Our Team

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STAFF

Ari Agha, Ph.D
Development Officer

Adrián Arrivillaga

Bilingual Trauma Therapist

Mariana Alvarado

Bilingual Case Manager

Aaruba Ayesha, APCC
Trauma Therapist

Monica Bland

Assistant to the Executive Director

Kevin Cheng

Junior Salesforce Administrator

Biruktawit Bekele, LL.M.
Director of Development and Operations

Amy Berlin, MD
Consulting Psychiatrist

Danielle Davidson, LCSW

Psychological Evaluations Technical Advisor

Sarah Flessa 
Data & Reporting Manager

Valeria Gonzalez

Clinical Coordinator

Sandra Lopez, MA
Grant Reporting Manager

Jessica Lopez-Morales
Interpreter Program Manager

Jeanine Mangabu
African Communities Program Wellbeing Coordinator

Penélope Mato Vilar, MA, LMFT
Counseling Program Manager

Akosua Ombonga
Individual Donor & Communications Officer

Aron Oqubamichael, LLB
African Communities Wellbeing Coordinator

Gianina Pellegrini, Ph.D
Executive Director

Salomé Ragot 
HRC Clinical Coordinator

Mariyam-Ifteam Rufael, MA
African Communities Mental Health Specialist

Larissa Sajous

Psychosocial Care Program Manager

Celeste Sekigahama
Financial Officer

Mia Stewart

Interim Human Resources Director

Jason Straussman, LCSW

Trauma Therapist

Sonya Svoboda

Clinical Director

Tizita Tekletsadik, LLB, MA
African Communities Program Manager


Faten Kamel
Arabic Interpreter

Hoi Lam Chung (Karena)
Cantonese, Mandarin Interpreter

Enieh Yazdanpanah
Farsi & Dari (Persian) Interpreter

Mouneissa
French Interpreter

Issiaka Dembele
French Interpreter

Alta Bayanjargal
Mongolian Interpreter

Myriam Da Silva
French, Spanish, Portugese Interpreter

Robin Nazarian
Spanish, Portugese & French Interpreter

Cristina Ceballos
Spanish Interpreter

Dalia Lizbeth Nava Jacobo
Spanish Interpreter

Gisslle Perez-Leon
Spanish Interpreter

Joanna Oyarzabal
Spanish Interpreter

Yanett Kenney
Spanish Interpreter

Yolando Romo

Spanish Interpreter

Eugnia Arbol
Spanish Interpreter

Aidan Muñoz-Christian
Spanish Interpreter

Irene
Spanish Interpreter

Kisanet Tekie
Tigrinya, Italian Interpreter

Tsgereda A. Syoum
Tigrinya Interpreter

Joseph Asunka, Ph.D
CEO, Afrobarometer

Gauri Bhardwaj, MBA
Director of Operations at Toronado Capital Management

Cathy Chen, MPH
PTR Board Chair & Regional Director, Continuum of Care, Kaiser Permanente

Alex Cook
Senior Director of Product Management

Akawak Ejigu, MBA, DBA

PTR Board Treasurer & Finance and Administration Expert

Julianne Orr, Esq.

Law Practitioner, Cooley LLP.

Hillary Pollaro, MSc

Major Gift Manager at Marin Agricultural Land Trust

Stephanie Wu

Operations Expert


ADVISORY BOARD

Nahid Fattahi
Research Associate at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research

Tara Ghassemikia
Strategy and Implementation Consultant

Caroline Powell Donelan
Partner, Labor & Employment, Blank Rome

Molly McCoy, Esq., MPH, JD
Chief Privacy Official and Privacy Counsel at Blue Shield

Gilbert Newman, Ph.D.
Dean and Director of Clinical Training, Wright Institute

Monika Parikh, MA, MPA
PTR Founder and Board Chair

Jonathan Rico
Software Engineer, Salesforce