Meet Our Talented Staff!
Phillip Roberts, CEO
Maggie Przygoda, Operations Manager
Maggie graduated Summa Cum Laude from San Jose State University with a BS Degree in Justice Studies. She was admitted to Santa Clara School of Law and Golden Gate University School of Law on scholarship but decided being a lawyer was not her cup of tea. She joined GOALS in 2016 as Phillip's Executive Assistant and was promoted to Chief Administrative Officer, then a few years later, stepping down to Operations Manager, where she has been leading the Administrative department, as well as Finance and HR.
She gained experience and a passion working with youth interning at the LGBTQ Youth Space and has also worked with adults with autism prior to joining GOALS. Additionally, she has years of customer service and administrative experience and uses her variety of skill sets while working here at GOALS.
Hasani Bland, Executive Functioning Instructor, Content Instructor and Productivity Instructor
“Sunny” has a background in Humanities with emphasis in English and Asian Studies. He is skilled at working as an interventionist for individuals who are filling academic gaps and who are managing at-risk factors for success in academics and beyond. When Sunny coaches a student who is discouraged or unmotivated he supports them as they find their own awesomeness by focusing on improving their lives and/or the lives of those around them.
He has a wide range of eclectic interests, which include martial arts (Karate, Wing Chun, Mui Thai, and swordsmanship), parkour, surfing, writing poetry, D&D, Magic the Gathering, and Mario Kart.
Ryan Glennon, Productivity and Content Instructor
Ryan graduated with honors for his degree in Biology with an emphasis in Marine Biology. As a professional educator, he has extensive experience in tutoring, such as preparatory tutoring for HSPT, college preparation, and collegiate course tutoring. Ryan is also experienced in nontraditional learning spaces as the academic affairs manager for his fraternity, where he offered tutoring, matched students with tutors, and facilitated group study; as a result of his efforts, he raised the GPA of the organization by .5. Additionally, he worked as a teaching assistant and supervised students in university laboratory settings. As a tutor and learning coach, Ryan's mantra for his students is that "Sometimes, all you need is someone else and you can find your path to winning."
Ryan has many interests outside of teaching and tutoring. He is an avid reader of genres like sci-fi, historical fiction, and horror. He plays D&D and writes fantasy stories. His enthusiasm for marine biology comes out in his frequent visits to aquariums and tide pooling.
Debi Roberts, Community Outreach Representative
Debi Roberts joins GOALS as a Community Outreach team member with market development experience growing both distributed and national sales teams.
Debi is passionate about raising awareness about the advantages neurodiverse individuals bring to our social, academic, and business communities. As a parent and spouse in a neurodivergent family, she experienced the challenges of navigating and enrolling the educational system in a child’s success and has guided adult children and spouses through thriving in today’s workplace.
Understanding the life-changing benefits GOALS offers in Executive Functioning, Content, and Productivity training, Debi is thrilled to be working with GOALS clients, their families, GOALS partners, and our local communities.
Richard Tam, Executive VP and Senior Advisor
With a wealth of professional experience in managing and growing businesses, Richard works with the GOALS team to streamline and improve our business processes. He also works with strategic partners to expand GOALS' services to populations who lack access to services like ours. Richard’s background includes positions as a Senior Advisor, Executive Director, Director of Admissions, and President & CEO.
Richard highly values encouraging young people to become the very best versions of themselves, making him a perfect match with GOALS mission to guide students towards becoming strong, independent learners. While Richard often worked with business practices, he was able to share his passion for working with young people in his role as a Regional Manager with Kidz Love Soccer. He also never missed a shift as a PE parent throughout his daughter’s school years.
Richard’s free time revolves around his wife and daughters, who enjoy trying new foods and traveling. His youngest daughter is currently off to college as a UCLA Bruin. With his new found free time, Richard is enjoying playing more league soccer.
Bryan Willis, Senior STEM Instructor and Productivity Instructor
As a long time GOALS staff member, Bryan brings a valuable knowledgebase from his background in both Mathematics and Computer Sciences. Having completed Making Math Real® courses*: K-12 overview and 9 Lines®, Bryan is able to utilize these relevant methods when working with his students. He is particularly skilled in working with students who find math challenging and applies his own struggles with the subject to working with them from a point of empathy and understanding. By creating a highly effective learning environment for his clients, Bryan is able to accelerate their progress and ease their misplaced efforts. During Bryan’s sessions, he leverages his experience and expertise to design a learning path that will encourage competence and confidence in the students he works with. In his leisure time, Bryan loves outdoor recreation, road trips, and time with his family.
