Our Board of Directors
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Tiana holds a BA in Political Science from Spelman College. She has direct experience of foster care, having spent several years in care in NYC’s foster care system. She currently works as an Operations Strategy and Implementation Consultant at Southwest Airlines.
While she was at Spelman, she interned with AT&T, held leadership positions in several student organizations, and was a vocal advocate for LGBT inclusion on campus. She was profiled in several national media outlets including Essence Magazine and Good Morning America upon her graduation from Spelman.
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Jen is the General Counsel and CFO of Pinnacle Prep, a premium private tutoring company with a track record of increasing students’ SAT and ACT scores. Her duties at Pinnacle Prep include overseeing finances, compliance, human resources and family engagement. She is excited to help At the Table provide the same exceptional, effective tutoring to students who are or have been in foster care.
Jen has more than 20 years of experience serving on nonprofit boards. Before joining Pinnacle Prep, Jen clerked in the Southern District of New York for U.S. District Court Judges Stephen C. Robinson and Robert J. Ward, and worked as a litigator in Manhattan. She was a Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School and graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College.
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Brad has repeatedly built successful companies at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. Over the past decade he has co-founded General Assembly, a pioneer in education and career transformation specializing in today's most on-demand skills, as well as Common, a multifamily operating company focused on innovative housing typologies like coliving.
In addition, Brad sits on the boards of StageGlass and Playcrafting and is an advisor to a number of companies including Breef, Stacklist, and Arrange.
Brad holds a BS degree from Yale University, with a double major in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Economics.
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Morgan currently oversees inventory and data governance for Ford Pro Charging. Morgan’s career has a strong track record of optimizing operational performance, driving growth, and delivering customer satisfaction. She specializes in standing up business infrastructure and logistics functions, steering M&A deals and managing digital products and partnerships for service delivery globally. Morgan also serves on the board of Outdoor Afro and has a BA from Wesleyan University and MBA from MIT Sloan.
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Sheniqua is a foster youth advocate, entrepreneur and college student who is currently majoring in Political Science at City College
Sheniqua brings a deep knowledge of youth engagement to the At the Table board, and is passionate about supporting the goals of young people in foster care, both educational and otherwise. She currently works as a CTC Organizer at the New York Foundling, bringing smaller nonprofit organizations Mental Health services in partnership with the DOHMH. Sheniqua has also created her own advocacy brand called Room for Conversation, that provides content, training for youth in advocacy, and public speaking across the foster care system, in partnership with Graham Windham, ACS, Fair Futures and College Choice. In this capacity, and as an alumni of the SLAM program, she has pushed for the expansion of Graham’s SLAM coaching model across the city.
She is also an advocate for the Fair Futures initiative, co-founded the first youth advisory board at The Dorm Project, and has been a guest speaker for incoming college students in The New York Foundling’s tutoring programs.
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Nicole grew up in the NYC foster care system. She holds a BA in Political Science from CUNY - Queens College, a Master of Science in Teaching from Fordham University, and a Juris Doctorate from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. During law school, Nicole represented indigent clients in a Criminal Justice Clinic, was on the Hofstra Law Review, interned with Goldman, Sachs & Co., was selected as a finalist in the 2021 New York Bar Association’s Legal Innovation Tournament, and was selected as a Pro Bono Scholar, allowing her to dedicate her final semester tackling national prisoners’ rights advocacy and taking and passing the Uniform Bar Exam before graduating. Upon graduation, Nicole was selected by her esteemed faculty as the Christopher G. Gegwich Outstanding Law Student Award recipient.
Prior to law school, Nicole taught for two years in the South Bronx through Teach for America and then served for three years as the Tutor Supervisor and later the Tutor Manager for the Dorm Project at the New York Foundling. In this capacity, she oversaw the roll-out of tutoring services to all students in the Dorm Project, which provided approximately 125 college students in foster care at the City University of New York with dorming, financial support, meal plans, tutoring, and coaching.
Nicole currently works full-time at Paul Hastings LLP. as a Corporate Tax Associate and uses her personal experience in foster care part-time to provide guidance on national child welfare policies as a Lived Expert on the National Association of Counsel for Children’s Advisory Council and as a Lived Experience Ambassador to the federal Administration for Children & Families in partnership with Think of Us. Nicole additionally serves on the following Boards of Directors: Prisoner's Legal Advocacy Network (as Treasurer); and City of Refuge House of Prayer (as Secretary). Nicole also serves on the American Bar Association’s Steering Committee for the 2023 Youth At Risk Convening as the representative with lived experience in foster care. In her free time (and at all other times) Nicole sings and reads a lot.
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Gabbie is a youth advocate and educator who currently serves as an elementary school teacher for Brilla Public Charter Schools. She has written for Represent Magazine and was the 2019 Youth of the Year at Heartshare-St.Vincent's Services, her foster care agency. She was previously a member of CUNY's Tutor Corps, providing individualized math tutoring to 6th-8th graders in Harlem.
