Who We Are
Our Boards
Governing Board
Tristan Andlinger
Student at Borough of Manhattan Community College
Jim Balfanz
President, City Year | Member Since 2014
Rhett Bennett
Managing Director, Minot Capital, LP | Member Since 2019
Joanna Burleson
Managing Director at Monitor Institute by Deloitte | Member Since 2018
Ben Chesler
Co-Founder, Imperfect Foods | Member Since 2020
Amory Donohue
Founder, Language in Action, LLC | Member Since 2019.
David Flink
Chief Empowerment Officer, Eye to Eye & Author of "Thinking Differently"
Inger Dewey Golob
Co-Owner, PhotoBall, & Learning Disability Advocate | Member Since 2018
Kevin Greer
Partner, Learn to Earn Fund, New Profit | Member Since 2018, Board Treasurer
Alan Harlam
Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs, Brown University | Member Since 2015
Tim Hebert
CEO, Trilix | Member since 2020
Alisha Howell
Vice President, Lillian Lincoln Foundation and former Chapter Leader | Member since 2021
Carol J. Hampf, JD
Education & Learning Disability Advocate | Member Since 2019, Board Secretary
Hillary Mow
Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Ares Strategy and Relationship Management Group | Member since 2022
Bea O. Awoniyi, Ph.D
Assistant VP, Student Affairs, Santa Fe College | Member since 2022
Jesse Sanchez
Culture Amp and former Eye to Eye Chapter Leader | Member since 2020
Leadership Council
Shawn Jacqueline Bohen
Principal Consultant, Workwonder
Ross Buffington
Former Eye to Eye Board Director
Bill Butler
Agent and Manager
Steve Carnevale
Executive Chairman, Sawgrass Technologies
Beth Cogan
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs
Shari Crotty
LD Advocate and Former Eye to Eye Board Member
Jim Cutler
CEO, Cutler Partners LLC
Susan Donahue
Board Member, Boston Medical Center, Museum of Fine Arts, and Health Leads
Elizabeth Alda O’Heaney, EdD
Special Educator & Learning Disability Advocate
Dean Flanagan
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Jess Flanagan
Parent Advocate
Phil Hanley
Comedian and Storyteller
Roch Hillenbrand
Founder and Managing Director of Stony Brook Investments
Marc Hoffman
Former Eye to Eye Board Director
Vanessa Kirsch
Founder and CEO, New Profit, Inc.
Adam Koplewicz
Managing Director, EJS Group
Jenny Krause
Continuous Improvement Supervisor, Professional Development and State Initiatives at Wyoming Dept. of Ed. Division of Individual Learning
Laura Giadorou-Koch, JD, LLM
CEO, Dolium Wines
Rick Lavoie
Special Educator and LD Advocate
Tammy Mobley
LD Advocate and Co-Founder, Every Kind of Mind
Stephen Neidich
Artist and Eye to Eye's 2015 Artist-in-Residence
Stacy Parker-Fisher
Education Consultant
Gail Propp
Founding Eye to Eye Board Director
Anne Schneider
Founder and President, LD Access Foundation
Susan Segal
Parent Advocate
Susan Kurz Snyder
Founder, Principal, & Senior Legal Recruiter, Greene-Levin-Snyder Legal Search Group
Lester Strong
Former Eye to Eye Board Director
Young Adult Guiding Coalition
At Eye to Eye we believe deeply in the power, voice, and perspective of our young people. All that we do is oriented around their needs, wants, and opportunities and we leverage their voices and leadership to inform our collective direction.
1 YAGC
The Young Adult Guiding Coalition (YAGC) is a 10-month long volunteer opportunity for young people aged 16-25 who identify as neurodivergent. YAGC members are primarily responsible for providing insight and input into Eye to Eye programs and services; co-creating opportunities for our Eye to Eye community; and serving as ambassadors for the movement to combat stigma and engage in anti-ableist practices as we work towards a world that celebrates learning differences and neurodiversity.
Our YAGC works together virtually as a singular advisory group in addition to 4 committees that work directly with specific internal teams here at Eye to Eye.
2 The YAGC has the following committees:
- Philanthropic Development Committee: supports our growth by leveraging their neurodiverse voices by helping to shape and participate in fundraising, events, community giving, funding opportunities, and more.
- Organizing and Action Committee: supports our movement building work by partnering with our Organizing and Action team to drive forward our base building and organizing campaign work.
- Professional Learning Committee: supports our work directly with our Professional Learning team to help inform and augment our educator programming by sharing their authentic personal and professional experiences as young people who learn differently.
- Near Peer Mentoring Committee: supports our work to inform our programmatic direction for our near peer mentoring and provide their experience, insight, and collaborate with the Near Peer Mentoring team on events and programs for our Mentoring Chapters.
Each Committee has a YAGC co-chair that works directly with an Eye to Eye staff member as committee co-chairs throughout the year.
3 High Level YAGC Participation
- A 10-month commitment with at least 20 hours of time, August 2022 through May 2023.
- Upon completion of a successful YAGC year, YAGC members receive an honorarium of $500.
Applications for 2022/23 are now closed. We will open applications for 2023/24 in Spring 2023.