SCHOTT FOUNDATION IMPACT REPORT 2026

Meet the Schott staff & read their mottos for 2026

Welcome
Mobilizing Resources
Partners Speak
Impact Partners
Love in Action
Coalescing Philanthropy
Meet the Staff
Dr. John H. Jackson

President and CEO

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

Senior Vice President of Partnership Engagement

“We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.”
—Ella’s Song
Darius Bartolomei

Darius Bartolomei

Programs and Grants Lead

“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
—Che Guevara  
Melissa Clement

Partnership Engagement Manager

“Rest is Resistance.”
Melissa Daar Carvajal

Donor Communications & Marketing Director

“Gotta Dance.”
Shawna Ellis

Executive Operations Manager

“Ever since I was a child, I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”
—Bruce Lee

Andrea Garvey

Operations and Grants Manager

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

Director of Finance and Operations

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela 
Kayla Henderson-Wood

Communications Manager

“AI could never replace all this!”
Roland Kennedy, Jr.

Executive Director,
Executives Alliance Fund

“Life is what you make it, so make it great.”
Lisa Michel

Lisa Michel

Strategy Manager & Operations Lead

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
—William Arthur Ward
Shaniqua Rudd

Partnership Engagement Director

“Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.”
—Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Patrick St. John

Narrative and Digital Campaign Director

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
—bell hooks
Precious Waldron-López

Precious Waldron Lopez

Program and Campaign Officer, Education and Civic Engagement

 

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

Director, Education and Civic Engagement

“Power without love is reckless and abusive; love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
—Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Coalescing Philanthropy