About · Team
The people who make the three hours work.
Forty-one people, six sites, and one van. Most of them are part-time by design, because the best teachers we hire tend to be working artists, working engineers, and working barbers.
- Staff
- 41 (28 part-time)
- Avg tenure
- 3.8 years
- Program staff
- 27
- Licensed barbers
- 3
Leadership
Executive director
Yolanda Pierce
Executive director. Co-founded STENCH in 2011 after eleven years as a school counselor. Still runs the Thursday family phone list. Believed in the lamp.
Co-founder
Gus Halloran
Co-founder, director of Nothing, keeper of the Void. Former shop teacher. Built the first workbench out of a door. Answers questions about the acronym with a straight face, always.
Program director
Priya Raman
Program director. Came from a museum education job, which explains the labels on everything. Runs curriculum, ratios, and the termly program lottery that nobody enjoys.
Operations
Sam Ferreira
Operations director. Handles buildings, vans, insurance, snacks, and the maintenance calendar that a board member now checks. Knows every hardware store within five miles.
Community
Nia Brooks
Volunteer & community director. Manages 300 volunteers and the background-check pipeline. Has never once described a volunteer task as 'light filing.'
Development
Chris Yeun
Development director. Writes the grants, stewards the 412 monthly donors, and keeps a running document titled 'Things We Will Not Say for Money.'
Program leads
Science
Marcus Whitfield
Science. Fifteen years in a high school lab before deciding he was done with bells. Runs creek sampling, the volcano limit, and the annual Science Fair judging rubric.
Technology
Dani Okafor
Technology. Repair bench, block code, soldering. Keeps a spreadsheet of every laptop ever donated and whether it lived. Current survival rate: 61%.
Engineering
Ted Lindqvist
Engineering. Structural engineer three days a week, STENCH two. Author of the Bridge Disaster rules and the phrase 'load it until it tells you something.'
Nothing
June Park
Nothing. Protects the quiet. Trained in restorative practice; will not raise her voice in the Void, by rule and by temperament.
Crafts
Bea Morales
Crafts. Ceramicist. Manages a kiln, a dye vat, and a glue budget that is genuinely alarming. Believes hot glue is a gateway material.
Haircuts
Antoine Duval
Haircuts. Licensed barber, 22 years. Runs the student salon with a sanitation checklist kids have to sign. Teaches consent before he teaches a fade.
Everyone else
Twelve program assistants, four site coordinators, three licensed barbers including Antoine, two van drivers, a bookkeeper, a grant writer, a kitchen lead, and a part-time repair technician who is technically paid to fix the building but mostly fixes the kids' bikes.
We are also 300 volunteers, a nine-person board, and one very patient insurance broker.
Openings
We are currently hiring a Technology lead for the Lents site, two program assistants, and a Saturday salon instructor. Salaries are posted on every listing, because hiding them wastes everyone's time.
Work here
Part-time, well-supported, and genuinely hard. We post salary bands and we mean them.