Meet The Team
Brandi Coon
Executive Director
Board President
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads the strategic direction of the organization and presides over all Board meetings.
- Oversees all programs and initiatives and serves as the public face and spokesperson of the Coalition.
- Provides vision, builds partnerships, and ensures alignment with the mission.
A Little More About Our President
Brandi is a mother of three children, wife, caregiver, nursing student and community builder. She graduated from Brigham Young University – Idaho with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education.
She has worked in the professional fields of Government Contracting, Real Estate Development and Disability Advocacy.
While navigating social services and the complexity of state benefits for her son, she has gained valuable experience as a parent caregiver and benefit coordinator. She has a strong desire to foster relationships between the disability community, caregivers, and our elected leaders in order to improve the lives of those on the front lines of daily caregiving.
Courtney Burnett
Vice-President
Key Responsibilities:
- Board Certified Special Education Advocate with 15+ years navigating IEPs and IDEA, work she built long before RVC and now brings directly into the organization's advocacy and training.
- Personally responsible for passing Arizona's universal changing tables law, a real statute on the books because she fought for it.
- Shapes RVC's voice and content strategy, the warm, story-first style that turns heavy policy into something people actually stop and read.
- Mother of a nonspeaking daughter with lifelong, complex support needs, giving her a caregiver's firsthand knowledge of the exact systems RVC is working to fix.
- Founding board member of Raising Voices Foundation, whose key focus is ensuring individuals with disabilities have greater access to their community.
Learn More About Courtney - Our Board Certified Special Education Advocate & Disability Rights Champion
With over 15 years of experience as a Board Certified Special Education Advocate, Courtney Burnett has dedicated her life to empowering individuals with disabilities and their families. As a mother of three, including a daughter with a rare genetic disorder who is nonspeaking, her advocacy is not only professional—it’s deeply personal.
Her passion for creating a more inclusive and accessible world has led to significant legislative victories in Arizona. Courtney was instrumental in passing a bill mandating universal changing tables in public spaces, and another securing critical funding for the Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD)—both of which have made a profound impact on families across the state.
Driven by her daughter's daily experiences and the broader challenges faced by the disability community, Courtney is committed to breaking down barriers in education, public policy, and community access. Through her work, she aims to ensure that all children and adults with disabilities are not only seen and heard—but supported, valued, and fully included in every aspect of life.
Her mission is simple yet powerful: to create a world where accessibility is the norm, not the exception, and where every individual with a disability can thrive.
Amy Haley
Director of Communication & Public Affairs
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads RVC's public communications, legislative relationship building, media engagement, and storytelling efforts.
- Transforms lived community experiences into clear, compelling narratives that advance advocacy, education, and meaningful systems change.
- Serves as one of RVC's three key figures at the Arizona Capitol, alongside Brandi and Courtney, funded directly by membership support.
- Stress-tests messaging from every angle, asking how language will land with people who disagree, to keep RVC's communications credible and genuinely nonpartisan.
TJ Randt
Director of Finance
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversees financial strategy, budgeting, and compliance across RVC to ensure fiscal responsibility and long-term sustainability.
- Manages invoicing and financial reporting for the DDD Contract CTR080397, including monthly SKU-based billing, YTD tracking against PO caps, and supporting documentation required for Net 30 payment.
- Supports transparency in resource allocation, grant management, and operational planning across both RVC and RVF.
- Serves as backup succession contact for the Executive Director role in RVC's contract-required continuity planning.
- Brings outside financial expertise through Sparta Wealth Partners, helping RVC navigate subcontractor and vendor classification questions under contract compliance requirements.
Marianne Scott
Director of Education & Family Engagement
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads efforts to strengthen connections between education systems, families, and disability services across Arizona.
- Coordinates RVC's Partners in Leadership program, opening and closing every session and managing the full speaker roster from confirmation through delivery.
- Promotes inclusive learning environments and advances family-centered policy initiatives that give parents and caregivers real tools to navigate special education systems.
- Fosters partnerships with education-focused organizations and outside experts, bringing new voices into RVC's programming to support empowerment and access.
Ashlee Jensen
Director of Industry Affairs
Key Responsibilities:
- Serves as the primary liaison between RVC and provider agencies, regulatory partners, and advocacy stakeholders.
- Brings systems-level understanding of provider operations, funding, and workforce realities to support effective collaboration and policy alignment.
Alexis Liggett
Director of Accessibility & Inclusive Community Development
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads efforts to strengthen accessibility and inclusion across RVC's programs, events, and community spaces.
- Brings ADA expertise to the organization, ensuring the systems and spaces RVC builds are genuinely usable by the people they're meant to serve.
Mayra Randt
Director of Culture and Language
Key Responsibilities:
- Guides RVC's efforts in culturally responsive communication, multilingual access, and inclusive engagement across the organization.
- Ensures programs, materials, and outreach reflect the diverse identities, languages, and lived experiences of the communities RVC serves.