Our Team
About The Founder
Jennifer Rogers, Founder
Jennifer Rogers is the founder of The Perspectives Project, Inc. and an educator, facilitator, and program developer dedicated to sharing an understanding that can transform how people experience their lives.
Her work centers on a simple but profound realization: that peace, clarity, resilience, and wisdom are not things people must earn or build. They are qualities already present within every human being.
Jennifer has shared this understanding with youth and adults in a variety of community settings, including alternative schools, community programs, and correctional facilities. Again and again, she has witnessed the same truth: when people begin to see how their experience of life is created from the inside out, new possibilities naturally emerge.
What once looked like permanent struggle can begin to shift. Relationships soften. Hope returns. People reconnect with the resilience and well-being that has always been present within them.
Jennifer founded The Perspectives Project to bring this understanding to communities where it can have the greatest impact — supporting individuals, strengthening families, and contributing to healthier communities.
Jennifer also serves as a Trustee for the Yosemite Unified School District and has served on the Madera County Juvenile Justice Commission, bringing a practical understanding of education systems, community leadership, and youth justice to her work supporting individuals and communities.
Board of Directors
Andrew Prestage, Finances
Andrew Prestage has over 40 years of experience in technology roles across private and public sectors and currently serves as the District Director of Information Systems for the State Center Community College District. As a management analyst and software developer for the state’s Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team for over 20 years, Andrew led or participated in over 700 reviews for K12 and community college districts focusing on technology administration and operations, fiscal analysis, performance assessment and program improvement. Andrew developed Budget Explorer, the state’s multi-year financial and cash flow projection software, Andrew is the founder of EdServe Systems, a K-14 consulting firm focused on leveraging AI to enhance and streamline administrative, fiscal and operational efficiency.
After obtaining MIS and MBA degrees in 1989, Andrew served the next 15 years as an adjunct professor at CSUB. Andrew is widely published and holds various certifications in school business management, network engineering, computer forensics, fraud examination, and expert witness testimony. Andrew loves life in our mountain community where his proudest achievement is to serve the students, faculty and staff of the Yosemite Unified School District as the Area 2 Trustee.
Lisa Griffiths, Secretary
Lisa has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management with a thesis in transformative leadership, a BS in Conservation & Resource Studies from UC Berkeley, 20 years of project and team leadership, and has completed Coach U’s Executive and Life Coach Training Program. Her Master’s Thesis “Profound Impact: Organizational Transformation through Mindfulness, Intention and Possibility (c) 2009″ looked at organizational transformation through presence and possibility. She holds a Certificate in Diversity & Inclusion from Cornell University (2020). She loves engaged leadership, strategic planning, relationship-based process improvement, culture change, project management, being a part of the Ojai community and raising goats, chickens and happy kids.
