About Us

Our Team

Meet the Wayfinder Team

Our expert team of administrators, teachers, designers, and curricula experts are passionate about bringing belonging, purpose, and meaning to students and educators across the world.

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Wayfinder Core Team

Patrick Cook-Deegan

Founder & CEO

Brandy Arnold

Chief Customer Officer

Phil Holcombe

Chief Product Officer

Melissa Smith

Chief Revenue Officer

Matthew Winn

VP of Business Operations, Chief of Staff

Jeremy B. Lupoli, Ph.D.

VP of Engineering

Erin Daugherty

VP of Product

Morgan Joseph

Head of Field Marketing

Rob McCreary

Head of Account Management

Casey Pettit, LICSW

Regional Director of Partnerships

Zachary Baquet

Partner Success Manager

Alie Kelley

Director of School Success

Quinae Jackson

Head of Training & Learning

Angela Bennett

Senior Product Support Manager

Sahil Singh Gill

Product Support Associate

Vinutha Kumar

Regional Director of Partnerships

Joseph Bonifacio

Director of Quality Assurance

Emily Beiga

Head of Demand Generation

Ana Villarreal

Creative Director

Joyce Isleta

Senior Product Designer

Erica Talamo

Director of Partnerships

Diana Curtaz

Senior District Implementation Manager

Tygue Luecke

Content Writer + Editor

Zareen Rahman

People Business Partner

Ryan Vitter

Senior Front End Developer

David Sanders

Engineer

Sarah Starr

Partner Success Manager

Mark Williams

Curriculum + Training Designer

Quintin Adam

Senior Engineer

Jacqueline Dene

Outreach Coordinator

Olive Bronson

Director of Partnerships

Bobbi Anderson

New Partnerships Manager

Laddy St George

Project Manager

Sahara Reiz

Operations Manager

Stephawn Newsom

Senior Partner Success Manager

Tracey Milhouse

Senior Conference and Events Manager

Kat Clark

Head of Product Marketing

Emily Lockhart

Director of Partnerships

Shelby Condon

Director of Partnerships

Summer Sinsigalli

Director of Partnerships

Sarah Thorp

Outreach Coordinator

Anya Kazanjian

Seasonal Outreach Coordinator

Wayfinder Guides

Caroline Bonner

Tammie Davis

Natasha Mihm, LMFT

Nora Watkis

Dwayne Fontenette

International and Domestic Joint Partnerships

Dr. Miki K. Tomita

Hawai’i

CEO, Education Incubator

Will Hanley

Australia

Innovation Advisor, Independent Schools of Victoria

Raiki Machida

Japan

CEO, ImaginEx

Wayfinder Advisors

Dr. Bill Damon

Director

Stanford Center on Adolescence + Author, Path to Purpose

Dr. Aneel Chima

Director

Division of Health and Human Performance, Stanford

Mike Marriner

Founder

RoadTrip Nation + Ashoka Fellow

Sandy Husk

ASCD Interim CEO

Former AVID CEO and District Superintendent

Emily Esfahani Smith

Author

The Power of Meaning + NY Times Contributor

Samantha Feinberg

Senior Advisor

Aaron Sokol

Senior Growth Advisor

Former Growth and Sales Leader at Clever and Handshake

Don Shalvey

Founder Aspire Schools + Fr. Gates Foundation Deputy Director

Molly Efrusy

President

Efrusy Family Foundation

Alline Akintore

Principal

Oregon Venture Fund

Tristan Love

Director of Education Justice, Fargo Public Schools

Former Principal (CO & TX)

Eric Wilson

Founder of Noble Impact

Bo Shao

Chairman & Co-Founder

Evolve Ventures

Dr. Diann Kitamura

Former Superintendent, Santa Rosa City Schools + Board Member, California Association of Asian & Pacific Leaders in Education

Santa Rosa, CA

Monica Enand

Board Member, Oregon Community Foundation

Portland, Oregon

Nat Manning

Senior Advisor

Whitehouse Innovation Fellow

Chris McKenna

Education Program Officer

Mindful.org + Former Program Director, Mindful Schools

Sarah Pazur, Ph.D

Director of School Leadership, CS Partners & President of FlexTech Education

Dearborn, MI

Sean McClung

Head of School Success, XQ Institute + Former Principal at Oakland Unified and Envision Schools

Bob Lenz

Executive Director

Buck Institute + Founder, Envision Schools

Gina Condon

President & Co-Founder, Construct Foundation

Jennifer Carolan

Co-Founder and General Partner

Reach Capital

Dr. John Gasko

Wayfinder Senior Fellow, Chief Well-Being + SEL Officer, Uplift Education

Dallas, TX

Laura Thompson

Product Lead, GoogleX + Trustee, Wayland Academy

San Francisco, CA

Daniel Keever

Deputy Superintendent - Williamsburg-James City County Schools

Virginia Beach, VA

Kimberley Harrington

Former New Jersey Commissioner of Education, Executive Director of NJASCD

Michael F. Malone

Executive Consultant + Retired Massachusetts Superintendent

Boston, MA

Chi Kim

CEO Pure Edge + CASEL Board Member

Boston, MA

Lee Hark

Head of School, GreenHill School + Former Assistant HOS Durham Academy

Dallas, TX

Pamela Davis

Makerspace Facilitator, Richland 2 School District

Columbia, South Carolina

Randle Charles

Haudenosaunee Member (Iroquois Confederacy)

Artist, Indian American Institute of Art

Max McGee

Co-Founder and COO, Center for Success for High Need Schools and Former Illinois State Superintendent

Research & Design Advisors

Dr. Susie Wise

Founder

Stanford's K12 Lab + Adjunct Professor Stanford d.school

Vicki Zakrzewski

Education Director

UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center

Kendall Cotton Bronk, Ph.D

Director

Claremont Adolescent Moral Development Lab

Heather Malin, Ph.D

Director

Stanford Center on Adolescence

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

Honorary Principal Fellow

The University of Melbourne’s Centre for Wellbeing Science

Murat Ozturk

Data Scientist

Rutgers University