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
Jim Cuene
Founder and CEO of Fahren LLC
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
Jen Menke
Vice President Human Resources and Student Success Programs at Scholarship America, Chair
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 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