Team

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.

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 Connecticut Supervolunteers.  Prior to creating Redwood, 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 Fellow.

Community Leadership Board

Andréa Comer

Chief of Staff for Connecticut State Treasurer Erick Russell

Victor De La Paz

Chief Administrative Officer, The Village for Families & Children

John Healey

Former Chief of Staff, Connecticut Senate Republicans

Steven Hernandez, Esq.

Executive Director, ConnCAN

Jason Price

Founder, Chairman of the Board, NXTHVN

Matthew Quiñones

Director of Operations, City of Stamford

Ella Saunders-Crivello

Executive Director, Community Mindfulness Project

Caroline Tanbee Smith

Alder of Ward 9, New Haven Board of Alders

Vice President of Investment, The Connecticut Project

Mirellise Vazquez

Janna Wagner

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