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)​

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
Zuleika Godinez
Zuly is a Program Officer at S.H. Cowell Foundation. Previously, she was the Policy Manager for Ensuring Opportunity Campaign to End Poverty in Contra Costa, a policy and advocacy initiative housed at the Richmond Community Foundation. In this role, Zuleika worked with local elected officials, government agencies and non-profits, as well as faith leaders, businesses, labor and philanthropy, in a collective effort to ensure all county residents have what they need to thrive.

She has also served as Youth Program Associate at the James Irvine Foundation, working to increase the number of low-income youth in California who earn a postsecondary credential; as a Policy Fellow at the Center for Community Change in Washington, D.C.; and as a Program Coordinator at Next Generation Scholars.
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B.A. - Pomona College
M.A. - University of Michigan