Our Team
Our team bring a range of skills, training, and lived experience to our roles as facilitators, collaborators, and advocates.
Sarah Auches
2024–2026 Fellow for Change in Design
Clair Beltran
Community Education Program Manager
Agustín Cepeda
Community Education Program Manager
Pilar Finuccio
Executive Director
Emma Kilroy
Development and Communications Manager
Hugo Rojas
Youth Education Program Manager
Yasmin Safdié
Director of Programs
Our Collaborative Model
CUP works with a hub and spoke model with our team at the center of a large, interdisciplinary network. Our team runs the organization, initiate and manage our projects. As we create work, we bring together teams of advocates, designers, educators, and artists who collaborate on individual projects.
Our Board
CUP's Board helps guide CUP's strategic decisions, supports its sustainability as an organization, and is made up of nice people who care about our mission.
Past Staff
A big and deep thank you to everyone who contributed to CUP's work—creating impactful projects, developing strong relationships, and building CUP into what it is today.
Fielding Hong
Former CUP Staff
Siyona Ravi
Former CUP Staff
Genea Foster
Community Education Program Manager
Tara Foster
Director of Development and Operations
Valeria Mogilevich
Former CUP Staff
Leigh Taylor
Former CUP Staff
Oscar Nuñez
Former CUP Staff
Ingrid Haftel
Former CUP Staff
Mark Torrey
Former CUP Staff
Frampton Tolbert
Former CUP Staff
Sucharitha Yelimeli
Former CUP Staff
Onyi Egbochue
Program Assistant
Shristi Shrestha
Former CUP Staff
Christine Gaspar
Former Executive Director