Eastside Community Connection strives to maintain a board that is diverse in background, interests, and professions. Our board provides both support and governance. In its supporting role, the board must help raise money, bring contacts to the organization, provide special skills and other resources, and act as ambassadors to the community. In its governance role, the board must select the executive director, evaluate the executive director's performance, review and authorize plans and commitments, ensure compliance with legal requirements, and evaluate the organization's work.

To achieve these goals, the Eastside Community Connection will select and maintain a board of involved and responsible students and community members, who are representative of various sectors of the campus and community. Board members serve 2 year terms, and the terms stagger so as to ensure continuity from year to year.

Officers

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  Chair - Sly Majid, Executive Director
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  Vice Chair - Thomas Lopez, UT Business Honors & Plan II Honor
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  Treasurer - Joe Ciccarello, Deloitte and Touche L.L.P.
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  Secretary - Nadia Mavrakis, UT Business Honors

Directors

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  Krystle Alvarado - Texans for Rick Perry
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  Amy Maxwell Hunt - Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP
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  Zane Keller - UT Finance & Economics
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  Tara Mica - National Rifle Association
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  Anjali Mohan - UT Business Honors & Plan II Honors
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  Meg Moore - UT Executive MBA Candidate
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  Kevin Robnett
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  Mandy Shooter - Literacy Coalition of Central Texas
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  Warren Wills - Richie & Gueringer PC
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  Justin Yarborough
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  Carlos Zaffirini - Adelanto HealthCare Ventures LLP

Advisory Board

Being fully aware of the fact that students may not have the access to funds that alumni and other community members might have, the ECC will create an Advisory Board that will also serve the function of fundraising. The Advisory Board will advise the Board of Directors on issues of importance, and help raise money for the ECC. The Advisory Board will not be responsible for governance of the organization, and is not held liable for any of the ECC's actions.

The current advisory board members are as follows:

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  Jack S. Blanton, Jr - Niklos Drilling Company
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  Andy Brown - Attorney, DLA Piper US LLP
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  Jennifer Brown - J.E. "Buster" Brown Consulting
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  George P. Bush - Attorney, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
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  Graham Davis - Founder, Eastside community Connection
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  Drew Gressett - Century Bridge
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  Admiral Bob Inman - Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs
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  Lowell Lebermann - Chairman, Centex Beverage, Inc.
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  Curtis Meadows Jr. - President Emeritus, The Meadows Foundation
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  Deanna Rodriguez - Vice-President, Corporate Contributions Entergy Corp.