Impact Report Staff %%page%% - Schott Foundation

SCHOTT FOUNDATION IMPACT REPORT 2024

Meet the Schott staff & read their mottos for 2025

Dr. John H. Jackson

President and CEO

“We’re blessed with another 24 to make right what we didn’t the day before.”

Diego Alvarez

Director of Finance and Operations

“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” – from The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

Darius Bartolomei

Program Associate

“The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” – Che Guevara

Diallo Brooks

Senior Equity Fellow

“Courage to learn, wisdom to lead.”

Melissa Daar Carvajal

Communications Director

“Gotta Dance.”

Shawna Ellis

Executive Assistant to the President

“Be the reason why people believe in
beautiful souls, kind hearts and good
energy. Never stop being a good person.” –
author unknown

Andrea Garvey

Operations and Grants Manager

“There is nothing new under the sun, but
there are new suns.” — Octavia E. Butler

Kayla Henderson-Wood

Communications Specialist

“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.” – Huey P. Newton

Claude Kabuya

Staff Accountant

“Life is a one ticket trip, so travel in the first class.”

Lisa Michel

Operations Assistant

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Patrick St. John

Digital & Creative Director

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.” — bell hooks

Diana Tate Vermeire

Senior Vice President of Strategy

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Precious Waldron-López

Precious Waldron Lopez

Regional Program Officer, Northeast

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” – James Baldwin

Melissa Wiggins

Senior Development Associate

“Rest is Resistance.”

Mike Woodward

Regional Program Officer, South

“I really don’t think life is about the I-could- have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried- to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.”— Nikki Giovanni

Michael S. Wotorson

Michael Wotorson

Director, National Opportunity to Learn Network

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.” — Che Guevara

Coalescing Philanthropy