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2026-2027

UWCF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Executive Committee

Superintendent Fred Heid
Chair
Polk County Public Schools

Emily Spath Booker
Chair Elect
Spath Jewelers

Naomi Boyer, PhD
Vice Chair
Education Design Lab

Jonathan Crain
Immediate Past Chair
Two Men and a Truck

Fran McAskill
Treasurer
Polk County Board of County Commissioners

Kim Long
Secretary
Polk Vision Inc.

Brittany Sale
Resource Development Chair
Sale Insurance Agency, Inc.

Brian Donnelly
Community Impact Cabinet Chair
Publix Super Markets, Inc.

Virginia Kalil
Community Investment Team Committee Chair
University of South Florida

Brian Norris
Highlands County Liason
Taylor Oil Co., LLC

Rick Garcia
Governance and Board Development Committee Chair
Gulf Coast Avionics Corporation

Christina Criser Jackson
UWCF President & CEO Ex-Officio Member

Board of Directors

Kristin Aiken
Achievement Academy

Omar Arroyo
Community Volunteer

Jenny Baker
Watson Clinic

Tayler Baldick
Stuart’s Plumbing

SOE Melony Bell
Polk County Supervisor of Elections

Ann Claussen
Central Florida Health Care

Sheriff Vent Crawford
Hardee County Sheriff’s Office

Commissioner Don Elwell
Alan Jay Automotive Network

Lauren Saunders Feaster
Community Volunteer

Chief Ian Floyd
Polk County Sheriff’s Office

Tom Garthwaite
BayCare

Kristy Goff
Community Volunteer

Dana Hurley
Allen & Company

Jeremiah Kossen
Publix Employees Federal Credit Union

Erica Lupercio
CPS Investment Advisors

Sean Malott
Central Florida Development Council

Zach Miller
Mid-State Industrial Maintenance

Larry Mitchell
New Life Outreach Ministry

Tineshia Morris
Polk County Tax Collector

Callie Neslund
GiveWell Community Foundation

Paul Noris
Bank of Central Florida

Dr. Andy Oguntola
Florida Polytechnic University

Dawn Willis
Orlando Health

Ana Wood-Rogers
Community Volunteer

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