REDSTONE STRATEGY GROUP - Key Persons

Alex Kornblum

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Alex is driven to contribute to data-driven solutions for climate change, public health, affordable housing, and education. Background Alex joined Redstone as a Summer 2024 Intern, before his senior year at Rice University, where he studies social policy analysis and data science. His interdisciplinary degree path has fueled a passion for bridging gaps between public, private, and nonprofit sectors. He will join Redstone full time in August 2025 as an Analyst. While at Rice, Alex is currently working to publish research on reproductive education access in Texas and its effect on teen health outcomes. Texas school districts closely guard their health curricula, limiting researchers' ability to analyze restrictive local policies. Alex hopes that his state and district-level research will open dialogues for school boards about the public health benefits of comprehensive sex education. In other academic research, he has focused on community land trusts and Houston's unhoused population. Alex serves as a Chapter Director and founding member of Biokind Analytics, a student-run organization providing data insights to nonprofits in the health sphere. Alex is most proud of his projects with Planned Parenthood and AmeriCorps providing recommendations on donor and volunteer retention, respectively. In 2023, he interned at National Geographic to analyze online viewership of their education resources and wildlife grants. These experiences have cemented his strong belief in the importance of nonprofit data analysis.

Amber Levine

Job Titles:

Associate
Member of the Redstone Team

Amber applies evidence-based creative thinking to help clients tackle interconnected social challenges. Amber joined Redstone after working at the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation, where she supported courses on strategic philanthropy and women in leadership. Amber is passionate about education, inclusivity, and human services. She enjoys applying evidence-based creative thinking to help clients tackle interconnected social challenges, because she believes that helping people ask the right questions and evaluate results will empower them to have greater impact in their communities. Amber graduated from Stanford University with a master's degree in Management Science & Engineering and a bachelor's degree in Engineering: Architectural Design. While at Stanford, Amber was a member of the Designing Education Lab, where she focused on research and course development related to improving the representation of women and other historically marginalized groups in engineering. She also tutored all genres of writing at the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking and served as a Teaching Fellow for a Raise Your Voice: Learn to Write Successfully for College and Beyond pilot course. Amber is deeply committed to applying research-based and identity affirming approaches to education and social services, in order to both meet immediate needs and promote confidence, agency, and joy. Amber is a California native, and loves to dance, read, drink coffee, explore new places, and spend time with her husband Michael and their little dog Annie.

Amiya Mehrotra

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Amiya strives to craft meaningful, impactful solutions for social equity issues, with a particular focus on pursuing educational equity and serving under-represented communities. Amiya joined Redstone after graduating magna cum laude from Duke University, where she majored in Public Policy Studies and minored in both History and Economics. Her senior thesis evaluated how higher education institutions can promote student political participation through their programming and curricula and earned Highest Distinction in the Public Policy department. Throughout her time at Duke, Amiya engaged in numerous higher education research projects. She contributed to the recently published The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century by evaluating case studies of new liberal arts universities that have innovated to address modern societal needs. One of these case studies later inspired her senior thesis. More recently, Amiya worked for Duke's "Democracy and the Politics of American Higher Education" project, where she contributed to a newsletter examining federal threats to democratic values in higher education. Aside from her research, Amiya also led the Editorial Board of Duke's independent newspaper, The Chronicle, acted as President of the Duke Presidential Ambassadors Program (formerly known as Dukes and Duchesses), and was selected as the undergraduate representative on the Board of Trustees Racial Equity Advisory Council's Education Subcommittee. In Durham, Amiya also worked as a teaching assistant at Brogden Middle School. Prior to joining Redstone, Amiya spent her summers in D.C. as an intern on the Hill, a fellow at a reproductive health rights lobbying firm, and a summer analyst at Cornerstone Research. She also spent a year interning for the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, where she had the opportunity to conduct archival research about the history of civil rights activism in Durham, and has worked for several education nonprofits in New York City. Amiya grew up in New York and enjoys reading, pondering New York Times puzzles, and wheel-throwing (ceramics) classes in her free time.

