Lymari Benitez

August 13, 2021
Lymari Benitez, Ph.D. joined Pace Center for Girls in June 2015.  As the Senior Director of Program Information and Impact, she uses information to support 22 communities in Florida and Georgia to help girls at high risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system to change their life trajectory.  Prior to joining PACE, she worked in evaluation at Tennessee’s Statewide System Read More

Yessica Cancel

August 13, 2021
Yessica Cancel, chief operating officer of Pace Center for Girls, has been involved in expanding Pace’s reach throughout Florida, adding four centers over the past two years and working to expand Pace beyond the state of Florida. She has been instrumental in launching an update to Pace’s organization-wide research-based behavior modification system creating a consistent approach that is able to Read More

Teddy Thompson

August 13, 2021
As the Chief Advancement Officer at Pace Center for Girls’, Teddy leads marketing and resource development strategies that enable the organization to support its programs and services for girls. He works in partnership with the President of Pace Center for Girls and organizational leadership to create and implement fundraising plans that advance the organization’s goals and strategic priorities. Prior to Read More

Mary Marx

August 13, 2021
Mary Marx is the President & CEO of the Pace Center for Girls and over the past decade has led the organization through an extensive period of growth. Since its founding in 1985, Pace’s direct service work has positively impacted the lives of more than 40,000 girls and over the past decade its work on impacting public systems and policies Read More

Rachel Leon

August 12, 2021
Rachel Leon has held leadership positions for more than 25 years, most recently as the Executive Director for more than a decade at the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA), a network of hundreds of foundations within environmental philanthropy. During her tenure at EGA, she helped create a nationally recognized Environmental Fellows Program with Dr. Dorceta Taylor, now in its sixth year Read More

Carolyn Wall Sakata

August 11, 2021
Carolyn Wall Sakata is Chief of Staff of a newly formed family office that supports the work of the Baszucki Family Foundation. For the past 15 years, she has worked in philanthropy with family foundations at varying stages. Prior to her work with the Baszucki family, Carolyn served as Managing Director of Sunlight Giving, a family foundation created in 2014 Read More

Milton Speid

August 6, 2021
Milton Speid is an expert social impact advisor. Currently, he guides members of The ImPact, a group of visionary families committed to aligning their assets with their values towards their impact investing goals. Prior, he was responsible for executing the ”Beyond the Bay” and Eastern Region strategies that seek to support Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s (SVCF) role as global social Read More

Emily Kaiser

August 6, 2021
Emily Kaiser is associate director of the Aspen Institute’s New Voices Fellowship, which provides communications and advocacy training to development experts from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She is a former journalist who brings more than 20 years of experience covering stories from two dozen countries. After graduating from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she joined Reuters Read More

Adrian Ruiz

August 6, 2021
Adrian Ruiz is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and Executive Director of YDN. He is recognized regionally as one of the leading facilitators, coaches, and trainers surrounding the strengths-based youth development approach. He assumed the role as Executive Director for the YDN in 2009. Over the previous years, Adrian has held the positions of Co-Executive Director and Youth Development Institute Read More

Lisa Jackson

August 6, 2021
Lisa Jackson is the Managing Partner for the Imago Dei Fund based in Boston, MA. Lisa has worked in the social sector for over two decades in a variety of roles. She began her career in education and psychology as a professor at Boston College. Her research there was focused on agency and self-efficacy in youth at the intersection of Read More