What does it take to close a jail with community in mind, manage the country’s most populous county beaches, or house a city’s most vulnerable residents? It takes people who know how systems work to change them.
This spring, FUSE welcomes eight executive fellows bringing decades of private-sector expertise to some of the most pressing challenges facing local government. From Los Angeles to Louisville, meet the fellows bringing operational rigor and strategic vision to regional challenges.
Arthur Bray-Simons
Advancing Decarceration Through Community-Based Care — Los Angeles County, CA
Arthur Bray-Simons brings over a decade of experience in federal and state health systems to FUSE. As a change management consultant at Deloitte’s Government and Public Services practice, he stewarded hundreds of millions in project funding and built coalitions across government, nonprofit, and academic partners to solve complex systemic challenges.
In Los Angeles County, Bray-Simons is helping lead a transformative decarceration strategy—one that replaces incarceration with coordinated, community-based care. He is designing a behavioral health system, mapping service gaps, aligning funding streams, and coordinating cross-sector investments, with a particular focus on justice-affected BIPOC individuals, LGBTQ+ people, and women. The goal: a data-driven implementation plan that safely reduces jail populations while expanding access to care.
Atisa Sioshansi
Enabling Financially Sustainable, Accessible Beach Management— Los Angeles County, CA
Atisa Sioshansi is an impactful leader and coach who solves complex, unconventional problems. With 20+ years of experience, she excels at navigating high-stakes organizational transformations and scaling new initiatives. Formerly an Executive Search Principal at Korn Ferry, Sioshansi aligns talent strategy with operational reality. Her expertise spans Takeda, Baxter, P&G, 3M and GSK, where she integrated technical precision with strategic vision to build scalable organizations. A “quadruple” Wolverine, Sioshansi holds an MBA, MPH and MS/BS Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
In Los Angeles County, Sioshansi is working to modernize beach management policies that balance financial sustainability with genuine public access. She is conducting a listening tour across County agencies, frontline staff, and community members, with a focus on BIPOC communities and people with disabilities, to surface barriers and funding gaps. From there, she will redesign fee structures and identify new revenue streams that increase affordability rather than restrict access, support negotiations with partner cities, and conduct comparative policy analysis to anticipate implementation challenges. The result will be durable, community-centered policies that keep LA’s beaches open and operational for all residents.
Our Los Angeles County beaches bring me genuine joy. They are where I find perspective and where I see our community at its best (i.e. families gathering, neighbors connecting, children experiencing the ocean, and residents seeking relief during extreme heat). I am fortunate to live here and do not take this access for granted. These beaches are shared civic spaces that reflect our County’s values. I am honored personally and professionally to impact their long-term stewardship in a way that sustains them financially while keeping them equitably accessible.
Elissa Schuler Adair
Designing a Countywide Framework to Optimize Public Health Investments — Fresno County, CA
Elissa Schuler Adair has spent her career at the intersection of data, health, and community impact across corporate, nonprofit, media, academic, and government sectors. She co-founded the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, built an LLM-powered feedback platform for Medicaid social services that accelerated insight generation fivefold, and spent 2023–24 as a Fulbright Scholar in Timor-Leste, where she designed the country’s national middle school health curriculum from the ground up.
In Fresno County, Adair is building a data-driven framework to evaluate the impact of public health investments and sharpen how resources are allocated. She will begin with a listening tour across government, academic, and community partners to assess current data systems and funding structures, then design and pilot a comprehensive ROI methodology that links financial and programmatic data to real population health outcomes. The work includes cost-benefit analyses, practical analytical tools, and staff capacity building, equipping Fresno County to make more strategic investments and drive lasting improvements in community health.
Shelly Termini
Revitalizing Neighborhoods Through Blight Reduction Strategies — Tulsa, OK
Shelly Termini partners with leaders to redesign how organizations actually work, diagnosing systemic inefficiencies, clarifying decision rights, and translating strategy into repeatable execution. Her background spans operating model transformation for complex service and supply chain organizations, with recent accomplishments that include integrating Oracle and ServiceNow to enable dynamic fulfillment and helping Providence save $1.2M in inventory through a gently used device program. Her approach is hands-on and outcome-driven: less slide deck, more durable change.
