Executive Team

Office of the President & CEO

Paul Schmitz, CEO

Paul Schmitz founded Public Allies Milwaukee in 1993, and has served as the national CEO of Public Allies since 2000. Public Allies’ mission is to advance new leadership to strengthen communities, nonprofits, and civic participation. Since 1992, Public Allies has supported more than 2,800 diverse young leaders in 18 communities across the country to turn their passion to make a difference into a career in community and public service, and promoted leadership approaches that engage the next generation and diverse communities.

Paul writes and speaks often on topics of national service, civic engagement, community building, diversity, nonprofit workforce development, and social entrepreneurship. In December 2010, he was named to the newly created White House Council for Community Solutions, formed to advise the President on ways to mobilize citizens, nonprofits, businesses and government to work together in meeting community needs. Paul currently serves as Chair of the Nonprofit Workforce Coalition, Co-chair of Voices for National Service, a board member of Our Good Works, a blogger on leadership for The Washington Post, and a faculty member of The Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University. As a private volunteer, Paul co-chaired the Obama campaign’s civic engagement policy group and was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Team.

Paul graduated phi beta kappa from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1994 with a degree in political science, and received UWM's “Graduate of the Last Decade” alumni award. He was also a Next Generation Leadership Fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation. He lives with his three children, Maxwell, Maya and Olivia, in Milwaukee. 

Cris Ros Dukler, COO

Cris to Public Allies brings more than 20 years experience of executive leadership in the nonprofit, public and private sectors. Cris is a reformer who led state regulatory departments in Texas and Wisconsin, and served as COO of a regional nonprofit overseeing an $11 million budget and 400 employees working to improve foster care services in two states. She was a partner in a venture that invented “electronic benefit transfer cards” for distributing government benefits such as food stamps, a change that prevented fraud and enhanced the dignity of users. After the business was sold, Cris joined UPC Health Network, where she directed an $80 million business employing 350 workers in Wisconsin and Illinois. She started a respiratory therapy operation in Illinois that became the most profitable in its company. Cris was an advisory board member of Scholastic, Inc.; has served as a vice chair of Wisconsin Aids Resource Center of Wisconsin, was an advisory board member of Public Allies Milwaukee, and has held several other volunteer roles. A cum laude graduate of the Philippine Normal College in Manila, Cris has a master's in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii.

Enrique began his career advocating for housing rights in his hometown of Boston. In the years since then, he has established a career in nonprofit fundraising marked by finding creative solutions, building systems to support sustainable success, and leaving marketing and development operations stronger than when he arrived. He has met or exceeded fund-raising goals through the cultivation of foundation support, planned giving, special events, and individual donations as well as grassroots giving. Prior to joining Public Allies, Enrique was director of development at Pro Mujer International, where he engaged donors with work being done in Latin America around microfinance, health care and development efforts for poor women. He held the development director positions at the Lawyers Alliance for New York, a public interest law organization serving nonprofits in New York, and the Hispanic Federation, an umbrella organization for Hispanic organizations in the northeast. His experience also includes work as a program officer with The Hyams Foundation in Boston. He is a graduate of Clark University and joined Public Allies in November 2010.

  

Finance & Administration

Tim Hosch, VP

Tim came to Public Allies in February 2003 and manages accounting, fiscal reporting and information technology. Tim is a Certified Public Accountant and was previously the Controller at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, where he managed accounting, payroll, purchasing and federal grant reporting.  He is a graduate of Carroll University with a bachelor's degree in Accounting.

Program Operations

David McKinney, VP

David served as an Ally in 1996-1997 at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, and then led youth programs at the Mid-Town Neighborhood Association. In 1998, he joined Public Allies Milwaukee as a neighborhood organizer for the Milwaukee Youth Initiative, a project launched by Public Allies and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation to empower youth leadership at the neighborhood level. From 1999 to 2002, David served as a Program Manager at Public Allies Milwaukee, supporting Allies and leading local evaluation efforts. In August 2002, he joined the national office as Continuous Learning Officer, providing coaching, technical assistance and monitoring for our local programs. He was promoted to Vice President of the Leadership Network in October 2005. David currently serves as Vice President of the Board of Tikkun Ha’ir, a Jewish social justice organization, and is on the advisory board of the Beyond Racism Project with the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee.