Who We Are
The CoW team is made up of many talented and passionate individuals.
Leadership Team
Luis Perez, Executive Director
Geraldo Gonzalez, Program Director
Angel Cruz, Advancement Director
“The teacher helps in a way so that no one gets left behind.”
— CoW participant
Instructors
Our instructors have a great depth of technical and soft skills that make our programs successful. Very importantly, they are all bilingual. This helps us best serve the underrepresented communities we are targeting.
Alex Gomez, Instructor
Byan Soriano, Instructor
Stephanie Church, Instructor
Our instructors are essential to the success of our program and CoW students have a lot of great things to say about them!
said quality of technology was good or excellent
94%
said support from instructor was good or excellent
96%
94%
said quality of instruction was good or excellent
Board Members
DaiLynn Dietz, President | Associate Manager at Meijer
Raynard Ross, Vice President | Associate at SIDE Strategies
Araceli Hurtado, MAcc, Treasure | Senior Accountant at Hungerford
Niko Laput, Board Member | Finance Manager at Microsoft
CoW Timeline
2021
We changed our purpose and applied to become an official 501(c) (3) organization.
2022
We received our official letter. We were awarded a three-year grant from Steelcase Foundation.
2023
We began measuring data and impact on our programs.
2024
We received multiple grants from GRCF to support summer programs.