Board of Directors
The Youth-Led Board of Directors provides strategic and valued oversight over GENup. Our Board of Directors draws on their vast experiences in community organizing, grassroots activism, student agency/student voice, and education policy to better direct the growth and development of GENup.
Léo Corzo-Clark, Chair
Léo Corzo-Clark (he/him) grew up in the East Bay, getting his first start as an education organizer when he became the student board member for the Albany Unified School District. Léo served as GENup's Policy & Advocacy Director from 2020-2022, where he helped write, pitch, and pass GENup’s first two slates of bills in California. He then attended Brown University, graduating with degrees in Education Studies, International & Public Affairs, and Music in 2025. Beyond the classroom, Léo was an education legal intern for a civil rights clinic, a labor organizer for the Brown RA union, a student leader of the Brown Divestment Coalition, and music director of his internationally-touring a cappella group. He will attend UC Berkeley for a Masters in Public Policy in starting in Fall 2026. In addition to his lifelong goal of achieving educational equity for all students, Léo hopes to visit every US state, learn to cook every one of his family’s recipes, and continue singing in his free time.
Aidan Lin-Tostado, Vice Chair
Jennifer Tran, Treasurer
Aidan Lin-Tostado is a community organizer, state commissioner, and nonprofit leader. His skills include nonprofit management, governance, and legal compliance; policy advocacy and lobbying; youth organizing, housing justice, and abolition/anti-carceral protection; and GOTV and voter registration.
He co-founded Our Time To Act in 2018, serving as Executive Director during its rise as a powerful youth organizing and housing justice 501(c)(3) nonprofit in San Diego. He currently serves on the board of directors as President.
In 2023, he was appointed to the State of California’s newly formed Youth Empowerment Commission, charged with advising the Governor, State Legislature, and State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was elected by his peers to serve as the commission’s inaugural Vice Chair.
From 2024 to 2025, Aidan worked at Nonviolent Peaceforce. As a program coordinator, he worked on the ground building safety ecosystems and community-led protection in San Diego using nonviolent, noncarceral, and collective-based pathways.
Aidan graduated from UC San Diego with cum laude honors ('24) and Homestead High School ('20). Aidan is pursuing his J.D. degree at Berkeley Law as a Public Interest Scholar ('29).
Jennifer Tran is a lifelong education advocate dedicated to advancing meaningful student representation in education decision-making. She holds a Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Education Policy and Analysis from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and dual bachelor's degrees in Education Sciences and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jennifer is the co-founder of the National Student Board Member Association (NSBMA), a national nonprofit working to institutionalize student representation in education decision-making and reimagine public schools as more inclusive, responsive, and democratic institutions. Her work spans education policy, nonprofit management, and democratic governance, with a particular focus on how society can build institutions that not only prepare young people for democratic participation but also recognize and empower them as democratic stakeholders today.
Jennifer is also a proud alumna of GENup, having previously served as its Chief K-12 Legislative Policy Director from 2021 to 2022. During her tenure, she helped draft, advocate for, and secure the passage of Senate Bill 955, authored by California State Senator Connie Leyva. Signed into law in 2022, SB 955 established the right of California middle and high school students to take an excused absence to participate in civic and political activities. Years later, in 2026, Jennifer was especially proud to witness the lasting impact of her legislative work as students across California invoked SB 955 to walk out of their classrooms in protest of ICE agents in their communities.
Through her work, Jennifer remains committed to ensuring that young people are not merely invited to participate in the institutions that govern their lives, but are empowered to shape them.
Ashlyn Bautista, Secretary
Ashlyn Bautista, having grown up in Orange County as an Asian American student, experienced and understood early on how intersectionality impacts the way you experience both school and the world. As a senior in high school going through the pandemic and the rise of racism and bigotry in my hometown, she wanted to get more involved in the activism space, but didn’t really know how.
In 2021, during her freshman year of college, she struggled to find a community and get more involved in education/political activism, until she discovered GENup. While getting her bachelors degree in English Literature at UCSD, she became involved with GENup throughout her 4 years of college. From Communications Director to Media Director to Chief of Communications to President of the UCSD chapter and other small roles in between, GENup gave her a space to not only grow as an activist, but to discover what she wanted to do with her future. She is currently pursuing a masters degree in Education Studies and a secondary school teaching credential with the goal of becoming a high school English teacher.
George Ashford
George Ashford is an Account Executive with BCFS Public Affairs. In this role, he designs and executes strategies for legislative and regulatory campaigns and ballot measures, assisting with policy research, communications strategy, social media, and coalition building.
Prior to joining BCFS, George co-founded the Student HOMES Coalition, helping pass student housing reforms into California law. He also served as COO for GENup.George graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 2025, where he served as Associate Student Manager of the Rose Institute for State and Local Government. During his summers, he interned at Rep. Jamie Raskin’s DC office, Bipartisan Policy Center Action, and the Niskanen Center.
Besides politics, George loves to ski, backpack, or do anything else that gets him up to the mountains.
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Keerthi Eraniyan
Julia
Chambers
Keerthi Eraniyan is a rising high school senior from California, and a passionate student voice advocate. Keerthi serves as the Student Board Member on the Contra Costa County Board of Education, where she represents students at the county level and works to ensure their perspectives are included in key decisions impacting schools and communities. Keerthi is also the co-founder of the California Student Board Member Association, a statewide initiative focused on strengthening and expanding meaningful student representation across districts and county offices of education. Through this work, she collaborates with student leaders across California to build a more unified and effective student voice movement. Her leadership extends to the Association of California County Boards of Education and the Institute for Youth in Policy. Her policy focus lies within uplifting historically excluded student groups such as English Language Learners, immigrant students, and juvenile court and community school students. Keerthi’s passion for amplifying underheard voices is also channeled through journalism, and her work has been featured in many Bay Area news outlets.
Julia Chambers is a youth advocate who deeply believes in the power of a good conversation. She drafted and sponsored California Senate Bill 745 to strengthen civic education in high schools, which passed the State Senate with bipartisan support. Julia is the Advocacy Lead and sole youth board member of the United Nations Association of San Diego, where she coordinates their congressional advocacy initiatives and manages the organization’s internship program. She’s spoken at the 2025 UNA-USA’s Leadership Conference, served as a consultative delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, and is the vice chair of the DCCC’s Democracy Summer Action Corps.
Alvin Lee
Alvin Lee is the founder and former Executive Director of GENup. In that capacity, he oversaw day-to-day operations of the organization as well as strategic development and expansion of the organization as a whole. He received his BA from Stanford as an undergraduate transfer.
Emily
Gorodetskiy
Emily Gorodetskiy is a first-generation Ukrainian-American advocate from San Francisco and an Ingram Scholar at Vanderbilt University, studying Economics, National Security, and Data Science. Previously GENup’s Chief of Partnerships, she has advocated for student-centered education policy through various conferences, coalition building, and engagement with education leaders.
Emily is also the founder and executive director of VR’ing Democracy, an initiative using multilingual virtual reality simulations to make voter education more accessible. Her work has reached thousands of people through partnerships with universities, libraries, and community organizations. She previously served as president of the Junior Economic Club of San Francisco, expanding access to financial education and career opportunities for young people.
As a member of GENup’s Board of Directors, Emily is committed to strengthening youth leadership and ensuring students have a meaningful voice in the decisions shaping their education.
All Board related inquiries should be directed to genavieve@generationup.net