Team
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Dr. Good is the National Vice Provost of Teacher Preparation at Relay Graduate School of Education, leading the faculty and programmatic structures for all teacher licensure and degree granting programs. She has dedicated over 25 years to education, starting her career in Miami, FL, with Teach for America as a High School Literacy teacher, moving to New Haven, CT, where she was a Middle School Principal and Founder of the first teacher residency program in Connecticut. As a first generation high school and college graduate, she knows the power and privilege of education, working her way through high school and community colleges to earn a B.A. in Sociology from University of California, Berkeley, a M.A. in Educational Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Doctorate in Global Education from the University of Southern California.
Vice President of Redwood Experience
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Andrew is the Founder & CEO of Redwood Endeavors, a social impact platform for multiple public benefit initiatives, including Redwood Fellows and The Neighborhood. Prior to creating Redwood in 2025, Andrew served as Co-CEO of Dalio Education, a division within Dalio Philanthropies, where he led the team, overall strategy, and grant-making alongside Barbara Dalio. They worked together as partners for a decade (2014-2024) to build Dalio Education in service of young people, public schools, non-profit organizations, and communities in Connecticut; and to create the Connecticut Opportunity Project and to co-found the RISE Network. In 2024, as a Co-Chair, Andrew led the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities' 119K Commission on At-Risk and Disconnected Youth, which resulted in an actionable, multi-year strategy to get 60,000 young people back on track with broad support from bi-partisan leaders across Connecticut. Andrew is a Pahara and Redwood Fellow, and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He serves on the boards of the Community Mindfulness Project and Friends Center for Children.
Founder
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Traci is a facilitator, designer, and executive coach, and CEO of Tapestry Collective, a consultancy focused on strengthening relational leadership through authentic and courageous dialogue. For more than two decades, she has designed and held adult learning spaces that support leaders in navigating difference, complexity, and change with integrity and care. Her work centers on the skill and art of holding space for transformation, an embodied practice of stewarding belonging, growth, and shared responsibility. Traci works with leaders and organizations including the Pahara Institute, Redemptive Leadership Project, Redwood Fellows, the Aspen Institute’s Center for Leadership, and the Aspen Global Leadership Network; and she previously held roles with A.T. Kearney Executive Search, Bellwether, and KPMG. She is a Pahara Fellow and serves on the boards of Envision Education and Learner Centered Collaborative.
Designer and Facilitator, Leadership Ring
Community Leadership Board
Kevin Brown
President, Norwich Community Development Corporation
Bryan Cafferelli
Commissioner, CT Department of Consumer Protection
Lisa Hammersley
Executive Director, School & State Finance Project
John Healey
Former Chief of Staff, Connecticut Senate Republicans
Steven Hernandez, Esq.
Executive Director, ConnCAN
Jason Price
Founder, Chairman of the Board, NXTHVN
Ella Saunders-Crivello
Executive Director, Community Mindfulness Project
Fahd Vahidy
Philanthropic Advisor to William C. Graustein
Mirellise Vazquez
Vice President of Investment, The Connecticut Project
Mana Zarinejad
Executive Director, The Connecticut Forum