Advisory Board Members
Byron K. Reed
Senior Vice President and Community Development Manager
Wells Fargo
Board Chair
Byron K. Reed is a Senior Vice President and the Director of Wells Fargo’s Los Angeles Metro Region Community Development and Foundation Group. Byron joined Wells Fargo from Bank of America’s Consumer Real Estate Neighborhood Lending Group. Prior to Bank of America, Byron held Community Development positions at both JPMorgan Chase and BankOne.[Read Entire Bio]
Wilmot (Motty) Allen
Chief Executive Officer, 1 World Consulting
Wilmot Allen is Founder of 1 World Enterprises, which operates as 1 World Media and 1World Consulting. 1 World Media is a multi-media company (film/television production, new media, wireless and publishing) which produces entertainment content with social relevance for commercial distribution and public broadcasting. The company is currently developing a television documentary exploring Nigeria’s plan to grow into a top 20 global economy by the year 2020 and other projects for commercial distribution in the reality and drama genres. [Read Entire Bio]
Debra Duardo
Director of Dropout Prevention and Recovery, Los Angeles Unified School District
Debra Duardo is the Director of Dropout Prevention and Recovery for Los Angeles Unified School District and a member of the National Dropout Prevention Network Board. Duardo's unique life experience as a high school dropout to Director of Dropout Prevention and Recovery drives her passion to support at-risk students and their families on the path to educational success. [Read Entire Bio]
Dr. Sharon V. Robinson
Special Assistant to the Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
Dr. Sharon Valear Robinson is Special Assistant to the Superintendent. She earned a Doctorate in Educational Technology and has developed training for Instructional Technology that included digital content, assessment and online learning. She has consulted with publishing companies on Digital Learning, product development and has provided support to school district across the nation on technological needs to improve student learning. Sharon has been a life long educator as a classroom teacher, School Psychologist, Principal, Assistant to the Superintendent and Local District Superintendent in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She also served as Vice-Chair of the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission in the State of California. She has been a leader in Instructional Technology and served on several committees to assess and discuss how technologies can support inquiry-based instruction.[Read Entire Bio]
Leila Steinberg
Microphone Session
Leila Steinberg is an artist and community organizer who began working with youth twenty years ago in the San Francisco Bay area. As the daughter of a criminal defense attorney, she grew up surrounded by the workings of the justice system and took a front row seat at the personal tragedies and socio-economic pressures that turn so many at-risk youths into hardened felons. [Read Entire Bio]
Ryan Taylor
DROBE and leap, Inc.
Way back in the fall of 1999 Ryan Taylor saw a disturbing word. He had seen the word countless times prior, but this time it struck him like a bolt of lightning. He thought, why would a word associated with clothes, have such a nasty prefix? The word was warDROBE.
He said aloud, and to his surprise, “I’m going to start a clothing company called DROBE and we’ll take the war out of war DROBE.” [Read Entire Bio]