Meet The Team

Discover the backgrounds, stories, and shared commitment of our team members as they work towards improving caregiving and creating a more equitable and compassionate future for caregivers and care recipients.

Our Staff

Board

Staff

Ai-jen Poo

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Executive Director & Board Secretary

Aisha Adkins

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Manager of Training

Angela Mika Holton

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Senior Manager of Digital Organizing

Bobbie Cereghino

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Chief of Staff

Breana Stanley

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Senior Program Assistant

Chabely Cortez

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Associate Director of Development

Chelsea Parrish

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Manager of Development

Christina Joy Millamena

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Social Media Manager

Davina Etwaroo

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Executive Assistant

Ebony Bagley

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Manager of State Media Relations

Hank Hedland

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Director of Operations

Hilary Albert

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Senior Manager of Human Resources

Jaimie Worker

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Senior Director of Policy & Research

Jess Kelsey

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Manager of National Media Relations

Juan Carlos Guerrero

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Manager of Regional Organizing (West)

Kamri Williams

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Manager of Regional Organizing (East)

Kathy Mendes

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Policy Associate

Kevin Irizarry

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Digital Content Associate

Kristiana Labuga

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Mobilizing and Organizing Associate

Laura Ordoñez

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Director of Communications

Linda Capato Jr.

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Senior Director of Partnerships and Engagement

Lydia Storie

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Director of Culture Change

Lyntoria Newton

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Culture Change Manager

Marquia Neal

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HR & Operations Assistant

Myriam Bouchard

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Associate Director of Finance

Nicole Jorwic

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Chief Program Officer

Noah Choi

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Development and Operations Systems Assistant

Sahar Roodehchi

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Director of Digital

Samantha Ho

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Special Advisor to the Executive Director

Sarah Vitti

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Associate Director of Culture Change

Scarlet Jimenez

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Chief of Operations

Shirien Damra

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Design Manager

Sophia Benrud Nybroten

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Associate Director of Training

Soudary Kittivong-Greenbaum

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Senior Director of Development

Tory Cross

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Associate Director of Federal Policy and Government Relations

Yeen Lama

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Associate Director of Research

Zahna Woodson

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Manager of Regional Organizing (Midwest)

Bridgit Antoinette Evans

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Board Member

Bridgit Antoinette Evans is an award-winning artist, philanthropy executive, and thought leader in the narrative change field, pioneering the use of pop culture strategies and narrative systems methodology to advance social justice. She has dedicated her career to the relentless investigation of the potential of artists and stories to drive change in society. Fifteen years of work at the intersection of mass audience storytelling and social justice has evolved into a vision for a new, hybrid culture change field in which creative and social justice leaders work together to popularize stories and other immersive experiences that build widespread public yearning for a pluralist culture in which everyone belongs. Through Fuel | We Power Change, the creative and strategic consultancy she founded in 2008, Bridgit has designed and tested long-term culture change strategies in partnership with many of the nation’s leading movement organizations, including the Save Darfur Coalition, Girls Are Not For Sale Campaign, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Caring Across Generations, ACLU, and the Make It Work Campaign. Bridgit was named a Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow in 2015, piloting “Culture Changes Us,” a coordinated learning system that measurably accelerated a rising generation of social justice leaders’ understanding and use of culture change strategy. For Unbound Philanthropy and Ford Foundation, she led multi-year narrative research and strategy design projects aimed at unearthing breakthrough storytelling and engagement strategies for the immigrant rights and gender justice movements, respectively. Bridgit has been invited to travel around the world to speak about her vision and groundbreaking narrative systems methodologies; and since 2017, has served as CEO of the Pop Culture Collaborative, a philanthropic resource and funder learning community working to transform the narrative landscape around people of color, immigrants, refugees, Muslims, and indigenous peoples in America, especially those who are women, queer, trans, and/or disabled.

Ishita Srivastava

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Board Member

Ishita Srivastava is a cultural strategist, narrative change practitioner, and multimedia producer with 15 years experience working at the intersection of social justice movements and culture. As Vice President of Cultural Strategy at the FrameWorks Institute, Ishita uses research to develop strategy focused on leveraging media, communications, art, and pop culture to shift cultural mindsets in ways that make societies more just and equitable.

Over the years, Ishita has brought her background in cultural studies and media production to the development and execution of culture and narrative change strategies that are grounded in attitude and mindset research, audience mapping and targeting, and product and narrative testing. From 2017 to 2023, Ishita built the culture change department at Caring Across Generations to work across Hollywood, the advertising world, digital media, visual art, and documentary, leading to significant shifts in the national narrative around care and caregiving. Producing innovative projects that have built cultural power in favor of the issues she works on and transforming attitudes, narratives, and norms around caregiving and aging in the U.S., Ishita has brokered and managed partnerships with organizations, artists, celebrities, filmmakers, storytellers, and strategists from the worlds of advertising and entertainment, in the US and internationally.

Ishita began her culture change journey at Breakthrough, where from 2009-2017, she produced content such as video games, animated series, and documentaries that worked to change attitudes and norms around gender and immigration in the United States.

Born and raised in New Delhi, she holds a BA in English literature from St. Stephens College (Delhi), a BA in media and communications from Goldsmiths College (London), and an MA in cinema studies and culture and media from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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Meet The Team

Our Staff

Board

Ai-jen Poo

Bridgit Antoinette Evans

Heather Samuelson

Ishita Srivastava

Maria Town

Mariana Viturro

Sarita Gupta

Staff

Ai-jen Poo

Aisha Adkins

Angela Mika Holton

Bobbie Cereghino

Breana Stanley

Chabely Cortez

Chelsea Parrish

Christina Joy Millamena

Davina Etwaroo

Ebony Bagley

Hank Hedland

Hilary Albert

Jaimie Worker

Jess Kelsey

Juan Carlos Guerrero

Kamri Williams

Kathy Mendes

Kevin Irizarry

Kristiana Labuga

Laura Ordoñez

Linda Capato Jr.

Lydia Storie

Lyntoria Newton

Marquia Neal

Myriam Bouchard

Nicole Jorwic

Noah Choi

Sahar Roodehchi

Samantha Ho

Sarah Vitti

Scarlet Jimenez

Shirien Damra

Sophia Benrud Nybroten

Soudary Kittivong-Greenbaum

Tory Cross

Yeen Lama

Zahna Woodson

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