Our Staff
Young Ji, Manifest Program Manager
Young oversees the recruiting, admissions, training and job placement for those in the ManifestWorks PA training program.
He comes from a theatre arts background and worked a variety of positions in production; starting as a production assistant, then production stage manager, company manager, and most recently producer based out of Los Angeles.
He is inspired on a daily basis working with the ManifestWorks community.
Sierra Gardner, ManifestMore Senior Program Manager
Sierra oversees mid-career, financial, and social programs for alumni of ManifestWorks.
She has a background in social services and workforce development with experience providing supportive services to foster youth and youth experiencing homelessness.
She is passionate about creating pathways for economic mobility and supporting ManifestWorks alumni in accessing new opportunities.
Crystal Salazar, ManifestWorks Housing Coordinator
Crystal brings extensive experience in Assertive Community Treatment within outpatient Mental Health non-profits, providing housing support and guidance for individuals living with severe mental illness, co-occurring substance use, and homelessness.
She started her career in San Diego County, where she dedicated herself to serving vulnerable populations. Crystal lives in the Antelope Valley with her daughter, and is currently working toward her bachelors degree in Business Management, with the goal of applying her skills to further her career and continue to serve the community.
Crystal is passionate about helping others and committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities she serves.
Dan Seaver, Executive Director
Dan is the Executive Director and a co-founder of ManifestWorks and has built the organization from infancy in 2013. Dan oversees organizational strategy, partnerships, fundraising and new programming initiatives.
After a career in journalism and government, Dan spent a decade as a youth advocate while volunteering with kids incarcerated in Los Angeles County jails. ManifestWorks is a response to that experience, a solution to the problem of opportunity being out of reach to the very people who need it most.
Dan graduated from Northwestern University, was a commissioner for the Los Angeles County Probation Department from 2014 - 2021, and lives in LA with his kid.
Marysol Sanchez, ManifestSupport Program Coordinator
Marysol received her Bachelors in Arts in Psychology from UC San Diego and her Masters in Social Work from Cal State University Northridge. As a first-generation Latina American woman raised in Inglewood, she has experienced being a part of a community impacted with systemic injustice and transgenerational trauma. She has prior work experience with in-patient residential and outpatient mental health treatment centers as well as the foster care system.
She joined ManifestWorks as an intern and is returning to continue as an Associate Social Worker for the Support team. Marysol practices evidence-based therapeutic modalities and has dedicated her career to serving her community and promoting social justice and equity.
Thea Tindall, ManifestSupport Program Manager
As an associate clinical social worker, Thea oversees the support programming and provides direct support services to our ManifestWork’s participants and alumni including therapeutic services, life skills support, referral linkages, and opportunity grants.
Born and raised in LA, Thea has a passion for helping people from diverse walks of life. She holds a master’s in social work from the University of Denver and previously interned for ManifestWorks. Her prior work experience includes facilitating groups and providing direct individual therapy at a substance abuse treatment facility.
Thea practices evidence-based therapeutic modalities and uses a trauma-informed, culturally competent approach focusing on meeting people where they are.
Davina Wolfe, ManifestSupport Case Manager
Davina is an Occupational Therapist trained in the UK with a decade’s experience in Forensic Mental Health services. She began her career as a mental health support worker before spending 5 years in academic research. Her passion for social justice led her to work with a wide range of non-profits serving refugees, internally displaced and unhoused people in SE Asia, Europe and the US. She uses a holistic, person-centered and trauma sensitive approach to focus on vocational rehabilitation, relapse prevention, psycho-education and life skill development.
Davina has volunteered with ManifestSupport since 2021 and is delighted to officially join the team and to continue to support participants on their journey through the program and beyond. She lives in LA with her dog and children.
