Team

Our Team

Libbie Sonnier, Ph.D.

CEO

Asya Howlette

Chief of Staff

Candace Alfred Weber, Ph.D.

Chief of Partnerships

Heather Cope

Chief of Research & Policy

Lois Smyth

Chief of Development

Mattilyn Karst Batson

Research & Policy Director

Sadie Becnel, J.D.

Government Affairs Director and General Counsel

Victoria Gudino

Communications Manager

Kristy Chauvin

Operations Manager

Alex Cory, LMSW

Outreach & Partnerships Manager

Jordan Howard, MSW

Geaux Far Louisiana Project Director

Page Gray

Policy Analyst


Board of Directors

Jonald J. Walker III

President

Managing Partner & CPA

Bruno & Tervalon, LLP

Lake Charles, LA

Sharonda Williams, J.D.

Vice President

Vice-President/General Counsel and Director of Government Affairs

Loyola University

New Orleans, LA

Drew Chapman, CPA

Treasurer

Audit Director

Bourgeois Bennett, LLC

New Orleans, LA

Kristen Brown

Secretary

President

Brown Builders

Bossier City, LA

Mary Leach Werner

Immediate Past President

Director and Vice President

The North American Land Company, LLC

Lake Charles, LA

Victoria Bagot

Jones Walker, LLP

Sonjia Brown-Joseph

Co-Owner & Executive Director

Clara's Little Lambs

New Orleans, LA

Kim Carver

Senior Vice President of Government Relations

Gulf Coast Bank & Trust Company

Mandeville, LA

John Dean, CPA

Owner & President

Air Systems, LLC

Shreveport, LA

John Diez

Public and Government Affairs Advisor

ExxonMobil

Timothy Magner, Ed.D.

President

Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce

Shreveport, LA

Wes Martin

Executive Vice President & Chief Lending Officer

Bank of Oak Ridge

Monroe, LA

Jennifer Eplett Reilly

Founding Chair

New Schools for Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge, LA

Allen Richey

Baton Rouge, LA

Dionne Rousseau, J.D.

Partner

Jones Walker, LLP

Baton Rouge, LA

Nicholas Tomlinson, J.D., LL.M.

Partner

Outside General Counsel

New Orleans, LA

Jim Tucker

President/CEO

CommCare Management Corporation

Covington, LA

Luis C. Zervigon

Principal

Captrust

New Orleans, LA