People
Board of Directors
President:
David M. Hundley
Counsel, Rees-Jones Holdings LLC
Vice President:
Shelton G. Hopkins, MD
Retired Orthopaedic Surgeon, Orthopaedic Associates of Dallas
Treasurer:
Jeff Morales
Partner, Casla Partners LLC
Secretary:
Myra Fischel
Community Volunteer and Independent Real Estate Broker
Immediate Past President:
Colleen Taylor
Community Volunteer
David M. Alexander
Executive Director, Movement Day Greater Dallas
Barbra Applebaum
Community Volunteer
Rev. Susan Sytsma Bratt
Associate Pastor, Northridge Presbyterian Church
Amita Chhabra
Owner, Radical Rags
Christopher Casner
Retired, Senior Consultant Verizon Communications
Carole S. Cohen
Retired, Financial Consultant Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
Chuck Gall
Partner, Litigation, Hunton, Andrews & Kurth
Katrina Gawen
Account Manager, Randsad Technologies
Byron Harris
Writer/Producer
Linda Humphries
Community Volunteer
Frank Lloyd
Global Strategic Advisor, Associate Dean-Executive Education SMU Cox School of Business
Ellen Marks
Community Volunteer
Beth Maultsby
Partner, Family Law, Goranson Bain
Barry McNeil
Senior Counsel, Haynes and Boone LLP
Jim Meyer
Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Gwen Moore
Retired, Past President and Co-Founder of the PLAN Fund
Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes
Senior Minister, East Dallas Christian Church
Megan Nicholson
Partner, ImageArb LLC
Femi Omonije
Owner/CEO, Eko & Sons LLC
Nancy Rivin
Community Volunteer
Daniel Simon Jr.
Senior Software Engineer II, Raytheon
Mayela Trespalacios
Ex Officio, Junior League Liaison
Kate Watson
Community Volunteer
Jabeen Zaidi
Marketing Consultant, IM Therapist and Foreign Language Teacher, IPT and Greenhill School
Advisory Board
Sheana Chen
Ruben E. Esquivel
Gayle G. Johansen
Rev. Rob Leischner
Sharon Martin
Morton Meyerson
Sammye Myers
Camille Owens
Marnie Wildenthal
Literacy Achieves Staff
Administrative Staff
Sarah Papert
Executive Director
214-265-5057 x 104
Cathy King
Development Director
214-265-5057 x 106
Dionne Kirby
Associate Director of Development
214-265-5057 x 110
Tim Jernigan
Accounting and Facilities Manager
214-265-5057 x 109
Elizabeth Harris
Administrative Assistant
214-265-5057 x 107
Adult Program Staff
Liz Harling
Adult Program Director
214-265-5057 x 102
Liz Bruni
ELM-East Dallas Adult Program Manager
214-265-5057 x301
La'Tonya Coleman-Hill
West Dallas Adult Program Manager
214-265-5057 x201
Leti Bustamante
Student Services Manager
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Maddy Rosenbaum
Student Services Manager
214-265-5057 x108
Ashley Holm
Program Data Manager
214-265-5057 x112
Lynette Williams Austin
Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator
214-265-5057 x114
Children's Program Staff
Birgit Scott
Children's Program Director
214-265-5057 x 103
Marina Leguizamo
West Dallas Children's Coordinator
214-265-5057 x 202
Dana Norris
ELM-East Dallas Children's Coordinator
214-265-5057 x 302