Meet the Leadership Team

Founder

Riya Nilkant

Riya founded the Teach4Speech program, creating a tailored speech curriculum for elementary schools in order to increase student confidence, leadership, and self-advocacy. In her free time, she enjoys exploring the outdoors, making pottery, and discovering new coffee shops!

Curriculum Team

Andres Stidger

Andres has been working as an educator for several years and in his free time enjoys freediving, rock climbing, and reading!

Benicio Rivera

Benicio is passionate about teaching and committed to mathematics. Alongside this he loves hands-on work on automobiles and autobody.

Catrina Coe

Catrina is a Biopsychology and Anthropology student and is head of the Neurodivergent Curriculum at T4S. She loves to eat good food with good friends.

Web Development Team

Luis Bravo

A passionate software engineer who developed this website!

Brandon Williams

An electrical engineering student passionate about technology who helps build this awesome website! He also enjoys playing basketball in his free time.

Brandon Mercado

Brandon Mercado is a member of the Game and Website Development teams who loves to play volleyball, guitar, and study languages!

Management Team

Anna Leith

Anna works with the teaching, outreach, and curriculum teams to coordinate program implementation and organization expansion. She is passionate about educational psychology, especially as it relates to neurodiversity, and hopes to empower young students through Teach4Speech.

Jayne Romero

Jayne is studying Environmental Studies and outside of Teach4Speech she is a ballet dancer and likes to read.

Statistics Team

Olivia Candelaria

Olivia is a Statistics and Data Science student and the Data Analysis Team Lead for Teach4Speech. She is passionate about data visualization and machine learning. In her free time likes to swim, go to the beach, and make jewelry.