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., California State University, 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
Jin Thatcher
Executive Vice President
“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
Executive Vice President
“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT YOUR FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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
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
Yvonne Tello
Director, Administration
“It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi
Holly Dennard
Director, Professional Learning
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Doug Luong
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Confucius
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
Maria Torres
Learning Facilitator, TGR EDU Create
“Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others for their sakes and for our own.” Cesar Chavez
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
Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” Joseph Campbell
Stefan Amzaroiu
Facilities Manager
“If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” Roman Price
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
Director, Programs
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” Oprah Winfrey
Alma Gutierrez
Manager, Programs
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.” Audrey Hepburn
Juan Carlos Villanueva
Manager, Programs
“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” Kobe Bryant
Leila Villacorta
Program Coordinator
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton
Andres Cuamani
Program Coordinator
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” Gabriel García Márquez
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Finance & Administration
Joe Hsu
Senior Director, IT
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
Mike Stevens
Senior Director, Financial Anaylst
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” John Wooden
Logan Lamson
Director, Executive Assistant
“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
Norma Partida
Administrative Assistant
““Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”” Maya Angelou
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Advancement
Jen Granger
Senior Director of Advancement
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” Eleanor Roosevelt
Katie Vazquez
Advancement Manager
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
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Marketing
Dana Mariotti
Director, 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
Amber Fuller
Art Director
“Design is so simple, that's why it's so complicated.” Paul Rand
Jasmine C. Tate
Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications
“Work hard, pray hard and when the door opens walk through it.” Dr. John E. Forde
Duy Mai
Graphic Designer
“I found that I could say things with color and shapes, that I couldn't say in any other way—things that I had no words for.” Georgia O'Keeffe