Stephanie Fox, Content Instructor
With an educational background in both education and nursing, Stephanie brings a unique skill set to the GOALS Education Team. Her academic background spans both education with some specialization in working with neurodiversity and a nursing program, where she also conducted advanced academic tutoring in nursing with emphasis on how to learn the material. Her experience in nursing has been diverse as an Outpatient Hospice RN Case Manager, Acute Care Charge RN, and RN/Educator for medically fragile individuals. As Stephanie has refined her approach to learning and vocational development, she has remained humble, approaching her students with an open mind, offering compassion and flexibility to foster learning and growth in others.
A great joy for Stephanie is learning from others, but in her downtime, you may have a hard time finding her because she loves to get outdoors and find adventure.
Hailey Morgan, Junior Productivity and Content Instructor
Hailey has worked as a volunteer tutor at the high school level, and she has worked as a Math Instructor for up to twenty students, facilitating from elementary level mathematics through pre-Calculus level work. Hailey has mentored high school students as a leader in her roles in competitive marching and indoor percussion bands. As a mentoring leader, Hailey led inclusion practices and skills development, so that new members could feel like part of the group and work on the skills they wanted to get better at.
As a curious learner, Hailey pursues many interests related to her professional pursuits. She enjoys ethical hacking, cyber security, artificial intelligence, and developing her knowledge in programming languages, such as Java, C++, HTML, Python, and JavaScript. She has an artistic side, too. In her family, she is the go-to interior designer and loves painting in the style of modern art with acrylic and watercolor.
Alysia Henderson, Chief Education Officer
Alysia earned a Master’s degree in Anthropology of Childhood, Youth, and Education at Brunel University in West London. She had previously attended CSU Sacramento where she studied Psychology with an emphasis in Applied Behavioral Analysis. While in the UK she did her dissertation work at a hostel for vulnerable youth and has since worked extensively with children and youth in the foster care system and in group homes.
She has a strong behavioral background with experience supervising behavioral therapy for children and youth with developmental disabilities and severe behavioral difficulties. Alysia’s extensive experience in both direct care and supervision of care has helped her to mentor GOALS staff as Director of Education. In the long term, Alysia wants to continue polishing her skills at leading teams in a student-focused environment.
Maddie Mack, Executive Functioning and Content Instructor
An academic foundation in cell biology and virology, as well as a lifelong love of Spanish language and culture, led to Maddie’s accidental entry into education, and she quickly realized how passionate she was about the field. Her deep understanding of both the Spanish language and STEM fields enables her to confidently and competently work in a collaborative mode while helping her client process academics. Practical executive functioning strategies developed through her experience working with students in and out of the classroom are another fundamental component of Maddie’s teaching approach. Maddie believes that mutual respect, deep questioning, and problem solving are critical aspects of the learning process and her coaching process.
As a biology student, she discovered a new species of lungworms. In her downtime, she loves a good book and like anyone else some cuddles from her adoring cat.
Jay Greer, Executive Functioning and Content Instructor
With an educational background in graphic design and technology, Jay comes to the GOALS instructional team with a critical eye and a strategic approach. After completing his degree, he went on to develop an array of STEAM-related educational tools and honed his approaches to varied types of learners in hands-on programs, such as project-based maker's spaces, writing workshops, and science enrichment courses, and really found his niche in these nontraditional teaching spaces where he could work collaboratively with his students on projects they designed and were excited about. As a coach, he focuses on supporting his students to build up their confidence through his strong, rapport-based approach.
In his downtime, Jay may be found joyfully caring for a menagerie of pets, including a gecko, some mice, and one fluffy cat. He is a horror enthusiast who enjoys tabletop games and a bit of manga.
Jesse Black, Executive Functioning and Content Instructor
Joining the GOALS' instructional staff with a masters in teaching with licenses in math and science and a strong background in writing, Jesse brings high academic value to each of his clients. His teaching background includes in classroom experience and extensive one-on-one academic coaching within science and math courses. Jesse also brings nearly a decade of science education in environmental science, biology, ecology, and physics from a nontraditional learning experience focused in outdoor education. Uniquely, Jesse has also been a survival skills instructor, and that may have impacted his personal coaching philosophy: "I like bringing success out of my client by inspiring what they innately possess to power their new development and growth."
