Board Officers

Board Chair
Rusty Hicks

California Democratic Party

Chair

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Board Vice Chair
Raúl Bustillos

Bank of America

Senior Vice President, Community Relations

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Board Secretary
Jenny Punsalan Delwood

Office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

Deputy Chief of Staff

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Treasurer
Betsy O’Brien

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Industry Executive, Higher Education, Healthcare and Not-for-Profit Banking

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Board Members

Zanku Armenian

Southern California Edison

Director, Public Affairs

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Board Member
Arun Baheti

The California Wellness Foundation

Vice President of Operations

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Tyrone Bland

Creative Artists Agency

Head of Government Affairs

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Marla Bleavins

Port of Los Angeles

Deputy Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer

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Grover Burthey

PIMCO

Executive Vice President and Head of ESG Portfolio Management

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Stephen Cheung

LAEDC / WTCLA

Executive Vice President | President

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Jasson Crockett

Snap Inc

Public Policy Manager

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Shari Davis

Santa Monica College Public Policy Institute

Co-Director and Adjunct Professor of Political Science

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Board Member
Ruben Duran

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Partner

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Monique Earl

Grant Thornton LLC

Director, State and Local

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Craig Ehrlich

Novare Technologies

Chairman

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Ari Engelberg

Harvard-Westlake School

Head of Communications and Strategic Initiatives

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Naomi Fink

Capital Group; Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

Retirement Economist; Chairperson of the Retirement Security Research Center

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Andrea Foggy-Paxton

Foggy-Paxton Consulting, LLC

Founder and CEO

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Tod Gimbel

Herbalife Nutrition

Senior Vice President, Global Government Affairs

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Board Member
Ronald J. Greitzer

Los Angeles Fiber Reliance Carpet Cushion

President

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Board Member
Audrey Handelman

Gensler

Studio Director, Senior Associate, Director of Design Resilience, and Regional Community Impact Leader

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Kellie Hawkins

Englander Knabe & Allen (EKA)

Partner

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Jennifer Hernandez

Holland & Knight

Partner

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Areen Ibranossian

Chief Strategies

President

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Suzy Jack

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Vice President and Chief of Staff

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Karly Katona

Trifiletti Consulting

Managing Director

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Lindsey Kozberg

The Smidt Foundation

Senior Program and Community Engagement Director

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Richard Lichtenstein

Marathon Communications

President

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Greg McWilliams

FivePoint

Chief Policy Officer

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Alina Moran

Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC)

President

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Allen Narcisse

Workrise

Chief Operating Officer

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Jonathan Schreiber

Cedars-Sinai

Vice President, Community Engagement

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Board Member
Aryon Shahidzadeh

Fellows Program 2022 Board Representative

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Margita Thompson

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW)

Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications

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Lisa Trifiletti

Trifiletti Consulting, Inc.

Principal

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Board Member
Jenna Watkinson

Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

Director of Public Affairs and Brand Communications

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Board Member
Matthew Welsh

Opiant Pharmaceuticals

Director of Government Affairs

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Ronald W. Wong

Imprenta Communications Group

President & CEO

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