Board Members

Yanetsy Garay

President

Former actress of La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino. Graduated from Syracuse University.

Luis A. Figueroa

Vice President

Police Officer/Emergency Medical Tech (EMT), former actor and founder of La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino.

Fanny Villarreal

Secretary

Executive Director of YWCA of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

Shirley Novak

Treasurer

Bilingual pre-k special education teacher at Liberty POST; active board member Doctors for Global Health.

Marilu Lopez Fretts

Works at Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Works at The Post-Standard, Former Photojournalist at The Observer-Dispatch.

Tanisha Jackson

Executive director of the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) and professor of practice in the Department of African American Studies (AAS).

Janette Tejeda

Mother of a member of La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino and owner of Day care Syracuse “Happy House”.