Board of Directors

Tony Nethercutt, Chair

Tony grew up in Watsonville, CA.  He is the proud product of an impassioned grade school teaching mother and a strong middle school administrator father.  He learned early that certain segments of school going children had both challenges and opportunities that needed to be addressed.  Tony brings the same energy and passion he had during the 30+ years of his television and digital advertising career to NGS and the many philanthropic relationships he has today.  He has lived in San Rafael for the past 27 years with his wife Laura.  Their son Zander graduated from Kenyon College in May of 2016, and is now selling advertising for Yelp in Chicago.

Education:
  • B.S. - Marshall School of Business (University of Southern California)​

Sarah Lee

Sarah is an NGS alum and a recent graduate. She earned her B.A. in Linguistics and minored in Consumer Psychology. Her two seemingly unrelated interests in language and marketing merged perfectly when she became Linguistics Project Manager for Lexicon Branding in Sausalito. In addition to engaging with a wide network of linguists in over 80 different countries, she also conducts her own research on the way the sounds in a brand name can change a consumer's perception of that company or product.
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As a Korean speaker at home but an English language learner in school, NGS helped Sarah turn her split lifestyle into a powerful passion for linguistics and education. Sarah is excited to be joining the board to ensure her fellow NGSers feel empowered too.

Education:
  • B.A. - University of Pennsylvania

Clint Wilkins

Clint has a long and distinguished career in both independent and charter schools and as a social entrepreneur. He served as a principal and assistant headmaster at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. In 1998, he founded the Sage Hill School, the first nondenominational, independent high school in Orange County. Clint has also served as the principal of a charter school in Oakland, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University School of Education, and an Associate with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford. He received his secondary school teaching credentials at Princeton University. He is married to Carla Woscoboinik Wilkins, a Chilean, and has three grown children.
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Education:
  • B.A. Williams College
  • M.A. Harvard University
Jennifer Lee

Jennifer, a Korean-American born and raised in the Midwest, was the first in her family to go to college. She has cultivated a longstanding career in nonprofit management and administration across a broad range of issues including: affordable housing, homelessness, immigrants’ rights advocacy, violence prevention, and criminal justice reform.

Jennifer brings specialized academic training and practical work experience in public policy analysis, research, and evaluation. She has trained and worked with nonprofits to advance community-driven, participatory action research strategies. 

Jennifer has lived in Marin County for the past 20 years with her husband John and their 2 children, Henry and Katherine.  

Education:
  • B.A. Northwestern University
  • M.P.A. New York University 
Zuleika Godinez
Zuly is the Policy Manager for the Ensuring Opportunity Campaign to End Poverty in Contra Costa. Previously, as a graduate student, she served as a Policy Fellow for the Center for Community Change in Washington, D.C., where she worked with advocacy, labor and research organizations to improve economic outcomes for low-income families and communities of color. Prior to attending graduate school, she was the Youth Program Associate at the James Irvine Foundation where she engaged in strategic grantmaking to increase the number of low-income youth in California who earn a post-secondary credential. She has also served as a Program Coordinator at Next Generation Scholars, where she created and taught culturally informed curricula to middle school students and facilitated parent workshops on college access. She has also worked with day labor organizations and educational equity for immigrant families in Southern California. She was also a fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Public Policy and Management through the Public Policy and International Affairs program.

B.A. - Pomona College
M.A. - University of Michigan 
Oanh Tran
Born in Vietnam and raised in San Rafael, Oanh is the first in her family to go to college. She is passionate about educational access and equality. With almost 10 years working in non-profits and schools, she has experience with community outreach and operations. She has served on the Mark Day Boar​d and Branson's Strategic Planning Committee. Most recently, she worked as a strategy consultant in tech and healthcare before settling into her current role in product management. 

Oanh lives in San Rafael with her husband, Carl, their son, Theo and dog, Newton.

Education:
B.A.- Tufts University
MBA - University of Michigan