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Governing Board Members
Cody Case
Board Chair, Founding Board Member
Board Chair, Founding Board Member
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Cody is an educator with special emphasis in mathematics. He has experience teaching in a dual language immersion setting and currently works for the Salt Lake School District.
Email: cody.case@esperanzaelementary.org |
Marty Banks
Vice Chair
Vice Chair
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Martin Banks is a partner of Stoel Rives' Environmental Law practice group and Litigation practice group. His environmental practice includes counseling clients in cost-effective regulatory compliance and permitting strategies. He has broad experience with issues involving the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Administrative Procedures Act and the clean-up and transfer of contaminated properties. Martin's business litigation practice includes environmental and natural resources matters, real estate and land use issues (including public land use), construction disputes and OSHA matters.
Martin was formerly a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice (1991 - 1994), and an associate at White & Case (1989 - 1991). Email: marty.banks@esperanzaelementary.org |
Phil Shumway
Treasurer
Treasurer
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Phil Shumway, currently Chief Financial Officer for TURN Community Services, has been with TURN since 1981. Phil led TURN as Executive Director for Thirty-six years and, as a structured plan toward retirement, passed the leadership baton to Dave Hennessey four years ago, retaining position of CFO under Dave’s direction and vision.
Phil’s career has focused on serving people with disabilities in programs provided by TURN, a nonprofit, private agency offering diverse, person-centered options in community-based settings. Under his leadership TURN Community Services has evolved into a preeminent agency in the country providing comprehensive services and supports for over eight-hundred individuals with a wide range of ages and spectrum of intellectual and developmental disabilities. As Chief Financial Officer, Phil contributes his knowledge and expertise of state and federal contracts and procedural regulations to ensure TURN’s compliance and financial integrity. He leads management team members, program managers and supervisors in maintaining a balanced budget in each program, and provides all data and oversight documentation for annual financial audits. In 2017, Phil became the part time Executive Director for Future Trough Training, Chief administrator of a private agency contracted to provide a heat program and farm worker program (NFJP) and other community activities. Responsible for the agency’s financial management and the realization of organizational objectives, mission and vision. Email: phil.shumway@esperanzaelementary.org |
Becky Kemp
Secretary
Secretary
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Email: becky.kemp@esperanzaelementary.org
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Juan A. Freire, Ph.D.
Board member
Board member
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Juan A. Freire is originally from Spain. He received a double teaching degree in Teaching, an MA degree in Social Pedagogy, and a Ph.D. in Bilingual/Multicultural Education at the University of Utah. Juan worked for several years as a teacher in Spain and as a dual language teacher in Salt Lake City. He is now working as a professor in the department of Teacher Education at Brigham Young University. He decided to be a board member at Esperanza because of his knowledge about dual language education and the benefits of academic achievement, bilingualism, biliteracy, and biculturalism in the lives of linguistic minority students, Latinas/os, and other students.
Email: freire@byu.edu |
Eulogio Alejandre, M.Ed.
Executive Director/Principal
Executive Director/Principal
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Eulogio Alejandre has been an educator since August of 1986. He has been a teacher of elementary, junior high and senior high students in the Salt Lake and Ogden school districts. He has been a principal, a district office teacher specialist and a soccer coach. Mr. Alejandre has also been an adjunct professor at Weber State University and Westminster College. Most recently Mr. Alejandre was the Student2Student Outreach Program Coordinator at Weber State University. Mr. Alejandre immigrated to Ogden from Mexico with his family when he was 12 years old. He has successfully navigated the public school system to achieve a Master of Education degree and an Administrative/Supervisory license from the Utah State Office of Education.
Email: eulogio.alejandre@esperanzaelementary.org |
Challene Nuvan
Board member
Board member
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Parent at Esperanza Elementary.
Email: challene.nuvan@esperanzaelementary.org |
Board member
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Email: @esperanzaelementary.org
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