Board of Directors
Meet the Search Institute Board of Directors

Yer Chang, M.P.P.
Policy Analyst, Child Safety and Permanence Division Minnesota Department of Human Services

Jodi Grant
Executive Director of After School Alliance

DeLeon Gray, Ph.D.
CEO, Black and Belonging

Benjamin Houltberg, Ph.D., LMFT
President and CEO of Search Institute

Andrea Hunter, Ph.D.
Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow for Campus Climate University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Karen Kingsley
Senior Director of Youth & Family Services at Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, Member at Large

Steve Kruger
Attorney at Best & Flanagan

Brian Lindberg, J.D.
Nonprofit Executive (Retired)

Jacson Miller
Deputy Central Point of Contact at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Treasurer
Lenny Moon
Chief Financial Officer

Maureen Pelton, MSSW, LICSW
Co-founder of ShiftIt Institute, LLC

Maryam Pessaran Garg
Founder of Retail Tech Consulting LLC

Tony Sanneh
Founder and CEO of The Sanneh Foundation, Member at Large
Nithi Thomas
Vice Chair, Vice President of Alliance Programming, America's Promise Alliance

Keisha Varma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at University of Minnesota

Greg Wilson
Vice President of Commercialization and Strategy, U.S. Bank