Meet the dream team
Our team is made up of some of the most passionate, caring, and action-oriented people we know. We’ve assembled the smartest minds from diverse backgrounds and experiences in order to make long-lasting, resounding change in students’ lives.
Leadership
Josue De Paz
CEO, Co-Founder
Josue De Paz is the CEO and co-founder of FTF and was most recently a 2022-2023 Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University. Prior to that, he was a Community Partnerships Manager at Girls Who Code. He’s also held positions in advertising and financial services throughout his career. He’s a Loyola High School and Santa Clara alumni who loves coaching t-ball, mentoring students, and playing basketball. He was born in Mexico, raised in Los Angeles, and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Board of Directors
Hana Seligman
Co-Founder, Honor Your Dreams & Associate Director, Product Marketing, Bumble
Jerome J. Sanders
Board Chair, Honor Your Dreams, Director of Marketing, Enterprise AI Governance, Credo AI
Fangzhou Deng
Director, Blackrock
Natasha Ubaldo
Board Member, Compliance Officer
Olivia Fowora
Lead, Governance, Risk & Compliance Program Manager @ Meta
Jamal Adams
President, Loyola High School
Alex Wasserman
US Infrastructure Operations Manager, Citadel
Monica Sibri
Senior Advisor, IncludUs Fund
Diana Arias
Former Director of Communications, New York Jobs CEO Council
2026 Student Advisory Board
Aissatou
2020 Fellow, Brooklyn
Columbia University ‘26
Anjum
2020 Fellow, Bronx
Hunter College ‘27
Aretre
2021 Fellow, Queens Stonybrook University ‘28
Jazmyne
2020 Fellow, Brooklyn
Tufts University ‘26
Rizouana
2020 Fellow, Queens
University of Rochester ‘26
Jaida
2021 Fellow, Queens
Hunter College ‘27
Nusrath
2021 Fellow, Bronx
Juky
2021 Fellow, Staten Island
City College ‘27
