Steven H. Tulsky — President
Steven Tulsky, M.B.A., Board President of Centerforce, is a consultant in the areas of finance, systems, and strategic planning, with a specialization in financial strategy and management issues within small- and medium-sized non-profit organizations. Since 1979 he has held positions as a financial officer for various large, medium, and small public and private corporations. He teaches Non-Profit Finance and Accounting at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California, and since 1996 he has been serving in a multitude of disaster response and preparedness volunteer leadership roles with the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter and the County of Marin. He is deeply committed to the mission of Centerforce, and supports it by applying his organizational and strategic skills towards guiding the Board's governance processes and supporting the Agency’s senior management, and by providing technical expertise to the staff on issues concerning finances and planning.

Rodolfo Pinon — Vice President
Rodolfo Pinon has an extensive background in community organizing and working with community based non-profit organizations. His educational background in the area of psychology has allowed him to work as human services provider for over 20 years in the area of mental health, substance abuse, community corrections, and community advocacy. Rodolfo currently works for the Desert Communities Empowerment Zone as Community Development Coordinator providing vital services to isolated rural desert communities. As a Board Member, Rodolfo Pinon is committed to fulfilling the 30 year mission of Centerforce of providing services to inmates and the families and children visiting loved ones incarcerated in state prison.

Jamille Moens — Treasurer
Jamille brings to the Board a broad range of local, state, national and international experience in both the public and private sectors. Currently serving as manager of the Customer Information System for the City of Sacramento, Jamille has held positions in policy and media relations for a California State Legislator and as an independent business consultant for a number of organizations. Her educational background includes a bachelor's degree from Cornell in Industrial and Labor Relations and a master's degree from Stanford in Political Science. Jamille's involvement with Centerforce stems from her commitment to advocate for increasing rehabilitation and education in California's criminal justice system and revising its sentencing practices. Jamille also has family members who are or have been incarcerated.

Ann Magovern
Ann Magovern currently works as a community organizer with Oakland Community Organizations. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Secondary Education and was a High School English and Religion teacher for eight years in Los Angeles. She taught in both public and private schools during that time. Following her years as an educator she completed a Masters Degree in Social Work with a concentration in Management, Planning, and Policy. Due to her interest in social work and social policy, Ann pursued a position as a community organizer with Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) which is a federation of 40 congregations and schools working to create social and political change within the areas of housing, healthcare, crime and safety, and education. Ann has been a member of the Centerforce Board for three years and maintains a strong personal interest in criminal justice issues. She also participated in a volunteer program for juvenile detention ministry and currently visits an inmate on death row at San Quentin.

Harold Atkins
Harold Atkins has served 27 years on a life sentence and is an adult child of an incarcerated parent. He was also a former client of the Centerforce Peer Education Program while he was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. He was the first non-HIV infected Peer Educator for the Centerforce Peer Education Program. Harold has worked teaching HIV prevention to youth through the AIDS Resources, Information and Services (ARIS) in San Jose. He was also the Director of the Community Health Outreach Program at Free At Last, a substance abuse treatment program in East Palo Alto, California. Currently, Harold is the Health Education Coordinator at AIDS Community Research Consortium (ACRC), the Head Coach for the Bay Cities Bulldogs Pop Warner football Team in San Mateo, California, and Centerforce Board Chair.

Cardale Evans
Cardale Evans began working in HIV health education and street outreach programs just after his release from California State and then Federal prisons in 1989. He began his professional work as an outreach worker on the streets of San Francisco. Cardale has worked as a Health Education Specialist/Case Manger working with homeless youth at risk and sex industry workers. He has also worked as a Counselor and Phlebotomist doing pre- and post-test counseling. In addition, Cardale was a Health Education Specialist providing counseling to inmates at Alameda County Jail at Santa Rita and to youth incarcerated at Youth Guidance Center in San Francisco. While incarcerated, Cardale founded and ran the pre-release Health Education Program at California State Prison, Susanville. At the same time he provided counseling to HIV positive prisoners. Cardale has worked with the California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL PEP), Marin AIDS Project, University of California Urban Health Study and the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. Cardale whole-heartedly believes in Centerforce and the services and benefits provided to prisoners and families.

David L. Magris
David L. Magris, is currently a Ballroom dance instructor in Southern Florida. He has been involved with Centerforce almost since its inception in the early '70's as a recipient of the services provided for his family and himself that continued over a 16-year period. Upon his release from the CDCR, he remained involved with speaking engagements & the promotion of Centerforce's services around the state. He also became a board member, served as President for several years and continues to serve on the board today. David continues to promote the services offered by Centerforce as an important piece in the recovery, health awareness & stabilizing for both prisoners & their families as they re-introduce themselves back in to society. In David's own words: "I believe that Centerforce's value has a place, not only within the state, but on a national level, to bring focus to the unseen or unheard victims of crime."

Ben Thornley
Ben Thornley is a graduate policy student at the University of California, Berkeley. Ben has spent six of the last eight years in the United States, most recently directing efforts to position Australia as a global financial services center, based out of the New York Consulate-General. He has worked for the United Nations Association of the U.S.A, facilitating Wall Street's participation in the UN's Financing for Development Conference, and he first relocated to New York as a foreign correspondent for a number of prominent Australian business journals. Prior to arriving in the U.S., Ben worked as Editorial Director and Director Business Development for a boutique investment industry publishing company. Ben is also an instructor at U.C. Berkeley, focused on economic development and wealth and income inequality. Ben graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney, and completed a Certificate of International Affairs at New York University.

John Kelly
John has been a volunteer mentor at San Quentin State Prison for over 17 years. He is a strong advocate for at-risk populations and has worked diligently to strengthen communities around the Bay Area. He holds an MA in Theology from the University of Notre Dame and an MA in Psychology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. John was a faculty member at Serra High School in San Mateo, CA for more than 16 years and served as Executive Director of Samaritan House for 14 years. In 2005, when John won the Bay Area Jefferson Award for his work inside San Quentin and with Samaritan House and he stated, "I see so many people who have ability, and I want to see those abilities blossom. That's what drives me. The most important thing you can do is help another human being."