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.

Jena Crews

Account Management Specialist, Growth & Strategy

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Jena believes that the strongest work happens when people feel genuinely seen and supported, and she's built her entire career around making that true. As an Account Management Specialist on the Growth & Strategy team, she serves as a dedicated point of contact for MBF's accounts, working to ensure that every facilitator and partner around the world has what they need to bring prevention education to the children in their communities.

Jena comes to MBF with a background that spans nonprofit advancement, operations leadership, and client relations. A Northeast Florida native through and through, she spent years in higher education at Jacksonville University, where she also earned her MBA, before moving into operations and client services roles that sharpened her instinct for building systems that serve people well. What's always stayed constant is her drive to do work that truly makes a difference.

Outside of MBF, Jena's commitment to kids shows up on the dance floor — she has spent more than half her life teaching tap, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, and clogging to students ages 3–18 at Callahan Dance Academy, the studio she grew up dancing at herself. She lives in Nassau County, FL with her husband, Kyle, and their two cat children, Phineas and Ferb. Jena's idea of a perfect day involves a new coffee shop discovery, a good book, and enjoying the Florida sunshine somewhere near the water.

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.

Ashley Garrett

Chief Executive Officer

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Ashley has spent nearly 30 years building on a single conviction: every child deserves to grow up feeling valued, respected, and safe. As CEO of the Monique Burr Foundation for Children (MBF), she sets the strategic direction for one of the nation's leading child safety organizations — driving mission growth, organizational sustainability, and the partnerships that extend MBF's reach into schools and communities across the United States and globally.

MBF programs grow alongside children from early childhood through adolescence, grounded in the whole-child realities of the communities MBF serves. Under her leadership, MBF develops and scales evidence-based prevention education that equips children, families, and educators to prevent, recognize, and respond to abuse, exploitation, trafficking, bullying, and digital dangers. Through the Foundation, she leads a philanthropic strategy that invests in the broader child safety ecosystem — partnering with funders, researchers, and community organizations to advance the field, not just MBF's place in it.

Ashley brings nearly three decades of experience across the nonprofit, federal, and international sectors to the work of building an organization as strong as its mission. She leads with curiosity, humility, and equity, holding herself accountable to the children and communities MBF ultimately serves.

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

Monica Jew-Gonzalez

Growth & Strategy Associate

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Monica Jew-Gonzalez – mother of two, caregiver, wife and lifelong learner – is passionate about three things: people, education, and data. As Associate, Growth & Strategy at the Monique Burr Foundation, Monica brings her deep expertise in data and organizational effectiveness to support the Foundation’s mission of protecting children through prevention education.

For more than 15 years, Monica has worked at the intersection of data, equity, and education—arming decision-makers with accurate, timely, and actionable insights. Her career has spanned roles in both strategy and operations, including 13 years at Teach For America, where she most recently served as Director of People Team Reporting. Monica specializes in building reporting tools, streamlining complex data systems, and turning raw data into powerful stories.

When she’s not diving into data or growth strategies, you can find her volunteering at her children’s schools, hosting vibrant dinner parties, mentoring first-generation college students, or tackling her latest home renovation project. She recently completed a major four-month renovation—including a new kitchen, bathrooms, a much-needed office, and a pool. If you’re ever in Houston, don’t hesitate to drop by and join her poolside.

Mary Anne Jolly

Chief of Staff

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Mary Anne Tuohy Jolly is the Chief of Staff for the Monique Burr Foundation, where she serves as a strategic partner to the CEO and leadership team supporting the execution of organizational initiatives, donor and community relationships, and operations that keep the Foundation moving forward with both purpose and momentum.

Mary Anne brings more than 15 years of experience in advancement, constituent engagement, and strategic operations. Her career began in boutique and luxury retail and corporate buying - a foundation that shaped her instinct for relationship building, audience engagement, and delivering exceptional experiences. During her tenure in higher education, led engagement, operations, and fundraising across an external affairs team supporting executive and senior leadership.

A Jacksonville native, Mary Anne graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science in Retail Merchandising and Product Development. Outside of work, she loves spending time with her husband and family, her dog Babar, and cherishing every moment as a proud aunt to her nieces and nephews. Whether it is cross-functional planning, board preparation, major donor engagement or staff leadership, Mary Anne works to ensure that the Foundation’s priorities are met, reaching more children and communities through prevention education.

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.

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!