Angela Gomez

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Angela is passionate about stakeholder engagement to generate collaborative and meaningful solutions. Angela Gomez joins Redstone as an analyst after graduating from Stanford University with a BAH in Sociology and a BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity with a focus on Politics, Policy, and Equity. At Stanford, Angela was involved with the High School Support Initiative providing individual tutoring to secondary school students within the Bay Area, Hermanas de Stanford, a Latina organization promoting equity for women-identifying Latinx students as the Social Community Chair, and the Leland Scholars Program as a preceptor supporting the transition from high school to college for fellow first-generation students at Stanford.

Anna Milstein

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Anna is passionate about social entrepreneurship and issues related to climate, gender, and education. Anna joins Redstone after graduating from Stanford University with a B.A. in International Relations and a minor in Data Science. At Stanford, she pursued her passion of learning about different countries and cultures by studying abroad in Florence and Berlin. At university, she served as a news writer and desk editor at the Stanford Daily. She also worked as a research assistant at the Graduate School of Education where she investigated gender diversity in international universities' leadership. Prior to joining Redstone, she was a summer fellow at the Autodesk Foundation where she researched organizations that Autodesk considers for funding and conducted a landscape analysis of impact investment firms' reporting methodologies. Anna grew up in Tokyo. She loves baking, learning Italian, going on walks, and having picnics with friends.

Anusha Sarathy

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Anusha creates thoughtful solutions to complex problems. She is particularly interested in the intersection between gender equity and economic development. Background Anusha joined Redstone after graduating in Global Affairs at Yale University. She has a wide range of interdisciplinary interests. These interests are woven together by a strong passion for human rights and uplifting marginalized communities. This is displayed in her research which ranges from analyzing the economic impact of COVID-19 on migrant communities in India to her senior capstone project mapping the cyber component of the war in Ukraine. Before working at Redstone, Anusha engaged in market analysis on European export opportunities as an Assistant Trade Specialist with the U.S. Department of Commerce. Anusha's interests follow her outside of the classroom. Her passion for creating communities of support have allowed her to be the President of two student organizations at Yale. As the president of the Women's Leadership Initiative, the oldest and largest group on campus dedicated to supporting women, Anusha remodeled the membership model to highlight flexibility of student involvement. During her time as President of India at Yale she established new partnerships with other South Asian affinity groups, fostering a broader community. During her free time, Anusha loves sunset runs, reading a good thriller and finding the best coffee shop in any city she is in.

Arushi Desai

Job Titles:

Associate
Member of the Redstone Team

Arushi is passionate about employing an equity lens to address society's most urgent issues, including shared prosperity and human services. Arushi's work at Redstone has spanned the economic equity, human services, and education sectors. Her work combines data analysis, qualitative research, community-based approaches, and stakeholder facilitation to address complex issues.

Avivah Malin

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Avivah collaborates on team-driven innovation to solve social problems. She is interested in issues related to climate, gender, and economic equity. Background Avivah joined Redstone after graduating with honors from Williams College with a double major in Economics and Political Science and spending a year as an Analyst at Charles River Associates in Boston. While at Williams, Avivah wrote a thesis on the effects of public benefits on recidivism rates. She found that formerly incarcerated people who had access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, were significantly more likely to be able to stay out of prison and re-integrate into society. In this research, she compared states that had reversed bans on public nutrition assistance with those that still had them in place, providing an imperative to reverse the bans where they still exist. Avivah spent her junior year as an exchange student at Exeter College within Oxford University, taking tutorials within the PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) degree. Previously at Williams, Avivah worked as a research assistant in providing substantive updates and research for the graduate textbook Economic Growth, by Quamrul Ashraf and David Weil. Prior to that, Avivah interned at PEN America in New York City, a nonprofit advocating for free speech for writers and journalists around the world. Avivah is passionate about equity and access to the outdoors, and directed the Learn to Ski Program at Williams, expanding access to financial aid to cover program costs for participants. She also was a program leader in the Williams Outdoor Orientation For Living as First Years, coordinating access to borrowed gear and supporting the addition of base campus trips to allow students a more accessible option to the outdoors. Avivah grew up in Boulder, Colorado, and is an ultra-runner and triathlete working on climbing all of the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado. You might find her jumping into cold mountain lakes or playing guitar around a warm campfire.

Ben Rosenfield

Job Titles:

Associate
Member of the Redstone Team
Principal

Ben is grateful to work alongside philanthropies that are committed to addressing the myriad inequities we face today.

