Board of Directors

A At The Crossroads is currently working on becoming independent from our fiscal sponsor, Community Initiative Funds of the San Francisco Foundation. In September 2007, the body that will become our Board of Directors began to meet. These five outstanding individuals will help make ATC a stronger, more diverse organization than ever before.

Nadinne Cruz
(Board Chair) Nadinne currently works as an independent consultant in higher education, and is regarded as one of the country’s leaders in community-based service learning on college campuses. She is the former executive director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, and also the executive director of the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs in St. Paul. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the 2005 Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award.

What is the one thing you’re most excited about in being part of ATC’s Board?
I am enthusiastic about helping to build the ATC organization in order to better support and deepen its ability to serve the youth/clients. I bring years of leadership experience and the sobering realization that organizations that do good work are not exempt from the pitfalls and challenges that come from the lack of organizational infrastructure and leadership.

Mary Gregory
Mary is vice president and a senior program officer at Pacific Foundation Services, which provides administrative, program, accounting, and recordkeeping services to family foundations. She has been a volunteer, board member, board president, staff member and/or fundraising consultant for approximately 20 different nonprofit organizations. In 1997, she founded Mary’s List (www.maryslist.net), a web-based matching service for nonprofit organizations that are seeking consultants. Mary lives in San Francisco with her husband Dan and her Labrador, Sazerac.

What is the one thing you’re most excited about in being part of ATC’s Board?
I am pleased to be part of an organization whose philosophy of inclusion and respect has guided its development in every stage of its growth and change and has led to wonderful outcomes for the youth who have worked with At The Crossroads.

Avner Lapovsky
Avner is currently co-principal of the wholesale interior design showroom Sloan Miyasato, which has been a fixture in San Francisco for the past two decades. He has been involved with ATC for several years, and in 2003 organized a birthday fundraising party that raised over $20,000. He has also connected ATC with several other supporters. In addition to his work for ATC, Avner volunteered for a year with SF Aids Foundation on the AIDS hotline, and volunteered with the SF library to deliver books to the AIDS ward at Laguna Honda Hospital.

What is the one thing you’re most excited about in being part of ATC’s Board?
The decay of care and compassion in San Francisco’s ability to reach out to the homeless youth population has pained my heart for years. After crashing into Rob Gitin and the ATC outreach model at the beginning of the decade, I feel enriched and inspired. Now, a new phase begins and it is my privilege to step up to the plate and officially begin to contribute my talents to the Board of Directors.

Kevin McCracken
Kevin is currently the managing partner and co-founder of a small San Francisco-based merchandising company, All Good Design. Prior to that he served as General Manager of Ashbury Images, a social purpose business in San Francisco. Kevin was awarded the Bank of America Local Hero Award in 2004 for his work with at-risk youth and recovering drug users and alcoholics. Kevin’s first contact with ATC came in early 1998 as a homeless client.

What is the one thing you’re most excited about in being part of ATC’s Board?
As a former client and long-time supporter of ATC, I am excited to help continue its vision, especially the idea of assisting people where they are. I have my own history of homelessness and I feel I can bring that unique perspective to the decisions and guidance the board makes.

Lateefah Simon
Lateefah is currently the Director of Reentry Programs for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. Prior to that she was the executive director of the Center for Young Women’s Development, a leadership and employment program for low-income women in San Francisco. In 2004, she was a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and in 2005 was recognized as a California Woman of the Year by the California State Assembly.

What is the one thing you’re most excited about in being part of ATC’s Board?
ATC is one of the most effective organizations out there working with young people who are living and working on the streets of San Francisco. I believe in ATC’s leader and its work and hope to be helpful in spreading the gospel about one of the last few honest youth programs out there.

In The News

5.07.2007
Stanford Magazine- spotlight: Rob Gitin, '96, A Friend in the City

Fundraisers

Benefit CD
Three Ring Records Makes Benefit CD for ATC