Board of Directors |
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| Milad Yazdanpanah Chairperson Executive Director |
Milad works as a Business Solutions Manager for Blackbaud for the past 6 years. He works directly with enterprise nonprofit clients to deliver online CRM and CMS business solutions. He is responsible for identifying, analyzing, and managing risks within projects, systems, and resource changes to formulate plausible business solutions. He spends a great deal of his time working with other non profit organizations catering refugee and imigrant families. Milad received his B.A. in Business/Neuroscience and an M.A in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. |
| Hooman Shahrokhi Financial Officer Technology Director |
Hooman has been volunteering at different Non-Profits in Oakland that focused in youth development. Mentoring the youth, guiding building projects, and leading youth backpacking trips are notable in his involvement. His passion includes introducing the youth to environments with which they are less familiar as most of the youth that he has worked with have never been outside of Oakland. Seeing the joy in the youth’s eyes and the realizations to which they come are most rewarding to Hooman. Hooman received his B.A. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. |
| Mona Yazdanpanah Event Director |
Mona has been working with various non-profit organizations in Oakland since 2006. Since moving to the Bay Area, she has been reaching out to her community, believing that mentoring and leading (our young generation) by example, can play a significant role in addressing and giving appropriate guidance to the needs of our youth. She has coordinated monthly outing trips, directed diverse clubs such as boys and girls club, math club and has built strong personal rapport with the students and families in the Oakland community. Helping youth to achieve their goals and prepare them for successful is rewarding for Mona. She graduated in 2010 with a B.A in philosophy from California State University East Bay. |
| Zoha Parvizian Program Director |
Zoha is currently a Chemist working in the Clinical Diagnostics division at Thermo Fisher Scientific in the Bay Area. On a day to day basis, she dedicates her time to working in the laboratory where she overlooks quality control and monitors the stability of products which are manufactured for diagnosing various medical conditions. Although her work is an indirect way of giving back to people in a clinical aspect, she also enjoys giving back to society in a more direct way through involvement with non profit organizations like What Now America? Zoha majored in Psychology and Microbial Biology, graduating from UC Berkeley in 2006 and looks forward to making a change in our local Bay Area communities. |
| Jana Hiraga Associate Consultant |
Jana Hiraga has served many roles as a dedicated volunteer, staff member and board of director's member for the YWCA Berkeley/Oakland since 2002. She is currently the Program Director of the organization's Youth Development and Eliminating Racism programs. These programs serve over eight public schools as well as other nonprofit organizations in the East Bay. They all aim to improve the overall quality of life of at-risk populations ranging from preschoolers to retired community members. Jana received her Interdisciplinary B.A in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley and plans to continue working with the YWCA Berkeley/Oakland striving for the economic empowerment of women and the elimination of racism. |
| Golazin "Goli" Rahattalab Marketing Director |
Before studying Business Administration at the University of San Francisco, Goli pursued a dual degree in Management and Marketing at the American University of Kuwait. While at the AUK, Goli was an economics tutor and was the founder and president of the Persian Students Club. Goli's passion for academics and serving her community have steered her towards continuing her education in marketing and not-for-profit organization studies. Goli was a key researcher and writer for "Fifty NFTE," a Bay Area green business textbook written for NFTE (Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship) Biz Camp. She also worked as a coach for NFTE Biz Camp. Goli has been volunteering at What Now America for the past two years, dedicating her time as the Marketing Director. |
| Leeann Alameda Community Outreach Director |
Ms. Leeann Alameda has been volunteering with What Now America since 2009, as a Program/Volunteer Coordinator and now as the Community Outreach Director on the board of directors. In her role at WNA, Leeann will be working to develop community partnerships and communicate the program's benefits and resources. Leeann’s background includes 15 years of experience in marketing, brand management and creative solutions. She is currently Head of Marketing Creative Services at Pixar Animation Studios. |
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WNA Programs are held at:
De Fremery Park
1651 Adeline Street
Oakland, CA 94607
