Staff
The Commit Partnership is supported by a dedicated backbone staff of over 60 professionals, each a strong believer in the need to lift all voices within our community to reach our goals.
We believe talent is distributed equally but opportunity is not. Our team is dedicated to ending such inequity by supporting each of our 200-plus partners to collectively create significant economic mobility for every student in North Texas through equitable access to quality education.
More than 40 percent of our team is former teachers, campus principals, and school district and higher education leaders. We also include professionals with strong backgrounds in analytics, communications, and advocacy. We hire each one by one, always mindful of alignment with our True North Traits and commitment to the transformational power of education.
Executive Leadership
Commit's Executive Leadership includes our chiefs and the managing directors of each team. The E-Team serves as the executive level decision-making body tasked with leading programmatic direction and execution while ensuring the health of the organization.
Abby (Mayer) Eelsen
Chief Operating Officer
Gene Davis
Managing Director, Shared Services
Kate Greer
Managing Director, Policy & State Coalition
Chelsea Jeffery
Chief Regional Officer, EC–12
Ann Monroe
Executive Assistant to the CEO
Allison Powell
Finance Controller
Sile Robinson
Managing Director, Middle Grades Initiatives
Amber Shields
Managing Director, Early Matters Dallas
Miguel Solis
President
Jeannie Stone
Superintendent-In-Residence
Chris Walters
Managing Director, Strategic Initiatives
Dash Weerasinghe
Managing Director, Analytics & Insights
Todd Williams
Chairman & CEO
Bridget Worley
Chief State Impact Officer
Analytics and Insights
The Analytics and Insights team works to drive student-centered decision making through actionable data and analysis.
Gennie Mae Balanon
Manager, Analytics & Insights
Blessing Eben
Associate, Analytics & Insights
Amy Goudar
Manager, Analytics & Insights
Ben Higgins
Director, Analytics & Insights
Jonathan Hill
Manager, Analytics & Insights
Sofia Muñoz
Associate, Analytics & Insights
Poonam Parekh
Associate, Analytics & Insights
David Rardon
Director, Analytics & Insights
Jacqueline Romero
Manager, Analytics & Insights
Saumya Seth
Associate, Analytics & Insights
Dhruv Suryavanshi
Associate, Analytics & Insights
Business Services
At Business Services, we passionately pursue Commit's True North goal by offering unwavering support and essential resources to empower the organization's success.
Ashley Barco
Expense Manager, Finance
Kristin Boyle
Associate, Finance
Harneem Cansler
Revenue Manager, Finance
Sheena Fite
HR Generalist
Donisha Santiago-Anderson
Director, Human Resources
Dallas County Promise
The Dallas County Promise is more than a last-dollar scholarship. Its team collaborates with high schools and colleges to promote college enrollment, persistence, and completion for thousands of young people each year.
London Durham
Continuous Improvement Manager, Dallas County Promise
Phillip Fabian
Senior Director, College Readiness & Success
Karla Garcia
Manager, Dallas County Promise
Brittany Singleton
Manager, Dallas County Promise
Early Childhood - 12
The Early Childhood - 12 team works to improve our local education pipeline at a number of critical academic milestones: increasing pre-k enrollment, growing third grade reading achievement, increasing math and reading achievement and holistic student supports in middle grades, and enhancing preparation, strategic staffing, and retention of effective educators.
Devron Armstrong
Manager, Early Matters Dallas
Allison Braley
Manager, Early Matters Dallas
Mercedes Chavez
Fellow, Middle Grades Initiative
Paige Darstein
Manager, Academic Readiness
Nick Erber
Director, Holistic Student Supports
Cam Hedden
Consultant, Middle Grades Initiatives
Travis Hill
Director, College & Career Readiness
Gretta Kershner
Associate, Early Matters Dallas
Memusi Ntore
Consultant, EC-12
Chelsea Valdez
Director, Educator Effectiveness
Philanthropic Investments
Philanthropic Investments is a best-in-class fundraising team, not only securing sustainable revenue but building and maintaining trust across individual and institutional investors.
Meghana Bommareddy
Associate, Philanthropic Investments
Accacia Dickerson
Development Manager, Philanthropic Investments
David Hatteberg
Manager, Philanthropic Investments
Shannon Mckenrick-Okou
Major Gifts Officer, Philanthropic Investments
Annette Nwabeke
Manager, Philanthropic Investments
Naureen Rajan
Senior Director, Philanthropic Investments
Nicole Wilson
Manager, Philanthropic Investments
Policy / State Coalition
The Policy / State Coalition team works to ensure education policy in Texas is students-first and data-driven, not only in its intent but in its implementation.
Lilac Ding
Manager, Postsecondary Education Policy
Katrina Fraser
Director, Postsecondary Education Policy
Tamara Harrington
Senior Director, Policy / State Coalition
Shannon Hoffman
Manager, EC-12 Policy
Ari Kinney
Director, EC-12 Policy
Karla Lainez
Associate, Cross Coalition
Evy Lanai
Intern, Policy / State Coalition
Joey Rodriguez
Manager, Policy / State Coalition
Shared Services
The Communications team builds public awareness and influences key stakeholders to drive systemic transformation of resource allocation aligned to living wage attainment. The Operations team aims to mirror the equitable outcomes we hope to achieve in our internal policies and practices.
Joshua Edwards
Associate, Communications
Danyale Fletcher
Associate, Operations
Daisy Jamaica
Associate, Operations
Joshua Kumler
Director, Communications
Adrien Palmer
Manager, Communications
Whit Payne
Manager, Strategy and Operations
Nicole Peña
Manager, Operations
Jasmine Ray
Associate, Operations
Strategic Initiatives
Strategic Initiatives is the research and development arm of the organization, working to ensure internal systems are efficient and identifying new ways to apply our internal strengths to solve problems facing young people in Dallas County and Texas.
Turner LaBrie
Director, Strategic Initiatives
Laura Vargas
Director, Strategic Initiatives
Texas College Bridge
Texas College Bridge provides online coursework to Texas high schoolers that maximizes college readiness and reduces the need for remediation.