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.

Alejandra Toledo, ManifestSupport Program Manager

A licensed Clinical Social Worker, Alejandra oversees and provides direct support services to our ManifestWork’s participants and alumni including therapeutic services, life skills support, referral linkage and Opportunity grants.

As a first-generation Latina American woman raised in East Los Angeles, she has been a witness to intergenerational trauma, multicultural issues, and systemic injustice. Her lived experience inspired her to join the Prison Education Project as a volunteer at CRC, Norco were she provided incarcerated individuals with life skills, education, and assessed their goals for their reentry process. Alejandra also traveled to Uganda to facilitate courses such as Women’s Empowerment and Forgiveness and Healing for incarcerated individuals at Luzira’s Maximum Prison.

She has shared shared her expertise with youth, adults, and first time mothers affected by adversity and trauma, and enjoys working with diverse populations and emphasizes the importance of cultural competence. Alejandra practices evidence-based therapeutic modalities including: Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy.

Thea Tindall, ManifestSupport Program Coordinator

As an associate clinical social worker, Thea works directly with current ManifestWorks participants and alumni assessing needs, providing referral linkages to valuable resources, and providing therapeutic services and life skills support. 

Born and raised in LA, Thea has a passion for helping people from diverse populations. While completing a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Denver, she interned with ManifestWorks. Following the completion of her Master’s, Thea went on to work at an outpatient substance abuse treatment facility, providing individual and group therapeutic services.

Thea practices a trauma-informed, culturally competent lens when working with clients focusing on a person-in-environment framework. Her personal motto is Never stop growing, and she spends her time outside of work trying new hobbies and visiting museums.

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-centred 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.