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

Jeremy B. Lupoli, Ph.D.

Chief Technology Officer

Matthew Winn

Chief Operating Officer

Courtney Ples

VP of Sales

Quinae Jackson

Head of Training + Learning

Zareen Rahman

People Business Partner

Rob McCreary

Head of Account Management

Kat Clark

Senior Director of Marketing

Zachary Baquet

Senior Partner Success Manager

Casey Pettit, LICSW

Senior Director, Enterprise Partnerships

Angela Bennett

Senior Product Support Manager

Alie Kelley

Senior Partner Success Manager

Joseph Bonifacio

Director of Quality Assurance

Emily Biega

Head of Demand Generation

Ana Villarreal

Creative Director

Joyce Isleta

Senior Product Designer

Erica Talamo

Director of Partnerships

Diana Curtaz

Head of Implementation Services

Natasha Mihm, LMFT

District Implementation Manager

Tygue Luecke

Content Writer + Editor

Meagan Johnson

Education Marketing Manager

Ryan Vitter

Senior Front End Developer

David Sanders

Engineer

Mark Williams

Curriculum + Training Designer

Quintin Adam

Senior Engineer

Jacqueline Dene

Outreach Coordinator

Olive Bronson

Director of Partnerships

Bobbi Anderson

Director of Partnerships

Laddy St George

Project Manager

Sahara Reiz

Operations Manager

Tracey Milhouse

Senior Conference and Events Manager

Shelby Condon

Director of Partnerships

Summer Sinsigalli

Director of Sales Operations

Jenae McCarroll

Partner Success Manager

Christiana Tran

Product Support Associate

Summer Lee

Outreach Coordinator

Viola Wallace

Partner Success + Engagement Associate

Erin Willis

Partner Success Manager

Lauren Van Gomple

Director of Partnerships

Chase Nackenson

Director of Partnerships

Mercy Davis

Director of Partnerships

Lindsey Smith

Partner Success Manager

Kathleen Textor

Outreach Coordinator

Megan Bennett

Senior Conference + Events Specialist

Wayfinder Guides

Janeth Sierra

Nisa Williams

Eboni Chung-Davis

Ellen Sarkisian

Tammie Davis

Nora Watkis

Dwayne Fontenette

Hye Jung Tano

International and Domestic Joint Partnerships

Dr. Miki Tomita Okamoto

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

Chi Kim

CEO Pure Edge + CASEL Board Member

Dr. Susie Wise

Founder, Stanford K12 Lab + Adjunct Professor Stanford d.school

Sandy Husk

Interim Superintendent of Portland Public Schools + Former CEO of AVID

Emily Esfahani Smith

NY Times Contributor + Author,

The Power of Meaning

Mike Marriner

Founder of Roadtrip Nation + Ashoka Fellow

Aaron Sokol

Senior Growth Advisor, Former Growth and Sales Leader at Clever and Handshake

Kimberley Harrington

Former New Jersey Commissioner of Education, Executive Director of NJASCD

Susan Enfield

Former Superintendent, Washoe County School District (NV) and Highline Public Schools (WA)

Max McGee

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

Dr. Diann Kitamura

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

Dr. John Gasko

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

Tristan Love

Director of Education Justice, Fargo Public Schools + Former Principal

Chris Balme

Co-Founder, Millennium School + Author of Finding the Magic in Middle School

Dr. Chris Wilson

Superintendent, Kennett #39 School District

Tom Trigg

Former Superintendent, Blue Valley Schools (KS) and Highland Park ISD (TX)

Nat Manning

Senior AI Advisor + Presidential Innovation Fellow

Chris McKenna

Education Program Officer, Mindful.org + Former Program Director, Mindful Schools

Matthew Newcomb

CFO, Chime

Sarah Pazur, Ph.D

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

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

Diego Perez

Poet and NY Times Best-Selling Author

Daniel Keever

Deputy Superintendent - Williamsburg-James City County Schools

Michael F. Malone

Executive Consultant + Retired Massachusetts Superintendent

Tenecia Powe

Principal, Westside Atlanta Charter School

Molly Efrusy

President, Efrusy Family Foundation

Lee Hark

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

Pamela Davis

Makerspace Facilitator, Richland 2 School District

Randle Charles

Haudenosaunee Member (Iroquois Confederacy), Artist, Indian American Institute of Art

Alline Akintore

Principal, Oregon Venture Fund

Bo Shao

Chairman & Co-Founder, Evolve Ventures

Jennifer Carolan

Co-Founder and General Partner, Reach Capital

Monica Enand

Board Member, Oregon Community Foundation

Research + Design Advisors

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