Board Members

Adam Tenner, Board Treasurer, MetroTeenAIDS

Position:

Executive Director

Adam Tenner has been the Executive Director of Metro Teen AIDS since 2001. Adam has worked in a variety of HIV prevention and adolescent health promotion capacities for over 20 years. Adam began volunteering his sophomore year of high school at a community food pantry and a school for physically disabled youth. He continued to volunteer throughout his college years where he helped to expand an afterschool tutoring program to better serve non-English speaking children.

Veronica Nolan, Urban Alliance

Position:

Executive Director

Ms. Nolan joined Urban Alliance as its Program Director in 2002 and was promoted to Executive Director one year later. She joined Urban Alliance after having taught at Eastern Senior High School for four years, a DC public high school, through the program, Teach for America. In 2008 Veronica was awarded the Meyer Foundation’s prestigious Exponent Award which recognizes strong and effective nonprofit leaders with a track record of accomplishment.

Paul Dahm, Brainfood

Position:

Executive Director

Paul Dahm, Brainfood's executive director, has more than ten years of nonprofit fund-raising and management experience. Prior to joining Brainfood in 2003, Dahm spent two years as a director at Orr Associates, a consulting firm serving the nonprofit community, where he advised a range of organizations such as The National Mentoring Partnership, Gallaudet University, The U.S. Navy Memorial, Youth I.N.C. and the American Bar Association.

Amy Nakamoto, DC Scores

Position:

Executive Director

Amy Nakamoto is the Executive Director of DC Scores, a recreationally-linked education program for public school students, ages 8 to 14, that works in partnership with students, teachers, neighborhoods, and creative writing communities. As Executive Director, Amy guides the day-to-day operations of after school programs in 23 DC public elementary and middle schools. Amy also serves as Board Member and Secretary of the DC Alliance of Youth Advocates.

Andria Hollis, Kid Power DC

Position:

Executive Director

Andria Hollis serves as the Executive Director of Kid Power, Inc. Ms. Hollis holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from American University (2006). She graduated Cum Laude and was inducted into the Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society.

Daniel Okonkwo, DC Lawyers 4 Youth

Position:

Executive Director

R. Daniel Okonkwo is a Senior Analyst in the Regulatory Practice Group at the EOP Group, Inc., a Washington, D.C. business and political consulting firm, where he represents green technology producers and manufacturers, investor-owned utilities, nuclear power generators, and oil/gas/chemical corporations. He has authored and edited the EOP Group publication Understanding the United States Government's Regulatory Policy and co-authored Understanding the Budget of the United States Government.

Maureen Dwyer, Sitar Arts Center

Position:

Executive Director

Maureen Dwyer is the Executive Director of Sitar Arts Center, an arts education program in Washington, DC that brings its diverse community together to give underserved children and adolescents the opportunity to study the visual and performing arts in an afterschool safe haven. Previously the Deputy Director, Maureen has worked at the Center for twelve years and was originally the Grants Manager responsible for developing its institutional giving program.

Lori Kaplan, Board President, LAYC

Position:

Executive Director

Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Lori moved to the District of Columbia in 1976 after
graduating from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She began supporting the Latin American
Youth Center (LAYC) in 1979 as a volunteer, joining the staff in 1980 and becoming Executive
Director in 1987.

Lori leads one of the nation’s most respected youth development agencies. In 2007, she guided
LAYC through a rigorous theory of change and business planning process to help LAYC move
“from good to great” and achieve even more significant outcomes for low-income youth. LAYC is

Sheryl Brissett-Chapman, National Center for Children and Families

Position:

Executive Director

Sheryl Brissett Chapman, Ed.D, ACSW, has managed and provided organizational and individual consultation to numerous agencies and professionals serving diverse populations in a variety of settings. She has published and presented internationally on topics relating to substance abusing mothers, substance exposed infants, children in poverty, homeless women and depression, juvenile delinquency, child victimization, cross-cultural responsiveness, organizational development and systems reform in child and family welfare and juvenile justice.

Debby Shore, Sasha Bruce YouthWork

Position:

Executive Director and Founder

As founder and executive director of Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Deborah Shore has led groundbreaking work in youth and family service development in the District of Columbia. Through three decades of mission-driven work, Ms. Shore and SBY have developed a deep understanding of the needs of troubled youth and families and unsurpassed expertise to meet these needs.

Gerry Kittner, Beacon House

Position:

Deputy Director

Gerry S. Kittner is the Executive Director of Beacon House. Beacon House is an after-school program based in the Edgewood Terrace neighborhood of Ward 5. Approximately 125 low-income children and youth, ages 5-18, come to the center daily and participate in tutoring, mentoring, athletic, recreational and cultural programs. Over 400 children and youth participate in Beacon House’s football, basketball, baseball and cheerleading teams. During the summer, Beacon House operates a low-cost summer camp for 150 children, ages 5-13.

Eric Robinson, National Endowment for Democracy

Position:

Senior Program Manager

Eric Robinson is the senior program officer for East and Horn of Africa with the National Endowment for Democracy. Prior to the Endowment he worked in Somalia for six months as a consultant with the United Nations and for five years for a small national non-profit organization that did capacity building training for immigrant led civil society organizations in the United States. Eric has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a Master’s degree in International Relations/Conflict Resolution.

Graham Mclaughlin, The Advisory Board Company

Position:

Director of Community Impact

Graham McLaughlin is the Director of Community Impact at The Advisory Board Company, a global research, consulting, and technology firm partnering with 125,000 leaders in 3,200 organizations across health care and higher education. Prior to leading the organization’s corporate social responsibility efforts, Graham served across multiple areas of the business, including General Manager of the firm’s international performance technologies service delivery team.

Brian Hart

Position:

Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Brian is an associate in the litigation department at Paul, Weiss, where he represents clients in complex commercial litigation, regulatory investigations and criminal matters. He has significant experience representing companies and individuals in securities and antitrust investigations brought by regulatory agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.