Leadership & Key Staff Positions
We’re proud to have made progress in diversifying our staff and recognize that we still have work to do to achieve our diversity, equity and inclusion goals.
Darcie DeShazo, LCSW, Executive Director
Sara Bogan, Foster & Adoption Program Director
Morgan Casey, Program Support Supervisor
Janet Chesser-Bliss, Office Manager
Maria Engle, Education Supervisor
Nikki Gavrelos, Community Relations Coordinator
Brenda Henry, M. Ed, Compliance Director
Mercy Hernandez, Communications Coordinator
Carson Johnson, Donor Services Coordinator
Emily Korman, LCSW, Group Home Director
Nikole Lockhart, M.A., LPC, Supervised Independent Living Director
Jessica McKay, LPC-S, Senior Clinical Director
William Metz, Operations Director
Renee Randolph, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Human Resources Director
Samriddi Tiwari, Accounting Director
Tessa Voyles, M.A., LPC, Residential Treatment Center Director
Megan Avery Zellner, LPC, Foster & Adoption Clinical Director
Directors Emeritae
Linda Addicks Kokemor
Remembering Bobbie Mae Matthews
Left to right: Bobbie Mae Matthews, Linda Addicks Kokemor and Darcie DeShazo
Board of Directors
Emily Sheehan, President
Cynthia Sandall, President-Elect
Kimberly Lombard, Immediate Past President
Julie Morris, Recording Secretary
Kim Belew, Treasurer
Jill Zeitz, Treasurer-Elect
KaLyn Laney, Member-at-Large
Lara Anton
Sally Barber
Leigh Ann Bonham
Cathy Buchanan
Paula Chaney
Jane Hammond
Marian Kelley
Johanna Large
Carla Lott
Nicole Oria
Ann Palmer
Tamara Palmieri
Julie Schechter
Janet Watson
Advisory Board
Bob Buchanan
Lutie Butler
Amber Carden
Manny Farahani
Amy Felker
Robert Godwin
Ashley Goudeau
Nancy Nash Harper
Nikita Kakkad
Russell Korman
Liz Lock
Keith Miller
Jake Newman
Jim Parker
Jessica Sacheck
Steve Sandall
The Honorable John Specia
Staci Sprayberry