“We are grateful for the support of our families, friends, communities, and colleagues . It is a privilege to hear the stories shared with us, and an honor to witness the resiliency and strength of spirit in families navigating crisis with grace, gratitude and a commitment to their children.”
Board Members
Shauna Lay - Co-Founder and Board Member
Shauna Lay is an Embodiment Expert and a Women’s Empowerment Guide. Her passion lies in guiding women to embrace their deepest desires and craft a life that truly resonates with their heart. Shauna’s teaching style blends business savvy with heart-centered relationship wisdom. She shares her insights through workshops, online courses, transformative retreats, ceremonies and personalized 1:1 sessions.
With a background in Mechanical Engineering, Shauna brings a unique blend of analytical thinking and holistic wisdom to the table. Shauna is proud to have co-founded Give One Dollar A Day. For the last several years she has served on the executive team and has just recently joined the Board of Directors.
When not in the coaching zone, you’ll likely find Shauna meditating or immersing herself in nature. Whether it's the serenity of mountains or the soothing embrace of the beach, she is at home in both.
Bek Chee - Board Member and The First to Donate $1.00
Bek Chee has 24 years of experience as a HR and DEI leader for technology companies. In her roles, she has advised manager, leaders and executives at Microsoft and Nike as well Atlassian ($45B market cap) and most recently was the Chief People Officer for Technology Crossover Ventures, a $30B private equity investment firm. Bek Chee has built a career in expertly guiding leaders and teams on all issues related to culture, diversity & inclusion, organizational structure and design, performance, assessment, recruiting, learning and development, and compensation.
Bek recently completed a social intrapreneur First Mover’s Fellowship at the Aspen Institute, a program focused on creating and sustaining social impact through large scale organizational influence. She is actively exploring how she can share her talents and skills within the climate change work.
Bek is also a coach to executive leaders, adults, and young adults to support their personal and professional transformations. She has an MA in Counseling Psychology (Marriage and Family Therapy) from Marquette University and a BA in Economics and Psychology from Claremont McKenna College.
Bek is passionate about the natural world and climate, equity and restorative justice, learning, cooking, and anything outdoors. Her favorite job of all is being Mama Bek to her daughter, Margo.
Dede Orraca-Cecil - Board Member and an Exceptional Human
Dede Orraca-Cecil is a trusted advisor to CEOs, boards and senior executives across industries. As the leader of the Egon Zehnder’s U.S. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practice and a member of the firm’s CEO and Board Advisory Practice, Dede consults on a wide range of talent acquisition and leadership solutions to help meet the challenges that many of her clients face as their industries grapple with dynamic shifts in regulation, new corporate governance demands and the need for greater stewardship and risk assessment.
Dede is also a fellow with the Aspen Institute with a focus on helping companies move beyond the rhetoric of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion into practical strategic planning and implementation. Before joining Egon Zehnder, Dede was a Principal at Tapestry Networks, a strategy consulting firm specialized in creating multi-stakeholder public-private partnerships to address issues in health care, finance, and corporate governance. Previously, she was a Litigation Associate in the New York and San Francisco law offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom. Dede also spent a number of years working in global health, development, and foreign policy with the World Health Organization, The Clinton Foundation, Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and others.
Nicole Baer - Board Member and Marketing Expert
Tech and consulting veteran Nicole M. Baer has 25 years of experience across commercial and product motions including marketing, go-to-market, sales and customer advocacy. Prior to founding Baer Consulting, Nicole served as CMO/COO for Logitech’s Sports and Human Performance group where she led marketing, product development and operations for an incubated group within LOGI. Prior to this role, she was the global head of marketing for Logitech Video Collaboration group, where she led and built the business’ global marketing function during a period of hypergrowth.
Before joining Logitech, she was head of enterprise demand generation at Zendesk, where to push the SaaS leader to $1B+ in sales. Prior to Zendesk, she founded Artemis Marketing Partners, a successful full-service marketing firm, in 2017. Nicole also spent nearly 15 years in technology-focused commercial roles at global consulting firm Aon Hewitt including leadership for DaaS, solutions consulting and analytics divisions. Nicole holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and graduated with honors in literature from UC Santa Barbara. She is a busy mom to two teenage boys, wife, and lover of all things outdoors.