Board of Directors

Erin Barisano
Dr. Erin Barisano is the Superintendent of Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Orange, CA. She spent the first 20 years of her Catholic school career in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles working as a teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent. Additionally, she has served as a part-time faculty member in Catholic school leadership programs at Loyola Marymount University and Boston College. Erin is a proud product of Catholic education from elementary to graduate school. She attended the University of Notre Dame, Mount St. Mary’s University, Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymount University. She has presented at educational conferences across the country in which she has shared her research and experiences in Catholic school leadership, with a focus on spiritual leadership. Dr. Erin enjoys leading retreats and serving on numerous boards and committees to help further the mission and scope of Catholic education. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, cooking, and spending time with her husband and two children.
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Rev. Michael Garanzini, S.J.
Fr. Garanzini began his tenure as president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) on July 1, 2020. Immediately prior to his role at AJCU, Fr. Garanzini served as Secretary for Higher Education of the Society of Jesus, and Chair of the Board of Directors for the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU). Fr. Garanzini served as president of Loyola University Chicago from 2001 to 2015. During his fourteen years at Loyola, he served on the AJCU Board of Directors, including a term as Chair. Under his leadership, Loyola grew in national recognition as an innovator in higher education, thanks to the establishment of Arrupe College, the first Jesuit community college in the United States. While serving as Secretary for Higher Education, Fr. Garanzini led several initiatives to facilitate national and international collaboration among Jesuit institutions. In 2013, he hosted the first-ever meeting of Jesuit provincials, presidents and board chairs of U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities with Rev. Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., the former Superior General of the Society of Jesus, at Loyola Chicago. It was during this meeting that Fr. Nicolás delivered an address in which he called for “spiritual and heroic leadership” among all caretakers of Jesuit institutions. Fr. Garanzini holds a B.A. in Psychology from Saint Louis University and a Doctorate in Psychology and Religion from the Graduate Theological Union / University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at the University of San Francisco, the Gregorian University in Rome, Rockhurst University and Fordham University. Additional academic appointments include four years as academic vice president at Saint Louis University, and two years as special assistant to the president at Georgetown University. Fr. Garanzini entered the Society of Jesus in 1971 and was ordained as a priest in 1980.
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Dave Napier
David Napier is the Co-Founder and President and Chief Operating Officer at Amerigo Education, the largest secondary school provider of international student services for US private schools. Prior to this, David was Head of North America for Nord Anglia Education, the largest operator of PK-12 schools in the world, where he oversaw operations for eleven schools in the United States and Mexico. David has also served as SVP, Operations for Meritas Family of Schools, an international network of elite, independent K-12 schools. In addition, David was the Director of International Business Development for Kaplan, Inc. David earned a BA in Political Science from Williams College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He currently serves on the Board of Education for Glencoe, IL.
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Colin Scully
Mr. Scully co-founded Life Line Screening of America in 1996 together with business partner Tim Phillips. The company has since become the nation’s leading provider of preventive health screenings and employs over 1,000 employees. Mr. Scully’s leadership helped define a new model of health care in which highly trained healthcare professionals provide preventive screenings in local communities, a unique new business model that emphasizes convenience and affordability. Mr. Scully’s new community-based platform of health care has revolutionized the screening industry. It has also demonstrated the viability of an alternative health care model that is specifically oriented around the consumer. Mr. Scully is a graduate of The Ohio State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Marketing. During that time, he also completed Officer Candidate School with the United States Marine Corps. Mr. Scully has served on the Board of the Cristo Rey Network, St. Martin De Porres High School (Cleveland’s Cristo Rey school), and St. Ignatius High School (Cleveland).
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Katie Everett
Katie Everett is the Executive Director of the Lynch Foundation. She joined in 1997 and was the first staff person hired for the foundation. Thus, Katie has seen the Foundation grow from $40 million to $150 million. She has overseen the investment of nearly $200 million in support of over 375 social change organizations, including some of the earliest seed investments in Teach for America, Partners in Health, and The Phoenix. A leader in education philanthropy, Katie has guided The Lynch Foundation through several nationally recognized investments in urban school systems. Katie led the establishment of The Lynch Leadership Academy, a national model for building world-class urban school leaders. She also was a leader in The Lynch Early Education Initiative, an effort that serves over 140 early childhood classrooms in Boston’s Catholic schools and the Boston Schoolyards Initiative, one of the city’s most successful public-private partnerships that restored over 80 school playgrounds. Katie served as a Founding Board Member of the Sontag Prize in Urban Education and is currently a Board Member of i2 Learning’s Boston Chapter. Katie served on the Board of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund for six years and was the Board Chair of the Eliot Innovation School for five years. She is also an active member of the Catholic School Philanthropy Working Group; the Archdiocese of Boston’s Catholic Council; the Boston Catholic Schools Support Network’s Advisory Committee; Providence College’s School of Education and Social Work Advisory Council; and the Malta Pilgrimage Foundation’s Special Advisor Group. In 2012, the Boston Business Journal honored her as one of 40 Under 40 innovators and leaders in the City of Boston, and in 2014/15 she served on Governor Baker’s Education Transition Team. Katie graduated from Notre Dame Academy and received her Bachelor’s degree from Boston College. She completed Executive Programs at the Stanford University School of Business & the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She lives in the South End neighborhood of Boston with her husband Greg and enjoys spending time with her two college-aged children.
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Jennifer Henry
Jennifer has a successful track-record building businesses and nonprofit organizations in K-12 and higher education. She is currently a co-founder and chief of strategy at New Uni, focused on empowering universities to meet the rapidly growing global demand for high-quality, affordable higher education. Prior to New Uni, she was the senior vice president of workforce engagement at 2U and the senior vice president of career services at Trilogy Education Services. She has also held senior roles at Pahara Institute and New Leaders, and was the co-founder and executive director of the Academy for Urban School Leadership in Chicago— one of the country’s first urban teacher residency programs. Jennifer started her career as an award-winning high school history teacher. Jennifer holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a master of business administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Jennifer is a member of the Aspen Global Leaders Network and serves on the Board of the National Equity Project. She lives in Oakland with her husband, a charter school network leader. They have two children in college.
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Matt Powell
Matt has a long history with the De La Salle Christian Brothers, starting as a high school student at La Salle High School in Milwaukie, OR, and extending his Lasallian association for over 30 years. His involvement covered commitments to classroom teaching and administrative positions as well as serving on his alma mater’s Board of Trustees during the time he had a career as a national sales manager in a manufacturing company. However, in 1998, the pull of the Lasallian educational experience motivated him to return to using his talents and expertise in working directly with students and their families in a school setting. Matt’s business experience and entrepreneurial vision, combined with his Lasallian educational passion, led him to be the founding president of De La Salle North Catholic High School in Portland, the first replication of the Cristo Rey school model. This Lasallian school is exclusively dedicated to transforming underserved communities in partnership with businesses, philanthropists, families, and educators. Matt, and his wife Jamie, have three grown children who also benefited from a Lasallian education. In 2014, the couple moved to Napa for Matt to serve as the Executive Director of the Lasallian Christian Brothers Foundation. Matt is steeped in the Lasallian Catholic mission based not only on his personal lived experience, but also due to the numerous Lasallian schools he has served within the District of San Francisco New Orleans as an educator, leader, and Trustee. He is committed to creating a culture where students, families, and educators feel welcome and have a true sense of belonging. Throughout his career, Matt has also demonstrated a record of success in fundraising. He is a highly relational leader whose enthusiasm attracts others to the Lasallian mission and how Lasallian schools impact the lives of students and educators alike.
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