Meet the District C Team
Karen Cho
Programs Manager
Dan Gonzalez
Co-founder & CEO
Ben Laptad
Director Of Programs
Ashley Mannka
Chief Strategy Officer
Danielle Mayber
Partnerships Manager
Briana O’Melveny
Virginia Pitler
Director of Operations
Laura Quarin
Director of Partnerships
Meet More of Our Team
District C’s formal governing body.
An advisory board that helps us connect with and recruit business partners that supply real problems for student work.
Board of Directors
Jess Ekstrom
Founder & Chairwoman
Headbands of Hope
Rey Fernandez
Assistant Head of School
Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
Dan Gonzalez (ex officio)
Co-Founder & CEO
District C
Anne Jones
Co-Founder
District C
Venus Liles
Founder & Managing Attorney
Liles Law
Jessica Mitsch Homes
Co-Founder & CEO
Momentum
Danya Perry
Director of Equitable Economic Development
Wake County Economic Development
Jessica Shyu
Director, Sales Enablement
Datadog
Partnerships Board
Maari Casey
Founder
Uncompany
Cris Charbonneau
Enterprise Leadership Communications
Fidelity Investments
Leon Chisolm
Co-Founder/CEO
Chisolm Capital/Chisolm Communities
Potoula Chresomales
SVP of Product Management
Skillsoft
Chris Deshazor
Director, Talent & Org Development
Harness
Nathan Frank
Director, Machine Learning Operations & Platform
Grainger
Holly Garner
Vice President, New Channels & Head of Workforce
Junior Achievement USA
TJ Harris
Process Engineering Manager, Lead Product Engineer
Bridgestone Americas
Valencia Hicks-Harris
Founder & Executive Director
Empower All, Inc.
Haley Huie
Director
NC State Entrepreneurship Clinic
Cornelius Kirk
Author & Podcast Host
You Matter LLC / Bro Code
Windy Kohl
Strategic Advisor
Phrasia
JP Maloney
Program Generalist
Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED)
Parker Mayes
CEO
Inbound Revenue
Chi Nwogu
Founder & CEO
GameFlo
Shraddha Rathod
Co-Founder & CEO
Freshspire
Mel Wright
Owner
The Wright Village
