College Visions Staff

Simon Moore

Executive Director
simon@collegevisions.org

Simon Moore, the founder of CV, was born and raised in Providence, growing up on the East Side. He attended Providence public schools-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, Nathan Bishop Middle School, and Classical High School-and then went to Brown University, where he co-coordinated the Pre-College Enrichment Program at the Swearer Center for Public Service. After college, Simon briefly escaped Providence and moved to New York where he was a classroom teacher before running the college-advising program at Banana Kelly High School. While living in New York, he was still caught in the Providence tractor beam and returned home each summer to work at Providence Summerbridge. Simon now lives in Washington Park, is a fanatic tea drinker, half-heartedly collects used records, and loves competitive games, especially basketball and Boggle.

Raul Cervantes

CAP Program Director
raul@collegevisions.org

Raul was born and raised in sunny California. He spent most of his life in Los Angeles before he moved to attend the University of California, Berkeley where he majored in architecture. Raul is proud to be the first member in his family to attend college, and has spent this past year working at a charter school assisting other first-generation minority students. When Raul is not at work he loves watching scary movies, exploring new museums, and eating exotic foods.

Tyrene Jones

CSP Program Director
tyrene@collegevisions.org

Tyrene Jones is a College Visions alum ('06) as well as a former CV Advisory Committee member. Recently graduating from the University of Rhode Island, she spent her time at URI being highly involved with student organizations, social change and networking groups. She is excited to share her event programming experience with CV this year as the Community Engagement Coordinator. Tyrene also enjoys spending her time renting movies with her family or doing online window shopping.

Jamal Carvalho

Community Engagement Coordinator
jamal@collegevisions.org

Jamal Carvalho is an East Providence native and recent graduate of Brown University where he studied Political Science. He is excited to apply his programming experience as a mentor for Bridge to Success at Roger William University and as a residential peer leader at Brown University to the Community Engagement Coordinator position. Jamal enjoys playing the guitar, composing music, exploring new places and watching tons of movies.

Nada Samih

Program Coordinator
nada@collegevisions.org

Nada Samih is CV's new Program Coordinator. She was born in Kuwait and immigrated to Rhode Island with her family in 1990. She recently graduated from Rhode Island College with a bachelor's degree in Secondary Education, where she spent her time organizing for social justice and advocating for students. Nada enjoys reading, creative writing and playing with her two year old son, Ali.

Board of Directors

José Batista

Student, College Visions
Student, Bryant University

Keith Catone, Treasurer

Project Director, Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Doctoral Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Elaine Fersh, Vice-Chair

Partner, Community Matters

Jill Holloway

Director, Rhode Island Adult Education Professional Development Center

Rebecca Murray, Secretary

Coordinator of University College/New Student Programs, University of Rhode Island

Stephanie Ogidan Preston

MBA Leadership Program, Stop + Shop Supermarket Co.

Henry Rodriguez

Student, College Visions
Student, University of Rhode Island

Hannelore Rodriguez-Farrar

Assistant to the President, Brown University

Angela Romans, Chair

Senior Advisor on Education, City of Providence

Ingrid Tolentino

Planning Officer, MetLife Home + Auto

College Visions would like to thank:

Abel Hernandez for designing the College Visions logo. Abel is a College Visions alumnus (Central High School '07) and currently attends the Rhode Island School of Design.

AS220's Photographic Memory program for taking most of the photos on this website. Photographic Memory, or Photo Mem, is a unique program in which Rhode Island's underserved youth learn the craft of photography while gaining real-world experience by working as an apprentice to a professional photographer. Photo Mem's services are for hire: www.as220.org/photographicmemory.

Design Providence for website and material design. Design Providence is a community-based design approach from AS220.