Board of Directors

Ana Sol Gutierrez - Chair
Maryland State Delegate

Denise Young - Vice Chair
Founding Member

and Former co-chair, MCEF

Don Pelles - Secretary
Founding Member, MCEF

Mark Adelman - Treasurer
Former Education Committee Chair,
Montgomery County Civic Federation

Sheryl Denbo
Executive Director,
Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium

Leigh Dingerson

Former Education Team Leader

Center for Community Change

Gloria Salas-Kos
Former ESOL Committee Chair,
Montgomery County Council of PTAs

Staff

Evie Frankl - Executive Director
Founder MCEF


Additional Core Team Members

Nora Cartland
Member, Maryland Parent Advisory Council's

Subcommittee on Education Policy

Beverly Dennis
Member, MCPS' Deputy Superintendent's Minority Achievement Advisory Committee

Fran Rothstein
Former President, Montgomery Women

Lori Valencia-Green

Former NAACP Parent Council Representative

George Vlasits
Social Studies Resource Teacher,
Montgomery Blair HS