Ben Scherzer

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

With experience at multiple levels of government, Ben is passionate about building educational and legal systems that are fair for all. Ben joined Redstone after graduating magna cum laude from Columbia University, where he double concentrated in philosophy and mathematics. There, he was president of the Columbia Debate Society and raced for the alpine ski team. Off campus, he taught current events and debate to incarcerated people as part of the Rikers Debate Project. Previously, Ben worked as a tenants' rights intern with New York City council where he helped renters fight illegal evictions and lease violations. He was also a legislative intern in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he conducted policy research and drafted press releases. Most recently, he worked in private sector consulting at Strategy&. Originally from Seattle, Ben enjoys skiing, cooking, playing chess, and trying new coffee shops.

Beth Leuin

Job Titles:

Member of the Redstone Team
Associate Principal and California Office Lead

Beth helps clients design and implement strategies across the social sector. At Redstone, she has focused on addressing challenges in environment, food, and democracy issue areas. Her work combines qualitative and quantitative data analysis, community-based approaches, and stakeholder facilitation to drive impact. In addition to her client work, Beth leads Redstone's California office. Background Beth joined Redstone after managing analytics and research services at a corporate strategy consultancy. She has worked with corporate clients across industries to analyze public issues, leadership, reputation, and ESG positioning. Beth holds a Master of Public Policy from UC Berkeley where her studies focused on food systems and environment. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University. Beth lives in San Francisco and spends all the time she can outdoors. She enjoys running, hiking, and getting lost in a good book. Beth leverages data-driven insights to help clients advance a more equitable and sustainable world. Beth helps clients design and implement strategies across the social sector. At Redstone, she has focused on addressing challenges in environment, food, and democracy issue areas. Her work combines qualitative and quantitative data analysis, community-based approaches, and stakeholder facilitation to drive impact. In addition to her client work, Beth leads Redstone's California office.

Bob Shaver

Job Titles:

Director
Member of the Redstone Team

Bob helps social sector leaders make the world a better place. Changing the world requires clarity of vision and collaborative execution - so Bob's practice focuses on supporting social sector leaders to develop clear strategies and drive innovative execution. Bob brings over a dozen years of experience to this practice, leading engagements on a wide range of issues. He has particular expertise in human services topics - including hunger relief, homeless services, housing, public benefits, client service technology, and data sharing. Bob's work has been profiled in Fast Company, the NY Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Brooklin Ballard

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Brooklin is passionate about issues related to educational, housing and environmental justice, and prioritizes centering the voices of affected communities and their allies. Background Brooklin joined Redstone after graduating from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and an Education Studies Certificate. While at Yale, Brooklin worked with a number of non-profit organizations in the New Haven and New York City areas aimed at improving educational outcomes for youth, through a variety of avenues. In New Haven, Brooklin served as a tutor and senior counselor with Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership (LEAP), Inc and New Haven Reads, respectively. She is also the co-founder and former co-president of the Yale Education Tutoring Initiative (YETI), an organization borne in response to the need for individualized education during the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of the 2020-21 academic year, YETI had served more than 110 students in the New Haven and West Haven area, many of whom did not have access to individualized academic support. Brooklin interned with and is currently the board co-chair of IntegrateNYC, a youth-led organization with a reputation of taking unprecedented action in its pursuit of educational and racial justice. In her role as an intern, Brooklin collaborated with educators, researchers, lawyers, students, and families to blueprint a pipeline for NYC students to enter the teaching profession. Brooklin also helped to design a model for restorative discipline practices. As a co-chair, Brooklin focuses on board development strategies, leading board education, assessment and recruitment efforts. Brooklin strongly advocates for centering the voices of those most proximate to an issue, recognizing their valuable insights and expertise. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Brooklin enjoys reading, biking, knitting, and hanging with close friends and family.

Brynn Moynihan

Job Titles:

Associate
Member of the Redstone Team

Brynn works with a range of foundations on strategic planning and implementation of educational initiatives. Brynn joins Redstone after two years in management consulting at Bain & Company. One of her favorite projects at Bain was supporting Bloomberg Philanthropies to design and launch a $250M+ healthcare education initiative that will support the establishment/enhancement of 10+ career-connected learning schools across the country over the next 3 years. Prior to Bain, she spent a year supporting a middle school in East Harlem through an AmeriCorps program called City Year. While at City Year, she shared her love of math with 6th grade students as a teacher's assistant. She graduated from Williams College in 2021 with a degree in Mathematics. She currently knows 70 digits of pi and enjoys running, biking, and solving Rubix's cubes in her free time.

