Our Board

Board of Directors

Ann Stuart, Ph.D., Chair
Previous Chancellor and President of Texas Women's University

LaMonte Thomas, Vice Chair
Market President - South Central, Aetna, a CVS Health Company

Tegwin Pulley, Treasurer
Texas Director, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) Education Foundation

Whitney Strauss, Secretary
Senior Counsel – Corporate Social Responsibility, Sunwest Communications

The Honorable Darlene Byrne
Chief Justice of the Third Court of Appeals of Texas

Alan Cohen
President & CEO of Child Poverty Action Lab

Don M. Glendenning
Managing Partner, Dallas Office, Locke Lord LLP

Susan Hoff
Chief Impact, Strategy, and Operations Officer of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas

Helen Holman
Retired from The Dallas Foundation as Senior Vice President and Chief Impact Officer

Coleman Hubbard, CFA
Institutional Investment Management Portfolio Manager, Managing Director/Analyst, Barrow Hanley Global Investors

Cynthia Izaguirre
WFAA Co-Anchor News Channel 8

Madeline McClure, Founder
Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of TexProtects, Champions for Safe Children

Dr. Anu Partap
Director of The Center for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

Eddie Reeves
Partner, Vianovo

Stephen W. Roderick
Retired healthcare facility development and commercial real estate professional

Esequiel “Zeke” Sanchez
Founder and owner of DFG Partners, LLC.

Advisory Board

Denise Bates
Sr Interiors PM, Associate, Perkins&Will

Rebel Calhoun
Executive In Action consultant; Technology Sales Executive Integration Solutions Specialist with AT&T; Community Volunteer

Leslie Carpenter
Community Volunteer; Business Entrepreneur; Former aide to U. S. Senator Paul Simon; and foster parent

John Castle, Jr.
Retired Executive Vice President of EDS; Chair of the Dallas Foundation; Former Advisory Board Member of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS)

Leslie DeCillis
Attorney with experience in Software/ IT, Global Commercial Transactions, Privacy, Compliance and Cyberlaw Issues

Debra Decker
Senior Advisor, Stimson Center, Washington, D.C.; Former Consultant, Booz Allen, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Morning News Award-Winning Editorial Writer; Lead Author of "Dallas Child Abuse Costs"

The Honorable Maurine Dickey
Former Dallas County Commissioner; MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors; Former Board Chair of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

Catherine Estrada
Uplift Education Fort Worth Advisory Board Member; Former Communities in Schools State Advisory Board Member; CIS of Tarrant County Advisory Board Member and CIS Foundation Advisory Board

Robert Estrada
Senior Managing Director, Dallas; Chief Compliance Officer; Estrada Hinojosa & Co., Inc. Board of Directors, Chairman Emeritus

Kathleen Fletcher, MPH, Ph.D.
CEO, Voices for Children of San Antonio

Laura Gardiner
Loyalty Strategy and Marketing Expert; Community Volunteer and Advocate

Tammy Cotton Hartnett
Community Volunteer, Former Washington Political Appointee; Spouse of former State Representative Will Hartnett

The Hon. Lee Jackson
Retired Chancellor of the University of North Texas; Former Dallas County Judge; Former Texas State Representative

Chris Marble, Assoc. AIA
Project Architect, Looney Ricks Kiss

Scott Murray
Founder and CEO of Murray Video Productions; Former Broadcast Journalist

H. Len Musgrove, Jr, J.D.
Founder and Managing Shareholder, Musgrove Law Firm, P.C.

Janet Pozmantier, MS, LPC, LMFT, RPT
Director, The Center for School Behavioral Health at Mental Health America of Greater Houston

Stacy Rudd
Operations Manager, Swinerton

The Honorable Peter Sakai, J.D.
District Judge, 225th Judicial District Court of Bexar County; Appointee to the Texas Protect our Kids Fatality Commission

The Honorable Florence Shapiro
Former Texas State Senator, 1993 - 2013

Lisa K. Simmons
President, the Harold Simmons Foundation; Southwestern Medical Foundation Board; Zero to Five Funders Collaborative

The Honorable Mark Strama
Former Texas State Representative, 2005 -2013

The Honorable Royce West, J.D.
Texas State Senator, District 23; Managing Partner at West & Associates