Rachel Glass
Executive Director
Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy

Rachel Glass is Executive Director of the Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy (MCAEL), a community coalition that works to strengthen the county-wide adult English literacy network with resources, training, collaboration and advocacy to support a thriving community and an optimal workforce.  Prior to joining MCAEL in December 2007, she served as Campaign Director for Montgomery County with the United Way of the National Capital Area, where she worked closely with community leaders in the non-profit, government and business sectors to mobilize resources, educate donors, and bring focus to the United Way’s community impact agenda.  Before joining the United Way, Rachel spent five years with Management Systems International (MSI), an international development management consulting firm and federal government contractor.  At MSI, she was responsible for managing several multi-million dollar international aid contracts, including a worldwide initiative focused on girls education, and a two-year project to provide technical assistance in government reform and innovation to a cabinet level office in the Mexican presidency. Rachel holds a BA in International Development from Johns Hopkins University and a Masters in Public Management from the University of Maryland.  Rachel is a graduate of Leadership Montgomery and currently serves on the Steering Committee of Nonprofit Montgomery;   Gaithersburg Community Advisory Board; Leadership Montgomery Programs Committee; and on the board member of  Art and Remembrance, a non-profit, arts and educational organization that addresses themes of social justice through narrative art.


Manny Hidalgo
Executive Director
Latino Economic Development Corporation

Manny Hidalgo has served as Executive Director of the Latino Economic Development Corporation (LEDC) in Washington, D.C. since May 2005.  LEDC is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation founded in 1991 with a mission to improve the wealth-building capacity of low to moderate income Latinos and other underserved communities in the Washington Metropolitan Area.   They are headquarted in the Adams Morgan with a satellite office in Wheaton, Maryland.  LEDC achieves its mission through small business development, homeownership counseling, and affordable housing preservation.   Manny has over 17 years of experience in the field of community development and advocacy.  In the Washington area, Manny has served as Executive Director of the Spanish Catholic Center, Director of Development at CASA of Maryland, and YouthBuild Program Manager at the Latin American Youth Center.  He is on the national board of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies and in the Washington DC area serves on the board of the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development and the Wheaton Redevelopment Advisory Committee. He is also a graduate of the 2007 Class of Leadership Greater Washington and the 2008 Nonprofit Roundtable Fellowship Program.   Manny has a Bachelors degree in History from Georgetown University and a Masters degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Florida International University.  Originally from Miami, Florida, Manny is a second generation Cuban American who has published several articles about Cuba in various academic journals and newspapers in the US and Cuba.  He lives with his wife and four children in Silver Spring, Maryland.


Ana Lopez
Executive Director
Community Bridges

Ana Lopez is the Executive Director of Community Bridges, a non-profit based in Silver Spring, MD whose mission is to empower diverse girls to become exceptional students, positive leaders and healthy young women.  A native of the Silver Spring/Takoma Park community, Ana has a passion for youth empowerment and educational programming for low-income youth of color.   She has more than eight years of experience working with Latino immigrant families and youth in Brooklyn and East Harlem, New York, and in Washington, DC.  In that time, Ana has worn many hats doing individual and group counseling, social work, youth empowerment, and organizational development.  Prior to coming to Community Bridges, Ana worked at the Latin American Youth Center where she managed the Transitional Living and Street Outreach Program, which serves homeless Latino youth in Washington, DC. Ana holds a master's degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work, with a concentration in program development, and a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in Human & Organizational Development with a concentration in Community Development and Social Policy.  She is a graduate of Leadership Montgomery (Class of 2007).


Diane Vy Nguyen-Vu
Executive Director
Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association

Diane Vy Nguyen-Vu is the Executive Director of the Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association (MVMA).  Officially incorporated in 1982, MVMA is the oldest Vietnamese American community based organization in Maryland.  MVMA has three formal programs: the Vietnamese Parenting Enrichment Project (VPEP) which aims to empower parents to be more involved in their children's education, the Golden Age Project for Seniors (GAPS) which bridges language barriers by linking seniors to vital health resources, and its Immigration Services which assists immigrants of all backgrounds with applications such as permanent residency and citizenship/naturalization. Before becoming the executive director, Diane served one year as a Dan Than/Americorps Fellow as the program manager for GAPS.  She attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where she received a B.A. in Psychology.  Diane also serves as a member of the Montgomery County Commission on Aging.


Jayne Park
Consultant

Jayne Park is currently a project consultant with the Montgomery County Community Foundation, where she is supporting efforts to design and implement a new funding initiative to strengthen the capacity of small emerging nonprofit organizations in Montgomery County.  Prior to her work with the foundation, Jayne was the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC), a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the legal and civil rights of Asian Americans in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan community through direct services, education and advocacy.  Founded in 1998, the APALRC was established in response to the lack of linguistically and culturally appropriate legal services for the area’s growing number of Asian Americans.  Under Jayne's leadership, the APALRC flourished from an organization of all volunteers, to one with ten full-time staff, thirty volunteer law students who speak ten Asian languages, and thirty-five trained legal interpreters representing six Asian languages. 

In recognition of her many accomplishments, Jayne received the inaugural 2006 Exponent Award from the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation.  The award celebrates visionary nonprofit leadership, and recognizes strong and effective nonprofit leaders with a track record of accomplishment.  Jayne was also the recipient of the 2005 EXCEL Leadership Award from the Center for Nonprofit Advancement, given to an outstanding nonprofit leader in the Washington, D.C. region who shows excellence in the areas of innovation, motivation, community building, ethical integrity, and strategic leadership. Jayne was also honored as a 2005 Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine. Jayne received her B.A. from Brown University, and J.D. from Boston College Law School.