan Medina
Academic Support
“Only speak if what you are going to say is more beautiful than the silence.” Buddha
Monserrat Orozco
Academic Support
“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” Mahatma Gandhi
Ruben Triscareño
Academic Support
“The key to success is playing the hand you were dealt like it was the hand you wanted. ” Kaitlyn Walsh
Titus Wu
Golf Coordinator
“Happiness comes from experiences, not possessions.” Anonymous
Albert Maeda
Range Attendant
“The potential to make yourself a better man, that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are.” Captain Jean Luc Picard
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Earl Woods Scholar Program
Cristina Fernández
Senior Director, Programs
“In one soul, in your soul, there are resources for the world.” Emerson
Denisse Jover
Senior Manager, Programs
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Ferris Bueller
Lea Segura
Senior Manager, Programs
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” Oprah Winfrey
Alma Gutierrez
Program Coordinator
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.” Audrey Hepburn
Betsy Peña
Program Coordinator
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.” Vivian Greene
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Finance & Administration
Kelly Cheng
Director, Finance
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, 'I'm possible'!” Audrey Hepburn
Joe Hsu
Director, IT
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
Mike Stevens
Financial Analyst Manager
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” John Wooden
Ashley Bedell
Project & Administrative Associate
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” Billie Jean King
Megan Warnick
Administrative Assistant
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
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Fund Development
Abby Daniels
Foundation Relations Director
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.” Lewis Carroll
Madeline Roth
Development Coordinator
“Let us try to see things from their better side: We can complain that rose bushes have thorns or rejoice that thorn bushes have roses.” Alphonse Karr
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Marketing
Dana Mariotti
Director of Marketing
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
Reshma Melwani
Director, Programs Marketing & Communications
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver
Amber Fuller
Graphic Designer
“Design is so simple, that's why it's so complicated.” Paul Rand
Brian Valdez
Junior Graphic Designer
“Digital Design is like painting, except the paint never dies.” Neville Brody
Jasmine C. Tate
Copywriter & Communications Manager
“Work hard, pray hard and when the door opens walk through it.” Dr. John E. Forde
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
- Michael McKee, The Contrarian Group, Executive Chairman
- Sandra Barry, formerly Anaheim Unified School District
- Kenneth W. Bentley, formerly Nestle, USA
- Danny Conway, Able
- Karina Hamilton, University of California, Irvine
- Christopher J. Hubman, TGR Ventures
- Rob Light, CAA
- Edward W. Machir, formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Jonathan M. Orszag, Compass Lexecon, LLC
- Rick Singer, TGR Foundation
- Mark Steinberg, Excel Sports Management
- Leo Tucker, Northwestern Mutual
- Peter V. Ueberroth, The Contrarian Group
- Bill Woodley, Pendo Systems
- Kultida Woods, TGR Foundation
- Tiger Woods, TGR Ventures
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS
- Avery Brown, Automobile Club of Southern California
- Dennis Kuhl, Angels Baseball
- Jason S. Mooneyham, AMD
- Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
- Sudhakar V. Shenoy, Alyx Technologies, Inc.
- Todd C. Theodora, Theodora Oringher