Advisory Board

EVP, Education and Workforce (ret.)
Greater Des Moines Partnership

Nana Coleman
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
RainyDayPal

Joy Esposito
Director of Programs
St. Vincent de Paul – Des Moines

Michelle Fischbach
Director of Human Resources
Flynn Wright

Jahzel Fristo
Founding Sr. Account Executive
Method Financial

Dr. Ngozi Igbokwe
Senior Manager of Learning and Development
Bright Horizons

Dr. Erlin Kakkanad
Director
Operation Excellence, Principal Financial Group

Eric Kress
Workforce Director
Mid-Iowa Planning Alliance for Community Development

Amy Lane
President, Strategic Assets | Director of Strategic Partnerships & Marketing
ATW Training Solutions

Dr. Wendy Mihm-Herold
President/CEO
Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates (IJAG)

Chris Noth
YouthWorks Director
Project Iowa

Haley Peeler
Director of the Career Center
Grand View University

Biri Vilmael
National Sales Executive Director
CNA Insurance

Chris Wood
Business Development
Brown & Brown Insurance

Clara Bergman
Marketing Communications Specialist
Corteva Agriscience

Vincent Chukwuemeka
Engineer Soldier / Information Technology Consultant
United States Army Reserve

Hayley Ellis
Senior Recruiter
Associate Staffing

Taylor Helen Ferebee, PhD
Senior Data Scientist I Computational Biology
Corteva Agriscience

Derek Frank
Coordinator
Oakridge, Teen Tech Center

Lindsey Herazy
Communications Associate
Vote Smart

Jackson Muir
Account Manager
TEKsystems

Nick Paoli
Chief Culture Officer
RJ Lawn & Landscape

Emmett Phillips Jr.
Career Pathways Program Facilitator
Oakridge Neighborhood Services

Eva N Sandoval, MSOL
Sr. Loss Control Consultant
American Family Insurance

Henrique Valim
Administration Fellow
MercyOne

Student Representative
Viking Council
Grand View University