TODCO Board of Directors
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April started her nonprofit work in San Francisco in SoMA neighborhood almost 15 years ago. During her time in the South of Market, she learned the art of advocacy and the power of community. Immediately thereafter, she worked at the Board of Supervisors on housing, land use and development issues. Her work with grassroots leaders, nonprofit professionals, elected leaders and high-level executives over the past 20 years allows her to bring diverse perspectives to complex policy and political issues. April received her undergraduate degree from the UC, Riverside, and her Master’s degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She lives in Oakland with her husband Eric, mother in law Feliciana and is mom to two young kids, Niall and Grace. She currently works at government affairs firm, HMS Associates, providing strategic advice to San Francisco for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
Don Falk
From 2005-2021, Don served as the Chief Executive Officer of Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, a community-based nonprofit housing development, management and social services agency in San Francisco. Beginning in 1994, Don was TNDC’s Housing Development Director, and prior had served in a variety of roles for Jubilee West, a nonprofit organization based in West Oakland. Don serves on the Boards of Directors of SPUR and the Corporation for Supportive Housing and is a member of the Northern California Enterprise Community Leadership Council and the Advisory Board of Partnership for the Bay's Future. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he earned a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in economics and urban studies from Oberlin College.
Al gilbert
Al Gilbert is President and CEO of Felton Institute, a Bay Area nonprofit that provides more than 60 innovative, evidenced based, behavioral and mental health service programs in 11 different languages. Founded in 1889, Felton Institute, San Francisco’s largest outpatient Mental Health provider, serves 60,000 clients annually across five counties: San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, Monterey, and Marin. Mr. Gilbert has strategically expanded the organization’s ability to manage client data with creation of a Felton, wholly-owned, for-profit subsidiary that offers a propriety and electronic healthcare data management system, CIRCE Software, Inc. on the Salesforce platform. Gilbert has extended the use of this tool to the larger nonprofit community through Felton’s Technical Assistance Department. Felton is one of the few nonprofits that offer a continuum of care in the areas of Early Care and Education, Mental Health Treatment, Family Support, Social Justice, and Aging services. His service on TODCO’s Board of Directors reflects his appreciation that both TODCO and Felton are committed to effecting healthy, impactful individual and community change through innovative praxis and community partnerships, while holding deep respect for tenants/clients. Mr. Gilbert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Ohio State University and a Masters in Business Administration degree from Indiana University.
Denis Henmi
Denis leads DLR Group's Transportation practice and his experience spans rail station design, airport expansions and renovations, ferry terminals, and other specialized transit-oriented development. He is currently leading a DLR Group design team to develop rail station design for the Automated People Mover system at Los Angeles International Airport.
A strong technical architect, he has practiced in the Bay Area for more than 40 years on a variety of very large and complex projects. Denis provides clients detailed experience in coordinating and advancing large public projects with local government agencies including the City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority, California Office of Historic Preservation, and HUD.
Denis was awarded the President’s Medal for Distinguished Service by the National Council of Architectural Registration Board (NCARB), as well as the Octavius Morgan Distinguished Service Award in 2011.
henry izumizaki
In the early 1970’s, I worked as a street worker and we had storefront office on 3rd St between Market and Mission. In ‘72 a group known as the South of Market Coalition was being formed. I was a part of that effort, along with Peter Mendelssohn and a host of other community activists from Bayview, Mission and South of Market. This group set out the initial community strategies with the Redevelopment Agency, for issues like: employment, resident services, and affordable housing. This was long before any convention center, museum, park, hotels, restaurants or multi level housing. The neighborhood was basically barren, just a few organizations, scattered housing and the Catholic Church.
Yet, after more than 30 years, I have been able to return to see this neighborhood blossom, as a part of the TODCO team. It has been a remarkable journey.
Dora Lee
Dora is a native San Franciscan. She has spent 25+ years in Human Resources in industry working in companies such as Disney, Levi's, Visa , Novartis, Genentech as well as start ups.
Allen Manalo
A. SAMSON MANALO is a theater artist, writer, community activist, and comic who has performed throughout the U.S. and Asia. He was the former Artistic & Managing Director of Bindlestiff Studio, a Filipinx-American black box theater venue located in San Francisco's South-of-Market Area where he was also a member and co-chair of the SOMA Stabilization Fund Community Advisory Committees. He currently works as the Director of Development for Hospitality House in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.
MatTias Mormimo
Matthias works as Director of Policy for Chinatown CDC and oversees the organization’s agenda to protect and strengthen working class and low-income communities through institutional change working on policies that impact the daily lives of our community. Matthias has worked in San Francisco’s South of Market for over a decade working with immigrant families and youth.
Michael Pacia
Michael Pacia is a therapist at Aurora Santa Rosa Hospital in Santa Rosa. As an MFT he is in tune with the mental health needs of the senior population at TODCO.
Douglas J. Engmann
Douglas J. Engmann is a well-respected leader in the securities industry and currently serves as the President of Engmann Options Inc. Over the course of his career, he has held various high-profile positions, including Chairman of the Pacific Stock Exchange, Director of the Options Clearing Corporation and National Securities Clearing Corporation, Vice-Chairman of ABN AMRO Bank Incorporated, and CEO of ABN AMRO Global Clearing and Execution Services. He has also served as the Managing Director of North American Equities at Newedge/Societe Generale Bank and the CEO of SageTrader LLC.
Beyond his work in finance, Engmann has been actively involved in San Francisco city politics and community initiatives for decades. He has served on a number of committees, including the Mayor's Screening Committee on Commissions, the Mayor's Select Committee on Yerba Buena Center, the Board of Permit Appeals, and the City Planning Commission. He has also founded several community organizations, such as the Stanyan-Fulton Neighborhood Association and the California Consumer Health Coalition, and has served as a member of various advisory councils and task forces, including the Haight-Ashbury Center for Alcohol Problems and the Mt. Sutro Communities Task Force.
Engmann has also held several notable positions outside of his work in finance and community activism. He led the Pacific Stock Exchange delegation to the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1987 and served as the Honorary Consul of Northern California for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He was also a director for the White House Conference on Children and Youth in Washington, DC. Engmann holds a BA from the University of California and an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bernadette Borja Sy
Bernadette Borja Sy is a native of San Francisco. Bernadette and her father, Dr. Mario Borja, established the Filipino-American Development Foundation (FADF) in 1997, a nonprofit organization formed to support the SOMA Filipino immigrant residents and families, and to develop the Bayanihan Community Center (BCC), which opened in 2005 at the corner of 6th Street & Mission. Bernadette has been the executive director of FADF until 2021. FADF led in the establishment of the officially designated SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Cultural District by the City and County of SF in 2016. Bernadette also serves on the nonprofit boards of the Bayanihan Equity Center and the Alexis Apartments of St. Patrick’s Parish. Bernadette is married to Tony Sy and they have 2 sons, Chris and Xavier.
Alicia Duke
Alicia Duke is a former original tenant of TODCO’s Knox SRO and now lives at Mendelsohn House. She worked at the San Francisco office of US DHUD for three decades before retiring in the 1980’s..