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Meet the Team
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Jacob Aladejobi
Jacob Aladejobi is a consultative and collaborative information technology leader with 15+ years of experience providing high-quality client support that enables end-users to leverage technology and achieve organizational goals. A champion for excellency across...
Nita Asher
Nita is a licensed attorney and serves as a principal in the Washington National Tax Office of PwC, where she advises both US and foreign-based companies on tax policy issues and assists them with international tax planning. Prior to rejoining PwC, she served as...
Hussainatu Blake
Hussainatu (“Hussa”) leads the Foundation’s work to build educational opportunityand a diverse, digitally literate workforce in collaboration with foundationleadership, experts & researchers, and external stakeholders. Hussa spent 13 years providing...
Shanaz Chowdhery-Witt, Secretary
Shanaz Chowdhery is an operations executive with a deep passion for education. She began her career as a Teach For America corps member and taught 5th and 7th-grade math in Ward 8 of Washington, DC. In early 2014, Shanaz joined General Assembly: starting in...
Adam Clater
Adam Clater is a Chief Architect at Red Hat. He has worked internationally with federal agencies, integrators and Red Hat partners & communities to promote and define the use of enterprise open source solutions. Adam has extensive Enterprise IT and Sales...
John Crain, Vice Chair
Treasurer
Shawn Gross
Mr. Gross is a nationally recognized digital equity advocate. Presently, he holds the esteemed position of President and CEO at K-Necting, a Digital Millennial Consulting Company. Over the course of the past three years, Mr. Gross has collaborated closely with state...
Michelle Larkin, Treasurer
Michelle has over 15 years in business experience, ranging from sales, to concert and event promotion, to marketing, and small business development. As a former program manager for a Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program Professional...
Rashid Mayes
Rashid is an Engineering Manager at Microsoft and Washington DC Community Partner for the New York City-based Fintech Connector. With a career that spans roles at Microsoft, Facebook, Capital One, and several other companies across Silicon Valley, New York, and...
Anne Morrison
Her passion for IT spans decades long and can be credited to two pivotal people. While working on her master’s degree, a professor wanted each student to have a solid background in all things “computer.” He took the class to a university lab that preserved an original...
Desy Osunsade, Board Chair
Board Chair
Arthur Ransier
Arthur is Director of Business Strategy at nTech Workforce. He is an advisor to nTech’s leadership team, accountable for growth & resilience and responsible for strategic management, marketing, community, business solutions, and transformation. His team builds...
Nathan Robertson
I bring over 20 years of experience leading engineering and operations functions across core technology domains: cloud infrastructure, security, automation, networking, and service reliability. I have excellent analytical, team leadership, and management skills and a...
Rosario Robinson
A technologist for over 25 years, Rose is Tech non-profit executive helping organizations with strategy and programs. Rose was nominated by Maryland Governor Moore and confirmed by the Maryland State Senate to preside as a Board of Trustee for Blind Industries and...
LaToya Staten
LaToya is currently the Director of Impact for Fearless. In this role, LaToya guides Fearless in leveraging its business to improve lives. This role partners with all areas of the organization to find ways to create an impact for our communities, customers, and...
Melissa Turcios
Melissa currently serves as Corporate Counsel for Project Kuiper, Amazon's initiative to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world via a system of 3,236 satellites in low earth orbit. An...
Anthony Wilson
Anthony, a native of Eastern North Carolina now residing in Southern Maryland, has 20+ years’ experience in education, workforce development coaching, training, social services, and other community-based network in education, TANF career coaching and case management...