Emerging Leaders Alumni
2022 Mentees

Hannah Bashaw
Director of Business Development, Creative Furniture Connection

Sarah Boon
Manager, Donor Engagement, Teach for America

Natalia Chavez
Development Analyst, Dominium

Olivia Whitten Conrad
Senior Manager, New Business Stabilization, TRIMEDX

Audrey De Alva
Service Excellence Program Manager, Valleywise Health

Jose Esparza
Product Quality Engineer, NXP Semiconductor

Sonal Lal
Program Coordinator, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism

Andrea Swanson
Associate Banker, JP Morgan Chase

Karen Vargas
Senior Recruiter, Copa Health
2022 Mentors

Joe Barba
Director, Government Relations, Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona

Paula Bommarito
AVP, Enterprise Brand & Community Strategy, CopperPoint Insurance Companies

Charles Brown
Chairman and CEO, Impact Diversity

Hon. César Chávez
Arizona State Representative (LD29)

Ed Drummond
Owner, Capstone Realty Professionals

William Fischbach
Partner, Tiffany & Bosco

Perry Gabuzzi
Senior Vice President, Kidder Matthews

Michael Gallaugher
President, Toro Insurance Group

Harry Garewal
President and CEO, Trin & Associates

Beth Ginzinger
Chief Strategy Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona

Reine Yazbeck Hamilton
Senior Vice President, Bell Bank

Nate Lowrie

Karyn MacVean
Co-founder, Arizona Spaceport Alliance and Designated Broker, North Star Commercial Real Estate Advisors

Dr. Maria Harper-Marinick
Senior Fellow, The Aspen Institute

Sentari Minor
Head of Strategy, evolvedMD

Tiffany Sharp
Principal, Sharp Construction

Jim Stevens
Vice President, Muscular Moving Men/MM3
2021 Mentees

Ahmed Al-Marridi
Air Medical Base Supervisor, PHI Air Medical

Albert Roh
Medical Director of the Radiology Department, Valleywise Health

April Surdilla
Senior Clinical Nurse, Valleywise Health

Bridget Gesser
Project Manager, Architectural Resource Team

Dani P Zimmerman
Business Developer/Marketing Director, Pegasus Transit Inc

Edward Alfonso Espinoza
Enterprise Production Support Analyst, Blue Cross Blue Shield of AZ

Elon Graves
Marketing and Communications Intern, Valleywise Health Foundation

Jaira Lupe Valenzuela
Strategic Planning Analyst, Chicanos Por La Causa

Jennifer Villalobos
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Sharp Construction

Jonah Rodriguez
Hispanic Marketing Coordinator, Arizona Coyotes

Juan Alberto Palomino
Software Engineer, Millipore-Sigma

Liz Watzlavik
Project Engineer at Kitchell

Madeline Louis
J.D. Student, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law – Arizona State University

Maria Guadalupe Valdez
Care Specialist, Equality Health

Marina Sandoval
Vice President, Community & Partner Engagement, Novle

Olivia Mozilo
Arizona Coyotes Hockey Club, Coordinator, Foundation and Community Impact

Juliet Anderson
Case Manager, New Family AZ

Raechel Owen
Banker, JP Morgan Chase

Tiffany Jones
Clinical Research Operations Project Manager, Translational Genomics Research Institute

Timothy Strowd
Air Medical Base Supervisor, PHI Air Medical
2021 Mentors

David Adame
CEO, Chicanos Por La Causa

Paula Bommarito
AVP, Enterprise Brand & Community Strategy, CopperPoint Insurance Companies

Clarence McAllister
Founder and CEO, Fortis Networks

Gretchen Buhlig
CEO, ASU Foundation

Marina Carpenter
EVP of Public Affairs and General Counsel, Arizona Coyotes

Reine Yazbeck Hamilton
Commercial Banking Leader, Southwest Region, Wells Fargo Bank, NA

Edmundo Hidalgo
Vice President of Outreach Partnerships, ASU

Deanna Salazar
Chief Administration Officer and General Counsel, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona

Maria Morales Spelleri
Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Chicanos Por La Causa

Brittani Willett
Executive Director, Arizona Coyotes Foundation, Corporate & Community Impact