Casey Kohlstruk

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Casey is passionate about issues related to criminal justice, education, and the housing crisis.

Cecilia Curran

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Cecilia joined Redstone for a Summer 2025 Internship, as she nears the conclusion of her time as a student at Amherst College. Cecilia will join Redstone full time in August 2025 as an Analyst. At Amherst, Cecilia is a Psychology major also completing a certificate in their Five College Consortium regarding Culture, Health, and the Sciences. She wrote her thesis on the impact of childhood socioeconomic status on the perceived relevancy of emotional events. Cecilia is passionate about various social sector issues, spending her earlier college years interning with different organizations, hoping that first-hand experience would help her later understand what problems address social-oriented organizations. In particular, she is invested in understanding the field of education. She interned with PBS Newshour Classroom, the education branch of the PBS Newsroom, working to provide educational resources to Title I educators, and also spent a summer teaching herself. Cecilia is also interested in the Maternal and Child health field and helped develop publicly accessible databases for Georgetown University's National Center for Education on Maternal and Child Health. Finally, she has recently started involving herself more in the field of sustainability in her new role as a Communication, Education, and Outreach Fellow for the Amherst College Office of Sustainability. Cecilia also is in her fourth year as an athlete at Amherst College. She spends much of her time working in the Amherst College Athletics Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Representatives program, where she has designed and led DEI educational programming for large groups of student-athletes. She is particularly invested in community outreach, both organizing opportunities for others and spending time each week working in person with local organizations. Cecilia is originally from Northern Virginia, though, after spending many years in New England, she has grown to love hiking and spending time outdoors in colder weather. She has been a competitive soccer player through college and loves meeting others through sports. She is also an avid cook and baker who especially loves experimenting with different cuisines and dietary preferences.

Charlie Sutherby

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Charlie is committed to helping organizations protect the planet, defend democracy, and advance social and economic justice Background Charlie joined Redstone after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College, where he majored in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. At Amherst, Charlie led a student advocacy group called The Better Amherst Initiative, which worked with the college's administration to expand institutional resources for students pursuing social impact careers. As a part of this initiative, he also co-founded Amherst Students for Democracy, a group focused on reinvigorating campus interest in American democracy and connecting students to democracy-focused internships. He was also involved in various initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, civic engagement, and restorative justice. Charlie has previous professional experience as a renewable energy analyst at Radia Inc., as a policy intern in Congress following environmental policy, and as a legal research assistant studying the 2020 election's threat to American democracy. Between graduation and starting at Redstone, Charlie spent a summer leading youth hiking trips in Norway. In his free time, he enjoys reading, improving his Spanish, and Malcolm Gladwell's "Revisionist History" podcast.

Charlie Zong

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Charlie is passionate about innovative solutions for complex problems in economic development and global institutions. Background Charlie joined Redstone after graduating from Duke University as a Robertson Scholar. His studies in philosophy, politics, and economics drives his interest in evidence-based solutions to support sustainable global development. While at Duke, Charlie co-founded the first knowledge network on sustainable development led by students, through which he had the privilege to bring together peers across 50 countries and organize a global youth innovation challenge with United Nations human development experts. Previously, Charlie researched international financial institutions while leading a digital strategy refresh at an African-led development consulting firm based in Nairobi, London, and Beijing, took a gap year to cover public health and immigrant communities as the youngest staff journalist at the Houston Chronicle, and co-wrote a techno-economic and environmental analysis of green hydrogen electrolyzers for a renewable energy company. Born and raised in Houston, Texas - where the American South meets the global South - Charlie enjoys exploring diaspora cuisines and cultures, rock climbing, and hiking around the world.

Charlotte Townley

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

Charlotte is passionate about finding solutions to problems in order to promote strong community, healthy democracy and human flourishment. Charlotte joined Redstone after graduating from Yale University, where she majored in Global Affairs. Through her coursework focused in Global Affairs and computer science, she is interested in how public policy can regulate technology use to make it more ethical and equitable. She is also invested in deeper questions about how to reinvigorate American grassroots communities and social capital structures, in order to protect liberal democracy. She enjoys contributing to strong community building wherever she goes. At Yale, she led freshmen outdoor orientation backpacking trips, and was also a captain for the women's club soccer team. Further, as someone passionate about empowering women to have more ownership over their bodies, she served as a Community Health Educator (CHE) for three years, during which time she taught sex education workshops in New Haven public schools.

