The Amplify Board

Amplify is led by a dedicated board of volunteers from across a broad range of sectors.

Attendees at the Dreamforce 2018 Amplify Breakfast

Attendees at the Dreamforce 2018 Amplify Breakfast

Board Members

Becca Morgan

Becca Morgan

Once called an ad for STEM, Becca has experience in most STEM areas.
With a BS in Math and a PhD in Immunology, she has taught college level Math, done science consulting, hospital and research lab gruntwork, preclinical trial management, but the past 13 years have been Salesforce. A tool to make everything easier, from billing, to P&Ls, she was hooked. Since then, she has volunteered with Girl Develop It and Amplify to teach Salesforce and is very excited to branch out with Amplify.
She is passionate about promoting underrepresented voices in tech, not only Salesforce. No matter the problem, a better representation and the freedom to represent are the key to finding the best solution.

Dar Veverka

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Pronouns: She/her/hers

Dar is a Solution Architect working with nonprofits. She originally started out in international conflict resolution working in Sweden after undergraduate school, and then left grad school to join a women’s collective whole grain bakery for several years. She spent some time after that playing in the mud with pigs at an animal sanctuary and then veered into IT. Dar has been making order out of chaos in technology both as a leader and as a consultant for over 20 years. She has worked on a small scale with orgs with less than 10 employees and on a large scale with companies over 3000 employees. When not doing techy things, she can be found out hiking, reading a good book. or spending time herding actual cats.

Ishrat Bhatti

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Senior Technology Analyst, Salesforce Center of Excellence, Southwest Airlines

Pronouns: She/her/hers

Ishrat has a MPH and is 4 x certified with a CSM and CSPO.  Having supported the quality improvement of healthcare systems throughout various roles in Canada,  she chose to re-focus her career development in Salesforce.  She is a passionate, detail-oriented problem analysis & solution design oriented Salesforce Trailblazer. Her  experience demonstrates a unique ability to drive process optimization with multi-cloud Salesforce implementations.

Ishrat is a Trailblazer Mentor, Leader of the Frisco Admin Group in Texas, Organizer Salesforce Saturday of North Dallas, Coach at Clicked Inc, Co-founder Healthcare Heroes Force and  Volunteer Cohort lead - Salesforce Talent Alliance Career for Healthcare Professionals. She has a strong passion for women's rights and coaching. She dedicates time outside of work to mentor people from underrepresented communities to help them transition and thrive in the tech arena.

Ishrat's favorite hobbies are travelling around the globe with her husband and two children. 

Jackie Medina

Jackie Medina

Senior VP, Finance & Operations, FORCE-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered

Tampa, FL

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Jackie has been working in the nonprofit sector for over 15 years. She was introduced to Salesforce as it was brought into her organization in 2013. She started learning more as an end user and is now 2x certified and working on more. She was introduced to Amplify in 2019 and has been volunteering with the organization in some way since and most recently completing the Leadership Academy course.

Her background and education are in Healthcare Administration and before moving to a cancer nonprofit, she worked for several years at a cancer center running the Woman’s Clinic administration.

Jackie lives in the Tampa Bay area with her husband and three children and can often be found at the hockey rink or soccer field. She is committed to bringing technology to nonprofit organizations so they can do more good.

For more information about Jackie and/or to contact her: Twitter, LinkedIn

Jenh Vo

Jenh Vo's headshot. Jenh wears a t-shirt that says "Phenomenal Asian" and a Salesforce Golden Hoodie.

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Consultant at Slalom East Bay. 5x certified, Trailhead Ranger, 2x RAD grad, and Founder of Sunnyvale, CA, Women in Tech. Co-founder of Silicon Valley Salesforce Saturday & Superbadge Sunday. Participant of an Amplify Mentorship Circle & co-facilitator of a prior Amplify Study Group. Also, a proud recipient of a Golden Hoodie.

Kathy Waterworth

Kathy Waterworth

Kathy has spent many years in the workforce both professionally and as a volunteer. This has allowed her to work in various roles as a leader, administrator, customer service representative, event planner and team manager, both in the for-profit and nonprofit worlds.

Kathy entered the world of Salesforce six years ago, when she started training on Trailhead to become a Salesforce Administrator. She nows holds 15 certifications, and almost 1400 badges. Working as a Virtual System Administrator in the nonprofit space, Kathy helps those organizations who need additional admin support.

Kathy is the founder and leader of the York-Simcoe Salesforce Saturday group, and the Salesforce Architect User Group Newmarket.

When not working or volunteering, Kathy enjoys reading, traveling, hiking and a good cooking show!

