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