Alfred R Berkeley

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Chair
Princeton Capital Management, Inc.

Jacqueline M. Carrera

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Volunteer
Trustee Emeritus

Sita Culman

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Volunteer
Trustee Emeritus
Founding Board Member

Sarah Chen

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Co-Founder & Managing Partner
The Billion Dollar Fund/Beyond the Billion

Investor & entrepreneur, Sarah Chen is Co-Founder of Beyond The Billion (launched as The Billion Dollar Fund for Women), a global consortium of over 100 venture funds and limited partner investors that have pledged to invest beyond $1B towards women-founded companies. To date, the consortium has deployed $638M and counting in 2 years, into close to 800 female-founded companies, of which 9 were recognized as unicorns. Previously, she was on the pioneer team of a corporate venture capital unit within a $13B publicly traded Asian conglomerate, investing in later-stage biotechnology companies. Since then, she has been at the forefront of multi-million cross border investments, structuring and executing commercialization plans with her portfolio companies. Determined to see more women at the helm, she sits on multiple boards, including 131 & Counting, a bipartisan effort to fete the unprecedented number of women serving in the House and Senate, encouraging more women to run for office in the US; and Lean In Malaysia, which she co-founded, a platform accelerating women into leadership in Muslim- majority Malaysia. Named Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and Forbes Under 30 VC, Chen is a recognized speaker, strategist and commentator on venture capital, startups and women in leadership, having been featured on Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, Der Spiegel and at the United Nations, and is a celebrated host on the show and podcast #BillionDollarMoves. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Laws, LL.B (Hons.) from King’s College London.

Curtis Clemens

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Assistant Professor in Physical Education and Recreation
Gallaudet University

While In college I took a class called Outdoor Pursuits. During that time, we learned how to go rock climbing. Thinking I would never get the chance to do this again I took full advantage of the course doing things I never thought I would ever be doing. Then someone told the greatest news ever. I could get paid offering the same opportunities to others. I was sold. Over the years I grew a passion helping all demographics grow mentally, emotionally, and physically through the catalyst of outdoor education. My passions of educating others grew and I developed my skills leading people outdoors, building, training, and facilitating people on high ropes courses. I have developed my training skills becoming a Wilderness First Aid trainer, Lifeguard trainer, LNT trainer, and evening and Canoe Instructor. Eventually I finished my PhD at Oklahoma State University with a Focus on Outdoor Education, Outdoor Recreation, Experiential Education, and Nature Based Tourism. Now I am an Assistant Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Lesson Planning, Instructional Design, Employee Training, Leadership, and Outdoor Recreation. Currently I am working at Gallaudet University (The only deaf university in the world). Again, I am blessed to give opportunities to people and help them grow.

Justin Ellis

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Senior Managing Director of Finance
KIPP, DC

Justin Ellis is currently the Senior Managing Director of Finance for KIPP DC, a charter management organization that operates a network of 18 high-performing, college-preparatory charter schools across 7 campuses which collectively educate approximately 6,900 students in grades PK3 through 12 in the District of Columbia. In this role he leads KIPP DC’s efforts and activities around budgeting, financial planning, debt management, financial analysis, and investments. Justin originally hails from New Hope, Pennsylvania and obtained his bachelor’s degree from Elon University. Justin began his career working in public accounting as an auditor for Cohn Reznick and then Deloitte, becoming a certified public accountant along the way. Justin moved away from auditing with a job as Director of Finance at political research firm Potomac Research Group. After three years there, he was able to combine his professional skill set with a personal interest in supporting students in the District of Columbia who have historically had limited access to quality educational options through KIPP DC, where he has been since 2015. When Justin is not 'crunching numbers' he enjoys spending time outdoors, cooking, and planning life’s next adventure with his wife, Emily.

Jeff Franco

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CEO
Camino Consulting Group

Jeffrey Franco currently serves as the founder and CEO of Camino Consulting Group which supports social enterprise in fundraising, strategic planning, board development and executive coaching. He is also an adjunct professor at American University on a course he designed and currently teaches on nonprofit management in the education sector. Jeffrey served as Interim Executive Director and Vice President of City Year Miami after serving over 10 years as Executive Director of City Year Washington, DC. City Year is an education-focused nonprofit organization that brings together a diverse group of 17–24-year-olds for a year of full-time service in the most underserved schools in the DC. Under Franco’s leadership, City Year Washington, DC tripled the size of its staff, tripled the number of schools served, and quadrupled the number of students served. Since his arrival at City Year, Franco more than tripled the organization's fundraising capacity from $2.3 million to $8.6 million. Jeffrey has nearly 25 years of experience with for profit and social enterprise. He served as the Director of Global Business Development and Project Manager at Voxiva, a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, Associate Director of Marketing and Sales at Corporate Executive Board, and a Consultant at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group. Outside of his professional work, Franco was named 2013 American University Kogod School of Business Alumni of the Year, is an alumnus of the Aspen Institute Socrates Program, and is a 2010 graduate of Leadership Greater Washington. He graduated with a B.A. from Fairfield University, and has both a Masters in International Affairs and an M.B.A. from American University. Franco is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, enjoys traveling, has completed 5 marathons and an Ironman triathlon, walked the 500-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain in 2013 and completed the 150-mile Annapurna Circuit in Nepal in 2017.

