FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Angela Watson Daliet (ADaliet@sosnola.org)
Angela is a native of West Monroe, LA, a Louisiana public school graduate and a single parent of three New Orleans public school students. After receiving her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of New Orleans, she worked locally as an investment advisor for many years. Angela was devastated with the total loss of her family’s home, school and community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In exile, she organized her widely scattered school community and successfully pushed the district to reestablish her children’s public school. These early efforts to ensure that children and families could return and create a better New Orleans evolved into the work of SOSNOLA. Angela has vigorously advocated for improved public schools since her eldest entered the system in 2001. Since October 2005, Angela has been listening to parents and community members documenting their concerns and aspirations for public schools and advocating to have those voices implicated in local public education policy and practice. She has significant experience in parental organizing, business planning, membership development, management building and fundraising which has led her to become an established community leader for change. Angela began working as Executive Director of SOSNOLA fulltime in June 2007. She and her three sons finally moved back into the city in September 2007, settling into their Mid City home.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Michael S. Todd
Commercial Lender & Business Development Officer, Dryades Savings Bank, F.S.B.
Michael, his wife and two grown children are proud graduates of New Orleans Public School System. Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from local Dillard University in 1981, then went on to receive Certification in Management Development from Harvard University, a Master in Business Administration from University of Phoenix and finally School of Banking Graduate Degree from Louisiana State University. Mr. Todd has utilized his expertise and talents in a variety of positions within the oil and financial industry from Financial Analyst & Supervisor to Chief Finance Officer & Executive Business Analyst. Michael has served on a number of local boards and committees including Family Services of Greater New Orleans, Louisiana Council for Economic Education and Southern Association of Colleges and Universities, and he remains a distinguished Board Member for the New Orleans Faith Health Alliance.
Corey Hebert, M.D.
Medical Director, Recovery School District; Chief Medical Editor, WDSU-NBC Hearst-Argyle; President/CEO, Hebert Medical Consulting; and Assistant Professor, Tulane University Medical Center
Dr. Corey Hebert is one of the most renowned physicians practicing medicine in the United States today. Recognizing that the school children of New Orleans were some of the most unhealthy, overweight, stressed children in the United States; Dr. Hebert accepted the position as Medical Director of the State of Louisiana Recovery School District. He spearheads innovative wellness concepts in the district to ensure the mental, physical and social health for students, faculty and staff in the largest school district in the state of Louisiana. His travels across the country and around the globe have connected him to thousands of people as both a healer and a motivator. Dr Hebert is one of the most widely sought after professionals in his field of community inspired medicine and motivational speaking. He is a highly regarded medical broadcast journalist, working as on-air medical editor for the NBC television affiliate in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also the radio talk show host, of an extremely popular weekly segment called "Doctor For The People" in which he answers health questions live on the air from people throughout the New Orleans metro area and across the country for those who hear his show simulcast on the internet. Dr. Hebert has a very unique charm which allows him to talk to urban youth and chairmen of boards with the same level of acceptance and respect. This is an extremely difficult balancing act, which is what separates him from so many others in his fields of pursuit.
Mary Filardo
Executive Director, 21st Century School Fund
Ms. Filardo is the founder and executive director of the 21st Century School Fund, providing leadership, innovative financing solutions, research, and public policy analysis of school facility issues. Before founding 21CSF, she worked for 25 years in the private sector in building and construction management. She has been an active parent volunteer during and beyond the sixteen years her children attended public schools.
LaToria Willis
Manager of Donor Relations , Greater New Orleans Foundation
A 2000 graduate of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, LaToria, like so many others, moved to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Currently, she is the Manager of Donor Relations for Greater New Orleans Foundation. Originally from Shreveport, she spent four years working with the city’s AmeriCorps program, ShrevCorps. Ms. Willis later worked for Shreveport Green as a leader in community clean-up projects. Currently, she is on the Board for the Young Leadership Council and has participated in the Leadership Development Series. Most recently, she is the project leader for the Young Leaderships Council's Professional Development Series. She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and AmeriCorps Shreveport Alumni Chapter.
