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Click on any of the staff members below to learn more about who is on the SF Works team.

• Carrie Portis, Executive Director

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    Carrie Portis brings a wealth of social enterprise and managerial leadership to SF Works. She is passionate about the benefits that good jobs can bring to low-income individuals and how they strengthen our business community. She has a track record of implementing innovative market-based solutions based on collaborations between the private, public and non-profit sectors. Before joining SF Works, Carrie was Chief of Staff at the Stupski Foundation. The Stupski Foundation, funded by Larry and Joyce Stupski of San Francisco, focuses on systemic improvement of the nation’s urban school districts to improve the life options for students of color and those living in poverty. Prior to her work in philanthropy, Carrie was a pioneer in the field of social entrepreneurship. As Director of Enterprise Development at Rubicon Programs, she created model workforce development and community-based businesses, including the highly regarded Rubicon Bakery, a premium wholesale dessert manufacturer. Carrie brings to SF Works business smarts, deep networks across many sectors and an unusual combination of managerial doggedness combined with strategic reflection and foresight. She holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and BA from Wellesley College. Carrie has extensive community volunteer involvement as a board member, advisor and direct service provider.
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• Theresa (Terri) Feeley, Senior Advisor, Policy & Strategic Relations

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    As Senior Advisor, Terri is responsible for infusing SF Works’ vision and experience into the local, state and national policy debates. She also crafts relationships with key partners in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, keeps abreast of research and promising practices, and informs development of innovative workforce solutions. Having previously served SF Works in the roles of Executive Director and Vice President, Terri is a recognized leader in the workforce, asset-building, and income-support fields. Under Terri's leadership, SF Works pioneered work in biotech, championed and helped implement the City's Working Families Credit and developed its employer workforce consulting services. Terri currently chairs the board of the Workforce Alliance, a national and multi-stakeholder coalition advocating for public policies that invest in the skills of America's workers, and holds a mayoral appointment to Workforce Investment San Francisco. Terri's previous work experience includes the National Association of Child Advocates, and consulting work for the American Society for Training and Development, and the U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services. Terri earned her Master's of Public Policy degree at Georgetown University. In 2006, Terri was awarded a prestigious Marshall Fellowship.
    
    
    
• Lori Lindburg, Vice President, Programs

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    As Vice President of SF Works, Lori leads employer engagement efforts, connecting businesses to SF Works’ product and service offerings, managing partner relationships and ensuring the efficient operation and quality of SF Works’ initiatives. Previously, Lori developed and managed SF Works’ pre-employment training programs, including the nationally-recognized On-Ramp to Biotech program. Having completed coursework for a Ph.D. at American University in Washington, D.C., Lori served as a Senior Research Associate at the Brussels-based Migration Policy Group, where she coordinated workforce development exchanges between business leaders and senior officials from the EU member states, the US and Canada. She has also served as a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, a Program Assistant at the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace’s International Immigration Policy Program, and a consultant for the Council of Europe. Lori was recently accepted into the Aspen Institute’s Sector Skills Academy as a 2007 Marano Fellow.
    
    
• Heidi Goh, Director, Programs

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    Heidi is responsible for program management at SF Works, including coordinating stakeholder relationships and overseeing contract management, working closely with the VP of Programs. Most recently, Heidi was a Senior Officer of Human Capital in the Resource Development Division at the prestigious Singapore Economic Development Board. She has also worked with Bay Area start-ups and various social service agencies in Singapore. During her college career, Heidi was awarded an AIA Community Service Scholarship from the AIG group, an ASEAN Student Fellowship from the Singapore International Foundation, and a Japan Airlines Summer Scholarship, and graduated with honors in Social Work, Sociology, and Technopreneurship from the National University of Singapore. Heidi also completed coursework at the Stanford Management Science & Engineering Department and Graduate School of Business, and thus brings a unique background of business and nonprofit training and experience to the team.
    
    
• Paige Miller Buck, Director, Marketing & Development

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    Paige is focused on marketing SF Works and its programs and managing relationships with corporate and foundation supporters. Paige came to SF Works from its partner organization, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, where she spent more than four years as director of events. In that capacity, she delivered events that raised significant funds for the Chamber’s membership operations, including the Excellence in Business Awards, best practices “city to city” conferences, the Health Care Summit and the economic development-focused CitySummit. Previously, she provided marketing and event consulting to Bay Area nonprofits while at Kennedy Events, and has served on the teams of such notable projects as the Chicago Bulls Championship, Bay to Breakers and the Mill Valley Film Festival. Paige is a graduate of Leadership San Francisco and a steering committee member of her class’s project to support Honoring Emancipated Youth (HEY). She received a Certificate in Fundraising from University of Connecticut, Stamford, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Theater from Skidmore College.
    
    
• Allison DeLise, Manager, Communications & Administration

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    Allison works on outreach to drive awareness and success of programs, handles meeting and event planning and logistics, and liaises with the Chamber of Commerce around human resources and information systems. She has interned on Capitol Hill for Senator Clinton, was State Director of Administration for the Democratic Florida Victory 2004 coordinated campaign, and most recently worked in communications for HealthAlliant, a consulting company that works to improve healthcare infrastructures on a community scale. Allison graduated magna cum laude from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., with special honors from the Elliott School of International Affairs. Outside of work, Allison volunteers at Upwardly Global, an organization that helps immigrants, refugees and asylees restart their careers in the US.
    
    
• Daniel Findley, Associate, Programs

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    As Program Associate and SF Works’ newest member, Daniel brings a diverse set of skills and work experience. Most recently he worked in Latin America for a consulting company specializing in corporate social responsibility and stakeholder engagement.  He has coordinated qualitative field studies in two Peruvian mining communities and drafted stakeholder mapping reports for clients.  Daniel interned at Cooperacion Internacional, an NGO in Madrid, and Management Systems International, a USAID contractor in Washington, D.C.  He assisted project managers with proposal development and budget tracking for international efforts ranging from building a school in rural Bolivia, to improving democracy and governance capacity in Honduras.  Daniel graduated from American University with degrees in International Studies and Spanish-Latin American Studies.
    
    
• Eugenie Fitzgerald, Consultant

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    As an independent consultant Eugénie is leading the development of the Better Practices Project and strategic discussions as SF Works develops its new portfolio of products and services.  Her career interests are in the arena of social and environmental finance and strategy, and her recent consulting projects include a feasibility study for a social entrepreneurial business opportunity and conducting investment research for an environmental hedge fund.  Previously Eugénie was employed at SF Works as the Program Director, managing the operational aspects of the workforce development services in the legal and biotech sectors and conducting strategic realignment within these offerings.  Her prior experience spans workforce development and homeless services in San Francisco and environmental research in Canada and the UK.  She was awarded a Skoll scholarship to attend the University of Oxford, where she completed her MBA in the fall of 2007.  She also holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from the University of Guelph, and is currently studying as a CFA candidate.