Lead4Tomorrow Board of Directors

Jane Shivers
Director, Chair

Jane is the Principal of Shivers Consulting providing counsel on marketing, communications, leadership and executive coaching. She has more than 30 years experience in public relations and marketing after building her own agency and selling it to Ketchum Communications in 1985. Jane was Director/Partner at Ketchum from 1985-2002, where she was responsible for Atlanta, Dallas, Miami and offices throughout Latin America. Clients included Delta Airlines, Home Depot, Cingular, Equifax, Bell South, Clorox, Proctor & Gamble and many other multi-national companies. She has served as Chair of the Society of International Business Fellows, a global network of CEOs and key executives, and on many Boards, including the Carter Center.

Karen Cross
Director

Karen 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 Non-killing. 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 traveled extensively internationally, pursuing peace-building efforts in Africa and South Asia, among other locales.

Stephanie Yang
Director

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.

Rohit Agarwal
Director

Rohit currently  runs an education focused investment fund as the Managing Director of The Tusker Fund. Prior to the Tusker Fund, he worked at McKinsey & Co. in San Francisco where he focused primarily on the public, education and private equity sectors. Additionally, Rohit led McKinsey & Co.’s non-profit, Generation that focused on helping unemployed youth, across 10+ cities in the USA. Rohit has a B.A. from Emory University where he played varsity soccer and tennis and a JD-MBA from Northwestern University School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management. He also previously taught high school in NYC through the Teach For America program and spent time as an investment banker with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.  

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.

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.

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.