Jane Shivers

Director, Chair

Jane is the Principal of Shivers Consulting providing counsel on marketing communications and leadership. She has more than 30 years’ experience in public relations including as an officer and director at the world’s largest PR firm. Today she focuses on helping not-for-profit organizations fundraise and develop high impact programs. She has served as Chair of the Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF), a global network of CEOs and key executives, and is on the boards of The Alliance Theatre, Piedmont Park Conservancy, Rollins School of Public Health, Global Network Foundation, L4T Ruanda, The Joy Trust in Zimbabwe, and leads the North America Leadership Alliance program for SIBF.

Stephanie Yang

Director, Vice Chair

Stephanie is known for her entrepreneurial spirit in her local community, and helped to build multiple small business and nonprofit organizations. She is currently an Independent Educational Consultant, passionate about working with teenagers and young adults to bring positive outcomes. She has had extensive practical experience as a mental health counselor working with children, teenagers and young adults from various social agencies to psychiatric departments in hospitals. She is involved extensively in nonprofit organizations that provide support for youth programs in the local school district and the community.

Greg Bourne

Director, Lead4Tomorrow Executive Director

Greg has more than 25 years experience in the fields of education, conflict resolution, leadership development and peacebuilding. He has co-founded and directed three university and nonprofit organizations, most recently Lead4Tomorrow. His areas of expertise include developing cross-sector partnerships to address major policy and social issues, both in the United States and internationally. He has written numerous articles and led many courses and workshops toward the end of creating truly civil societies.

Karen Cross

Director

Karen is one of Lead4Tomorrow’s three Co-Founders.​ She served as the Program Manager for the University of Hawai‘i Program on Conflict Resolution and Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace from 1987 to 2010. She provided culturally appropriate process design, facilitation, mediation, and a range of conflict resolution training to schools, communities, and organizations throughout Hawai`i, the Pacific region and internationally. Recently she served as a founding Co-Director of the Center for Global Nonkilling. Her undergraduate psychology degree work was at the University of Redlands and San Jose State and her graduate work was in social work at UCLA. She has travelled extensively internationally, pursuing peace-building efforts in Africa and South Asia, among other locales.

Dana Armstrong

Director

Dana currently runs the talent development program at the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, matching exceptional UC Davis research students with opportunities in commercialization of improved food initiatives. Her prior decade of work consisted primarily of running global learning, study abroad, and other experiential learning programs, and university global affairs. She holds a masters in International Agricultural Development, a BA in International relations and minor in biological sciences from UC Davis, and has conducted research in Sierra Leone, Thailand and locally in Yolo county on behalf of the Yolo Food Bank. She has spent meaningful time leading or participating in global programs in Tanzania, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mexico and the United Kingdom, as well as visits to many more, and has been actively involved in local outreach initiatives in Yolo and Sacramento counties against human trafficking, homelessness, and food insecurity.

Rohit Agarwal

Director

Eric Cahill

Director

Eric Cahill guides corporate strategy for electric transportation in SMUD’s Customer & Grid Strategy group and develops programs to convince more customers to switch to “electric fuel.” Prior to SMUD, Eric served as Program Director at Plug In America, a nonprofit EV advocacy organization. Eric’s 25+ year career spanned roles in strategy, program management, and product development at GM, Boeing, and powertrain supplier Quantum Technologies. He led the X PRIZE Foundation’s $10 million global Automotive X PRIZE competition and as a consultant advised global automakers and the Department of Energy on electric transportation. Eric earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California and master’s degrees from MIT in Engineering & Management, and Technology & Policy. In 2015 Eric completed his Ph.D. in Transportation Technology and Policy at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis where his doctoral research on auto dealers informed development of Plug In America’s PlugStar program, the nation’s first program to train, certify, and equip car dealers with tools to sell EVs. Eric co-developed SMUD’s “eFuel” commercial EV advisory & charger installation and management service, the first of its kind offered by a public utility.

Junior Goris

Director

Jose “Junior” Goris lives in Sacramento, CA where he represents district 7 on the city’s Measure U committee. Moving from Miami to Sacramento in 2014, Junior became quickly familiar with Sacramento’s important issues, becoming a fixture at city council and school board meetings. Junior is passionate about Children and their education, serving on various school district committees and subcommittees. Junior comments “We all have an obligation to serve. Public officials can’t do it alone, citizens must assist in building and shaping a neighborhood, school, or State they wish to a part of.” Junior has worked as a labor representative for United Airlines, traveling to more than 70 countries. Currently, Junior serves as School Site President at his children’s school and as an Advisory Committee Member for First 5-Sacramento. Locally, Junior serves as the Vice President of the Pocket-Greenhaven Neighborhood Association, where he has been a board member since 2020. Junior is excited to have joined LEAD4TOMRROW where he can assist the organization continue their mission of developing nurturing families, thriving children, resilient communities and healthier societies.

