Jay Miranda

Board President

Jay Miranda has been a leader in the nonprofit sector for the past 15 years. His work has focused on developing transformative community programs for teens across the US and Mexico. Jay is a Honduran immigrant who was raised in the Mission District of San Francisco by his single grandmother. From a young age, his grandmother taught him the value of serving others. Jay and his wife are foster parents and active in their local community. He is also a Doctoral student in Organizational Change and Leadership at the University of Southern California.

Janice JonesMitchell

Board Treasurer

Janice JonesMitchell was born, and raised, in San Francisco, CA. Her educational career spans more than 25 years and is catalyzed by both the underserved community in which she grew up and by her parents, sacrificial educators that instilled in her a strong work ethic, situated in the importance of serving from a place of tenacious care, and persistence for all. Starting with an early childhood educator background to a now Supervisor in the San Francisco Unified School District, Janice continues to learn from and value the lived experience of those she serves and strives to foster and enact strategic and concentrated programs oriented to balance the scales for those that we tend to serve the least. She has 3 adorable young adult daughters who graduated from Spanish Immersion elementary school and are all proficient in Spanish.

Kim Garcia-Meza

Board Secretary

Kim Garcia-Meza has spent over two decades focusing her personal life and professional career on three critical priorities for SF’s children – quality education for all students, resources and support for teachers so they can provide a quality education, effective parent engagement and transparent communication with SFUSD so families can support their children’s education. Starting in 1989, Kim taught as a SFUSD Spanish biligual elementary school educator in San Francisco's Mission District until 2000. In 2003 she worked for The Reading Tree teaching weekly literacy activities to Spanish speaking toddlers and their families, also in San Francisco's Mission District. In 2006 her search for a quality preschool in Spanish for her own children led her to begin her own Spanish language preschool. Kim is the founder, director, and lead teacher of Las Mañanitas Preschool , a thriving and award-winning preschool community.

Cindy López-Chastain

Board Member

Cindy López-Chastain (she/her/ella) was born and raised in San Francisco as a first generation Salvadoran-American. She is the passionate founder and owner of Linguistic Connection Inc., specializing in serving diverse learners in multicultural and multilingual communities as a bilingual speech language pathologist, holistic educator, consultant, trainer and coach to education programs, agencies, families and individuals since 2003. Along with her husband and two adventurous bilingual middle school boys, proud graduates of Las Mañanitas, you will also find her singing, exploring, creating, and laughing a lot!

James Addicott

Board Member

James Addicott has worked in finance and banking for his entire professional career. In 2018 he joined the TASI Bank, a minority owned US Bank based in the Pacific Islands to better align his work with his personal values of promoting diversity and inclusivity. He is also the proud father of two graduates of Las Mañanitas. The school was critical in the healthy development of his family, and he would like to see that more families have access to Las Mañanitas.

Lea - Norma - Michele

‘22-’23 Las Mañanitas Social and Fundraising Committee

For over 10 years, passionate Las Mañanitas Preschool family members have volunteered their time to be part of the Las Mañanitas Social and Fundraising Committee. Our goal is to foster and bring our preschool family community together through social outreach as well as fundraise for the Las Mañanitas Scholarship Fund. As a community we are proud to have raised $9,000 in 2022 to help more San Francisco families have access to this wonderful preschool program.