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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

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Paula Bommarito

AVP, Enterprise Brand & Community Strategy, CopperPoint Insurance Companies

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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

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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

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Ahmed Al-Marridi

Air Medical Base Supervisor, PHI Air Medical

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Albert Roh

Medical Director of the Radiology Department, Valleywise Health

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April Surdilla

Senior Clinical Nurse, Valleywise Health

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Bridget Gesser

Project Manager, Architectural Resource Team

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Dani P Zimmerman

Business Developer/Marketing Director, Pegasus Transit Inc

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Edward Alfonso Espinoza

Enterprise Production Support Analyst, Blue Cross Blue Shield of AZ

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Elon Graves

Marketing and Communications Intern, Valleywise Health Foundation

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Jaira Lupe Valenzuela

Strategic Planning Analyst, Chicanos Por La Causa

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Jennifer Villalobos

Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Sharp Construction

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Jonah Rodriguez

Hispanic Marketing Coordinator, Arizona Coyotes

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Juan Alberto Palomino

Software Engineer, Millipore-Sigma

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Liz Watzlavik

Project Engineer at Kitchell

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Madeline Louis

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

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Maria Guadalupe Valdez

Care Specialist, Equality Health

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Marina Sandoval

Vice President, Community & Partner Engagement, Novle

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Olivia Mozilo

Arizona Coyotes Hockey Club, Coordinator, Foundation and Community Impact

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Juliet Anderson

Case Manager, New Family AZ

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Raechel Owen

Banker, JP Morgan Chase

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Tiffany Jones

Clinical Research Operations Project Manager, Translational Genomics Research Institute

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Timothy Strowd

Air Medical Base Supervisor, PHI Air Medical

2021 Mentors

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David Adame

CEO, Chicanos Por La Causa

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Paula Bommarito

AVP, Enterprise Brand & Community Strategy, CopperPoint Insurance Companies

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Clarence McAllister

Founder and CEO, Fortis Networks

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Gretchen Buhlig

CEO, ASU Foundation

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Marina Carpenter

EVP of Public Affairs and General Counsel, Arizona Coyotes

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Reine Yazbeck Hamilton

Commercial Banking Leader, Southwest Region, Wells Fargo Bank, NA

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Edmundo Hidalgo

Vice President of Outreach Partnerships, ASU

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Deanna Salazar

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

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Maria Morales Spelleri

Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Chicanos Por La Causa

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Brittani Willett

Executive Director, Arizona Coyotes Foundation, Corporate & Community Impact

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