Lauren Hartman

Director

Lauren is an educator and community organizer living in Oakland, California. She is passionate about youth education and creating an engaging and supportive environment for children to flourish. Lauren teaches visual art at the California State University Maritime Academy. For over ten years she has collaborated with 826 Valencia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students with their creative and expository writing skills. She has led many family workshops, bringing children, parents, and caregivers together to collaborate creatively.

Maile Quick

Office Manager

“Humanitarian work has always held a strong place in my heart and I love the vision of Family Hui.“ Maile received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business with a concentration in accounting from California State University of Sacramento. She has worked with other non-profits utilizing her accounting degree by ensuring the credibility of the accounting internal control systems. Maile lives in Davis and is the mother to 3 teenage kids and when not working can be found on the sidelines of one of her kid’s soccer games.

Muzhgan Fakhri

Family Hui Coordinator

Muzhgan Fakhri is a mom of three, two boys and one wonder-girl. They are nine years and younger. Muzhgan has worked as a Family Hui Coordinator for the Lead4Tomorrow’s Family Hui Program since July 2018. She works with Central Asian (Afghanistan) and Middle Eastern (Iraq & Syria) communities in San Diego County. She started as a Family Hui Parent Leader before joining our staff. Muzhgan is an accomplished women rights activist born in Afghanistan, received a bachelor’s degree in Law & Political Science from Kabul University. Her services in Afghanistan included developing training and briefing materials on victim/witness assistance and statutory and customary laws. She also assisted the Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) and Attorney General’s Office staff with teaching, lecturing and mentoring victim service providers and investigators about available victim and witness services. Muzhgan is fluent in English, Persian/Farsi/Dari & understands Pashto language. In the US, she worked as a translator for the License to Freedom social services organization in El Cajon, CA before joining the Family Hui staff. Muzhgan believes loving and respecting children, understanding them by considerately listening to them when they speak is of immense importance for their future growth as human beings.

Arezoo Pamiry

Family Hui Coordinator

Arezoo became a Family Hui Coordinator in 2017 after participating in the program and volunteering as a Family Hui Parent Leader. She has been instrumental in the spread of the program throughout California and in organizing the launch of Family Hui is Afghanistan. Arezoo deeply understands the importance of social connections in strengthening families and building resilience. She focuses on building strong, supportive communities wherever she goes and has created one big Afghan ohana by connecting families throughout California. She is fluent in Dari/Farsi and English. Arezoo is the mother of two.

Shaima Rahmani

Family Hui Coordinator

Shaima Rahmani is a mother of 5 children, four boys and a baby girl, and has worked as a Family Hui Coordinator in Sacramento County since 2018. She started as a participant, then a parent leader, and now as a coordinator of hui throughout the Sacramento region. Shaima focuses on supporting women and children and building stronger families.

Kao Yee Xiong

Family Hui Program Coordinator

Kao Yee is a proud mother of three beautiful children and has a deep rooted love for working with the community. She discovered her love for the non-profit sector when she started her volunteer work during her high school years. With over 20 years of experience, she took a break to be a stay at home mother in 2014. However, in 2018, she became a recipient of First5 Sacramento’s Community Connections Grant alongside two other stay-at-home mothers and began a community-led program for the South Sacramento/Elk Grove areas. Being able to reconnect with the community led her to Lead4Tomorrow where she can continue to grow professionally as a community leader while using her extensive community-building experience.

Denis Bikesha

East Africa Program Coordinator

Dr. Denis Bikesha is L4T’s East Africa Programs Coordinator as well as the Executive Director of Lead4Tomorrow Rwanda. He previously served as the Dean of the School of Law, University of Rwanda and continues to teach several courses. Denis has worked for the Government of Rwanda in different capacities, including Director of Training, Mobilization and Documentation at the National Service of Gacaca Courts used to address cases associated with the Genocide. Denis is also a member of the High Council of the Judiciary as well as the High Council of the National Public Prosecution Authority of Rwanda. He received a Ph.D. from University of Dar es Salaam, School of Law and is also an alumnus of the School for International Training Graduate Institute based at Vermont, USA where he obtained a post-graduate diploma in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding.

Michaella Ellis

Program Coordinator

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Geydi Orozco

Program Coordinator

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