Lisa Gilham

Lisa Gilham

Tech is powered by people, and managing and developing people is what Lisa does best. Before earning her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and joining Idealist Consulting to manage the tech consulting team, Lisa ran educational program teams at a children's theatre and the Girl Scouts. Working with youth is where Lisa learned and put into practice an intersectional, equity-minded, and trauma-informed approach to curriculum development, staff training, and organizational design.
Now working in talent development, Lisa is excited to contribute to Amplify's mission to educate and support future technology leaders from historically marginalized communities.

Liwen Zhang

Liwen Zhang

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Toronto, ON

With passion of enabling digital experiences for clients, and making life brighter for individuals, families, and communities around the world, Liwen has 5+ years of Techno-Functional Consulting experience in North America. Based in Toronto, Liwen works with companies in diverse industries such as Financial Service, Travel and Transportation, and Public Sector.

Liwen is also passionate about supporting women, visible minority groups and immigrants in tech, and has been volunteering as a mentor. She takes great pride in serving her community for women of colour and the sharing of ideas which was profiled by her volunteers roles as Salesforce Trailblazer Mentor.

Liwen spends most of her free time in Hiking, Traveling and Kpop Choreography.

For more information about Liwen and/or to contact her: LinkedIn

Makeda Keegan

Salesforce Business Analyst
Boston, MA

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Makeda Keegan has been responsible for enterprise-level technical services across that include business analysis, project management, and strategic planning for Salesforce technologies, digital signage, mobile application services, and social media.

She constantly seeks opportunities to pursue her interests in social justice and public policy and believes wholeheartedly that when used appropriately, technology can be a powerful force for positive change.

Makeda is a proud triple Husky, receiving her Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D from Northeastern University.

For more information about Makeda and/or to contact her, reach her on LinkedIn.

Mel Meder

Mel Meder

Pronouns: She/her/hers

Mel Meder has seven total years of CRM database experience, starting as an accidental admin for her advocacy group's database. She worked as a public policy wonk and fundraiser before pivoting into Salesforce administration full time, most recently at a mission-driven startup, Vestwell.

Mel has greatly benefited from mentorship (such as Amplify's Leadership Academy!) focused on empowering people with marginalized identities, so she is delighted to support Amplify's work as a board member. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, hiking the beautiful trails of central Pennsylvania, and learning Turkish.

For more information about Mel and/or to contact her: LinkedIn

Melissa Hill Dees

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Founding Partner, HandsOn Connect

Melissa is currently completing an MBA in Digital Entrepreneurship and is 4X Salesforce certified: Admin, Platform App Builder, Sales Cloud Consultant, and Nonprofit Cloud Consultant. With 15 years of experience as a nonprofit executive and over 10 years leveraging Salesforce, her goal is to automate what can be automated so that nonprofits have more time to do what can’t be automated. She is a Founding Partner at HandsOn Connect, NGO Community Group Leader, Dreamforce speaker, Lightning Champion, SFDO Sprinter, and advocate of #domoregood, #WiT, #EqualityForAll. Her favorite hobby is traveling! especially with her husband and daughter.

For more information about Melissa and/or to contact her: Twitter, LinkedIn

Rachel Hands

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Director, Professional Services, Sputnik Moment

Boston, MA

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

As a leader of distributed teams, Rachel has spent over a decade in the Salesforce.org ecosystem working to create equitable, effective work cultures that enable employees to do their best work in support of the nonprofit and philanthropic organizations she’s most passionate about.

Before finding her place in the tech world, Rachel spent her days as a classically trained horn player with a Master’s degree in music history. Today, she spends her free time running, knitting, reading, and constantly rewatching The Golden Girls.

For more information about Rachel and/or to contact her: LinkedIn

Sudha Sundaram

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Sudha is a business and technology leader with expertise in driving digital transformation journey through Salesforce implementations. She has 11+ years of experience and is 13x Salesforce, PMI-ACP, CSP and CSM certified. She is the co-leader at Toronto Administrators Trailblazer Community Group, a blogger at Salesforce Couple, speaker at various community groups and events, and a Trailblazer mentor.

Sudha has a strong passion for child rights advocacy and mentorship. She has been volunteering at orphanages and centers for special needs children since her youth. She was the founder of Child Rights & You America's San Antonio action center. She dedicates time outside of work to mentor hundreds of students, people from underrepresented communities, and women on career break - helping them in their learning, certification and career journey.

Sudha's interests also include painting and travelling.

For more information about Sudha and/or to contact her:  Linkedin, Twitter