Board of Directors
Mory Fontanez
PRESIDENT
Mory Fontanez is a brand strategist and crisis management advisor who spent 20 years helping Fortune 500s build their reputations, reach new audiences, and navigate challenges.
Tony Rogers
VICE PRESIDENT
Dr. Rogers received his M.D. from Texas Tech University. As a medical student, Tony worked in El Paso, where he learned Spanish and developed a love of treating underserved urban populations.
Debby Peterson
TREASURER
Debbie Peterson
Laura Campobasso
SECRETARY
Through her firm, Progressive Consulting Services, Laura focuses on providing leadership, management, and organizational training and skill development nationally and internationally to for-profit businesses and non-profit environmental, medical, educational and family service organizations.
Julian Castillo
Julian is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist trained in EMDR, Somatic Therapy, and Mindfulness Based Counseling.
Rendy Freedman
CO-FOUNDER
Rendy Freedman has been a psychotherapist and mediator for over 20 years, and an educator for over 35 years. She specializes in working with adolescents, couples, families, groups, and trauma issues through EMDR.
Kerrilee Gore
Kerrilee Gore is the creator, writer, and executive producer of an immersive theatrical production “When The Lights Go Out” which has been playing since 2014.
Samir Rai
Samir Rai.
Dinah Calderon
Dinah Calderon is a lifelong Santa Barbara resident with deep roots in the community. She and her husband Ricardo raised their two daughters, Juliette and Alexandra, through the local schools — All Saints, Crane, and Cate — where Dinah was an active volunteer. Her commitment to children and education extended to board service at Storyteller Children’s Center.
Dinah brings a strong background in media and publishing, with a career spanning advertising sales at Town & Country magazine and serving as Advertising Director at Santa Barbara Magazine. Her passion for nurturing the whole child makes her a natural champion for AHA’s mission of bringing social-emotional intelligence into schools.
Nathan Keyes
Nathan Keyes is a writer, actor, director, and producer whose work spans television, film, and immersive theatre. As co-founder and former Artistic Director of the Firelight Collective, he spent nearly two decades creating work rooted in emotional connection. Productions placed audiences inside the story itself, in hotels, private homes, and city streets, and that critics praised as “easily the most accomplished site-responsive dramatic work” they’d seen in years. His screen credits include Fellow Travelers, Glee, Kings of Summer, Ben 10: Alien Swarm and Maya Dardel. Nathan’s work has always been built on the conviction that story is how we understand ourselves and each other. As a working writer developing original projects for television and film, he knows firsthand what it means to search for your voice, and he is passionate about helping young people find theirs. Because story is how we learn we’re not alone.
Jason Cobb Storck
Jason Cobb Storck is a father to two wonderful children and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Most of Jason’s experience in psychotherapy has been with children and families in school-based settings.
EMERITUS BOARD
Nancy Grinstein
Beryl Kreisel
Neil Kreisel
Marla Phillips
Ron Pulice
Stacy Pulice
Neal Rabin
Rand Rosenberg
Bobby Shand
HONORARY BOARD
Jennifer Buffett
Peter Buffett
Lou Buglioli
Kate Lear
Maggie Lear
Natalie Orfalea
Suzanne Peck
Justine Roddick
Tina Schlieske