Cordelia Tullous

Job Titles:

Associate
Member of the Redstone Team
Principal

Cordelia has significant experience leading nonprofit, public and private organizations to strategic growth and success. Background Cordelia joined Redstone from Step Up, a mentoring organization, focused on introducing social emotional learning and opportunities for career practice for teen girls and young adults. In her role, she led the national engagement effort and implementation of the organization's strategic plan at a local and national level. During her tenure with the organization, she also led Step Up's regional fundraising, board governance, and external relations. Prior to her work at Step Up, Cordelia spent a significant portion of her career in the education and public service sector working with Leading Educators, KIPP New Orleans Schools and Accenture. Previously, Cordelia was a member of the Broad Residency in Urban Education, a program that places professionals into management roles in carefully selected education organizations Cordelia lives in Dallas, TX where she is a very active and involved community member. In her free time, she enjoys travel, golf, tennis and cheering on her nieces and nephews at their academic and athletic activities. Education The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems, Master of Education in Educational Leadership University of Houston Law Center, Doctor of Jurisprudence Spelman College, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Management

David Jung

Job Titles:

Analyst
Member of the Redstone Team

David is committed to issues of economic equity and social justice, with a particular focus on serving immigrant communities and communities of color. Background David joined Redstone after graduating from Columbia University, having received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Political Science - Statistics and a minor in Sociology. At Columbia, David wrote a senior thesis for the Political Science department, using a mixed-methods approach to analyze the efficacy of municipal deportation defense programs and the importance of nonprofit collaborations in facilitating those programs. During the past four years, David has been deeply immersed in on-campus student advocacy and social impact work with local nonprofits. In response to the rise in hate crimes directed against the AAPI community in New York City, David co-founded the Asian Interboard Initiative, a coalition of different Asian affinity groups and student advocates. The Interboard helped direct university resources to Asian students during times of crisis and served indigent Asian residents in the city. Outside of his work with the Interboard, David served as the publisher of the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review and a project leader for Columbia's nonprofit consulting club.  Prior to joining Redstone, David interned at The Bronx Defenders, where he worked with attorneys and advocates providing holistic defense to indigent clients in criminal proceedings. He was also an Unaccompanied Minors Program intern at Catholic Charities Community Services of New York, where he helped minors with their asylum applications. Most recently, David interned at La Cocina, a nonprofit restaurant incubator that assists low-income food entrepreneurs formalize their businesses. At La Cocina, David worked closely with founders of color on their revenue growth strategies and assisted the organization with its community service projects.   In his free time, David enjoys cooking meals for his close ones, playing basketball, and sharing the road with the rabbits and the trees.

Diana Enriquez

Job Titles:

Manager
Member of the Redstone Team

Diana is a mixed method sociologist who provides holistic and creative solutions to Redstone clients. Background Diana Enriquez is a Manager in Redstone's New York City office. Before Redstone, she was a Sociologist at Princeton University, focused on technology and labor. Diana's dissertation research focused on high-skill freelancers as a subset of the alternative workforce facing new challenges before and during COVID-19. Other research projects examined the impact of the COVID-19 shutdown on low-income households, pre-automation attempts via gig work platforms, and the role of platforms in managing gig workers. Her research has been cited in court filings in the state of California, the Federal Reserve of Atlanta, and several news channels. In addition to her academic work, Diana was most recently the Senior Research Editor for Versity (an Endeavor Digital product) and held several other positions as a freelance researcher and strategist with a range of clients including financial services, media companies, and tech organizations. Outside of work, Diana is a multimedia artist currently focusing on printmaking and textile arts. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her very opinionated cat.

