Tamara Ritchey Powers

Tamara Powers has focused her non-parenting efforts on championing education and children’s well-being. In addition to her work with the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, Ms. Powers also supports the work of other local nonprofits. She has been actively involved for over 20 years with The Children’s Partnership, a children’s advocacy, and research organization. She also is active with the Richstone Family Center, an organization that focuses on preventing and treating child abuse. Ms. Powers has served on the board of The Wonder of Reading, a literacy organization that helped build over 200 libraries in local public elementary schools. She also was on the boards of the Boys and Girls Club of the Los Angeles Harbor, Get Lit-Words Ignite, and Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. In 2013, she chaired the Grant Screening Board for the Everyday Foundation, a women’s foundation that makes a $1 million grant each year to a child-based organization in the LA area. Ms. Powers holds a bachelor’s in economics from Stanford and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.