Our Servant Team
Maranda Figueroa
Chief Executive Officer • maranda.figueroa@anewleaf.org
Maranda Figueroa is currently the Chief Executive Officer at A New Leaf. She has served in the nonprofit sector for 17 years working in both national and Tulsa local organizations.
During the past nine years, she served as the Chief Development Officer establishing and growing a development team of five and scaled fundraising from $750,000 to $4.4M annually plus co-led two capital campaigns with former CEO, Mary Ogle totaling $40M. In September 2025, Maranda became the CEO of A New Leaf.
“I love that each and every day I am able to see a direct impact of my work. Seeing our clients who have faced tremendous adversity persevere and achieve their goals is incredibly rewarding. Knowing the lifelong challenges and barriers they have faced, yet still maintain such positivity is so inspiring.”
Kate Schlichter
Chief Administration Officer • kate.schlichter@anewleaf.org
Kate is our Chief Administration Officer and oversees both Human Resources and Operations. She has worked in the local and national nonprofit community in administration and executive leadership for over 20 years in Oklahoma, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. Kate’s passion is helping employees find their personal career paths and grow professionally. During her time at A New Leaf, Kate has grown our employee footprint from 80 employees to over 280 employees and has also grown our organization’s physical footprint by 125%.
Kate has called Oklahoma her home for 18 years, raising her two daughters as Okies with her husband of over 20 years. In her free time, Kate enjoys time with her family and can usually be found running from one sports/robotics activity to another, or as she likes to say, ‘I’m a free Uber driver for my kids!’
Tammie Lewis
Chief Program Officer • Tammie.Lewis@anewleaf.org
Tammie is our Chief Programs Officer and has been with us since 2013. Tammie oversees our Residential Services, Vocational Services, Behavior Support Services and our Transition Academy. After spending several years working in the horseracing industry, Tammie has worked in the nonprofit sector for the last 24 years in both local and national organizations, and the last 17 of those years in senior leadership roles. She is passionate not only about serving our clients, but also by being a servant leader to our staff who work so diligently to help our clients live their best lives!
Tammie has been married for 30 years to her husband Ben. They have three children, two amazing grandchildren, two horses and a donkey. Tammie is passionate about decorating her home with help from Hobby Lobby!
Katie Reiss
Chief Development Officer • katie.reiss@anewleaf.org
Polly Agarwal
Chief financial Officer • polly.agarwal@anewleaf.org
Board of Directors
A New Leaf has 100% board giving. All members are voting members.
Scott Sterbens
QuikTrip Corporation
Tulsa Division Manager
Tim Sullivan
GableGotwals
Shareholder
Dr. Leslie Clark
Tulsa Tech Owasso
Director, Campus
Lisa Korner
BLISS Capital Investments, LLC
Mark Moore
Retired - UCO
Greg Lusardi
ONEOK
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
Dana Baldwin
BOK Financial
Senior Vice President & Senior Trust Advisor
Dan Burnstein
Omni Air Transport
President
Angelika Copp
Hilti
Director, Finance Shared Services
Brian Vogt
Williams Energy Resources
Director, New Energy Ventures
ANL – Board Chairman
James Langster
ONE Gas, Inc.
Vice President, Information Technology
ANL – Past Chairman
Sara Momper
Helmerich & Payne
Chief Accounting Officer & Vice President
ANL - Board Secretary
Phillip Bell
Financial Planning Resources
Partner & President
ANL – Board Treasurer
Joshua Cole
Security Bank
CFA/Vice President, Commercial Lending
ANL – Past Chairman
Dave Cleveland
Corporate Performance Group Partner
ANL - Past Chairman, Development Chair
Rita Garrison
Arvest Bank
Pam Long
Alera Group
Senior Partner