In Tulsa, Termini is bringing that same operational rigor to one of the City’s most persistent challenges: blighted and vacant properties that hollow out historically underserved neighborhoods. She will begin with a listening tour across city agencies, community organizations, and residents to surface the systemic barriers—fragmented data, enforcement delays, limited redevelopment pathways—and pair those insights with a landscape analysis of existing programs and state legislation. From there, she will design a coordinated strategy to improve how Tulsa identifies, tracks, and rehabilitates problem properties, including streamlined legal processes, integrated data systems, and funding aligned to affordable housing goals. The result will be a scalable roadmap to reduce vacancy and strengthen neighborhood stability across the city.
I fell in love with Tulsa, and as I moved here this past year, I wanted to do something to help strengthen Tulsa. As I continued to study our new Tulsa Mayor and his focus, I found myself aligning with his objectives. This team is innovative & modern when it comes to thinking about the citizens of Tulsa. When this opportunity was presented to me, I was excited to learn more about this initiative. I believe that everyone deserves a safe and prosperous neighborhood, and when I saw with my skills & experience that I could help, I jumped into the opportunity. I am super excited to help our community grow & prosper, and I am inspired by our Tulsa City government team.
Stacy Shireman
Advancing Community Development Through Permanent Supportive Housing Implementation — Louisville, KY
Stacy Shireman is a strategic program and project management leader with deep experience in enterprise transformation. At MDwise, she led large-scale, cross-functional programs aligned to corporate strategy and built the organization’s PMO from the ground up. Before that, she spent more than a decade at Humana, enabling strategy, portfolio management, and initiatives across marketing and clinical organizations—the kind of sustained, systems-level work that makes complex change actually stick.
In Louisville, Shireman is helping the City accelerate permanent supportive housing as a proven strategy for addressing chronic homelessness. She will engage stakeholders across housing, healthcare, philanthropy, and government to identify what’s blocking scale—fragmented funding, limited coordination, and data gaps—and build on existing plans and peer-city models to sharpen a comprehensive implementation strategy. Her focus will be on developing the operational and financial framework that guides delivery: standardized service models, funding strategies, performance metrics, and the coordination mechanisms that hold it all together. The goal is a more integrated, sustainable system that creates long-term stability for Louisville residents experiencing homelessness.
I’m excited and honored to be the Executive Fellow in Louisville, Kentucky, focused on permanent supportive housing. This opportunity is meaningful and I am motivated by the belief that housing stability is foundational to human dignity, public health, and community well-being, and I am eager to apply my experience to advance solutions that create lasting impact.
Edgar Padilla
Expanding Economic Opportunity through Advanced Manufacturing Career Pathways — Austin, TX
Edgar Padilla has spent his career connecting people to economic opportunity as a workforce and education consultant, a policy strategist, and an elected school district trustee. He has led workforce policy strategies for federal, state, and local agencies and private industry consortia across 17 states, and held leadership roles at EY, Deloitte, and Texas State Technical College. He brings both the systems-level view of a consultant and the ground-level accountability of someone who has sat on a school board.
In Austin, Padilla is working to expand access to high-wage, high-growth careers in advanced manufacturing, particularly for students from historically underserved communities. He will conduct a listening tour across school districts, employers, and community organizations to understand what’s keeping students out of technical education pathways, then design targeted strategies to improve enrollment and completion. That work includes strengthening partnerships, expanding wraparound supports, and developing messaging that reframes manufacturing as a compelling career choice. The models he builds are designed to scale and serve as a blueprint for other industries facing the same talent pipeline challenges.
The Austin metro area is among the most dynamic economies in the country, and home to emerging and established industries that provide quality employment opportunity to many. I’m thrilled about the chance to help align the already strong and innovative resources, partnerships, and initiatives in place that will support Austin’s future workforce!