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Meet the LeadersTrust Team

Chana Fitton

Program Director

Chana dreams of a world that is loving and just. She loves connecting with people through deep listening. She is always laughing, especially at the silliest jokes and loves to swing dance.

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Luigi Fu

Project Director

Luigi is a talented problem-solver and community builder who recently ran his first marathon and enjoys long road trips.

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Sidney Hargro

Executive Director

Sidney firmly believes that we can make possible the seemingly impossible. He has an active imagination that led to a career in design engineering before pivoting toward purpose in the social impact sector. This imagination is his superpower and drives his capacity to imagine a liberatory world for future generations. He often dreams of traveing the world and lifting the beauty, struggle, and genius of humanity through documentary photography, particularly the stories of those who share a pursuit of liberation and overcoming sytemic oppression.

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Justine Ingram

Project Director

Justine utilizes her lived experiences and love of connecting people to foster hope for those who want to create intentional change in their own way. Justine’s favorite things are cooking traditional southern dishes, thrift shopping, and understanding her own historical family ties through generational storytelling.

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Bonnie Mazza

Project Director

Bonnie commits her skills as a coach, strategist, and facilitator to advancing equity and justice. She spends her time supporting social justice movement leaders and dreaming and co-creating with values-aligned communities. She finds joy in the outdoors—particularly in the forest or on the beach—and in the company of her family. Bonnie is routinely awed by the beauty around her—both big and small.

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Katelyn Montalvo

Operations Manager

Katelyn strives to push her communities for social change and continuous improvement. If Katelyn isn’t working hard at breaking social norms and fighting against injustices, she is traveling the world or finding new restaurants to explore. She is an avid food connoisseur who loves to connect with people over breaking bread. Katelyn received her BA from Tufts University in Community Health and American Studies.

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Quetzalli Muñoz

Capacity Strengthening Intern

Quetzalli enjoys building relationships through storytelling and believes that this is one of the best ways to make strong, deep connections with others. She enjoys dancing, traveling, and going to concerts. Quetzalli plans to apply to graduate school and pursue a MSW.

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Andrew Ngeseyan

Director of Finance and Operations

Andrew’s passion for equity and mission-driven work is the product of a decade spent working with, and for educators. The lessons he learned are the foundation for the critical work done at the LeadersTrust. Supporting organizations throughout our programs motivates his desire to improve our communities.

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Maria Rogers Pascual

Program Director

Maria is a program director at the LeadersTrust and enjoys having her hands in many different pots – program design, coaching and mentorship, stratey and organization culture building. Maria is a dedicated mindfulness practitioner in the Vipassan tradition. More than anything, she loves curating creative and contemplative spaces where leaders can discover their brilliance and connect across difference in new ways that build the kind of worlds we all want to live in. Maria is bilingual and bicultural and speaks English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. She loves to engage friends and family in collage-making and mosaic murals and music.

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Aerial Reese

Program Manager

Aerial is a loud and proud Black queer survivor who leads with authenticity and resilience. Their collaborative approach fosters trust and support while centering identity and intersectionality to create a more equitable world. Aerial finds joy and purpose in art and texture therapy, moments by the water, cuddles with their pup, and belly-aching laughs.

Melissa Toala

Program Manager

Melissa is a proud Nuyorican who loves being from the Bronx and connecting with people through food and music. She takes pleasure in co-creating spaces that allow people to show up fully, feeling affirmed, respected, and safer to just exist as well as radically imagine new possibilities together. Fresh sofrito and sazón sizzling in a pan is one of her favorite smells.

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Etobssie Wako

Project Director

Etobssie believes in symbiosis and in radical collaboration. She finds joy in co-creating new possibilities with those at the frontlines of change work; and upholds her peoples’ traditions that understand liberation as art, and song, and dance.

Ashlee Wimberly

Program Manager

Ashlee Wimberly is great at combining data with lived experience to create powerful, relatable storytelling narratives. She is a proud auntie who enjoys deep conversations over coffee, supporting independent bookstores, and traveling to new places.

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Meet our Advisory Board

Linda Wood

Advisory Board Chair

As former Program Director at the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, Linda founded the Flexible Leadership Awards in 2004 and led the Haas Leadership Initiatives for 18 years.