Veronica was appointed CEO in 2026, a position she held from 2003 to 2014, leading the organization’s expansion into multiple regions and helping establish it as a nationally recognized youth workforce development program. She is a seasoned nonprofit leader with nearly three decades of experience in education and youth development, and is known for building high-performing teams, bringing clarity to complex challenges, and ensuring that programs deliver meaningful results for both students and employers.  Veronica has been recognized as Washingtonian of the Year, the Meyer’s Exponent Award, and Washington Business Journal’s “Real Women Who Mean Business” and was a finalist for the Washington Post Nonprofit Excellence Award, and is a member of the 2010 Class of Leadership Greater Washington.

Veronica began her professional career working with foster care youth and adjudicated youth in Charlottesville, Virginia. She then went on to teach Spanish for four years at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC through the Teach for America program. Since 2015 Veronica has been an adjunct professor at Trinity University teaching Critical Reading – a course specifically designed to prepare first generation students for their university experience. She was elected to the Alexandria City Public School Board in 2016. Veronica received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia and a Master of Arts in teaching from Trinity University – Washington.