Leadership Team
Frank Gonzalez
Frank Gonzalez is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Educational Facilities Group. He has served in leadership roles for more than 15 years in the areas of school facilities development, urban education reform and community organizing.
Mr. Gonzalez was previously Senior Vice President at the California Charter Schools Association where he led the statewide team responsible for the significant and consistent growth of high-quality charter schools in California through the startup of new schools and the replication of successful schools.
Mr. Gonzalez was a key team member at Pacific Charter School Development, a national leader in non-profit charter school facilities development where he held the dual role of Senior Project Manager and Senior Director of Policy. While there he managed the development of permanent school facilities for charter schools including site selection, design, community outreach, parent engagement, entitlements, financing procurement and project management. Additionally, he led policy discussions and made recommendations to various agencies and departments that aimed to increase resources for facilities development and streamline the approval process for charter school facilities.
Prior to his time at PCSD, he was a senior team member at LAUSD New Schools Facilities Division, focusing on the development of strategies to build support for new school construction where he successfully managed the approval of highly sensitive new school construction projects throughout Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. The program leveraged billions of dollars in public bonds to eliminate forced busing, the multi-track year round calendar and eased severe overcrowding throughout the district.
Mr. Gonzalez began his career working with youth and families as an elementary school teacher in South Central Los Angeles and as a community organizer in Northern California working with incarcerated youth.
Kathy Dominguez
Kathy Dominguez is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Educational Facilities Group where she leads all aspects of work. She has dedicated the past fifteen years to improving educational outcomes and increasing access to higher education for first generation college students.
Previously, Kathy served as Executive Director of CollegeSpring, where she was responsible for developing school partnerships, fundraising, managing staff and overseeing all aspects of Southern California program operations. During her tenure the organization doubled the number of students served in Southern California and established new innovative partnerships with school districts.
Prior to joining CollegeSpring, Kathy worked at The Accelerated Schools, a network of charter schools in South Los Angeles. As Chief Operating Officer she was responsible for overseeing all aspects of school operations, program development, compliance and fundraising.
Previously Kathy was Senior Vice President at ICEF Public Schools where she conceived and developed ground-breaking college counseling programs and partnerships that have led to a multi-year pipeline of students from various urban communities in Los Angeles entering and receiving their degrees from the most prestigious colleges and universities in the nation.
Kathy started her career in higher education with key roles at the Riordan Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management where she managed the program’s operations, and as Director of Latino recruitment at Loyola Marymount University where she founded an endowed scholarship which was awarded to deserving undocumented students from throughout Southern California.
Kathy holds a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz.