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BOARD OF DIRECTORS | ANGEL ADVISORY BOARD

GRACE DICKERSON
Grace Dickerson is the Education Coordinator at Hope and a Home. In this role, Ms. Dickerson works with parents and schools to ensure that the children receive the educational resources to which they are legally entitled. She helps children gain admission to private and charter schools and offers them incentives for academic achievement. Ms. Dickerson is a strong advocate with an ability to make education issues and student assessment results easy for parents to understand.

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LISA ENLOE

With over 24 years experience in the construction industry, Lisa Enloe and her business partner, Jonathon Held, launched Held Enloe & Associates, LLC, a company that specializes in providing comprehensive project management services, dispute resolution, litigation support, training, and research and analysis for a wide variety of clients including owners and developers, designers, law firms, insurance, bonding and lending companies, and construction companies. Previously, she was a Vice President with The Clark Construction Group, Inc, one of the nation's largest general contractors with over $4 billion in revenue and offices across the country.

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WINSTON BAO LORD
Winston Lord is a Consultant at Portfolio Logic, which he joined in 2006. Winston is leading PL’s efforts in postsecondary healthcare education. Prior to joining Portfolio Logic, Winston was the Executive Director of the Washington Baseball Club, a group of national business and philanthropic leaders who worked with the city to return Major League Baseball to Washington DC after thirty-four years. Prior to Washington Baseball Club, Winston ran his own PR and Advertising Firm which delivered media consulting services to select national organizations. His clients included America’s Promise, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, National Geographic Chanel Asia, and Capital One Financial. He also was the Senior Vice President for Stevens, Reed, Curcio & Company, where he led the strategic development, execution, and production of television and radio ads for over fifty political campaigns. Winston is on the board of directors for the Urban Alliance Foundation and the Washington Ballet where he serves as the Chairman of the Ballet’s Jete Society annual gala. Winston received a BA in History from Yale University in 1990 and studied Chinese at Beijing University during the Summer of 1987.

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JENNIFER LEE RACKOW
Jennifer brings thirteen years of partnership and program development experience from the for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors, including substantial work with the national service programs AmeriCorps*VISTA and Senior Corps. She has coached more than a dozen entrepreneurs and their teams from start-up to success.

Jennifer has moved from a childhood spent participating in service, and a young adulthood developing service programs, to a career creating innovative models of volunteer engagement and entrepreneurial businesses. She is most aptly described as, “an ‘and’ girl living in an ‘or’ world.”

Cofounding STRIVE, Students Taking a Role in Volunteer Education, in her suburban Philadelphia High School, was Jennifer’s first foray into volunteer leadership…and “managing up” as an impatient teenager. After cofounding one of the country’s first Alternative Spring Break programs and growing the program from two domestic sites to ten domestic and international sites in three years, they let her graduate from college.

Paying the bills to support her service habit, Jennifer worked as a Business Analyst for Pembrooke Occupational Health, assessing business plans for corporate investment (and learning just how many ways there are to write – and not write – business plans). Realizing that for her, service could not be relegated to a hobby, Jennifer began working for the Corporation for National and Community Service – which she still does, part time. She has extensive experience with AmeriCorps*NCCC, VISTA, and Senior Corps and is thrilled that the call to service has finally exploded onto the national stage.

In her first attempt to work simultaneously in the non-profit and for-profit sectors, Jennifer became Associate Director of Partnerships for Creative Action, where she trained students as judges, attorneys and jurors for seven Philadelphia high schools’ internal teen courts and developed three conflict resolution curricula subsequently used in Pennsylvania and California public schools. She then decided those young people deserved a fair shot at college and worked as a corporate Robin Hood for The Princeton Review, customizing test preparation programs for schools and nonprofits across the mid-Atlantic. With that portfolio she joined the Board of Aldersgate Youth Service Bureau, a private, nonprofit social service agency dedicated to promoting healthy relationships and the well being of children, adults, and families through the provision of diversified programs in counseling, foster care, substance abuse prevention and intervention, and community outreach.

In her private practice, Jenergy Consulting, Jennifer coaches entrepreneurs from start-up to success, taking a concept from an idea of how to fulfill a need, through the crucible of business development, until it is thriving profitably. Jennifer also often leads the development of firms’ institutes, retreats, evaluation tools, and coaching strategies. She regularly presents volunteer engagement workshops at statewide, regional, and national conferences. Her most recently published articles include: The Volunteer Asset in an Uncertain Economy; The Individual Volunteer Plan: Developing Top Talent; and Measuring Volunteer Program Results.

Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors of Rubye’s Kids, an all volunteer non-profit that empowers Philadelphia children who are living in poverty through joyful, enriching experiences that promote strong values, education, respect for self and others and commitment to community. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and an alumnus of the School for International Training’s Southern Cross Cultural Research Program.

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JONATHAN B. WILLIAMS
Jonathan B. Williams is serving at the Forum for Youth Investment as the Vice President for the Ready by 21 National Partnership. He provides direction to the 14 organizations that make up the Ready by 21 National Partnership, which engages leaders to ask bigger questions, build better partnerships and identify bolder strategies to result in better outcomes for children and youth, making them ready for college, work and life by the age of 21. Prior to joining the Forum, Jonathan served at the Corporation for National and Community Service for 8 years where he guided several new initiatives ranging in scope from establishing diversity programs to directing signature events and fundraising. In addition to his work at the national level, Jonathan has local, non-profit experience gained during his time as Director of Programs for Heads Up of Washington, DC. Heads Up is a successful family literacy program that has been recognized as a model for both after-school design and college student engagement. Before coming to the Washington, DC metro area, Jonathan’s career was spent in college admissions and financial aid work at both the post-secondary and secondary levels. During stints at Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania and Oberlin College, he specialized in assisting students of color and other under-represented students in their quest for higher education. Jonathan has degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Maryland College Park. He and his wife, Julie, live in Silver Spring, MD with their daughter and son, Kira and Tanner.

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