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Ari Agha, Ph.D
Development Officer
Mariana Alvarado
Case Manager
Aaruba Ayesha, APCC
Trauma Therapist
Biruktawit Bekele, LL.M.
Director of Development and Operations
Amy Berlin, MD
Psychiatrist
Kevin Cheng
Junior Salesforce Administrator
Valeria González
Clinical Coordinator
Melanie Liu
HR Generalist
Sandra Lopez, MA
Grant Reporting Manager
Jessica López-Morales
Partnerships & Community Outreach Manager
Jeanine Mangabu
African Communities Program Wellbeing Coordinator
Penélope Mato Vilar, MA, LMFT
Counseling Program Manager
Gianina Pellegrini, Ph.D
Executive Director
Mariyam-Ifteam Rufael, MA
African Communities Mental Health Specialist
Larissa Sajous
Psychosocial Care Program Manager
Jason Straussman, LCSW
Trauma Therapist
Sonya Svoboda
Clinical Director
Tizita Tekletsadik, LLB, MA
African Communities Program Manager
Fresnia Vu
Administrative Assistant
Gauri Bhardwaj, MBA
PTR Board Chair
Director of Operations at Toronado Capital Management
Cathy Chen, MPH
PTR Board Co-Chair
Healthcare Leader
Alex Cook
PTR Board Treasurer
Senior Director of Product Management
Susanne Kahlich
CEO of Singe Holdings, LLC
Darryl Hawkins, MBA, DBA
Business Executive
Phoenix Ricks
Founder & CEO, Girl Friday
Stephanie Wu
Operations Expert
Joseph Asunka, Ph.D
CEO, Afrobarometer
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
Julianne Orr, Esq.
Law Practitioner, Cooley LLP.
Monika Parikh, MA, MPA
PTR Co-Founder
Jonathan Rico
Software Engineer, Salesforce



