Watani Hatcher

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Parks and Environmental Manager
DC Parks and Recreation

Patrick Kyhos, Esq.

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Data Privacy AI, & Cybersecurity Attorney

Krystle Merchant

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Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships
Maret School

Krystle Merchant currently serves as the Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships at Maret School. She graduated from Duke University with a BA in History in 2008 and McGill University with an MA in Education and Society and Women’s and Gender Studies in 2015. In the dozen years that she has been teaching and working in schools, Krystle has been motivated by environments that value students’ identities, rather than seeing them as a barrier to their learning. She works to help students see themselves as people with agency to act on the world around them and a responsibility to be mindful of how their actions impact others. She is thankful for the women who, through their exemplary work and leadership, have helped her see the value of reciprocity and justice in working with young people.

Valentina Raman

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Non-Profit Consultant

Valentina Raman is an education entrepreneur who weaves learning communities that mobilize diverse education stakeholders towards a more equitable and thriving world. She has co-founded 2 global collaboratives, The Weaving Lab and YxY (Youth by Youth), whose combined 400+ members, spanning from middle school students to retired professionals across 6 continents, are actively working towards a more just and healthy planet through the transformation of learning and education systems. Locally in her home of Washington, D.C., Valentina serves on the board of EmpowerEd, a teacher-led movement to transform D.C. public education, and builds community engagement programming for academic institutions serving the DMV area, including St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School and the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Beyond education, Valentina is a singer who performs with her husband Jeremy Levine, jazz pianist and founder of We ArtPlay, and collaborates with artists across cultures, faiths, and disciplines through the Sanctuaries.

Larry Savoy

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President
Archbishop Carroll High School

