Our Team
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.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
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, Dominguez Hills
- Sudhakar V. Shenoy, Alyx Technologies, Inc.
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Executive Leadership
Gordon McNeill
President and CEO
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” Warren Buffet
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
“Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do so by helping others wherever possible.” Dalai Lama
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
Michelle Bemis
Vice President, Events & Experience, TGR Live
““THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT YOUR FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.”” ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Mike Antolini
Vice President, Championships, TGR Live
““LIFE MOVES FAST. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN LEARN FROM YOUR HISTORY, YOU HAVE TO MOVE FORWARD.” ” EDDIE VEDDER
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TGR Learning Lab
Gyla Bell
Senior Director, Programs, TGR Learning Lab
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
Eric Moore
Senior Director, Digital Programs
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” Robert Bresson
Jason Porter
Director, TGR EDU: Create, Educator Professional Development
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie
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
Holly Dennard
Senior Manager, Programs
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
Jessica Kesler
Professional Development Facilitator
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X
Hope Enyart
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saki Hashimoto
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“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
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Confucius
Christian Pinedo
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.” Walt Disney
Ashley Sutherland
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“When your life is on course with its purpose, you are your most powerful.” Oprah Winfrey
Trinh Tran
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“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
Andrés Cuamani
Learning Facilitator
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” Gabriel García Márquez
Tarica Jackson
Student Support Manager
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man Luong
Part-Time Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” Joseph Campbell
Jose Rivera
Volunteer Coordinator, TGR Learning Lab
“With great power comes great responsibility.” Voltaire
Carmen Gonzalez
Administrative Assistant, TGR Learning Lab
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky
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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
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
Leila Villacorta
Program Coordinator
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton
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Finance & Administration
Joe Hsu
Director, IT
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
Mike Stevens
Financial Analyst Director
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” John Wooden
Logan Lamson
Office Manager
“As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him...we need not wait to see what others do.” Mahatma Gandhi
Bintu Njie
Office Manager
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
Kristy Hwang
Administrative Assistant
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” Walt Whitman
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Fund Development
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
“Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.” Brené Brown
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
Art Director
“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
Marketing & Communications Manager
“Work hard, pray hard and when the door opens walk through it.” Dr. John E. Forde
