Who We Are

Board Members

  • John Tracy

    Board Chairman

    “Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.”

    - Father Greg Boyle, Homeboy Industries

  • Crystal Watson

    Board Vice Chairman

  • Daniel Hyun

    Board Treasurer

    “If your best isn’t good enough, then get better.”

  • Daniel Cardenas

    Board Secretary

    “El que no vive para servir, no sirve para vivir.”

    - Mother Theresa

  • Steve Kim, LCSW

    Executive Director/Board Member At-Large

    “Just assume the answer to every question is compassion.”

    - Father Greg Boyle, Homeboy Industries

  • Shervin Vadood

    Board Member

    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

    - Mark Twain

  • Maria Passaseo

    Board Member

    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

    - Maya Angelou

Executive Team

  • Steve Kim, LCSW

    Executive Director

    “Just assume the answer to every question is compassion.”

    - Father Greg Boyle, Homeboy Industries

  • Aaron Reyes

    Associate Executive Director

    “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”

    – Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Samuel Kim

    Chief Operating Officer

    “The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and actions.”

    - Bell Hooks

  • Betty Sur

    Chief Financial Officer

    “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

    - Maya Angelou

  • Raymond Sanchez

    Director of Navigation and Outreach

    “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness’s of other people.”

    – Carl Jung

  • Kim Preston

    Director of Adult Programs

    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”

    - Maya Angelou

  • Heather Choi

    Director of Youth Services

    “I must not ignore the wounded man on life’s Jericho Road, because he is a part of me and I am a part of him. His agony diminishes me, and his salvation enlarges me.”

    - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Crystal Vasquez

    Director of Training and External Affairs

    “Shame dies when stories are told in safe spaces.”

    - Ann Voskamp

  • Priscilla Kim

    Director of Compliance and HR

    “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. Healing begins when we recognize the humanity in ourselves and in one another, and refuse to let past mistakes define our worth.”

    - Bryan Stevenson

  • Eunnie Hur

    Community Engagement, Business Development

    “It’s time for us as a people to start makin’ some changes.”
    - 2Pac