Team

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Dr. Rebecca Good

“We’re creating opportunities for personal and professional growth, including peer-to-peer mentorship, collective camaraderie, and access to valuable resources.”

Vice President of Redwood Experience

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.

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Andrew Ferguson

“Together, we’re building a statewide community among accomplished leaders who actively support each other, living out the ‘inescapable network of mutuality’ that Dr. King so powerfully described.”

Founder

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.

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Traci Dove

Designer and Facilitator, Redwood Leadership Ring

“We’re creating the conditions for courageous dialogue across lines of difference, strengthening the relationships and trust needed for Redwood Fellows to serve Connecticut, together.”

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.

Community Leadership Board

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Andréa Comer

Chief of Staff for Connecticut State Treasurer Erick Russell

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Victor De La Paz

Chief Administrative Officer, The Village for Families & Children

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John Healey

Former Chief of Staff, Connecticut Senate Republicans

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Steven Hernandez, Esq.

Executive Director, ConnCAN

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Jason Price

Founder, Chairman of the Board, NXTHVN

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Matthew Quiñones

Director of Operations, City of Stamford

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Ella Saunders-Crivello

Executive Director, Community Mindfulness Project

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Caroline Tanbee Smith

Alder of Ward 9, New Haven Board of Alders

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Vice President of Investment, The Connecticut Project

Mirellise Vazquez

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Janna Wagner

Co-Founder-in-Residence & Senior Advisor, All Our Kin