Diane Nemchak

Job Titles:

Assistant
Member of the Redstone Team
Senior Executive

Diane is a Senior Executive Assistant in the Boulder, CO office in support of Redstone's growing and diverse social project work. Background Diane comes to Redstone with extensive administrative experience. She has worked in business administration for over 25 years and joined Redstone after 17+ years at a Boulder biotech company where she supported executives and scientists who conducted research and developed cancer treatments to prolong patient lives and improve the quality of life for patients. Diane has lived in Colorado most of her life and is originally from northern Ohio. She fell in love with the mountain splendor, settled in Colorado and has lived most of that time in the mountains until recently. Her free time is spent hiking, cooking for friends, biking, enjoying the outdoors and seeing wildlife along the trail. Rocky Mountain National Park is a favorite respite especially in the autumn with the Aspen change and excursions to view the elk herds. Or a trip to Grand Lake or Crested Butte hoping to see moose. High country wildflowers are also a favorite to photograph. Her videos of bear cubs and hummingbirds are memorable. In recent years she has stayed closer to home, exploring podcasts and nurturing long distance relationships with family and friends.

Ivan Barkhorn - Founder

Job Titles:

Founding Director
Member of the Redstone Team

Ivan founded Redstone over 17 years ago to help innovative social sector leaders achieve ambitious goals. Since founding Redstone, Ivan has helped many of the world's largest foundations as they tackle tough problems. He has worked across the spectrum of social issues, from energy and climate, to homelessness, to the performing arts, with a particular focus on continuously improved strategies that respond to an ever-changing world. In recent years he has helped construct some of the most ambitious and effective public-private philanthropic partnerships ever, with topics including conservation in the Brazilian Amazon, health services in nine West African countries, and food security in New York City. Ivan has also authored articles on increasing philanthropy's impact, spoken at many conferences, and co-taught a course about large-scale conservation projects at Yale University. Background Before founding Redstone, Ivan was a partner at McKinsey & Company, specializing in consumer electronics strategies and serving clients from both the New York and Tokyo offices. Ivan managed a broad portfolio of clients at McKinsey, including Sony, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. He worked on issues ranging from corporate strategy to organizational effectiveness. Ivan lives with his wife Rebecca and two dogs in Boulder, Colorado. He's a marathon runner who has put more than enough miles on his shoes to circumnavigate the equator three times. Education Yale School of Management, MBA

Janice Rebhan

Job Titles:

Member of the Redstone Team
Finance and Operations Senior Manager

Janice leads finance and general operations at Redstone. Background Before joining Redstone in 2013, Janice worked for a number of non-profits and start-ups in the Boulder Valley area. She has volunteered for many organizations serving youth and is currently the Board President for Longmont Sister Cities. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Economics, she started her career in San Francisco with GE Capital. While at GE Capital, she earned her MBA from San Francisco State. She and her husband, George, moved to Colorado to raise their family. She speaks German and is learning both Italian and Spanish. Janice enjoys traveling, listens to all kinds of music, is passionate about SCUBA diving and loves hiking in the Rocky Mountains.

Jarrett Bell

Job Titles:

Manager
Member of the Redstone Team

Jarrett has worked on strategic planning and research for a variety of clients during his time at Redstone, with a particular focus in the firm's Health practice. Background Jarrett joined Redstone after graduating magna cum laude from Yale University, majoring in economics and with a special interest in health economics. He wrote his senior thesis on the impact of hospital consolidation on municipal finances. Outside of academic work, Jarrett was a founding member of the Urban Philanthropic Fund, an organization that works closely with, and provides grants through its own fundraising efforts and investments to, New Haven nonprofits. He designed the group's webpage for an initial fundraising drive and researched healthcare investment opportunities for the club. He also interned in the Public Policy Department at AdventHealth, where he spearheaded a research project to study rising healthcare costs, social determinants of health, and food insecurity. Jarrett is active in politics, phone banking, knocking on doors, and texting voters during recent election cycles. As an intern in Senator Bill Nelson's office, he helped Floridians navigate the complexities of the VA and Social Security networks. In his free time, Jarrett enjoys snow skiing, hiking, watching college football, and playing with his rescue lab, Lexi, and frequently organizes movie and board game nights with his friends. He grew up in Orlando, Florida.

