OUR

Team

At TGR Foundation, we are champions for youth. We are deeply committed to every student who comes through our programs and believe that through access to education, mentorship and support our students will thrive.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Chairman, Mike Mckee

The Contrarian Group

Sandra Barry

Formerly Anaheim Unified School District

Alexis Ohanian

Founder of Seven Seven Six

Kenneth W. Bentley

Formerly Farmer Insurance

Jonathan M. Orszag

Compass Lexecon, LLC

Danny Conway

SuperFan Games

Bill Smilow

President and CEO Smilow Foundation

Karina Hamilton

Holthouse, Carlin & Van Trigt (HCVT)

Mark Steinberg

Excel Sports Management

Christopher J. Hubman

TGR Ventures

Leo Tucker

Northwestern Mutual

Rob Light

Creative Artists Agency

Peter V. Ueberroth

The Contrarian Group

Edward Machir

Professor of Practice, Georgetown
formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers

Bill Woodley

CEO Americas – Institutional Banking, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Joe Wilkins

Senior Advisor
FACHE

kutila woods

TGR Foundation

Tiger Woods

TGR Foundation

Cyndi court

ceo

cristina friend

chief development officer

Jin Thatcher

chief operating officer

MIchelle bemis

President, TGR LIVE

hrag hamallian

president, tgr leaning labs and national programs

DAN scalli

vice president, marketing and communication

logan lamson

vice president, strategic intiatives

TGR LEARNING LAB

Gyla Bell

Senior Executive Director, TGR Learning Lab Anaheim

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

Benjamin Franklin

John Lee

Senior Vice President, Programs & Education

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

Jackie Robinson

ERIC MOORE

Vice President, Programs

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

ROBERT BRESSON

MEREDITH FOOTE

Executive Director, TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia

“We have the opportunity to create the future and decide what that's like.”

MAE JEMISON

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

REBECCA LEHR

Director, Programs and Professional Learning, TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

DOUG LOUNG

Director, Programs, TGR Learning Lab

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

CONFUCIUS

MARIA STROUP

Director, Early Education and Community Engagement, TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. ”

DESMOND TUTU

ZOSHUA CHANEY

Manager, Community Outreach, TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia

“It's For The Kids!”

EDDE CHANEY

BREANNE HANZEL

Director, Programs, TGR Learning Lab

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

NELSON MANDELA

MAN LOUNG

Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

JOSEPH CAMBELL

CRYSTAL TRAN

Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

AESOP

ASYA WILBON

Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab

“Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out.”

JERMAINE L. COLE

DON BELL

Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

LAO TZO

NATALIE THATCH

Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab

“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.”

BRIAN HERBERT

Madison Ballew

Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible.”

Audrey Hepburn

Marco Gonzalez

Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Dr. Jane Goodall

Stefanie Bingham

Learning Facilitator, TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia

“You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.”

Audre Lorde

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

KETHERINE PHAM

Manager, Student Outreach and Support

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

CARMEN GONZALEZ

WAYNE GRETZKY

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

AUDREY HEPBURN

CHRISTINE PEREZ

Coordinator, Golf and Recreation

“Having fun is the best way to learn."

ALBERT EINSTIEN

AUSTIN SUN

Golf Instructor

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

MICHAEL JORDAN

PEDRO BAHENA

Golf Range Attendant

“You Miss 100% Of The Shots You Don't Take”

WAYNE GRETZKY

KEVIN TRAN

Academic & Front Desk Support

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

MAHATMA GANDHI

JULIAN MARTINEZ

Golf Range Attendant

“Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.”

KOBE BRYANT

GABRIELA RUIZ

Chief Operating Officer

“Live with no excuses and love with no regrets. Laugh a lot and leave this life with nothing left unsaid.”

DAN DEAN

ANDRICK SAUNO

Academic & Front Desk Support

“You’re suffering from self-doubt while others are intimidated by your full potential. If you’re past self could see where you’re at today think about how impressed they would be.”

ANONYMOUS

ASHLEY CORTEZ

Volunteer Coordinator

“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

A.A. MILNE

ALEXIS MEDINA

Receptionist

“As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody’s day.”

VIN SCULLY

EARL WOODS SCHOLAR PROGRAM

Cristina Fernández

Vice President, Programs

“In one soul, in your soul, there are resources for the world.”

Emerson

Alma Gutierrez

Director, Programs

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

Audrey Hepburn

Juan Carlos Villanueva

Senior 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

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

Izabel Dallal

Program Coordinator

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

Mother Teresa

Van Nguyen

Program Coordinator

“To re-conceptualize love with a critical lens opens up possibilities for transformation not only within our individual lives, but also in our communities and society in which we serve.”

Durryle N Brooks

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

Joe Hsu

Senior Director, IT

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Oscar Wilde

Mike Stevens

Senior Director, Financial Analyst

“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

John Wooden

Yvonne Tello

Director, Human Resources

“It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.”

Vince Lombardi

Vanessa Topete

Business Administration Coordinator

“The problems we face today eventually turn into blessings in the rearview mirror of life. In time, yesterday’s red light leads us to a greenlight.”

Matthew McConaughey

NormaPartida

Program Coordinator

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

Maya Angelou

Brandon Medina

Program Coordinator

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”

Tommy Lasorda

Vanessa Topete

Business Administration Coordinator

“Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”

Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

Michelle Stablow

Bookkeeper

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new”

Socrates

DEVELOPMENT

Elizabeth Hopkins

Account Director, Development

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

Mallory Berger

Senior Director, Development- Greater Philadelphia

“Action is the antidote to despair.”

Joan Baez

Katie Vazquez

Manager, Development

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

Winston Churchill

Ida Tirimba

Development Research Coordinator

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”

Norman Vinvent Peale

MARKETING

Christy Ortiz

Director, Marketing

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”

Coco Chanel

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

VANESSA CASTRO

Social Media and Marketing Coordinator

"You get there by realizing that you already are there."

Eckhart Tolle