Always down for a jam session on his guitar, Jesse is an avid music lover. He is a sports fanatic, too. If you don't hear his guitar or the game, it's probably because he is out hiking, backpacking, or camping.
Mel Oronico, Outreach Assistant
Joining the GOALS team as an Information Technology graduate, Mel brings great energy and enthusiasm to our Community Outreach team. He has experience in sales, but his experience as a tutor for children really drove Mel to his finding a real passion in the work he does now. Mel believes that the skills practiced and perfected with specialists in one-on-one environments are often essential in academic success, but more importantly, those skills serve as a foundation for critical thinking and success in life.
As Mel reaches out on behalf of GOALS, he approaches clients with empathy and a positive attitude and is known around the office for his friendliness. Mel credits his values of teamwork, self-discipline, resilience, respect, compassion, and character to his time playing basketball and tennis, and continues to have a passion and gratitude for sports.
Mason Tudor, Director Of Education
With over 25 years of education experience, Dr. Mason Tudor has incredible skills in tutoring a plethora of subjects, teaching English, career exploration, study strategies, and real-life literacies (financial, time management, etc.). He is also an academic coach focusing on how to use strategies to succeed with students who are in difficult academic programs. He is skilled at working with students who are in crises due to emotional trauma, learning differences, and academic gaps.
As a break from this vocation, he enjoys hiking, camping, philosophy, Everquest, D&D, and learning new things with his family.
Kristin Midori Moyer, Senior Executive Functioning, Content and Productivity Instructor
Kristin studied clinical psychology in graduate school and graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Health Sciences from Portland State University. She has provided CBT-focused psychotherapy to adults experiencing psychological disorders; counseled at-risk high school students; helped develop the social and behavioral skills of children with autism spectrum disorder as an ABA therapist; and worked as an Adolescent Development Specialist at a crisis residential treatment program. Her work has taught her the importance of tailoring her approach to best meet the needs of each individual student, recognizing that everyone has different strengths and areas of need. She approaches her students with empathy and patience, and works alongside them to help them realize their full potential.
A former Division 1 soccer player at Portland State University, Kristin understands the value of teamwork, habit formation, and dedication. When not at GOALS, you’ll find Kristin playing center defender on the soccer field, or hanging out with her golden retriever and two shiba inu pups.
Erin Castellano, Executive Functioning Instructor and Content Instructor
With an academic background of Psychology and Education, Erin develops innovative learning experiences for her students, which is a skill she began when she led education components at science centers and museums. She excels at emotionally supporting her clients with aspects of learning that can be overwhelming. As a coach and instructor, Erin believes that every moment can be a teaching moment.
Her hobbies are closely tied to her love of STEM education and include working and living on a ranch for rescued horses, pinning and collecting insects, and gardening.
Kelly Flavier, Administrative Assistant
Kelly is a psychology graduate, and she brings excellent skills in problem solving, honed during her time in customer service, to her work with GOALS. From her experience working with executives, managers, and teams of professionals, she has developed an approach to her work based in compassion, commitment, and integrity. Through her work at GOALS, Kelly has found her purpose in life by helping others realize their potential. Though she has always advocated for quality education, Kelly enthusiastically applies friendliness, flexibility, efficiency, professionalism, kindness, and hard work to push the whole team at GOALS forward.
Personally, she values providing for her family and respectfully works toward providing retirement for her deserving parents. In her free time, she can be found driving to new parks, restaurants, beaches, and she even enjoys family errands.
*Bryan Willis, in utilizing Making Math Real® (MMR®) methods, is in no way affiliated with, a member of, or employed by the Making Math Real Institute (MMRI), and does not represent or reflect MMR® or David Berg in any way whatsoever. Neither the MMRI nor David Berg has trained, certified, licensed, monitored, endorsed, recommended, or sponsored Bryan Willis. MMR® is a clinical methodology, not a program or a curriculum, and neither the MMRI nor David Berg monitors, endorses, or accounts for the quality of services provided by Bryan Willis.