Volunteer directors
Our Board of Directors
Our nonprofit board of directors includes five volunteer directors. None of them are paid. All of them are accountable for what this organization does in Vallejo.
Bre Jackson
Board Chair
Marco Cardenas
Founder · Board Member
Jose Carrizales
Board Member
Ronald Hamilton
Board Member
Dr. Antoinette Olivarez
Board Member
The board
Five volunteer directors
- 01Bre JacksonBoard Chair
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02Marco CardenasFounder · Board Member
Lived expertise Read his story
Marco Cardenas founded Pathfinders for Hope after seven years navigating homelessness across America. Starting in San Angelo and San Antonio, Texas, he built a successful cleaning business before losing everything to COVID in 2020. What followed was a journey through homelessness that took him across the West, and through every homeless services agency that turned him away. In San Diego, he educated himself on life issues and the systemic failures he experienced, which became the foundation for Pathfinders for Hope. He got out in 2022. He lost his cleaning business to COVID in 2020, was turned away by agency after agency, and got out in 2022. Now he builds Operation Iron Gate to ensure no one gets lost the way he did.
- 03Jose CarrizalesBoard Member 12 years lived expertise
- 04Ronald HamiltonBoard Member
- 05Dr. Antoinette OlivarezBoard Member
In his words
“I contribute to the Board 12 years of Lived Expertise which includes actual Homelessness, years of committee memberships, and speaking roles at national conferences. My lived Expertise will provide great insight, knowledge, and awareness to the plight of the Unsheltered issue.”
Apply to the Vallejo pilot.
Operation Iron Gate is being built in Vallejo with the organizations already doing this work. Participating organizations list the services they can accept referrals for, so every handoff has a known destination and a documented outcome.