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

Lucinda Cassidy, Development Director

Janet Chesser-Bliss, Office Manager

Anna Drichta, Donor Services Coordinator

Devanie Ferguson, Education Supervisor

Brenda Henry, M. Ed, Compliance Director

Mercy Hernandez, Communications Coordinator

Joel Hess, Community Relations Coordinator

Emily Korman, LCSW, Group Home Director

Nikole Lockhart, M.A., LPC, Transitional Living Program 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

Kimberly Lombard, President

Emily Sheehan, President-Elect

Cathy Buchanan, Immediate Past President

Janet Watson, Recording Secretary

Ruth Whitehurst, Treasurer

Kim Belew, Treasurer-Elect

Cynthia Selman, Member-at-Large

Lara Anton

Suzanne Blackburn

Leigh Ann Bonham

Suzanne Clayton

Ann Jones

Melanie Joseph

Marian Kelley

Jen Mooney

Nicole Oria

Cynthia Sandall

Julie Schechter

Sharon Woodul

Jill Zamen

Jill Zeitz

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