Gabbie was also a student in the ACS-CUNY Dorm Project , and co-founded the Dorm Project's first Youth Advisory Board. She is a former New Yorkers for Children's Nick's Scholar and previously served on NYFC's Youth Advisory Board. She is a former member of the Youth Advisory Board for Fair Futures and participated in the successful advocacy effort that secured over $10M in the FY2020 and 2021 New York City budgets for tutoring and coaching for youth in foster care.
Gabbie holds a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from City College of New York, where she graduated as valedictorian, and a master's degree in Early Childhood Education from City College of New York.
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Julie Segovia is a PhD Candidate in Child Study & Human Development at Tufts University and Vice President of Research, Policy, & Learning at HopeWell, the largest non-profit provider of comprehensive foster care in Massachusetts. Her professional efforts are focused squarely on improving policies, enhancing support infrastructure, encouraging stakeholder collaboration, and multiplying opportunities for children and youth experiencing foster care.
Upon aging out of foster care herself, Julie experienced many barriers on the path to self-sufficient young adulthood, and cares deeply about removing those barriers for future generations of impacted youth through innovative and equitable policy and practice changes. She unequivocally and unapologetically believes that people with lived experience in foster care should be meaningfully involved in all child welfare decision-making processes. In 2023, she launched the Lived Experience Professional Network, the goal of which is to provide a safe space for building an international community of adults navigating the intersection of lived foster care/child welfare experience and a professional role in the foster care/child welfare field.
Julie holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, with a double major in English and Psychology and a M.S. in Speech & Language Pathology from the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Her work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed academic journals and she serves on the Board of Directors for multiple foster care-related organizations. Julie was named a 2021 Re-Envisioning Foster Care in America Champion by the Treehouse Foundation and a 2023 Changemaker of the Year by the Institute for Nonprofit Practice.
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Rose is a program officer at the Tiger Foundation, which makes grants to help alleviate poverty in New York City and create transformative opportunities for low-income New Yorkers. She manages a portfolio of grantees across funding areas including education, workforce, youth development, early childhood, child welfare, and criminal justice. She previously worked in the Education program at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she helped implement a national strategy to develop new school models and support innovative practices and policies in school systems.
Rose began her career as a high school English teacher in the Bronx. She earned a bachelor's degree with honors from the University of Chicago, a master's degree in teaching from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education, and a master's degree in public administration from NYU's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service.
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Ericka François currently serves as Nonprofit Westchester’s Administrative and Communications Assistant and as a strategic communications consultant. A proud alumna of SUNY New Paltz, she holds a B.A. in Journalism and Psychology and brings a dynamic, versatile approach to her work. She was formerly a consultant and Social Impact Fellow at Mission Partners, a social impact communications firm, where she provided strategic support across a range of projects, including initiatives for the Center for the Study of Social Policy and its Creating Actionable and Real Solutions (CARES) project. This multi-year initiative focuses on designing programmatic supports and policy recommendations for youth aging out of foster care across multiple cities, where Ericka also played a key role as an ambassador, bringing her passion for storytelling and social justice to every aspect of her work.
With over six years of leadership in foster care advocacy, Ericka contributed to the expansion of Fair Futures as the first publicly funded program in the nation to support New York City foster youth up to age 26. She is a trusted advocate, storyteller, and strategist who uses her lived experience to drive meaningful change.
Ericka’s professional experience is rooted in mission-driven organizations, including foundations, advocacy coalitions, and youth-serving nonprofits such as the Redlich Horwitz Foundation, Fostering Youth Success Alliance, Fostering Media Connection (The Imprint), Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), where she currently serves as a Board Member, the Hilton Foundation, Youth Communications, the Narrowing the Front Door Work Group, the Foster Care Excellence Fund, the NYC Family Policy Project, and City Living New York. Through this work, she has developed a strong understanding of the priorities and pace of the social impact sector.
Ericka’s work is grounded in a deep commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices and addressing systemic inequities. She continues to use storytelling as a catalyst for change, creating content that inspires action and fosters lasting impact.
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Cheyanne Deopersaud is an NYU Wagner MPA candidate and Bohnett Fellow focused on municipal governance, housing policy, and youth-centered systems reform. Drawing from her lived experience entering foster care at 15, she brings a systems-level perspective to advancing policies that improve outcomes for young people transitioning to adulthood.
At The Century Foundation’s Next100, she led a citywide analysis of over 100 supportive housing placements for youth aging out of foster care in New York City, examining how funding structures, zoning decisions, and neighborhood conditions shape placement outcomes. Her work informed policy recommendations and legislation to strengthen transparency and accountability in supportive housing systems.
She has convened more than 70 cross-sector stakeholders, supported advocacy efforts that helped secure $50.2 million in city funding for Fair Futures, and organized a youth-led mayoral candidate forum attended by over 600 community members. She is committed to advancing equitable, effective policy and strengthening systems that support young people through city government and cross-sector leadership.