Jeff Cohen

Job Titles:

Director
Member of the Redstone Team

Jeff helps clients change systems and improve outcomes through clear and differentiated strategy, inclusive and effective collaborations, and actionable insights derived from data and research. Jeff focuses his practice on strategic planning and facilitating collaboration for foundations, nonprofits, intermediaries and collaboratives. He has extensive experience supporting place-based social impact efforts and designing and implementing systems change strategies. Jeff has a deep commitment to creating more equitable and effective education systems in the United States. He has also worked on a wide range of other topics, ranging from improving health outcomes in the Rio Grande Valley to supporting local journalism to strengthening the foster care system in California and Washington. Background Prior to joining Redstone, Jeff was a senior director for strategy and analytics at a statewide education intermediary and a managing director at FSG, a social sector consulting firm, where he led the US education practice. Jeff lives in Seattle with his wife. He is a passionate supporter of the arts and has served on multiple boards of performing arts organizations. In his spare time, Jeff enjoys hiking, planning long road trips, and trying to keep up his classical languages. Education Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, MBA Yale University, MA in Classical Philology Harvard University, BA magna cum laude in Classics

Jenae McCarty

Job Titles:

Member of the Redstone Team
Human Resource Project Manager

Jenae is a Human Resource Project Manager responsible for recruitment, engagement, and performance management. Background Jenae comes to Redstone with several years of experience in higher education. Prior to joining the firm, Jenae spent eight years working in recruitment and enrollment for various colleges and universities in Colorado. During this time, she supported diverse populations of undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students pursuing their respective degrees. In addition, she worked closely with faculty and staff to address diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) concerns as a member of the Graduate School of Social Work's DEI committee at the University of Denver. Jenae holds a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Northern Colorado where her studies focused on the holistic student experience in Higher Education. She has also taught abroad in Northern Italy and Cartegena, Colombia with underserved communities and she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. Jenae is originally from Colorado and enjoys everything this great state has to offer. When she isn't exploring the beautiful Rocky Mountains or enjoying local festivals and events you can find her globetrotting to various destinations around the world.

Jennifer George

Job Titles:

Member of the Redstone Team
Legal and Systems Manager

Jennifer manages our Redwood City office and manages the Legal and Systems functions for the firm. Background Jennifer has many years of experience as a legal assistant. She also spent three years as a music teacher at Rocklin Academy, named by USC in 2011 as the number two charter school in the state of California, where she created a comprehensive music curriculum for kindergarten through sixth grade. She has volunteered as both a music and art docent. In addition to singing, playing the piano, and playing the electric bass, she loves reading, traveling, and going to the theater. Jennifer lives in Half Moon Bay with her family. Education Willamette University, BA cum laude in History, minor in Mathematics

Jessica Kaplan

Job Titles:

Associate
Member of the Redstone Team

Skilled in social entrepreneurship and innovation, Jessica is passionate about gender related issues and addressing Latinx inequities. Jessica joined Redstone after working as a Strategy Analyst at Deloitte, where she consulted with a variety of commercial and non-profit clients. Jessica graduated from Vanderbilt University with a double major in Human and Organizational Development and Latinx Studies. While at Vanderbilt, she co-founded a professional attire brand aimed at inspiring women as they begin their professional careers. Along with manufacturing a clothing line, the company launched a non-profit arm, known as The Blazer Fund, that partners with Girls Inc. 501(c)(3) to donate blazers and provide mentorship to high-school aged women. Additionally, Jessica was deeply involved in Vanderbilt's Innovation Center, the Wond'ry, where she mentored other businesses and social enterprises while engaging in courses on topics such as entrepreneurship and social innovation. Outside of academics, Jessica previously has worked with non-profits in the education, healthcare, and gender equity spaces. She currently volunteers at a women's healthcare clinic in New York. In her free time, Jessica enjoys cooking, seeing musicals in New York City, and watching baseball. She is originally from Chicago, Illinois.

Jona Mojados

Job Titles:

Associate
Member of the Redstone Team

Jona helps launch initiatives to address social problems and promote equity and inclusivity within education and public policy.

Karen Mawhinney

Job Titles:

Human Resources Manager
Member of the Redstone Team

Karen leads Human Resources at Redstone. Background Karen has a passion for helping employees and businesses thrive in unison, and enjoys the variety and challenge of the full spectrum of human resources. Before joining Redstone, she led the people function of a firm that was named in Outside Magazine's Top 100 Best Places to Work two years in a row, and spent a number of years working with an artist owned record label in Buffalo, NY. Karen loves spending her free time with her partner and son, and enjoys gardening, hiking, live music, crafting, and hopes one day to return to the potter's wheel.