Nicole F. Dailo
Board Chair
Nicole F. Dailo is corporate employment counsel at Life Time, Inc. (formerly Life Time Fitness, Inc.), where she manages employment litigation and advises business leaders on labor and employment issues.
Nicole previously worked as an employment associate at Nilan Johnson Lewis P.A. and as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Julia W. Brand in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. In the Twin Cities legal community, Nicole serves on the executive board of the Minnesota Asian Pacific American Bar Association, mentors law students at the University of St. Thomas, and previously volunteered as a pro bono asylum attorney with the Advocates for Human Rights. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2011 and earned her J.D. from the USC Gould School of Law in 2014.
Shoua Lee
Vice Chair
Shoua Lee is Vice President, Community Development for Wells Fargo based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ms. Lee’s work is focused on meeting the credit needs of low- and moderate-income communities on issues of housing affordability, small business growth, and financial health.
Shoua Lee is Vice President, Community Development for Wells Fargo based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ms. Lee’s work is focused on meeting the credit needs of low- and moderate-income communities on issues of housing affordability, small business growth, and financial health. Ms. Lee serves on the Local Advisory Committee and chairs the Community Investment Committee for Local Initiatives Support Corporation Twin Cities. She also serves on the Leadership Team for the Homeownership Opportunity Alliance and on the Wells Fargo Public Affairs Diversity and Inclusion Council and chairs the committee on Demonstrating Diversity & Inclusion. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Ms. Lee worked in public involvement for the Metropolitan Council on the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit Project and in the first-time homebuyer program and housing development team for the City of Saint Paul. Ms. Lee is passionate about her work with under-represented communities as those are the very communities in which she was raised. She is a homeowner on Saint Paul’s East Side and is also a creative writer. In her free time she works on story preservation projects with her family and storytelling projects coordinated and archived by the Minnesota Hmong Museum.
Anil Hurkadli
Advancement Committee Chair
Anil Hurkadli is a connector, convener, and facilitator who considers it his life’s work to ensure people are equipped with the knowledge, skills, mindsets, and relationships necessary to thrive.
Anil Hurkadli is a connector, convener, and facilitator who considers it his life’s work to ensure people are equipped with the knowledge, skills, mindsets, and relationships necessary to thrive. During his four years with the Thrivent Foundation, Anil was responsible for ensuring that equity in every policy and practice led to equity in the foundation’s strategic outcome areas of family-sustaining employment and financial health. He is the former executive director for Teach For America in Minnesota, where he led the first alternative teacher licensure program in the state, and the former leader of the Office of New Schools at Minneapolis Public Schools.
Anil holds degrees from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. His writing has appeared in Education Week, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Star Tribune, and the Boston Globe Magazine.
Emma Corrie
Member
Emma Corrie has a distinguished career in State Government, most recently leading the Minnesota Department of Driver & Vehicle Services, annual revenue of $1.4 billion, during the heart of the pandemic where critical technological and program changes were implemented.
Emma Corrie has a distinguished career in State Government, most recently leading the Minnesota Department of Driver & Vehicle Services, annual revenue of $1.4 billion, during the heart of the pandemic where critical technological and program changes were implemented. Previously she was recruited by Governor Dayton to create the Public Sector Partnership and statewide MNPathways program recruiting diverse talent into the state’s five largest job classes across 21 state agencies. For this work Governor Dayton honored her and proclaimed “Emma Corrie Day” in Minnesota.
She has worked for the state for the past 24 years in various progressive leadership roles in various departments – Natural Resources, Public Safety, Transportation and at the Governor’s Office. She currently serves as a Transportation Program Director at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Metro district.
Emma’s passion is connecting people from underserved communities to well paid and stable public sector careers. She has placed hundreds of Minnesotans in public sector jobs while also working to change institutional structures to break gender and racial glass ceilings to enable career success.
Emma has a master’s degree in Business and has been certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources since 2008. She co-authored ‘Learning Circles: A Handbook for Preschools in India’ published by Macmillan India Publishers. Emma grew up in India, lives in Saint Paul, loves to travel with Bruce (husband), Cristina (daughter) and Sean (son) and has traveled to 26 countries across six continents.
Nonoko Sato
Member
Nonoko Sato is the Executive Director at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN). In partnership with MCN’s board, staff, and key stakeholders, Nonoko charts MCN’s strategic response to organizational and sector challenges.
Nonoko Sato is the Executive Director at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN). In partnership with MCN’s board, staff, and key stakeholders, Nonoko charts MCN’s strategic response to organizational and sector challenges. She is a relentless champion for racial equity and justice, and excited for MCN to model new approaches across the organization’s values, operations, programs, policy agendas, and partnerships. She values making authentic and deep relationships with people, and is excited to mobilize the nonprofit sector to take on its next set of political and economic challenges and help nonprofits accomplish their missions to create a healthy, cooperative, and just society.
Prior to joining MCN, Nonoko served for thirteen years at SMART (nine years as its executive director), a San Francisco-based nonprofit that champions education equity by supporting students in overcoming systemic barriers on their journey to a college degree.. An immigrant from Japan, she grew up in Chicago, and became first in her family to graduate college from Carleton College. She values promoting voices, representation, and perspectives of Asians and Asian Americans and in addition to CAAL has served on boards of Asian American theater companies in San Francisco/Bay Area and in the Twin Cities. She lives in Minneapolis with her partner and is a proud parent of students in Minneapolis Public Schools.
Tiffany Xiong
Member
Tiffany Xiong is a proud Asian American, a mother to three beautiful children, and an avid fisherwoman. She has pursued an ambitious community leadership career focused on building equitable and inclusive spaces and communities through collaborations across different sectors and the amplification of community voice.
Tiffany Xiong is a proud Asian American, a mother to three beautiful children, and an avid fisherwoman. She has pursued an ambitious community leadership career focused on building equitable and inclusive spaces and communities through collaborations across different sectors and the amplification of community voice. Tiffany has extensive experience in community and campaign organizing as well as fundraising strategy and execution providing her with a depth and breadth of perspective that has added value to notable political campaigns, critical grassroots efforts and leading cultural and philanthropic organizations.
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