Leadership

Trisha Stiles
Founder and President

Human Resources Executive in the Entertainment, Digital Media and Non-profit sectors. Based in the San Francisco, CA.

Gary Williams
Board Chair

Finance and IT Professional. Owner of PTX Consulting. Based in Shelton, CT.

Mike Fillman
Treasurer

Retired Business Development Executive in the Communications Industry. Based in Orange County, CA.

Catrice Monson
Director

Managing Director of Right Size Media, a firm focused on consulting for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. She is Based in Los Angeles, CA.

Advisors

Sreytom Tim was born and raised in a small village in Cambodia. In 2015, she became a SHE-CAN scholar and later was awarded a SHE-CAN Supernoma award recognizing her exceptional engagement and leadership by bringing exponential love, energy, and inspiration. SHE-CAN, Supporting Her Education Changes A Nation, is an organization helping girls from third-world countries to pursue higher education in U.S. colleges. 

 She recently graduated from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMN-TC) with a BS in Family Social Science and Management minor. Throughout her college journey, she excelled in both academics and professional/leadership. She acquired various experiences, skills, and knowledge from several internships and training programs, including event coordination, public relations, international student advising, mentorship, consultancy, leadership, project management, community engagement, interpersonal and emotional intelligence, and communications.

 While attending UMN-TC, she became a board member at the Cambodian Student Association of Minnesota (CSAM) as an event coordinator and public relation. She volunteered to mentor immigrant and refugee high school girls at Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment, which helps empower immigrant and refugee women and girls to succeed through advocacy and culturally competent services 

 In the summer of 2018, she was a communication and partnership intern for Girls on Fire Leaders, a nonprofit in New York that educates and empowers adolescent girls in Kenya through leadership camps, educational scholarships, community engagement. In the summer of 2019, she was a project intern for Worldbridge International Cambodia, working on mapping and gathering data and information about regulations, programs, funds, stakeholders, support services, landscapes, and opportunities for the small and medium enterprises community. Also, she was a host-in-training (HIT) for the Young Professionals for Sustainable Development Goals Seminar Series (YPSDGs) at the United Nations Association of the United States of America, San Francisco Chapter, in which she wrote a collective narrative, co-designed and co-facilitated workshops, recruited and matched mentors with participants.

Upon her graduation in 2020, her recent position was a research assistant at Worldview Studio, an NGO based in San Francisco, focused on developing program design principles for community-based organizations and also researching, synthesizing and documenting programs, policies, and interventions for well-being and health-equity promotion.

 Sreytom is passionate about promoting gender equality and quality education, advancing economic development, and human rights, especially for women and children in Cambodia and other emerging countries. She is excited to join Leaps for Peace as a Cambodian advisor, coaching and training for her next adventure. 

Shayla McLin is a Change Management Consultant at Chevron with over 13 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. She's had exposure to a broad range of expanding responsibilities including managing financial and operational audits for various International and US based organizations across the enterprise, in addition to providing financial and decision support for executive management.

In her current role she is responsible for deploying digital solutions and actionable insights to enable Finance organizations to remove duplicate technologies and redundant processes resulting in increased efficiencies and organizational capabilities. 

Shayla is the Founder of As I Ascend Coaching & Consulting, LLC. She is a member of the Women and Black Employee networks and also serves as a Finance Recruiter and Diversity Advisor, aiming to promote community and culture through aiding organizational efforts to build and sustain a diverse and inclusive workforce.