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Kordnie Jamillia-Lee, Vice Chair Paige Buck, Treasurer and Organizational Committee Chair Toby Eastman, Program Committee Chair Katy Chamberlain Gail Goldman Connie Handlin Shavonte Keaton Claudia Mendez John Post Allison Sparks Other HEY Volunteers
Kate Kalstein Ashley Love Rebecca Woodson
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HEY Staff Sara Razavi • Executive Director • 415-808-4435 • srazavi@uwba.org  Sara Razavi joined HEY in 2005 and has served as the Executive Director since 2007. Prior to HEY, Sara was the Parent and Youth Development Program Coordinator at I Have a Dream Foundation located in Aim High Academy Middle School in San Francisco and before that she was the Education Programs Coordinator at The Friendly Center, a family resource center in Orange County. Sara holds a BA in Sociology from University of California, Davis. She is a foster youth advocate with a background in program adminstration, strategic planning and organizational development.
 Dana Dana Mandolesi holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from the University of New Orleans and specializes in research design. She is an expert in qualitative research methods and designed and managed HEY’s 2-year Emancipation Research Project (ERP). Her expertise is evaluating multi-organizational community systems. She has researched social systems in professional and academic settings varying from youth sub-cultural networks and drug policy in New Orleans, urban non-profit functionality in Costa Rica, voluntary and faith based agencies active in the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and the interaction between San Francisco’s Child Welfare System and transitional age youth serving non-profits. Out of this work she has written many reports and toolkits, such as a guide promoting best practices and communication strategies between agencies active in disaster, multiple statistics sheets, and articles and reports. At HEY, Mandolesi manages all foster care and community research, and acts as the ‘info-hub’ for anyone needing data, statistics or information about HEY’s focus areas. Mandolesi creates, designs and markets HEY materials, such as the HEY Statistics Sheets, the HEY Housing Guide and other Trends. She also dabbles in online fundraising, internet marketing and social media for non-profits and built the beautiful new HEY website. Leslie Brown • Program Coordinator • lbrown@uwba.org  Leslie Leslie Brown joined HEY in early 2009. Prior to HEY Leslie was the Associate Director of Ozone House, the nation’s second oldest homeless youth shelter. She has extensive experience and education in non-profit leadership, specializing in designing, implementing, and managing programs and services to supporting transitional aged youth. Leslie holds a Bachelor of Science from Eastern Michigan University and a Masters in Public Administration from University of Michigan. At HEY, Leslie provides technical assistance training and curriculum development for the employment and education work groups and supports the Emancipated Youth Advocacy Board (EYAB), a team of emancipated foster youth who teach the community about foster youth issues, among other projects. |
Committee & Other Volunteer Positions Open
For more information contact Sara Razavi at 415-808-4435 or srazavi@uwba.org
