In 2011, after 13 years of being a fiscally sponsored project, At The Crossroads became an independent 501(c)(3) organization! These are the fantastic individuals who guide and govern our organization.
Channa Bannis
Channa is the Director of Marketing at Aravo Solutions, Inc, which provides Supplier Lifecycle Management solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. She has done extensive work with homeless youth, which includes establishing the Boston chapter of StandUp for Kids, which named her national leader of the year. Channa is also on the Board of Directors and acts as the Marketing Director for African Voices Communications.
Emily Chan
Emily is an associate attorney with the NEO Law Group, a San Francisco-based law firm focuses its representation on nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations. Emily works with clients on corporate, tax, and governance issues and is the principal contributor to the Nonprofit Law Blog. Emily is a long-term Bay Area resident, having gone to Berkeley and Hastings. She brings a wealth of expertise, enthusiasm and intelligence to our board.
Alan D’Souza (Secretary)
Alan has been a librarian at City College of San Francisco since 2008. Prior to taking this position, he worked fourteen years at San Francisco Public Library. A ‘”naturalized” San Franciscan, Alan has made the city his home and muse since moving from Hanford, CA in 1990. Still a small-town boy at heart, he finds great joy in building community through volunteering, public service and creating art.
What is the one thing you’re most excited about in being part of ATC’s Board?
I am continually impressed how the core values of At The Crossroads permeate every level and process of the organization. Just as clients are given unconditional support and treated with a deep respect for who they are in the moment, so staff, volunteers, and board members are afforded every opportunity to blossom as we collectively help San Francisco’s homeless youth build outstanding lives.
Mary Gregory (Board Chair)
Mary is vice-president and a senior program officer at Pacific Foundation Services, which provides administrative, program, accounting, and record-keeping services to family foundations. She has been a volunteer, board member, board president, staff member and/or fundraising consultant for approximately twenty different non-profit organizations. In 1997, she founded Mary’s List (www.maryslist.net), a web-based matching service for non-profit 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 hot line, 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.
Frank Petkovich
Frank Petkovich is currently a market research contractor with Cisco Systems. Frank has over 25 years’ marketing experience, and has held senior-level marketing positions at numerous technology start-up companies. Frank’s work has taken him around the world, and he loves food, wine, road cycling, and travel. A native San Franciscan, Frank holds a Management and Marketing degree from U.S.F. and a Finance MBA from Golden Gate University.
What is the one thing you’re most excited about in being part of ATC’s Board?
I’m excited to be on a board where our contributions and efforts make a big difference to an organization that does so much good for the homeless youth of San Francisco. It’s great to be able to use my professional background and skills and combine them with an organization and a mission I feel passionate about, and one that also has the same views on how people are valued for their individuality.
Marc Vogl
Marc is a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation managing grants to Bay Area performing arts organizations and developing strategies to promote next generation leadership in the nonprofit sector. Marc served on the San Francisco Arts Task Force and Barack Obama’s National Arts Policy Committee and was a founder and former Executive Director of Killing My Lobster, a San Francisco comedy, theater, and film company.
What is the one thing you’re most excited about in being part of ATC’s Board?
ATC is not only inspiring, it is exceptionally well-run. I think highly effective organizations focused on long-term and meaningful impact are grounded in a few basic values, and at its core I am most excited about the commitment ATC places on respect. Clients, staff, supporters, funders, volunteers, and Board members are listened to and acknowledged, they are respected and appreciated. This ethos fosters the kind of atmosphere in which great work happens, ambitious goals are reached, and lives are transformed.
Zeb Young (Treasurer)
Zeb recently opened a law practice based in Berkeley, with the goal of serving the legal and organizational needs of non-profits and small businesses. He was motivated to open his own practice by a desire to cast off the constraints of traditional practice and to pursue his interests and curiosities as they evolve. Zeb lives in Berkeley with his partner, Reena, and two cats, Charlie and Chico.
