MISSION & Impact
Staff & Board
leadership

Regan Brewer Johnson
President
PHONE: 773-751-7110
EMAIL

Guy Loudon
Executive Vice President- Business and Industry Services
EMAIL

Emily Doherty
Vice President – Client Services
PHONE: 773.751.7115

Elaine Carroll
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
PHONE: 410.900.1441
EMAIL

Emily Peters
Director of Training Services - Austin and Chatham
PHONE: 773.751.7112
EMAIL

James Yoo
Director of Business & Workforce Services
PHONE: 773.751.7131
EMAIL

JD Lipa
Director of Manufacturing Operations
PHONE: 773.751.7127
EMAIL

Danielle Hoske
Director of Development, Data & Communications
PHONE: 773.751.7118
EMAIL

Yewande Peters
Senior HR/Operations Director
PHONE: 773.751.7121

Gwendolyn Love Thomas
Finance Director
EMAIL

Marianna Zapata
Director – Training Services for Ravenswood
PHONE: 7737517106
EMAIL

Andrea Tovar
Fundraising and Marketing Manager
PHONE: 773-7517120
EMAIL
Main Office
Britt Bartholomew
Sr. Financial Coach
PHONE: 773.751.7132
Patricia Arias
Intake Specialist/Database Admin
PHONE: 773.751.7104
EMAIL
Natalie Shields
Resource and Partnership Specialist
EMAIL
Ania Pienkowska
Finance Coordinator
PHONE: 773.751.7129
EMAIL
Nissa Papienski
Program Coordinator - CMP
PHONE: 773.751.7117
Rocio Garcia
Graduate Financial Career Coach
EMAIL
Reyna Melendez
Chicago Admin Clerk
EMAIL
Technical Training Center
Xochitl Gonzalez
Sr. Job Developer
EMAIL
Anthony Grochowski
Senior Metalworking Skills Instructor-Welding
PHONE: 773.751.7133
Jose Ramirez
Senior Metalworking Skills Instructor
PHONE: 773.751.7126
Adonis Summerville
Senior Metalworking Skills Instructor
PHONE: 773.751.7124
Catherine Pumphrey
Ravenswood Program Coordinator
PHONE: 773.751.7134
EMAIL
Jeremy M. Cowart
ALPS Coordinator
EMAIL
AUSTIN
Gabe Lopez
Senior Metalworking Skills Instructor-Bridge
Darryl Bush
Employment Coach - Austin
Erin Hughes
Program Coordinator- Austin and Chatham
EMAIL
Jasmine Gooden
Program Coordinator - Austin and Chatham
Board of directors
Tammy Phillips, Chair
Howe Corporation
Darnell Shields, Vice Chair
Austin Coming Together
Teaera Strum, Chair
Strum Contracting Company
Andrew Bray, Secretary
DOE - Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
MacKenzie Garvin
Baltimore Mayor’s Office of Employment Development
Lindsey Brickle, Chair
Polaris MEP
Linda Dworak
Maryland Philanthropy Network
Brett Mueller, Chair
Treasurer
Colin Cosgrove
Director - S&C Electric Company
Matthew Fitzgerald
Director - ITW/ Miller Weld - North America
Sequane Lawrence
Director - Revolution Works
Paul Shadle
Director - Law partner, DLA Piper
JP Paonessa
Freedman Seating Company
Andrew Crowe
The New American Manufacturing Renaissance