Team

Hazel Cressler

Sr Manager, Instructional Design

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Hazel is the Senior Learning Experience Manager for the Monique Burr Foundation for Children. She is responsible for developing and implementing instructional design strategies to support prevention programs and efforts.

Hazel lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Slippery Rock University with a degree in Elementary/Special Education and Saint Joseph’s University with a Masters in Instructional Technology. Prior to joining MBF, Hazel worked in IT/training for a credit union and as an online instructional designer at an investment firm.

She loves children and dogs and is enthusiastic about helping prevent child abuse and bullying and forwarding the foundation’s mission to protect children through prevention education. She is married with one son and enjoys reading, spending time with her family, and crafting.

Ashle Fike

Sr Manager, Marketing and Events

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Ashle is the Senior Manager of Marketing and Fundraising Events. She is responsible for communication, social media, graphic design, and all other marketing duties. As a military veteran and brand enthusiast, she has a proven track record of brand growth, stewarding donors, and raising funds through digital strategies and authentic communications.

Ashle has 8+ years of experience as a marketing specialist, where she's been exposed to many facets within the marketing realm, including communications, graphic design, events, client relations, competitive market research, and office administration/management. She brings a positive attitude, a spirit of dedication, and thrives on delivering measurable results that exceed expectations.

Ashle was born and raised in Jacksonville, FL. She graduated from the University of North Florida with a degree in Marketing. Ashle also served five years in the United States Air Force as a Security Forces Emergency Dispatcher. Before joining the MBF team, Ashle held marketing roles in various industries — including risk management, staffing, and higher education — but has always been enthusiastic about preventing child abuse, volunteering, and community outreach.

Andrew Garratt

VP, Growth and Strategy

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Andrew Garratt serves as the Vice President of Growth and Strategy at The Monique Burr Foundation for Children. He has dedicated his career to supporting districts nationwide by offering resources for underrepresented students. Andrew has worked tirelessly advocating pedagogical best practices for educators to help bridge the achievement gap. He is a believer in education equity. 
 
Demonstrating adept leadership skills, Andrew's teams have been instrumental in propelling growth and sustainability by upholding professional values such as integrity, empathy, respect, and collaboration, fostering unparalleled partnerships.  At The Monique Burr Foundation for Children, Andrew will spearhead, alongside his team, initiatives to expand the foundation's reach across the nation and around the globe.  Andrew studied History and Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, where he also competed in Cross Country and Track and Field. Andrew is originally from San Diego, California but currently resides in the Denver, Colorado area with his wife and three children.

Ashley Garrett

VP, Prevention Education

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Ashley works every day to improve the daily lives of individuals, families and communities who experience violence and exploitation. For almost 30 years, she has built people centered programs that change the ways we respond to those experiencing violence and exploitation. As the VP of Prevention Education, Ashley develops and manages education programs across the United States and globally on violence prevention, educating and empowering children, families and educators with information and strategies to prevent, recognize, and respond appropriately to child abuse (physical, emotional, sexual, and neglect), exploitation, bullying, cyberbullying, human trafficking, digital abuse, and other digital dangers. She fosters innovation, centers those with lived expertise as the experts, and develops results driven programs rooted in curiosity, humility, and equity.

Ashley holds a Master of Public Administration from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Colorado. She resides in Washington, DC with her son and rescue dog.

Elba Guichardo

Accounting Assistant

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Julie LeMay

Sr Manager, Growth & Strategy

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Julie is the National Customer Service Manager for the Monique Burr Foundation for Children. She provides customer support for all national accounts. Julie brings more than twenty years of office management and customer relations experience to the team at MBF. She strives to provide the most positive experience possible to the Facilitators who educate children every day on how to protect themselves. As a school librarian at her hometown junior high school, she was granted the opportunity to observe her own daughters grow and learn while encouraging her daily classes to treat each other with kindness and respect. Now, she is proud and honored to be part of an organization that teaches children empowerment to protect themselves while also encouraging them to be kind to one another.

Julie and her husband relocated to Jacksonville from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 2018. Julie studied Computer Applications at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and furthered her studies in business management and human resources. She enjoys traveling, going to the beach, and spending time with her family. She has two daughters that serve in the United States Air Force and a granddaughter.

Daniella Pérez

Prevention Education Manager

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As the Prevention Education Manager for MBF, Daniella supports the nationwide scaling and implementation efforts of the prevention education programs by providing facilitators with technical assistance and engaging training material. Daniella is passionate about creating youth-centered, culturally relevant programs that focus on building skills and knowledge around health education, and violence prevention.

Daniella received her Masters with a concentration in Public Health from the University of Houston-Clear Lake and a Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Linguistics/Biology from The University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Houston, and in her free time, you will find her outside (probably sweating) with her son, husband, and dog.

Tanya Ramos Puig

Chief Executive Officer

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For nearly three decades, Ramos-Puig has devoted her career to improving educational opportunities, and life outcomes, for youth in the most under-resourced communities around the globe.

With a track record of growing organizations in key leadership roles— inaugural President at the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation (LGCF), CEO at Pencils of Promise, and CRO at Education Pioneers and The Children's Aid Society, where she received the Annie E. Casey Foundation Award, she is known for being a tireless advocate for educational equity. She is an alumna of Coro New York Leadership Center and INROADS, serves as a board member at both Raised by U.S. and Classy.org, and has served as an Adjunct Professor at LaGuardia Community College.

Ramos-Puig holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from NYU and a Master of Science in Urban Policy and Management, from The New School, where she was the recipient of a Jacob Kaplan Fellowship for her graduate work. In 2009, she graduated from the Executive-Level Program at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University’s Institute for Not-for-Profit Management.

She resides in New Jersey with her two children and husband.

Cori Wilson

VP, Finance and Operations

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Cori Wilson is the Vice President of Finance and Operations at the Monique Burr Foundation for Children. She has been with the Foundation since 2010, when she discovered the field of child abuse prevention to be the most rewarding work, and specifically the work of the Monique Burr Foundation to be life-changing for so many children. Prior to joining the Foundation, she worked in Marketing, Real Estate, and Development in the Florida Keys and in Northeast Florida. Cori received her MBA from Florida State University.

Cori’s role at the Monique Burr Foundation for Children is to oversee all accounting and operations functions. Her work includes contract and grant management, financial reporting and compliance, and internal systems management in support of operations. She grew up in Orange Park, Florida, but now lives in Indiana with her husband and two children. She enjoys painting, the outdoors, and visiting sunny Florida as often as possible!