Voices is led by a dedicated group of education, community and business leaders who are committed to pioneering new educational solutions for students in Silicon Valley and beyond, ensuring that the Voices community of students, families, and staff thrives.

Servando Sandoval is a partner at Pahl & McCay. His areas of practice include Commercial Litigation, Business Litigation, Real Estate, and Labor and Employment Law. He has extensive experience in all facets of employment law and fair housing laws including counseling clients as to day-to-day employment and housing issues, conducting investigations and defending claims before all courts and in administrative hearings. He graduated with honors, cum laude, from UCLA with a degree in Communication Studies with an emphasis in Chicano Studies. He received his Juris Doctor in 1999 from the UCLA School of Law, where he served as Editor for the Chicano-Latino Law Review. He was admitted to practice in the state of California, including the District Courts in and for the Northern and Central Districts of California, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Mr. Sandoval is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Silicon Valley. Mr. Sandoval also currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Housing Industry Foundation and is a former board member of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Silicon Valley and the San Jose Day Nursery

Alice Miller is a founder of California’s first charter school, the San Carlos Learning Center, and a founder of two charter high schools. Ms. Miller worked for the California Network of Educational Charters from 1996-2003. She was the Administrator and CFO for Aurora Charter High School and has served on multiple non-profit boards and charter school boards. Ms. Miller has been the Director of Knowledge Management for the California Charter Schools Association (“CCSA”) since 2004. She is the technical assistance expert for CCSA, and provides guidance on legal, fiscal and compliance regulations, as well as workshops to charter schools in California and in the nation.

Kim serves as Director, Total Rewards at Gilead and brings valuable experience in Human Resources to the Voices Board of Directors. She began her career at a nonprofit social services organization where she spent 7 years, the last 4 as Executive Director. After earning her M.B.A., she switched to the for-profit sector and spent 30 years in human resources. Working with organizations of all sizes and reaches, Kim developed and implemented performance management systems, compensation and benefits programs, organization development strategies and employee and management training programs. Highlights in her career include implementing a food and shelter program in conjunction with area churches and receiving an United Way award for most innovative counseling program while at the nonprofit; designing the organizational development strategy for a business forced to change its product market; and implementing the compensation and performance management systems for a newly public medical device company.

Ian leads the innovative schools strategy at a national nonprofit, Charter School Growth Fund, providing grant funding to support the launch of schools and school networks reimagining the K12 experience. Prior to his time in venture philanthropy, Ian was an associate for Techstars and Kapor Capital. At Kapor Capital, he focused on the education sector and provided strategic support for a competency-based education startup, UniversityNow (acquired by National University System). Ian started his career as a cofounder of a California software company providing state and local workforce development programs with real-time reporting and analytics. Ian is also a founding board member of Moonshot edVentures, a nonprofit working to surface and support diverse leaders to design and launch the schools of tomorrow.

He received a BA in economics from the University of California, Irvine, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Pedro is currently a Partner on the School Design Team at Transcend. In this role at Transcend, he champions a community-based, liberatory design process with his partner schools as we reimagine schooling to lead to more extraordinary and equitable learning experiences for all students. Pedro is also an adjunct faculty instructor at Alder Graduate School of Education, teaching courses on Inclusive Education as well as Child and Adolescent Development.

He has spent the past 15 years dedicated to excellence and equity in learning environments. Prior to joining Transcend, Pedro served as the Senior Program Manager for Leadership Development at Innovate Public Schools, coaching and developing school leaders from around the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Pedro fell in love with education during his time as a Teach for America corps member in Brooklyn, New York where he started off teaching second grade at Excellence Boys Charter School. He then worked as a school leader in Brooklyn and East Harlem, New York. He also spent a year supporting schools and communities abroad, including in Antigua, Guatemala with Sueños and in Cape Town, South Africa with South African Education Project (SAEP). He remains closely connected to these organizations and has supported their work from afar as a board member.

Pedro earned his BA in Latin American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his master’s from the Relay Graduate School of Education. His learning and professional growth has also included fellowships with Transformational Educational Leadership, National Principals Academy Fellowship, and the Inclusive Schools Leadership Institute. In his free time, you can find Pedro spending time with family, throwing down in the kitchen, dancing at a live show, playing some frisbee/basketball/handball, or traveling around the globe.

Judy Tang Nguyen is a senior adviser on the Academic and Program Strategy team within Bellwether’s Strategic Advising practice area. Judy has worked in the education field for more than 16 years and is passionate about coaching and developing leaders to create and sustain healthy ecosystems for excellent and equitable schools to flourish.

Judy most recently served as the deputy chief of schools at KIPP Public Schools Northern California where she led the principal manager team in providing high quality support for principals in a region of 17 schools that spanned seven cities and served more than 5,000 students. She also led the execution of the talent vision for school leadership, which included a focus on diversifying and retaining top talent and strategically building a talent pipeline within the organization. Judy also served as a managing director of schools where she coached and managed principals to lead high-performing schools that were academically rigorous and had a strong culture of belonging.

Before managing principals, Judy was a founding teacher and principal of KIPP Heartwood Academy, a U.S. Department of Education National Blue Ribbon School that was in the top 7% of all public schools in California. She also worked for the KIPP Foundation as a leadership coach and provided leadership training for cohorts of aspiring principals across the country.

Judy graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and social welfare and earned a master’s degree in school administration for social justice at Loyola Marymount University. Originally from San Jose, California, Judy now lives in San Diego, California with her husband and two children.

Over the last ten years, Dena Koren worked as a charter school consultant, primarily in school finance, advising school directors and boards how to build sustainable school models. Prior to her work with charter schools, she worked at the Boston Consulting Group, with a focus on education. Her projects included revamping the enrollment system at Chicago Public Schools and supporting the merger between Memphis City and Shelby County school districts in Tennessee. She’s also led teacher recruitment at BELL, a national nonprofit afterschool and summer program for low-income elementary school students. Outside of work, Dena serves as the treasurer of her children’s charter school PTA and loves running and hiking. Dena holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an AB from Princeton University.