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 "Over the past year Bastion has steadily built its capacity
​to become a housing and service provider in the VA continuum of care."​

​Dylan Tête, Executive Director

​Bastion Leadership Team

​Dylan Tête

Executive Director
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Dylan Tête is the Executive Director and founder of Bastion Community of Resilience. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Economics and Systems Engineering at West Point, as well as a Master’s in Public Health at the LSU School of Public Health. During a combat tour in Iraq as second-in-command of an Infantry company, Dylan established multiple recovery projects in collaboration with the Department of State. He moved to New Orleans in 2005 where he managed the construction of several FEMA housing facilities after Hurricane Katrina. Before his most recent position as a civil servant working alongside the New Orleans Deputy Mayor of Public Safety, Dylan was hired by Military.com to assist transitioning military personnel and wounded warriors begin new careers in the civilian workforce. Dylan was selected into the Propeller Social Venture Accelerator in 2010, and awarded a fellowship with The Mission Continues for the creation of Bastion.

Board of Directors

Rory Brosius
ScoutComms
Peyton Bush
Bollinger Enterprises
Brandon Dorrington
​Bastion Community
Melinda Flynn
Tulane University
Joel Funderburk
​UBS
Ben Kadden
Lugenbuhl
Julia Lennox
Consultant
Rajeev Ramchand
RAND Corporation
Korak Sarkar
Cody Scott
Bollinger Enterprises
Ann Washington
Bastion Community

Staff
Sheri Beck
Organizational Development
Michelle Bidwell, MPH
Impact & Evaluations
Lauren Ponstein
Fundraising & Development
Jeremy Brewer, LMSW
Community Integration
Allison Tebbe, CRC, CBIS 
Director of Headway Program

Advisory Council

Peter J. Boylan III
Ballard Brands
Elizabeth T.H. Fontham
​Dean Emeritus
Louis M. Freeman, Jr.
​Innovation Catalyst
Quentin L. Messer Jr., CEcD
New Orleans Business Alliance ​
Cleland Powell
​​IBERIABANK
Wally Gundlach
​Gulf Point Advisors
James Reiss
​Johnson Rice
Chandra Teddleton