MEET THE

BOARD OF

DIRECTORS

IAN FRANKLIN

Founder & President

Visionary of Project Fighting Chance, knows first hand the unfortunate end result to the inner city at-risk youth. He began thinking to himself, "I'm going to too many funerals, sooner or later I will be the guest of honor". Seeing death and destruction all around him, he thought his early demise was inevitable. But GOD had other plans.  Franklin feels that PFC has only scratched the surface as to the impact it will have on the San Bernardino community.

LAQUETTA BUSH-SIMMONS

Chairperson & Administrator

Founder and chief executive officer of Simmons Consulting and Training Service and has more than 24 years of experience in non-profit management and ecumenical/interfaith collaborations. During that time she has led four non-profit organizations and has served in a leadership and advisory capacity for more than 13 cultural and service-oriented organizations.

TERRY BOYKINS

Executive Director & 1st Vice President

Award-winning social-entrepreneur with over 500 local, regional and national community service and mentoring awards, CEO of Street Positive®, his focus is on Prevention & Early Intervention (PEI) strategies to mitigate emotional and financial risk factors within under served communities.

Mr. Boykins obtained degrees in Marketing, Management and Communications from California State University, San Bernardino.  Life member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

RORY "Guitar" GANDY

2nd Vice President

Born and raised in the Bay Area of Northern California but a resident of the Inland Empire of Southern California since 2005. Education includes a B.A. in Political Science from Occidental College, a Juris Doctorate in Law from New College of California, School of Law and a Master's in Law (L.L.M.) for Intellectual Property with an emphasis in Entertainment Law.

Rory has over 20 years in the corporate world with 18 years of management.

MONICA "Madame Secretary" MARTIN

A native of California born in Los Angeles. She is a freelance artist and a youth and women's advocate in her community. She has resided in San Bernardino for 25 + years. She has given her time and expertise to many youth and family events.  As a board member of Project Fighting Chance.

She continues to share the importance of a positive and healthy father daughter relationship. Victim turned survivor has motivated her to stand up and create positive change in her community.

JATORI 

"Moxxy Man" HARRIS

A curriculum specialist with Women Wonder Writers, a nonprofit organization, implements cultural arts and restorative justice mentoring for youth and families as well as incarcerated adults impacted by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

Jatori has worked with Children and Family services for over 11 years helping system involved youth transition independently off probation and from foster care.  He continues using his collaborative skills with community partners to find resources that help support youth in transition to adulthood.

STEVE SOMERS

CEO of BPAD Group, Inc.,  a leader in pre-hire and promotional video testing. As well as, a Rater and Trainer for over 50 police/fire/911 agencies.

Steve was a partner and CEO of INSYNC SOFTWARE, INC., a Silicon Valley startup software company providing data management tools

from 1992 – 1998. The compay was sold in 1998 to Macro 4 for $4M.

From 1982 - 1992 he worked for HITACHI CORPORATION

as amajor account team lead in Mainframe sales and client support; clients included Pacific Bell and Chevron. His education includes:

Bachelor of Arts - UC Santa Barbara,

CSU San Bernardino, and Pacific High School.