VENESSA LAUREL

VICE PRESIDENT OF SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONS

Venessa has over a decade of experience living, breathing, and staying engaged within the nonprofit sector. Her passion and commitment to nonprofits and the education field has taken her on many grand and illuminating adventures including conducting site visits to out-of-school time and after school programs, coordinating capacity building, monitoring and evaluation activities within the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities, helping lay the foundation for an internal staff-led committee around inclusion, equity and diversity,
and, most recently, leading the California Charter School Association’s strategy and maintenance of internal and external data systems and their architecture. 

Venessa enjoys taking time to pause and reflect in nature whenever the opportunity arises. She also gets her energy from listening and supporting others through meaningful and authentic connections that hopefully lead to a kinder environment for everyone.