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Dan Brown
Dan is the head of our community technology development team. Daniel worked at IBM as a Customer Experience Business Support & Best Practices Consultant providing global B2B support and guidance to clients. Dan is the Senior Customer Success Team Leader at Disciple Media UK and responsible for informing HeroBridge design, updates and UX/UI.
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Ila Kumar
Ila is a research assistant and PhD student in the Affective Computing group at MIT Media Lab. Her work focuses on designing technology to support holistic well-being and collective care, especially for communities that are marginalized by mainstream tech and mental healthcare systems. Ila is working on her PhD in human-centered machine learning with our flagship community Stepping Forward.
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Alberto Garcia
Alberto is a full stack developer that has been there from the start at Stepping Forward LA’s HeroBridge community to deliver the day-to-day pre- and post-production editing for the thousands of media assets, graphics, daily social media posts, design guide and platform administration tasks that hold the community together and keep it healthy. He is also the lead vocational train-the-trainer.
OUR ADVISOR PANEL
To do anything big takes partners. An African Proverb says ‘if you want to go fast, go alone - if you want to go far, go together. We’ve made such progress since 2018. It’s time to go far. Stay tuned for more details about our amazing advisors.
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Jeff is the Vice President of Finance at Digital Domain and on the executive board of the Social Impact Entertainment Society as head of finance. Jeff brings to Hero Bridge strategic development and scaling expertise in emerging media and technology. His deep experience in managing complex projects and development funds has made him an invaluable asset to the development of Hero Bridge and Hero Give’s unique closed circuit model of impact.
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Jim brings decades of legal experience and emerging media business strategy to Hero Bridge. Jim is also legal counsel to a network of nonprofit boards and philanthropists who serve the same populations Hero Bridge seeks to impact. Jim started his legal career at International Creative Management (ICM) and has more than 20 years of television, entertainment, intellectual property, business and legal affairs experience.
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Beth Ryan is the Executive Director of Stepping Forward LA, a mentorship 501c3 that works with foster youth aging out of the foster care system with no hope of getting adopted or returning to their biological families. Hero Bridge built the ‘digital family’ for Beth’s community of foster youth. Beth’s insights through our research phase and year long beta was invaluable thanks to her critical feedback and decades of experience addressing the divides and gaps we sought to bridge.
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At the heart of solution-making around the veteran homeless crisis, you will find Tess Banko. Former head of the UCLA/VA Family Wellness Center she recently dove in as the project director of the first and only VA supportive housing program that will house thousands in West LA and will be integrated with VPAN. She is also the VA Veteran’s Advisory Commissioner to the 3d District CA. Having Tess on our advisory for the ReCivy build has been incredible as her knowledge of the nuanced issues faced by veterans and her trailblazing approach to paths to resources is unparalleled. Tess is also a social impact producer on our film Those Who Serve.