His life in education has come full circle for Larry Savoy Jr., who graduated from Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington in 1993, returned as an administrator and teacher there for 14 years from 1997-2011, and as of July 1, will return as Carroll’s new president. “Everybody’s ready to come back home,” he said in a May 24 interview. “…It’s emotional, walking through the hallways where I went to class” and over the years served in many roles, including as vice principal for student affairs, dean of students and activities director, a drama and public speaking instructor, director of the summer school program, interim admissions director and attendance officer. Archbishop Carroll’s new president added, “I’m excited about tomorrow, about what tomorrow will be, helping people understand Carroll pride is here to stay.” The school’s sports teams are nicknamed the Lions, and over the years to foster school spirit, students often decorate the fence surrounding the football field that borders North Capitol Street with the phrase “Carroll Pride,” to encourage pride in the Lions and in their school. Savoy hopes to continue to build that spirit among students, alumni, families and members of the community for the college preparatory, coeducational Catholic high school sponsored by the Archdiocese of Washington, which offers the International Baccalaureate academic program for students. Savoy, a native of Washington, D.C., is now 43. He grew up Catholic in the Seat Pleasant area in suburban Maryland and attended the Church of the Incarnation in the nation’s capital, where he was mentored by Josephite Father Joe Del Vecchio, a longtime Washington-area parish priest who helped lead the archdiocese’s Office of Youth Ministry for many years. “He instilled in me the importance of faith and to be a social justice change agent, to be that voice for people who don’t have one. That’s something that will always stay with me,” Savoy said. With the priest’s encouragement, Savoy entered Archbishop Carroll High School as a freshman in 1989, when Carroll transitioned to a coeducational school, and his graduating class was the first to have boys and girls as classmates for all four years. “My experience was great. I absolutely loved it. To be in an environment that was faith-filled was extremely important to me and my family,” he said. He added that he appreciated Carroll’s “sense of family, the sense of a place you could be proud of. They say if you went to Carroll, you bleed green and gold,” the school’s colors. As a student at Carroll, Savoy played baseball and soccer, sang in the choir, and acted in the theater program, including in the school’s annual Christmas and spring shows. “Being able to get up on stage and express myself was fun,” he said. He also credited the school’s social justice teacher, Robert Hoderny, with instilling students with a lifelong commitment to serve others. Hoderny, who died in 1996, played a key role in organizing the school’s service program, where students volunteered in area soup kitchens and took part in Carroll’s annual Thanksgiving Food Drive, which continues as one of the largest student-led food collections in the country. Carroll students continue to learn about Catholic social justice teaching in Hoderny’s former classroom at the school, which is named in his honor. After graduating from Archbishop Carroll High School, Savoy earned a bachelor of arts in theater at Temple University in Philadelphia, with a concentration in education. At Temple, he acted in productions including Shakespeare’s classic play Macbeth, and he also played baseball on the university’s team. Savoy said he was drawn to a career in education after working as a drama counselor in the summer of 1994 at St. Vincent’s Children’s Home in Philadelphia, a transitional home for foster kids. “I really felt this was what I needed to be doing, working with young people,” he said. He returned to Archbishop Carroll after graduating from Temple in 1997, first serving as an attendance officer, and then working in a variety of teaching and administrative roles, where he experienced many different aspects of the school’s operation, from teaching in the classroom to working on disciplinary matters to helping to direct its facility management efforts. Over the years, he also directed plays at the school and coached its baseball team, and from 2006-11, he was Carroll’s vice principal for student affairs. “I got to see and learn different positions in a place I was familiar,” he said. While working at Archbishop Carroll, Savoy earned a master’s degree in school administration from Trinity Washington University, where his wife, Dr. Taryn Savoy, also went through that program. She now serves as principal at Yorktown Elementary School in Bowie. The Savoys have three daughters and attend Ascension Parish in Bowie. Their oldest daughter, Bria Savoy, graduated from Archbishop Carroll in 2014 and graduated this year from Towson University with a psychology degree. Kyla Savoy, their middle daughter, will be following in her mother’s footsteps and attending Elizabeth Seton High School in Bladensburg this fall. Their youngest daughter, Mikayla Savoy, will be a rising fourth grader at Yorktown Elementary School. From 2011-12, Larry Savoy served as principal at St. Michael the Archangel School in Silver Spring, which had to suspend operations at the end of that school year due to financial and enrollment challenges. Savoy said that experience was “very sad,” and he relied on “my faith that God had a plan for me ultimately.” He worked hard to place St. Michael’s students in nearby Catholic schools. The educator then began a six-year stint as principal at Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School in Takoma Park, where he has served until his appointment as Carroll’s new president. Cristo Rey, which opened in 2007, serves low-income families and offers a Corporate Work Study Program, where students gain experience working at businesses and institutions and help pay for their tuition costs. All of Cristo Rey’s graduates have been accepted into college, and most of them are part of the first generation of their families to attend higher education. Savoy said at Cristo Rey it has been inspiring for him “to see that those students are going to college and making a difference… Education is the ultimate change agent.” One of the things that Savoy said he has appreciated most about working in Catholic education is “having God at the center of everything I do,” and also being able to talk about God at school. “It changes the situation with parents, and it changes the situation with students,” he said. Over the years as a Catholic school teacher and administrator, he said he has learned “you can have a big impact on students,” helping them “value education and to know God is in control. We have to have that foundation.” Now as Carroll’s president, Savoy said, “My focus will be to continue to spread the good news about Archbishop Carroll. We’re putting young people into college and preparing productive citizens for this life” and, he added, ultimately guiding them on a path to heaven.  

Shoshanna Sumka

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Executive Director
Independent Schools Experiential Education Network (ISEEN)

Shoshanna Sumka is a leader in global learning, community engagement, and student leadership development. As the Executive Director (ED) of ISEEN, Shoshanna works to inspire and support experiential educators and connect lifelong learners through our inclusive network. Shoshanna’s two decades of professional experience include support for travel and outdoor education throughout the world. Most recently she worked at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, where she coordinated global programs and community engagement, including service learning. In the past, she served as assistant director of global learning and leadership at American University, resident director of the University of Idaho’s International Programs Abroad in Quito, Ecuador, and board chair of Break Away, an organization that supports the development of active citizens and student leadership on college campuses. She is the author of numerous journal articles and two books: Working Side By Side: Creating Alternative Breaks as Catalysts for Global Learning, Student Leadership, and Social Change and Health and Safety for Secondary School Programs Abroad. Shoshanna lives in the Washington, DC area with her young daughter and partner. She has a B.A. and M.A. in anthropology and a background in global social justice. She loves world travel, practicing yoga, walks in the woods, and cooking hearty vegetarian meals. Her favorite places are Kenya, Haiti, Ecuador, the Shenandoah mountains, and the beaches of North Carolina.

Ellett Toomey

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Head of Development
Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream

Ellett Toomey joined the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream as the Director of Development, responsible for implementing a fundraising strategy to raise hundreds of millions of dollars over the next several years in support of the Center’s mission. She previously served as Director of Development & Strategic Partnerships at Fight for Children, a non-profit serving low-income student athletes in Washington, D.C. Ellett began her career at the American Enterprise Institute, where she managed a capital campaign to raise funds for AEI’s new headquarters. She holds her BA and Masters from the University of Virginia and her MBA from Georgetown University.