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”.