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Our Boards

Our Board of Directors serves as the governing body of the organization and our advisory boards bring their individual and collective expertise to support our leadership teams.

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Soccer Without Borders is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with EIN 20-3786129.

A Senda soccer ball sits in the foreground with participants playing toward a goal in the bakground.

Board of Directors

Erin Cook

Board President

Director of Business Strategy

SuperDeep Studio

Portland, OR

Toaha Ahmad

Career Engineering Lead

Google

Seattle, WA

Julio Chow-Gamboa

Senior Manager, Educator Capacity

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

San Mateo CA

Michael Littleton

Certified Public Accountant

Oakland, CA

Tammy Reder

Past Board President

Chief Financial Officer

Horizons for Homeless Children 

Boston, MA 

Martha Saavedra

Board Secretary | Governance Comm. Chair

Associate Director

Center for African Studies,

Univ. of California Berkley

Berkeley, CA

Dino Bovell

Director, Business Affairs, TV & Streaming

NBC Universal

Los Angeles, CA

Christopher Grecco

Founder

Element Market Research

Lexington, KY

Leila Milani

Global Policy & Programs Director

Futures Without Violence

Washington, DC

Michael Sack

Past Board President

Senior Fellow

Jobs for the Future

Philadelphia, PA

Charlie Bustin

Board Treasurer | Finance Comm. Chair

Partner

Douglas C. Lane & Associates

New York, NY

Gillian Cassell-Stiga

Senior Counsel, Digital Justice Initiative

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights

Brooklyn, NY

Warshan Hussin

SWB Alumnus

Facility Manager

MedStar Montgomery Medical Center

Baltimore, MD

Adaobi Okafor

Director of Finance

Trees for the Future

Washington, DC

Karishma Sheth

Chief Program Officer

EveryMind

Rockville, MD

National Advisory Board

Calen Carr

On-Air Host

Major League Soccer

Greg Lalas

Chief Marketing Officer

United Soccer League

Bill Price

President

Driva Solutions

Ann Cook

Associate Head Coach

Penn State Women's Soccer

Simon Levett

Retired

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Melissa Roth

VP & General Counsel

Global Rescue

Naomi Girma

Professional Soccer Player

USWNT & San Diego Wave

Jeff McIntyre

Founder

Ruffneck Scarves

Chris Sonntag

Head of Partnership Marketing

Chicago Fire FC

Colorado Advisory Board

Yoni Dobie-Geffen

Founder & Principal

YDG Consulting

Sarah Stangl Keras

Project Manager

Former SWB Staff Member

Jasper Verlaan

US Sales Director

Macs Adventure

Zach Kilimann

Recreation Coordinator

City of Greeley

Former SWB Staff Member

Shawn Stein

Executive Director

ActiVida

Afshin Sarvestani

Accounting and Benefits Manager

Rose Community Foundation

Lisa Taylor

Senior Program Officer

The Weld Trust

Maryland Advisory Board

Trey Greiser

Board Chair

Business Analyst, Baltimore Gas & Electric 

Lindsay Monti

General Counsel & CCO

JMI Equity

 

Eloise Grose

Assistant Director

The Shriver Center, UMBC

Daniel Solomon

ESOL Parent Liaison

Baltimore City Public Schools

Runit Kumar

Analyst

T. Rowe Price

Matthew Warner

ESOL Educational Associate

Baltimore City Public Schools

Massachusetts Advisory Board

Abdoulaye Balde

Warehouse Manager

Hudson News

Boston, MA

Natasha Hussain

Manager, Software Engineering

TraceLink Inc.

Boston, MA

Daniel O'Connor

Acceleration Liaison

The Kaizen Company

Boston, MA

Mercedes Valdes

Water Resources EIT

HDR, Inc.

Portland, ME

Allison Horwitz

Staff Attorney

AARP Foundation

Washington, DC

Gabrielle Krause

Permanency Hearing Paralegal

Department of Children and Families

Boston, MA

Shalini Patel

Head of Furniture & Decor

Wayfair

Boston, MA

Taylor Willey

Speech Pathologist

Thom Anne Sullivan Center

Lowell, MA

Alanna Hughes

Management Consultant 

Deloitte

Boston, MA

Saf Momen

Lead Engineer

OM1, Inc.

Boston, MA

Amanda Tan

Administrative Coordinator

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

Candida Yanez

SWB Parent

Chelsea, MA

Bay Area Advisory Board

Omsri Bharat

Learning & Development Manager

Propeller Consulting

Rick Eichmann

Senior Managing Director

NERA Economic Consulting

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Patricia Merino Price

Founder and Principal

HumanSights/Independent Consulting

Andrew Coleman

Co-Founder

LQ Digital 

Yohannes Harish

Professional Soccer Player

Oakland Roots

SWB Oakland Alumnus

Mike Woitalla

Editor

Soccer America

Neha Desai

Director of Immigration

National Center for Youth Law

Kathryn Nagy

Senior Social Impact Consultant

VIVA Social Impact Partners

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