Our Team

HAYLEE MCBRIDE​

Executive Director​

“When you create a difference in someone’s life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime.” -Danielle Doby

FATIMA CASTILLO

Program and Development Director

“Every day is a great day to be great! -Author Unknown

Board of Directors

SANDRA CANDIA

Founder/Secretary

“I want kids to be empowered to make a difference in their lives and the lives of others; to belong to something bigger than themselves.”​

RICK MITCHELL

President

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” -C.S. Lewis 

LISA STEWARD

Treasurer

“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” -Mary Angelou

LENA BUCK

“I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you can change enough communities you can change the world.” -Erin Gruwell

MAIRA CARRILLO

SELENA MARTINES

“The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him but the number of people he serves.”

John Maxwell