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The PSO Board of Directors play an integral role in the success of PSO and our mission to advocate for parent choice across the country. Learn more about these incredible women and their steadfast commitment to ensuring every child has access to a high-quality education that works for them.

Donishia Arso-Frison has been advocating with PSO for three years, but her advocacy story really began when her son started kindergarten. “He had to defend himself at such a young age,” says the mother of three virtual school students, who discovered her son was being bullied at his brick-and-mortar public school.

Nicole Conragan says her son Jordan “didn’t speak until he was four, but he looked at you with those eyes that said, “I know everything you’re saying.” The 21-year-old Artificial Intelligence major from California will graduate in December with a masters degree and an internship lined up at CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research in Meyrin, Switzerland.

The sky’s the limit for Matt Martinez. The virtual academy senior has his sights set on becoming a commercial pilot after a successful academic career. But it didn’t start out that way.

“LSOA gave me the freedom I needed for my daughter’s education,” states Anabel Garza, whose daughter Briella has chronic asthma and would’ve been entering her 6th grade year at LSOA. With access to LSOA, Anabel says she “enjoyed the flexibility and shield it delivered to protect my daughter’s overall health” and was “shattered” when she “received the news two weeks prior to school start” that Briella couldn’t return and in fact had to be forced back into a brick-and-mortar public school which could be detrimental to her health.