Dan Leal of Bastrop is the Executive Director of Seedling Foundation in Austin and has served as a non-profit executive director in youth-serving agencies for 20 years. Seedling provides school-based mentoring for children impacted by parental incarceration. He was the 2020 Chair of One Voice Central Texas, a membership organization of non-profit health and human services executives in the Greater Austin Area. He is a current member of the Rotary E-Club of Central Texas and is a mentor for Seedling. Leal received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Texas.