About Us

Co-Founder and CEO (Board Secretary)

Leticia Ramirez Hashem is a graduate of Harvard University, with a Magna cum Laude bachelors degree in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. She worked for several years as a management consultant for Boston-based COBA-M.I.D., where she specialized in corporate strategy and organizational leadership. Leticia also worked for Kraft Foods in corporate marketing and for Staples, Inc. as a manager of Strategic Planning and, subsequently, director of Marketing Strategy for their catalog division.

Leticia also has an extensive background in church ministry, serving for 14 years as a licensed minister and associate pastor, running several departments and a combined paid-volunteer staff of over 50 people for a large, nondenominational church in New England. She is a teacher and public speaker, with more than 20 years of experience in both sacred and secular arena. After leaving church ministry, Leticia embarked on management consulting for nonprofit organizations, performing strategic planning, Board enhancement, and organizational alignment project work for nonprofits including the Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants, Make-A-Wish CT Foundation, Love146, Fellowship Place, Intempo, and Center for Children’s Advocacy.

Leticia has been a long-time supporter and served as U.S. Director of Danita’s Children/Hope for Haiti Children’s Center, Inc. a non-profit organization that provides orphan rescue, care, education, medical services and feeding services to children in extremely impoverished communities of Northern Haiti. She has a passion for responding to the needs of the oppressed and the vulnerable – particularly children – as evidenced by her current work and previous volunteer endeavors, serving as a court-appointed guardian ad litem for abused and neglected children and as a Board of Education member for her city. Leticia has served on a number of organizational boards, including nonprofit, public sector, and church eldership boards. She currently serves on the board of Harvard Business School Community Partners of Connecticut, a consulting group serving the nonprofit community of CT; the board of Love146, and anti-human trafficking nonprofit; and the board of Children and Parental Rights Campaign, a legal advocacy group working on behalf of children. She volunteers at her church and provides pro bono consulting services to CT- based non-profits in her free time.

Leticia lives in Orange, CT, with her husband Jim and has a daughter in college at Fordham University.