Jolea Payne (Chair) is the Director of Development Operations for KIPP Texas Public Schools, where she leads the team responsible for maintaining data and communications systems that support successful fundraising across the state. Before KIPP, Jolea was Program Director of Girls Inc. of Greater Houston and led the programming team that increased programming in systemically under-resourced communities and low-performing schools by nearly 50% in one year.  Her career in the nonprofit sector began as an intern for West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, a community-based environmental justice organization in Southwest Atlanta.